Tattoo Artist

a few outtakes from a picture package on a tattoo artist that i shot for a photojournalism class assignment not long ago.

shot the assignment on fuji neopan 400 pushed to 1600 which i had never used before, it's pretty nice film, most of the shutter speeds are about 1/60th or slower

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Great stuff!! just precious! Ever hear of a tatoo artist that had a spelling problem?

These are great. Very intense.

Great shots. I bet you got an A

The new tatoo guns have spell check

haha...actually i got an 83, so a low B

A "B"?........That's weird. I think that these are top notch. Why a ""B", whats wrong with them? I really like how you converted them to b/w as well.

Every one of these shots are GREAT! As for your teacher... You can please some of the people some of the time...

Looking forward to seeing more.

83 is a low B?

I thought a low B is 73

Cool shots. My how much did you increase the dev time?

I agree...converting neopan to B&W is incredibly difficult.

Heh...anyway, j/k. But great shots and I'm impressed with how well that film pushed and kept the grain to a pleasing amount. Nice work! Thanks for sharing

JaertX wrote:
I agree...converting neopan to B&W is incredibly difficult.

Ok.....I admit it......I responded before I completely read the WHOLE post. Dang, now I feel like a COMPLETE IDIOT. But at least I have that going for me.

QUASIPHOTO wrote:
Ok.....I admit it......I responded before I completely read the WHOLE post. Dang, now I feel like a COMPLETE IDIOT. But at least I have that going for me.

heh heh...I hate it when I type something like that and someone responds before I can edit it out! (but hey, that's one of the things that makes this forum fun)

I would really like to know why you didn't get an A. I have never taken a photojournalism class, but you captured the person in their environment doing what he does. You tell a story and the pictures are good.

Does your teacher have something against tatoos?

Punchy, atmospheric shots despite your philistine teacher ...

I agree with you......it's a lot of fun in here. I know you were just messin with me. I just assumed that Will took those digitally, then converted them........lol. My bad.
Then I re-read his post and was like......crap.......o​pps.......I hope no one notices......lol.

haha...no, the assignment was actually supposed to be a little more in depth, my original subject was a single-father, manual labor/working class, in a biker gang (visual HEAVEN!!!)...but with less that a few days left our schedules collided and I didn’t have any content with his kids or on his bike, just work and everyday stuff...so I went to my teacher a few days before our assignment was due in slight panic...he gave me something to work on and then I was turned down when I asked them if I could photograph. Driving home I passed the tattoo shop and dialed the number on the window...and started photographing an hour later, went back the next day for portrait shots and then spent about 19 hours in the darkroom working on my edits, printing, and doing the layout.

This isn’t the full set, I have a few images of him laughing and stuff, the "moment" is what photojournalism is about in the end, anyone can slap a set of images together but they have to define moments of importance I guess...and I lacked personal life and other things because my assignment was shot for the most part in about 6 hours, using visual variety to mix things up by switching lenses, angles and lighting...where as other students spend a week or more with their subjects.

Granted, I do feel like even though I messed up and was limited to a very short time frame (which is my fault that the other subject didn’t work out, in the end), I did better than a lot of other students, this was actually pointed out to me several times and during presentation the teacher used my work as very solid example then ripped me a new one because I spent a fraction of the time on it, my grade was based upon my ability and what I put into it...so it was lower in comparison to others probably. They grade pretty hardcore here...so an 83 makes me grin kinda...