The time had come to attempt my first analogue and digital test. I first had to collect the exposed paper from Metro Imaging. They had already exposed the digital image I had made onto the paper, which was then carefully wrapped up in a light-tight tube. I took this to the studio up the road and with the help of Andrew Bruce laid it out on the metal paper holding it down with magnets as before. This was done in complete darkness once we had set up the lights.
Once everything was set up, the lights were off and the paper was laid out I placed a number of objects onto the surface of the paper. This time I further increased the variety of objects to also include 10×8″ negatives, newspaper, string, eggs, feathers, coins, tissue paper, photocopies and other printed-matter. We exposed the paper to the flash light and rolled it up in a tube and took it back to Metro to run it through the processing machine and this is the result!
It was really interesting to see how the physical ‘analogue’ elements intercepted the digital image in different ways. Essentially anywhere that is blocked by an object will leave an unexposed patch, and this is where the digital image will become visible. Below you can see some close ups of sections that I thought worked particularly well.
