Gallery 2

Unconventional techniques

(Using cameras which I have tampered with, put things into, or inserted the right thing in the wrong way.)
(more examples in galleries 3 and 4.)

see below the thumbnails for details.



 
 
 
 
 


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The main difference between a camera and a paintbrush is that you
never suck the end of a camera during a pause....

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(These images are straight from the camera;  they have not been manipulated electronically, in the darkroom, or by any other means.)
 
 
 

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CINESCAN  is a term I coined which by definition refers to the process of making photographs by scanning the subject
with a camera in which the film is moving, (or a moving subject while the camera is fixed).
The cinescans presented on this website were made using a 35mm SLR camera which I modified myself,
in such a way that it can still be used for normal picture taking.

This technique offers a unique flexibility in the range of  formats which can be produced; anywhere from a square
to an entire roll of 35mm film in a single exposure. A variety of visual deformities can become apparent including local
or partial distortions, and separation of the primary and/or secondary colours in the image.

From an indistinguishable blurr to a well defined image, cinescans present a diverse and original photographic
expression which is always interesting and never totally predictable.



POINTILLISTIC  photographs are made by shooting through a screen made from a photograph of
60,000  red, green, and blue hundreds and thousands (candy sprinkles), placed just in front of the film.

The success of the result is dependant on the degree of  ‘out of focusness’ with which the subject is shot.


REVERSE  imaging, is an intricate process involving shooting onto the back of the film creating
a mixture of colour biases unobtainable with any filters.

I often combine this technique with the use of home assembled lenses
to give a softness of quite a different quality to that achieved with standard soft-focus lenses.