Crop and Enlarge-it!

It's always important to push the limits as an artist. As photographers, it's important to experience and understand the limits of your medium, 35mm film. Sometimes when we push the limits, we venture into new and exciting territory!

Over the next several days as you work on your shooting assignment outside of class, I would like you to use the large adjustable print easels in the darkroom to both enlarge and crop sections of chosen negatives to then be combined into an elegant abstraction. By doing this, you will practice using a new print easel, as well as see how large you can push sections of a 35mm negative.

Each "cropped" section of your old exposure should be enlarged to at least three times it's normal size so that you can see the "grain" of your film.

You may crop sections of your old negatives into any shaped format of your choice; square, rectangle, long, short, etc. Discover all the cropping possibilities you have with these print easels!

Your final recombined design should use at least 5 images from at least two different negatives or more. Consider using related subject matter so that your design is visually logical.

Consider creating both negative and positive images from negatives of cropped sections and/or by making contact prints.

You will matte your final recombined design for your portfolio!

Critique on recombined design on Fri. 9/26