Printing Composition- Re-creating film stills

Contact sheet- ap- 8, time- 8 sec

All of my shots seemed to have similar contrast in the contact sheet but I learned later that they all needed different settings.

ap- 8, f- 2, time 16 seconds

This print took a couple of tries to finally get, I had to mess around with the aperture and filter.

This photo didn't require much lighting, just room lights and a back light to serve as a wall light, the prop was just to replace whatever the guy in the original is holding. I chose fabrizio for this photo because he gives the best facial expressions and I needed an expression I could only see Fabrizio doing.

ap- 16, time 30 secs

This print also took a few tries because I also tried combinations of settings, these settings turned out the best.

This setup is as close as I could get to re-create the original picture. I just don't have a desk that they are sitting at but I was still able to show that there is someone in the picture(meghan) who is just listening to what the person standing is yelling(fabrizio) and the final person(Barbara) is sitting there as if nothing much is going on. The lighting for my pictures were all pretty easy, mainly just room lighting and that is what I have achieved.

ap- 8, time- 12 secs

There was a problem I had with this print, and that was no matter how much time I used or what the aperture was, I would always end up with one of the eyes blacked out, so this is what the print was like with 12 seconds, 14 was way too dark.

Like I said about my picture had very simply lighting and in this picture all I needed was a softbox in the back to work as the wall light in the original photo. The prop was the las thing on my mind to get close to the original. They are pretty close though, in the original the man is holding a cup and in my re- creation, fabrizio has a water bottle.

Theory nots- re-creating films stills

This film still is similar to the one of Meghan, Fabrizio, and Barbara. They are similar because they both have someone that is sitting listening to everything that the one person is yelling. The one sitting in this one is compared to Meghan in the other picture. Fabrizio is compared to the guy on the left with the grey hair who is yelling, or dictating, and Barbara is the last person who really is just there to be there, they aren't a very big part of the picture just an extra person almost.

This photo was taken from the film, "M" it was a film noir and the film photographers took many dark photos, hence the name film noir. This picture relates to the one I have of Fabrizio staring at the bottle because first of all the obvious positioning is the same, they are looking the same way and the lighting is similar. The light is coming from the right side of the photo which is the left side of the man's face. The limitations that they had back in the 1940's is that their lighting was not as sophisticated as what we have now but the low lighting causes a morbid mood, as in my photo the mood is not morbid, the person in my print is studying and focusing on something.

This photo was taken from the film The American Nightmare. This picture relates to the last one of mine where Fabrizio is smelling the object. The obvious ways that they are similar is their positioning, their bodies are facing relatively the same way, and they are looking the same way. The differences is that the woman in this picture is not as focused on what she is looking at as Fabrizio is with smelling the thing in his hand. The lighting is pretty similar but that is because the lighting in my photo was nothing really but room lighting except for the wall light coming from the reflection in the mirror. In the 1960's there weren't many limitations for what photographers could do with their photo's except to digitally enhance them to the extent that we can.

Diary entry- re-creating film stills

This is the first time being in the darkroom after quite a long time, we just got back from break but I was able to jump right into working well in the darkroom. I was able to get a contact sheet pretty quick and started working on my prints the first day. I have been working well in the dark room, I can chose my starting times but I need to work on judging my pictures better, I think that I will do the wrong thing so I need to just try what I think and learn from there what I need to do to improve.