Hello, this is my first post and I'm a noob.

[Dag242foto]

I've been shooting with a Minolta SRT101 35mm and have recently been printing with my own darkroom. Here are some photos I recently developed and printed. Let me know what you think and I look forward to your posts.

 

[terri]

Hi Dag, and welcome to the forum! Very nice work - kudos for the darkroom work and making your own prints! I like your use of shadow as a graphic line, very nice. I've moved your thread over to the B&W Gallery, as our Gallery section is the best place to post images if you want comments.

Keep up the good work!

 

[Derrel]

Welcome to TPF. I love the B&W prints printed with the knock-out borders! Nice! Takes me back! I like the tone of your images as well. Wonderful to see somebody doing this kind of real photography these days!!! Hope you stick around Dag!

 

[Tuffythepug]

Hello Dag
I recognize a couple of the scenes in your pics (American River Bridge and the downtown Sac shot) I'm from the Sacramento area as well. Nice photos.
It's good to see young people keeping b/w film photography and processing alive. I've recently unpacked all my darkroom gear and am setting up again after many years away from film. look forward to seeing more of your work

 

[Komar]

In my opinion these photos are good, but not great.
The light is too sharp. Sharp light can create wonderful photos but you didn't use it.
But congratulations because of real photography

 

[Trever1t]

Welcome to the forum! Bay Area here!

 

[amolitor]

For me, the bridge is pretty blah.

The rest are fine pieces of work, of a form that I think of as "student" work. You're seeing past the "cool thing" to the "cool image" quite successfully, but you're still trying to find a voice and a personal visual vocabulary. You're making photographs that look like other photographs you have seen, I think. There's nothing wrong with that at all, in fact I consider it an important thing to do.

The best of the lot, I think, is the third one with the beer bottle in the foreground. I like it because I find the juxtaposition of the bottle and the face both witty and suggestive -- is this bottle related to why this made looks so excited, and appears to be So Very Talkative? Why, perhaps yes! Also, it's a little less like a lot of other Student Art Photographs I have seen, and feels like more of a personal style in action.

 

[timor]

Hi Dag. Welcome.
I have much the same opinion as amolitor about your pictures. I like your style.
I also like the fact, that you shoot film and do darkroom work, I am the same way.

 

[Tuffythepug]

Dag
just one other thing I noticed as I looked at them again. Be careful of un-flattering shadows such as the one on the girls face where she is sitting on the sidewalk. You could have changed your angle a bit and avoided that; also, I think I would have moved in a bit closer to feature her face more. but that's your choice.

 

[Dag242foto]

Of course my photos may have the influence of other photographers that's how photography works; it's a study of the past and present. I'm developing my own style and probably will be for the rest of my life.
@ amolitor, Not that you're clichè but I feel as if I've seen you photos already. It's like your rose disappears into nothing because of it's bad lighting. I'd like to see more of your photographs because it sounds like you have an idea of what you're talking about but your pictures in my opinion are, as you say,"blah". I will be posting more of my photographs tonight.
@tuffythepug: I see what you're talking about with the shadow on the lower portion of her face. I should have told her to lift her head up a little more but ill keep that in mind next time. Close ups are nice but I like to have my subjects photographed with their environment which in this case is a water tower. That's the photojournalist in me talking.
@trever1t: your picture of the herd of goats is trippin' me out,cool shot.

 

[35mm4me]

Nice start nothing to add that hasn’t already been suggested. Film is the way to go it forces you to think about every shot. Not like digital when you can go home and pick the best shot out of 200 pictures. They both have their place in photography though…