Negotiated study - Test scans with the college's Epson Perfecton V750 Pro

Yesterday I got the college's Epson Perfecton V750 Pro (in the photo department's computer suite) to work (kept on freezing on me before). The scanner takes about 5 to 10 minutes to scan (!), which is in sharp contrast to my scanner, which takes a minute. Here are the scannographs I made, and personally I'm really proud at how some came out.

Used a business card holder (text is visible in places)

Used a business card holder (but flipped over so no text was visible)

Used a business card holder

Used a clear ruler (black vertical lines created by holding lid down briefly)

Used a pair of scissors

Negotiated study - Further research

Here is some of my other research for the self-negotiated project. As you can see, this section of the research focused more on paintings, but did also include two scannographs and a photogram; so quite varied types of art are used as research.

Abstract painting by Karen Day-Vath

Cubist art by Picasso

Photogram by Laszlo Maholy-Nagy

Abstract photoscan by Simon Larbalestier

Scannography by Diana Kaye

Negotiated study - Test scans

Here are some test scans I made when trying out various objects for scanning, and moving them while scanning. Although some of the results are good, I think these images are not abstract enough. Perhaps fogged glass or something similar could be used to disguise what the object is...

Make-up project - final choices: location & studio

So the make-up project finished today, and here are my final few that I narrowed it down to. One location and one studio image had to be chosen for submission.

The theme of the location shoot was 'special effects make-up', and thus a street performer-like motif.

The first models from the location shoots, and the best of the mime ones. The annoying part was the background lights, which detracted from the subjects.

The third model from the location shoot, who was meant to be a street performer; a 'silver lady'. 

Another from the third model, which I think is better framed than the previous one.

The fourth model, who is meant to be a 'corpse bride'. This one was chosen as the final image for the location shoot, as I was satisfied with the lighting and framing the most with this one.

 The studio shoot was focused on 'fashion make-up'. With this one, I had fewer final choices, as I had a clearer idea of which ones I was most satisfied with.

The second model from the studio shoot. I liked the heavy shadow, but the model could have been framed so that the filled more of the frame horizontally. 

The third (of four) model from the studio shoot. It was mostly between this photograph and the next, but the next one was chosen as I liked the composition slightly more.

This is another photograph of the third model from the studio shoot. I like the shadows that formed on the front of the dress, and how here back is in shadow. Therefore, this was chosen as the final image for the studio shoot.

Negotiated study - another idea: 'Abstraction in scannography'

Although the idea is to have a focused topic for the negotiated study, I think I'm making mine too focused. So, I was thinking that something like 'exploring abstraction in scannography' could be an idea. This could cover the more abstract parts of scannography, considering that scanners are meant to record the object accurately.  It could also mean that several techniques that produce similar and/or complementing results.

The kind of abstraction I was thinking of was the kind where the subject is barely (if at all) recognisable. The below images are a few examples. After looking back over them, I'm more intrigued by the ones that are colourful, and especially the ones which produce a 'rainbow of colours'.

According to the artist, this involves using mirrored objects to reflect the scanner's light in different direction

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