Reprinting of final images

The purple scannograph of a pen knife and bus card holder might have to be reprinted as there were a fair few finger prints on it. However, this was apparently due to the canvas being sloppily handled before it was printed on, and the marks only showed up after printing. Though this is understandable, it is somewhat a pain as I am not sure whether it can be printed and mounted in time for the exhibition mounting on 27th May. Well, better give it a go anyway.

Dissertation: '25 years of Christmas'

EDIT (written in February) (left as draft for some reason, so I am posting it now)




Recently, on the news, I saw an article on this video montage made by Nick Confalone from footage taken by his father of his family as Nick and his sister went down the stairs on Christmas Day from 197_ to 20__ (missing only 198_). It is interesting to see the subjects grow before your eyes, and for new subjects to appear and disappear as time goes on.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h82XN3zHW4s

Mounting the scannographs

The scannographs will be presented on six 12x16 canvases, 36mm deep and landscape in orientation (presented 2 across, 3 down). The big question now is how to mount them. I'm not sure whether Fabrika allows drilling. If so, mirror plates could be used. If not, then I guess some kind of adhesive?


Mirror plates: If drilling is allowed, these can be quite effective



Additional final images for Negotiated

These two are from the latest set of images and they may be included in the final images (replacing two existing ones).

Negotiated study - Final six images

Here are the final six images for this project. They will be presented on 12x16 canvas prints, as I think they resemble paintings more than photographs.

FujiFilm 2012 competition - 'Extreme'

A bit late uploading this, but whatever. The FujiFilm competition I participated in recently had the theme of 'Extreme', and my idea was an 'extreme level of sugar in one's tea'.. and voila!

Notice that there is a black border; this is because when the image was scanned in (it had to be on FujiFilm film to be submitted) the edges of the film was visible, which I though enclosed the subject well, so I replicated that in post-production.

Dissertation theme

My current idea for the theme of the Dissertation project is 'How can photography and videography show the passage of time?'.

One example is Nicolas Nixon's 'The Brown Sisters', where his sisters and wife have been photographed (in the same order) once a year from between 1975-2009 (sorry for the poor image quality, but I could't find a higher quality copy of the montage).

Effect of ambient lighting in scannographs

It's interesting comparing the effect ambient lighting has on scannographs.

Take the below images for example: The first one featured standard daylight room lighting, and thus resulted in a grey background. The second one, however, was created in a darkened room, with black gloves over my hands. The resulting effect, as one might expect, is a near pitch black background