Well...

So I think I was little over ambitious when I decided to make all my own frames. I started cutting them out from cardboard last night and then tried to make one just to see how it would work out- which was not very well. I'm wondering if there is a better way to go about this. I have a ton of ideas, but they all require sooo much time and tons of supplies which means tons of money that I don't really have. So I'm back to brainstorming pretty much.

6 Hours Later...

Okay so it took six hours and a TON of paper, but I finished printing and now all I have do is tackle how I am going to present everything. The whole printing process started off really great- everything was coming out with the first try, I didn't have to try a ton of different filters, and nothing needed to be burned or dodged. However, 2 hours into it I kind of wanted to pull my hair out. My photos with sky in them all needed to be burned, but the rest of the picture was so sensitive that even a second more of exposure ruined it. So it took a while and all my paper, but I feel like I managed to get everything as good as I possibly could.

To the Left

A friend of mine from high school's mother is a photographer and today I went and scoped out her website. Some of her work is of the waterfront so I just wanted to contrast and compare my style with a professional photographers. Even though our subject matter was very similar, I noticed that her approach almost always had the same template of putting the subject matter in the dead center of the picture. It didn't make her work boring at all, you just knew exactly what it was you were supposed to be focused on. For myself, I seem to put everything off to the left side. I have no idea why the left side, but I pretty consistently do that. Maybe it says something about my subconscious... Or maybe I just like the left.

By the way, I would post the pictures of the photographer I know, but she has some special lock on her site that prevents you from doing the copy-paste thing.

Sooo

Today I bought a ton of supplies to make frames for the my prints for the final. I'm thinking of just cutting out cardboard frames, covering them in canvas, and adding little nautical-ish things. We'll see how corny it looks- I honestly don't know how it's going to turn out or what I'm going to do if it looks awful. I only have three prints done and thanks to my recent mono diagnosis I'm missing class tonight. Really bad timing to get sick.

More Ideas

So I thought about the whole fishing net thing and decided that it may in fact be too cheesy. So another thought I had was getting some canvas- like the kind you would make a sail out of- and cutting out rough frames with it. Again, I should probably see how the prints come out before I get too set on anything. I'm really hoping to get all my prints done by the end of this week, which would give me tons of time to figure out how I want to present them.