Adorable

The last time I posted I included a riddle: why are those two prints so different? The big clue was that the lighter one is 8x10, and the dark one was 4x5. Imagine that you're holding a flashlight - when you get closer to an object it will have more illumination. The act of enlarging requires you move the "projector" or "enlarger" further away from the print. If you double the size, you're going a whole stop down. When you add light to a negative - you get a lighter print, and when you add light to the print, you get a darker print.

Tonight's portfolio additions all have the same title - as they should each may you think of the word 'adorable'

Charlie's white coat demands a dark environment for contrast. I've increased the contrast in this picture by tracing his image, cutting it out, and covering him up to overexpose the background. I taped the cut out onto a piece of glass to ensure I could correctly place it between exposures.

My niece. Always cute.

My mother-in-law - who would hate that I posted this picture because she is _very_ camera shy. I think she is adorable and wasted no effort in using guerrilla tactics to obtain an unguarded shot of her (very rare). You might notice she has a sort of glow; I used some darkroom tricks to darken the left side of the print where her car is parked, which left the background around her face a bit lighter.

For the photogs reading this, you might have noticed the portraits are on the right third, while I centered the dog for the added effect of making him look more diminutive.