Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Working with 5x4 for Visual Poetry

So after receiving many comments during my crit saying that the images should be more detailed and that the concept behind the project shouldn't be quite so obvious I decided to re-shoot, using the HARDEST CAMERA in the world! 5x4!

The film had to be loaded into slides in pitch black darkness of the darkroom (which was quite tricky) but then the whole set up of the camera was so much worse. I had to ensure the camera was focused and set correctly before loading each individual negative slide and then exposing it for around 2 and a half seconds (due to the 125 iso).

The next horrible step was developing them, where once again in pitch black darkness, i had to load the negatives individually onto a holder which had grooves on to help but it was fiddly and annoying. Anyways, they developed alright.

I took 5 negatives:

-1 didn't even expose.

-2 have light flares from where light has somehow managed to leak into the slide/camera before exposure and look like so:




































and 2 are quite promising although the one of the model and the dolls house isn't quite in focus (which is really annoying).






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