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Post by helwin tins on Mar 30, 2010 17:07:15 GMT
i'm interested in this in terms of photography mainly, but share anything. what unusual methods have you used to produce pictures/art? i'm currently scanning medium format negatives on a flat bed scanner using the light from my iphone on top.
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Post by jadeface on Mar 30, 2010 19:40:27 GMT
Will you post what the results are? Sounds interesting. I don't really do photography so I have nothing to contribute. I ruined my last roll of film and all that was saved was the top of a pineapple in one photo. Haha, successful.
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Post by wakefromthysleep on Mar 30, 2010 20:16:01 GMT
ohhh.. I'll feed this thread a bit more in my next semester. I'll do two photography seminars: one for experimental photography and the other is themed 'death'. I'll look up what exactly we're going to do in experimental photo and return with the list . here some other methods that I remember now - cook the film. (haven't tried it yet but I heard it should create some ace psychodelic effects) - in case you have access to a photo laboratory: after exposure don't lay the undeveloped photo completely in developer. instead of this take a brush and splash or draw something on it (I'll try to write something with this method for a project) - a bit silly but it's fun to play around with it : custom bokeh edit: mh.. not unorthodox. but funny.eta: - Rollei Black Magic, a liquid photo emulsion that you can apply on everything.
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Post by mimicry on Mar 31, 2010 0:43:53 GMT
Right now I'm in an alternative processes in photography class, so we've been doing a bunch of fun stuff. We've burned, boiled, and bleached negatives. We've toned paper using selenium and/or sepia. We've also bleached prints. We just finished a unit on cyanotypes and Van Dyke Brown. There's this stuff called Liquid Light which is an emulsion that you can paint on anything that makes it photosensitive, so we've printed on watercolor paper, fabric, wood, metal, and people are considering rocks and eggs.
Similar to a thing Romi was saying, there's also ambient light photography, which is in a regularly lit room with the printing chemicals and you basically put any chemical on the photo paper wherever in any order.
Maybe one day I will scan the things I have done in this class.
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Post by helwin tins on Mar 31, 2010 1:21:12 GMT
amazing ideas so far. flatbed scanner photos: obviously not amazing, but examples of the kind of effect possible
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Post by helwin tins on Mar 31, 2010 1:33:41 GMT
Will you post what the results are? Sounds interesting. also, the one in the 'pics of you' thread. i'm really into hand colouring, i love the kind of surreal feel
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Post by Rhiflect on Mar 31, 2010 21:04:36 GMT
Wow, this is really interesting! I love the flowers, they almost look painted.
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Post by wakefromthysleep on Mar 31, 2010 23:10:54 GMT
i'm currently scanning medium format negatives on a flat bed scanner using the light from my iphone on top. how does that work? I know someone who also did something with his scanner but outside.. I'll ask him what he did
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Post by helwin tins on Apr 1, 2010 2:44:21 GMT
i'm currently scanning medium format negatives on a flat bed scanner using the light from my iphone on top. how does that work? I know someone who also did something with his scanner but outside.. I'll ask him what he did basically, you can't scan negatives with a normal flatbed scanner, as there's no light on top showing detail, so you end up with a mess. the solution to this is to make a toplight. i download an app called flashlight, set the screen to all white, maxed brightness and placed it on top of the negative on the scanner. then scan at a high resolution and crop the image, inverting the colours. here's an explanation with pictures: www.ehow.com/how_4727216_scan-negatives-cheap-scanners.html
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Post by mimicry on Apr 2, 2010 4:42:24 GMT
Just so y'all know, but I made some gorgeous cyanotypes today.
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Post by helwin tins on Apr 2, 2010 12:18:51 GMT
share!
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Post by papilioulysses on Apr 2, 2010 12:44:15 GMT
hm, i haven't done those stunning "unusual" things... just scanned negatives like a print to get the effect. i always wanted to do some polaroid transfers. it's time.
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Post by helwin tins on Apr 2, 2010 15:46:15 GMT
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Post by mimicry on Apr 2, 2010 16:30:23 GMT
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Post by mimicry on Apr 4, 2010 22:23:31 GMT
This is from a few weeks ago, actually. I have some better ones that are a better blue.
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Post by wakefromthysleep on Apr 4, 2010 22:39:45 GMT
meow. I like cyanotypes we made some in school but we simply laid various objects on the chemically treated paper. How do you get these drawings on it? How does it work? I think instead of the objects that we used it's possible with something transparent, then draw on it in black and lay it over the paper/fabric/[...]. Am I right? I'll try that
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Post by mimicry on Apr 5, 2010 4:10:20 GMT
Yes! The method is called cliche-verre. I used ink on matte acetate.
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Post by wakefromthysleep on Apr 21, 2010 22:54:14 GMT
Finally I know in what groups for experimental photography I am: cyanotype film developing (burning, cooking, sratching..) black magic (emulsion that you can paint on anything) I'm really looking forward to the results!
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Post by mimicry on Apr 22, 2010 4:42:11 GMT
awesome!
Last night I spent five hours in the dark room, printing on tiny squares of fabric that had been painted with Liquid Light (which is a brand-- romi, it sounds like "black magic" and Liquid Light are the same thing. tbqh i'd rather call it black magic, haha). I was contact printing medium format negatives of teeth. Of the 48 photos I printed, about four looked like a set of teeth. Boo. But all the rest look really cool, so it's okay. My senior thesis isn't about photography, it's about repetition, process, the uncanny, and teeth so whateva
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Post by wakefromthysleep on Apr 22, 2010 22:48:53 GMT
Liquid Light (which is a brand-- romi, it sounds like "black magic" and Liquid Light are the same thing. tbqh i'd rather call it black magic, haha) Black Magic is a brand name too. Oh well it's a Rollei product but it's the original name of it. We'll use this. (it was hard to find a page about it in English!)eta: and yes I think it's absolutely the same.
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