Analogue Double Exposure

I have decided to try out double exposure using an analogue camera. Most of the images turned out looking very well however some didn't turn out as well, and this was because the photos didn't line up properly. Most of the images are kept in its original size with other frames that aren't lined up overlaying it and then they are shown in cropped in the best way possible. 

In my opinion, some of the original ones without cropping look very well because it gives a raw look. They are flawed, but the flaws make it look unique and make it truly seem like they were taken using an analogue camera. 

Experiment - Cyanotype Double Exposure - Contact Sheet

Amy Friend - WIP

Here I have the scanned family photo placed into photoshop ready to crop.

Here I have the cropped image to the right size with the colours corrected to make it look as similar to the artist's photo as possible.

I will be choosing the right crop to fit the size and layout of the woman on the artist's photograph.

I then applied the Sepia effect to my photo to make it look more contemporary and so that it fits closely to the colours of the artist\s photo.

I have added a layer of a dark brown colour to imitate the colour of the woman's hair in the original photo.

Here I have faded the colours making the hair a slightly darker colour.

This is the printed out and edited photo with all the holes poked in using a craft knife ready to shine the light through and ready to shoot.

Here I have picked the best photo from the series ready to edit.

Here I am cropping the photo to remove the useless background.

I have tweaked the colours to make it fit to the original artist's photo because the camera settings played up with the colours and the tones.

For the last step, I decided to edit in the makeup of the woman in the portrait of the original photo. 

Amy Friend - Contact Sheet

Artist Emulation - Amy Friend

The most obvious thing that the artist does to create those kinds of photographs is poking holes with a sharp object to shine a bright light through creating dispersed star-like lights. The artist also uses possibly family photos, or other found contemporary photographs to fit to the main theme of those images.

My Work

What I have done to achieve this copy is editing a family photo to fit the colours and I cropped the original image to look as close to the original as it could. I then cut holes through the image and shone a bright light through to create star-like lights coming through the holes in the most fitting place. I then altered the colours once again since the light changed the colours on the card paper.

Flora Borsi 'Ireel' Contact Sheets

Artist Emulation Plan - Amy Friend

I am planning to emulate the artist Amy Friend. Her work mainly features vintage personal or family photographs in black and white or sepia. Friend pins through the figures on the images letting light through by shining through the back of the created holes.

Things I'll need to sort out before hand: 

> Old photocopied family images
> A pin

Things to focus on:

> The size of the holes
> Amount of light
> Brightness of light
> Thickness of the paper

> A light source

> Self-taken images 

Flora Borsi - WIP

Here Is the photo that I have chosen to be the best from the shoot ready to edit.

Here I have tweaked the exposure since the camera settings were making it slightly too dark.

I have changed the colour of the background to blue to make it fit the colour of the original image that I'm copying.

Here I have added light shadings to the model's skin to imitate the skin lightness of the model in the photo. I have also changed the colour of the dress to be less see through and brighter white.

I have added shadings to the background and more skin lightness to some areas of the skin and I have also tweaked the colours of the paint on the plastic.

Here I played around with changing the hair colour to fit the colour of the model on the original image and I faded it out to make it look natural.

Artist Emulation - Flora Borsi 'Ireel'

Flora is a young fine art photographer from Hungary. She uses exquisite photo manipulation to create surreal images that are thematically focused on identity, relationships, emotions and dreams. Her work often features the female body and she plays with hiding and revealing the eyes or face to leave only the feminine form, exploring questions of female representation and the relationship between body and self. 

All of her images from this series of photos feature a blue background with an orange tint to everything else. These colours complement each other very well creating a peaceful atmosphere within the photographs. The model is holding a a plastic sheet of a piece of glass with orange paint on it creating some sort of barrier. She is shown either naked or very lightly clothed. The contrast is very high and difference between white and black tones is very high too creating a very unique style.

My work

Artist Emulation Plan - Flora Borsi

I am planning to emulate the artist Flora Borsi. 

Her work mainly features a female model hiding parts of her body showing off her feminine aspects. Borsi's work is often portraying surreal and eery photographs, which thematically focus on identity, relationships, emotions and dreams.

Things I'll need to sort out before hand: 

> Plastic sheet 

> Coloured paint

> Female model

Things to focus on:

> Making sure that the lighting creates the nice transition between light and dark colours.

> Thickness of the paint

> Reducing the reflection off the plastic sheet

> Posture of the model

AV and TV modes

AV

AV mode is the setting that prioritises aperture. It allows the user to select a specific aperture value while the camera selects shutter speed to match it that will result in proper exposure.

Amanda Rodriguez

TV

TV mode is the opposite of the AV mode. The user selects the shutter speed that they want to shoot their photographs in and the camera chooses the appropriate aperture to properly expose the image.

Hector J. Brandan

Own Project Final Images

These are the final images for my mock exam. They all fit together and present well because I have included paint and white background and clothes. 

Own Project Contact Sheet

Own Project

The original plan for my own project involved a photoshoot with smoke bombs, however that has not worked as I planned because there was hardly any smoke coming out of the bombs and it was not worth taking any photos, because I wanted to make the model AND the smoke to main subjects of the photos. Therefore, I had to turn to my Plan B.

For my Plan B I decided to create portraits using paint on the outlines of the faces. This, on the other hand, has worked perfectly fine.

Case Study - Testino

Own Project Photoshoot Plan

I am planning to do my photoshoot during the weekend or start of next week.

I have ordered the smoke bombs that I need for my photoshoot.

I have also found an appropriate model and have sorted out the look and the outfit before the day, just to have everything ready and to make the photoshoot go smoothly.

The location has also been sorted out.

Smoke Final Piece - Sketch

This is what I'd like one of my photoshoots to look like. I'd like to have a model standing on a road or somewhere on the side of the road with coloured smoke behind them and around them. I will be looking for a foresty area to give it an eery atmosphere.

Darkroom Experiment

Here I have decided to play around with light sensitive paper. I have printed out an image on an acetate, and layered it on light sensitive paper in a dark room. When I was ready, I exposed it to light for several seconds, and then I would use a pipette to drip the developer down the image, in order for it to show only parts of the image, but so that it could also show enough that you are able to see what image it is. 

It has been difficult to get it right because every time the paper has been either underexposed or overexposed which has ruined the photo. Next time I will be trying to properly work out how long for I need to expose the light sensitive paper.

I have gotten my idea from looking up different techniques until I found Timothy Patron.