Van Dykes and the end of Brooks

Last month I finished my last session at the Brooks Institute of Photography. I now have Bachelors in Professional Photography! For my final portfolio at Brooks I made a series of Van Dykes, a form of contact printing which you can read more about here: http://unblinkingeye.com/Articles/Vandyke/vandyke.html.

The Process was really fun and it allowed me to print some of my Digital photographs in my darkroom class. I am in love with this collection of images, so I decided to get them up on my blog as soon as possible.

Darkroom update

I haven't posted much this session because I have been working almost exclusively in the darkroom. I decided to composite one of my shots in photoshop and I am really excited with how it turned out.

This is a scanned negative that I shot in Sunol about a year ago, I brought it in to photoshop and added some contrast and sharpening as well as a little dodging and burning (which was much easier after physically doing it in the darkroom) I then made a copy of the image, mirrored it and flipped it upside down. Thanks to Sammy Miller for the suggestion <3

Ira's House

My friend Ira has a magical house. 

Ira isn't the only one who lives there though, he and his family share their space with an assortment of adorable and friendly animals. I'd like to introduce to you Betty the hen, Chauncey the Peacock, a lovely wall, and the kittens.