Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Photography Project

From receiving the brief and having the option of choosing 5 different titles for the photography project i decided to go with destructive photography.
I liked the idea of the experimentation and the results that could come from it, so i armed myself with three cameras being a holga medium format, 4 frame 35mm and a digital camera. I shot most of film at night and through taking test shots with my digital camera found that long exposures was what i mainly wanted to experiment with.

From playing around with long exposure time i also messed around with the lens leaving water marks on there so light would be dispersed unevenly through the picture. Experimenting with double exposures by not winding on the film or leaving the shutter open on my digital camera and covering the lens to over lap images. Another i also thought about destroying photography and the basic principles your supposed to follow was working over photographs once they had been developed by scratching the paper and using paint pens to colour in or add different elements o image that had already been taken.
Although my holga took medium format film i wanted to experiment with loading 35mm film so the whole frame of the negative would be exposed as well as a lot less time consuming to get developed.

Here are some of most expressive images i ended up with










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