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Sharing My First Analogue and Digital Test with Field/s Forum
I run a forum of artists that meets once a month called Field/s, I set it up with funding I was awarded by Artquest in partnership with the Photographers’ Gallery and always invite a guest to join us. At one […]
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Test Five: Analogue and Digital
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 […]
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Making a Digital Image
After working with the paper now for a while and testing its exposure to an analogue way of working, I wanted to start combing this with a digital image to further develop my original idea. To proceed I’d need a […]
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Test Four: One Exposure for the Whole Sheet
Seeing as the last few tests were successful I decided that the next one would not be a test strip, but I would instead try one exposure for the whole sheet of paper to create one image. Everything went well, […]
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Test Three: Test Strip With Soft Light
This is the result of a test bouncing the flash light off a reflector in an attempt to create softer edge around the objects placed on the photographic paper. It worked! Something that I now know is how the paper […]
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Test Two: Test Strip With Speedlight Flash Gun
For this second test instead of using a studio flash we used a small speedlight flash gun, and we covered it was two neutral density filters. This meant the exposure would still be short, but it would instead be less […]
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Test One: Studio Flashes
This is the result from my first test of exposing the digital silver gelatin paper in the studio, it was a complete failure! We exposed the paper over ten times, shuffling along a piece of card in front to shield the […]
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Meeting Metro Imaging and learning about Digital Silver Gelatin Paper
To kick this project off I arranged to meet Steve Macleod, Creative Director of Metro Imaging. It was Steve who developed the digital silver gelatin paper a number of years ago. Through my meeting with him I learnt a lot about the […]
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Introduction
Many years ago when visiting Tate Modern, I saw two photographs by Iwao Yamawaki and Horacio Coppola. They were quite simple, but quite clearly modernist still lifes. They were results of an exercise they were given as students of the Baushaus, […]