The great experiment, part 2
Posted: March 28th, 2009 | 2 Comments »The experiment continues. With the exception of a light leak in my reducing back, I’m fairly satisfied with how it’s going.
I got my first sheets of color 4×5 film processed and spent some time today scanning it and digitally layering the images on top of the 8×10 scans. I tried to match the color of the 8×10 images with that of the cyanotype collages to see what a color image would look like on top of them. I made one image with the full frame shape of the 4×5 and one without; I’m leaning toward keeping the full frame, as I think it helps show that the images are in fact made from different negatives.
Here are a few of the results of my explorations this afternoon. They’re nowhere near resolved, but I think I’m on the right track. As always, comments/questions/suggestions are very welcome.
i think you need to introduce an element of time into this. the easiest and most obvious way to do that would be to rephotograph the same place over time, ala mark klett. i like the potential of this project though. i’m curious how well this could be done simply by using different lenses on the same camera. might be something else to experiment with.
Hey Chris, I agree with you 100%. The time element was actually one of the first things that came to mind (I’m a huge fan of Klett’s work).
Looking back on this first set of images though, I’m starting to think more about context and less about time. I want to play with the context that the images give to each other.
To some degree I’m already doing what you suggested with different focal lengths. I’m using a 240mm lens, with is wide on 8×10 and long on 4×5, so by simply changing the diagonal of the film plane I’m changing the effective focal length. I would like to go further with this idea, but that won’t happen until I get access to more lenses (the ones we have in checkout are garbage).