Strike the Pose

My daughter, when doing a college art project, wanted to have her friends emulate iconic figures. I remember her choosing Kurt Cobain and Marilyn Monroe. Can't remember the other choices. She photocopied old B+Ws from books and her mates struck the same poses. She hadn't touched a film camera before so I remember setting the camera up with a new roll of 400asa Ilford and showing her the basics. I took the very first picture [This one] after a few directions re: f-stops/shutter speed/focusing/etc and left her to it. She wanted to avoid automatic and was keen to learn everything manual. After all that struggling over the months to gain knowledge of the whys and hows of using a camera, she now uses her phone as her only camera, [my head is in my hands sobbing],and so I am going to get my MX camera back that I loaned her.

I had subsequently gave her my Pentax MX with a couple of nice lens. She has my Asahi Pentax 120mm portrait lens which I definately need back !! I scanned the print of this photograph and shoved it through a cheap photo impression computer programme from some old Epsom disc and gave it a massive highlight input. I was quite surprised with the result and kind of like it's near high key effect which I have tried with direct camera use in the past and failed miserably.