Akihiko Miyoshi inspiration // Experimental

Akihiko Miyoshi has got a theme of anonymity running through his work by putting things on top of the subject's faces during/and/or after the images are getting processed. I find this quite interesting because it hides their identity, so the viewer doesn't know anything about them.



I have created my own images with the aspect of anonymity within them, by putting Vaseline on the photographic paper. I have put them below.



These images have an aspect of anonymity to them as the viewer can't see the face of the subject.

Colour negatives tried in black and white // Experimental

I decided that I would use some of my dad's old colour negatives that he gave me, to create a black and white negative from them. The image was going to come out differently from how it would have if he took the same image from a black and white film, and differently from how it came out in colour. I find it interesting as it's not a usual thing to do, as you would typically turn colour negatives into colour positives, not black and white ones. Therefore this is an experiment within its self as no one knew how it was going to turn out.

In the end I left the image as a tester as it still showed that colour negatives, through black and white processing still works and brings out all the detail within the image, just in a monochrome effect. 

London city-lights light trails // Experimental

I have previously posted these images as I took them whilst I was in London taking images for my street photography project a few months ago. These images are also types of experimental photography because they are light trail on the landmarks around London, therefore I am reposting them with the rest of my experimental photography project images and work.

 The image above includes one of the major sightseeing landmarks in London, The London Eye, which has been lit up green. There are fairy lights draped over posts along Victoria Embankment, which have created light trails, since they have been moving in the wind. This is interesting as you can see two faint light trails from the fairy lights.

 The image above is a typical light trail photograph because it is made from the headlights and rear lights from vehicles. It portrays what the roads around Victoria Embankment are like in the evening.

 From using a long exposure within the image above, there are light trails from the city lights around which reflect in the River Thames. Big Ben is a significant aspect of this image, as it's one of the most important landmarks in London since it's linked to Parliament, has the clock face creating a trail from the lighting within it.

 The image above has been taken along South Bank. Along the bridge there is a light trail from a bus travelling along there. I like this as you get a light trail from a vehicle along the bridge, as well as reflections from the city lights along the river Thames, and the city-lights light trails.

The image above had a bit of camera shake whilst the long exposure was happening. This makes it quite interesting as you can see the shake happened slightly up and to the right. The shake alters how the image is perceived because it isn't an image of it's original self anymore, but instead is something quite different.

Ian Egner inspiration // Experimental

I find that Ian Egner is a good person to take inspiration off for light trails. This is because he has created interesting and different images from light trails from vehicles, by using different angles, amounts of natural light, and locations. Each of these factors make each image unique to the others and interesting to look at.

In my images I have used two locations which are very close together, the same angle, and the same amount of natural light. This means my images won't be as unique and as interesting as Enger's as each image isn't completely different from the previous.

My images are below.

Sparklers and fireworks // Experimental

Previously I have posted blog posts from bonfire night, in which I went out and took photos of sparklers and fireworks. This is experimental because I had to use a long exposure and didn't know how it would come out in the end, as well the images were totally chance because you had to hope there was movement with light at the time you pressed the shutter button until when the image was released.

The fireworks images already on my blog that turned out the best are below.

The sparklers images already on my blog that turned out the best are below.

Daro Montag, Bioglyphs series research // Experimental

Daro Montag has produced a form of art through using microbes and other living things within nature. His series, Bioglyphs, is interesting as he produced imagery that is very unique through unique ways.

Below are three of his images from this series.

Orange

 Lemon

 Plum

He created these image through putting the designated type of fruit of the film, then allowing it to be consumed by microorganisms, which then after her produced prints out of the film. The microorganisms give the images of the fruit a new aspect to them, as they have taken away the actual piece of fruit and left behind 'mould'.

Before looking at images like these, people would say that 'there is no beauty in mould'; but once they have, I believe it would alter their opinion on that. As Montag has used photography to do things with nature, that no one has really thought about doing before. He has definitely found beauty in microorganisms and mould. 

Man Ray inspiration // Experimental

Man Ray creates photograms of objects and materials that he has around him, that he believes would create an interesting effect on photographic paper. He has done this through lying the objects and materials on the paper that he wants to include in his image, then he turns the light of the enlarger on for a designated amount of time to create the effect. This works by the things he has placed on the paper working to block some of the light at different parts of the paper.  

The image above could be said to symbolize Man Ray's trip to Paris, being what he did there. I find it interesting as you know it's to do with Paris, and you can tell that he went to the Eiffel tower but you don't know the full story behind it all.

Each of these images produced by Man Ray by creating his own photograms are unique to the other. They each include an aspect of an SLR camera's film in them, this is interesting as it means that they can tell a story in the image from using the images, or lack of images within the film in the image. This story is helped being portrayed through the other objects and materials within the image.

The images below are my own photograms, that I created using Man Ray as inspiration:

 In the image above I placed two strips of film down on the photographic paper in different directions, but overlapping at one point. To me this conveys a sort of story of what went on one day, but also gives an aspect of double exposure on the overlapped images, which also portrays an idea that two things could have been going on at the same point in time. I also layed some cling film in one corner to give a hazy effect to the image, from the light getting through in different amounts. I also put two straws down, each straw had transparent and opaque parts to it, which could convey that the day that the images were took had some aspects being easy to know and see, whilst others weren't.

This image is different to the other image the other photogram that I created, as it includes different objects within the image, which have created different textures and light patterns to the other image that I created. The images on the film are from the exact same day as the ones in my other photogram, therefore this image could represent a different version of how that day went.