Studio Face-off

I divided my 18 studio students into two groups to do another in-class demo. Black-on-black and white-on-white. I wanted to try to make it an excercize in problem solving, so I gave them a stack of copy paper, and a roll of b&w film. Simple props for them to photograph. They each shot one prop, then switched and shot the other. Here's how one of the teams did:





The above image was shot with my Holga lens mounted to my Nikon D2x digital camera. Nice'n'blurry...





Here's what the other team came up with...









Then after class was over I did some testing on a very interesting piece of software that allows you to get an infinite depth-of-field. Here are some tests...