Film: Leading Lines

The subject of my image is my sister Sadie waxing one of her skis for her race. I took this picture in the basement of our house where there's a waxing table. There is a bright light in the basement which makes this picture very light, unfortunately it's not natural light. I took this image with my Pentax K1000 film camera and then I processed the film in the dark room using chemicals. I then cut my negatives into sections of five and sleeved them. once I sleeved them I used the enlarger to make a test strip and then a contact print. To do this I used paper and the print chemicals in the dark room. I chose the picture of Sadie and her ski because it was the only image where the lines actually led to something interesting. You can see the defined lines in the ski and the texture of the ski.

In this image Sadie is off to the side and there's nothing opposing her, this is informal balance. The ski leads to Sadie and the iron so this shows leading lines. Most of the picture is out of focus, only Sadie and most of her ski are in focus this is selective focus. For this picture I made of segmented test strip of two second intervals. Then I looked at that and chose to go in between ten and twelve, I chose eleven. This worked so I didn't have to do a lot of test strips.

Sadie waxes her skis almost every night for ski practice or race. This picture reminds me of winter. This picture relates to my life because I took it to capture what was happening at the moment and I chose how to take the picture, what angle I wanted it to be from. It also relates to my life because it's in my basement of my sister. I like my image and I think it looks good. If I were to change something I would expose my paper for longer because the picture is kind of light. Other then that I really like this print.