Lamb’s ear.
Polaroid SX-70 w/ ND filter + PX680 Color Protection film
Here’s a selection of emulsion lifts that the students did during our fourth class.
All photos were taken with various Polaroid OneStep/Sun 600 cameras + PX680 Color Protection film. Thanks again to the Impossible Project for providing the film!
Two weeks in a row, I had my students take the cameras and film home with them so they could shoot on their own. I didn’t give them any specific assignment, I just told them to shoot what they love and to try to take photos of different things. A portrait, a landscape, maybe a still life. And I told them pets were fine as long as they didn’t take all the photos of pets. (Ahem, how could I NOT let them take pet photos.)
Most of them did take photos of their pets and I think they did a great job. And one of them has a hedgehog! Named Duck.
This class is a learning experience for me as much as it is for them. In retrospect, I think if I do it again (which I would love), I will assign more specific things to shoot as they were not as focused on their own as they were on the photo walk. They also seem to find it hard to make the time to take photos on their own. I don’t think it is a lack of interest in photography, but more that they have so much other homework and extracurricular activities, that the “homework” for the fun elective class gets put off until the last minute. And when they shoot at the last minute, they end up with photos that aren’t as strong. We talked about it last week, about how just taking photos because I told them to take photos doesn’t always work. And they get it. And some of them did put more effort into it than others and it really shows in their work. (It’s also pretty easy to tell who took photos right before class since they are still blue!)
So lesson learned. More photo walks, less camera time on their own. That said, they all did a really excellent job with adjusting the exposure at home. I was quite impressed.
We’ve worked on manipulations the past two weeks and they love doing emulsion lifts. I’ll share some of those soon.
Next class, we’re heading out on another photo walk, and then only one class left to wrap things up. I think I’m going to be rather sad when it’s over. It’s been so much fun.
All photos were taken with various Polaroid OneStep/Sun cameras + PX680 Color Protection film provided by the fabulous Impossible Project.
