Experimenting

Thinking of ways to incorporate photography into  printmaking.

This is a view from our hotel room in Adelaide.

Experimenting 2

Dancers at Heidelberg Elderly Citizen's Centre

Ballroom dancing is a very popular activity for elderly citizens. It has many advantages - it provides a great physical work out, the mind is engaged - very - and it provides a great opportunity to socialise.

These people were wonderful dancers and are a great advertisement for this activity to keep you fit.

It is a huge challenge photographing moving people! 

Hand coloured Holga images

These images were taken in black and white with a Holga film camera.
Negatives were scanned and hand coloured in photoshop.

Beautiful collodion prints

When I was in Ballarat I made a special trip to a venue to see Jeanne Wells' collodion prints. Alas the shop was shut unexpectedly.

But I have found them on her website, so fortunately I can now view them at my leisure.

I think they are extremely beautiful

What do you think?

http://jeannewells.net/collodion/

She also has an impresive blog with a myriad if interesting links.

On one link I found this excellent description of the different types of photographic prints. A great summary.

http://www.lensmodern.com/printing-processes.php

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Pinhole images

Assignment for Photography at  NMIT has been to use a pinhole camera .
I have used the school's Zero 120 Camera to create these images.

Took a while to get the exposure right as I forgot to over expose one stop - f90 is missing from the conversion dial.
The aperture  fixed at f138 so some calculations are required.

More fun with Holga camera

The Holga is a primitive camera and here are some interesting results......

Fun with Holga camera

First assignment  for Photography - use a Holga camera.