A Monk So Hurt
5th of February 2010 (Fri), 01:30
I thought I would share one of my images from about 7 years ago when I was in high school and we were using trusty old Nikons and a full developing room and darkroom. I took the course because I needed an arts course, and it changed my whole life. This course, and especially this image, was what really got me hooked on photography and made me realize just how much you can experiment and just have fun with it!
This particular assignment was the create an image using darkroom techniques we had learned, to create a surreal image. I came up with the idea to take three images: a shoe, my friend with an oar, and a closeup of a sink of water, and combine them somehow to create the illusion my friend was paddling around in the sink.
In order to achieve this effect I had to do several fairly simple, yet frustrating tasks. First I had to create "stencils" of the shapes of the shoe and my friend, which essentially allowed me to develop each image onto a single piece of photo paper one at a time, without exposing the rest of the paper. First I processed my friend by covering the rest of the paper with a stencil of him, then I covered the area I processed him onto with a reverse stencil, and followed this process for the shoe, and then the sink. There was LOTS of dodging, burning and trial and error that went on and I think this project probably took me the better part of 2 weeks of class and time after school as well, but I absolutely LOVED the result and since have never stopped with photography.
I appologize about the poor quality of the image, I matted it and framed it after getting 100% on the assinment, and because it was film I had to scan my print, and did not want to remove the matte (was easier to crop it) so the image quality isn't the greatest but you get the idea! Also, my scanner seems to have put a few large specks in the middle left and I don't have the energy right now to start up my computer with photoshop and load the image yadda yadda hahaha.
Anyway any feedback would be awesome!
http://i49.tinypic.com/14kb30h.jpg
This particular assignment was the create an image using darkroom techniques we had learned, to create a surreal image. I came up with the idea to take three images: a shoe, my friend with an oar, and a closeup of a sink of water, and combine them somehow to create the illusion my friend was paddling around in the sink.
In order to achieve this effect I had to do several fairly simple, yet frustrating tasks. First I had to create "stencils" of the shapes of the shoe and my friend, which essentially allowed me to develop each image onto a single piece of photo paper one at a time, without exposing the rest of the paper. First I processed my friend by covering the rest of the paper with a stencil of him, then I covered the area I processed him onto with a reverse stencil, and followed this process for the shoe, and then the sink. There was LOTS of dodging, burning and trial and error that went on and I think this project probably took me the better part of 2 weeks of class and time after school as well, but I absolutely LOVED the result and since have never stopped with photography.
I appologize about the poor quality of the image, I matted it and framed it after getting 100% on the assinment, and because it was film I had to scan my print, and did not want to remove the matte (was easier to crop it) so the image quality isn't the greatest but you get the idea! Also, my scanner seems to have put a few large specks in the middle left and I don't have the energy right now to start up my computer with photoshop and load the image yadda yadda hahaha.
Anyway any feedback would be awesome!
http://i49.tinypic.com/14kb30h.jpg