in the dark

Photography class last week was about lightmetering and focus. As an exercise, we had to take portraits of each other against a black background, and try to get the black to genuinely look black (instead of gray) but get the subject to be well lit. Turns out the camera I have on loan while my own is in repair does not perform too well in poor light conditions. Even in the artificial light of the classroom, the light sensitivity just wasn't good enough to make good portraits. The result is a series of grainy, dark portraits. Perhaps not what I wanted, but in retrospect they do look kind of cool. Some portraits are so grainy they almost look paintbrushed. And most are so dark that the person's face almost seems to float in the dark space - like pictures of ghosts. How Halloweenesque.

Oh hai there. This is me.

Boo.