Working in the dark room was very difficult because we could not see anything. Without the light, some of the photographs came out weird and some came out good. The strongest technical aspect of my work was the landscape photograph. In the photograph, there are different values of the value scale like white, grey and black. The photograph is also intriguing to the viewer. It appears with a soldier on top of a hill with the ocean and clouds. The soldier was created by the plastic soldier object that I used. It is white and grey because some of the soldier blocked light and other parts did not. I used circular objects to create the hill. Theses solid objects blocked the light on the paper creating the white. The tissue paper was used to create the waves and the clouds. Some light went through them creating the grey value. The rest of the space was to black because it had no objects on it allowing the light to go onto the paper fully. Another thing I liked about my work was how the symmetrical photograph complements the landscape because I used the same objects for each. I could have improved on the positioning of the objects because the tissue paper in the landscape and symmetrical photographs look misplaced. It draws the viewer in, but it looks more like a mistake.


            The dark room projects are fun and challenging because it is cool that you can make something by yourself, but it was difficult because you can't see anything and you it is easy to mess up your project. The easy part about this project was the setting up the design of the photograph. It was easy to rearrange objects to create a picture and being creative with the objects you can make with tissue paper and solid objects to create the different values for the picture. The most difficult part of this project was setting up in the dark room. Without being able to see anything and not being abel to turn on the light it was hard to se the enlarger. If someone were to use the enlarger before you and be working on a different project you had to make sure it is set to the setting that you need for your project. You have to check the f stop and the amount of time the light will be on for along with filters. This was difficult to see what you were doing without ruining your, or anyone else's project. Another difficult thing with this project was learning how to use the enlargers, but once you start to do more pictures, the more you understand and learn from your mistakes and how to fix them.

           Learning how to use the enlarger was difficult for me because i didn't want to ruin mine or anyone else's projects. I made a couple test strips and photographs with the enlargers. We had to use different objects to create different values. After I created the photographs, I had to develop them. There were many steps to develop the pictures and I had to use many different chemicals. This was easy because all we had to do was put the paper into the chemicals and agitate it for the amount of time at the certain chemical. The bad part about the chemicals were that they smelled and it got all over your hands. Once you were done with the fixer step, you could bring the paper out of the dark room to look at it and see what you did right and wrong. After we would bring it back in and finish the process. I learned how to use the enlarger and the chemicals to create different values for each project. I also learned how to adjust the enlargers for the different projects that we did. If I could do this project again, I wouldn't do anything differently. After each photograph, you need to put it through chemicals. You also need to learn how to adjust the enlargers. Both of these thing taught me a lot and helped me understand how each project we do is different. With this project, I benefited a lot  and wouldn't do anything differently because it was something I needed to learn for the class.