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RACHEL CONNOLLY EGRD6001

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Who Am I? For the first project, ‘who am I what do I do’ I created a video reflecting and showing previous work I had done. I began by looking back over the work and made note of the main areas I have explored, techniques I have used and my interests; photography, typography, paper craft, bookbinding, editorial, handmade and crafts.

I decided to make a video showing images of my work over my time at university completed with a running monologue. I wanted to use a running monologue in an informal tone to make it sound like I was speaking to my audience naturally which would hopefully appeal to them and the less informal tone I hoped would help them to engage with my work and make it easy to understand. I decided to use the combination of the speaking and visual images of my work to allow my new tutors to get a feel for what I am about and what my working style is like.

I found these presentations particularly interesting both listening to my feedback and other peoples feedback. I felt like a lot of what was being said to others applied to me and my working style. Perhaps I am more of a processed based maker? I reply well to a stimulus and working with a brief? I enjoy photography but need to harness it and why am I using it? I am an all round designer?

Specific feedback towards my presentation was particularly helpful tutors picked up on my experimental style and said I could look out for companies also with an experimental style. The tutors also noticed my photography and suggested this could be an area I went into but needs to have a strong idea or concept behind why I am doing it rather than a hobby. The black and white image which was from my second year independent practice was picked up on and suggested that this could be developed into a strong project. I actually really enjoyed doing this piece of work and loved the overlaying style I had created. It defiantly made me start thinking about projects I could do and about how I could approached my final major project.

I found the direct feedback from the tutors was really helpful and I feel that by choosing the approach I did to present my work I was able to show a wide range of outcomes and work I had created. It also allowed me to received constructive feedback about where and what I could develop into a final major project and areas of work to research.

At this point the reflection back over my work and the presentation feedback had lead me into an idea of a photography based final major project. Perhaps along the idea of unpredictable outcomes of film based photography.

Subject and Context I began this brief by pulling it apart to work out what I needed to do and came to the conclusion it was and in depth research and investigation into the area/ areas we are interested in and may want to go into when we leave university.

I wanted to present my findings in an interesting way to reflect my thought process, like a map of what was going on in my head.

I first approached this by asking myself what are the possible areas I was interested in for working and then to write down questions I wanted to know the answers to. I came to the conclusion, though personal reflection on my work and feedback from tutors that I was going to look into editorial design, photography and what it was to be a multi-disciplinary designer? I wanted to see how these areas are linked and how can I use my final major project to my advantage to help me gain access to these areas.

The format I chose to use for this brief was an information graphic/spider diagram style. I wanted to be able to show my research in detail and show the interlinking and cross overs within the different areas.

I learnt from this research more about being a designer and what it is to be in editorial design. Once I have done my research I felt stuck between the idea of publication, layout and editorial design and multi-disciplinary studio. I came to the conclusion that editorial and publication design is the area I find most interesting but it would however be in my best interest to continue down the Multi-Disciplinary route but perhaps apply to studios which have a larger publication and layout design area. I feel like I would be missing out on all the other areas I may find interesting if I completely rule them out.

Photography is something I love to use and enjoy as a hobby and the research into workplaces along with my first presentation about me has helped me to think of using this for my final major project rather than going into as a job. I can can include my hobby of photography in my university work and turn it into a project to direct me into making a publication therefore helping me to strengthen my portfolio for a multi-disciplinary design studio but also one that also does a fair amount of publication design.

I also found this presentation to be a learning curve for future presentations.

I really worry about presenting and I had got into a panic about the way my information was going to be presented rather than my actual presentation and how to show my journey and my research. I think my presentation was a bit rubbish but this was a learning curve and helped me with future presentations.

I thought a lot more about how it would have been more successful if I had documented my resources that had informed my work and to show more of a step by step of how I had got somewhere.

The tutors like my the way I had chose to present my information and even suggested this could be an interesting interactive piece that moved about when you clicked on areas. I could see this working if I had the skills and ability to make this possible.

Magazine News paper Zines Leaflets Booklets Books Catalogue Publications Presentation of visuals Combination of text and image

Designing print of electric visual information To entertain, inform, instruct, educate Communicate idea/story Express personality using content Structuring material

Hard to predict future shifts Barriers are crossed Keep designers learning new skills Must be able to do wide range of things

Turning to online publications Designing pages for internet Shift towards internet continues Print and web co-exist Can form publication Part of the story Tactile Smell Special printing effects

Photoshop Illustrator Indesign Experience Spelling/grammar Attention to detail Magazine/design layout Portfolio of Indesign work

Vibrant motions Low cost Quick to distribute Interactive elements

Know the terminology Know the shortcuts Keep scrapbook of inspiration

Proofing Work to editors brief Directing photography Working with editors Material for websites

CS Adobe suits Indesign Front cover Typography Layout Budget

More of a hobby Enjoy using photography Enjoy developing skills Not as a career Use in FMP Create publication with?

Experience Enthusiasm Photoshop Adobe Suites Illustrator Indesign Degree Layout Organisation Manage more than one project HTML/CSS Video editing Communication Work under pressure Work in a team or on own Innovative/Creative Understanding of print process

Print Identity Logos Websites Packaging Advertising Books Events Moving image

Cultural awareness Interest in things around you Prior knowledge about the client Excellent communication Listening skills Ability to persuade your ideas Verbal skills Presentation skills

What have I learnt?

Editorial design is the area I find most interesting however I feel it would be in my best interest to continue down the Multi-Disciplinary route but perhaps with a company that focus slightly more or have a large area dedicated to Editorial design. I feel like I would be missing out on all the other areas I may find interesting if I completely rule them out.

Photography is something I love to use and enjoy as a hobby. This research into the workplace along with my first presentation about me has helped me to think of ideas for my FMP. Creating a publication using my photography. I have an idea along the lines of unpredictable outcomes but the idea needs to be developed much further. Therefore I get to explore editorial and show my layout skills.

Action Research Project: Praxis It was during the reflection process in the first brief that I encountered this image and it stuck with me. I have previously explored some photography projects using film cameras and not always have had the images come out as expected, such as one this. I decided to go with this idea of ‘unexpected outcomes’ to explore and develop into a project.

I begin, as always by pulling apart the brief to understand the essence of what is expected from me. I knew how big this brief was going to be and I wanted to know how to deal with it rather than it overcoming me.

-Produce a body of work that will directly inform my final majour project -Gather evidence to make informed judgments and decisions -Theory then tested and applied in practical experiments and explorations -Decisions made based on actual outcomes -Documentation of process, making links and jumps I decided to use my Diana Mini camera because it used 35mm film which allowed me to expolore with 36 exposures per film and they are a cheaper option in film photography. The Diana Mini is completely manual which allows me to basically do what ever I want. I am not constrained to set frames as I can wind on as little or as much as I want.

My initial explorations will be quick fire shots so I can develop the films and begin to collect my outcomes. I will be using a documentive and observational style of photography to allow me to create a diverse range or inital outcomes.

Research I have briefly done film photogaphy before but didnt really know that much about it. I needed to decided which ISO would be the best to use so did some research about what ISO was. I found out that in general the fast the film, the dimmer the colouring would be, the lower the number the less sensitive the film was. I found discussions on flickr particularly helpful when searching this topic. I also came across the lomography website which is full of experiments people have uploaded and tips and tricks about lomo photography. This website helped me (http://milkandmiel.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/diana-mini-history-in-film.html) when I wanted to know about different films to use. This helped me to make an informed choice to choose the Fujicolor superia which I can access easily from Jessops and comes in packs of 3 for 2.

I then came across many experiments using the lomo website (http://www. lomography.com/). The website is particularly interesting as it allows people to upload photos and blog posts about how they did something. Underneath is the experiments I proposed to do on my blog there is a post with links to examples of what each of these are. I decided to refer back to these and compare my own outcomes with these. My list of experiments to do over the semester I set out as followed; -Multiple exposures -Endless panorma -Sillhouettes -Exposing both sides of film -Splitzers Film soaking in: -Wine -Dishwasher -Roasting -Boiling -Lemonade -Detergent -Soda -Bleach

First Experiments: Film 1 and 2 My first set of experiments revolved around the different ISO, 200 and 400 to see which I would carry on using throughout my experiments. While I was using these two different films I also wanted to focus them on the idea of unexpected outcomes of multiple exposures, endless panoramic and then to see which types of lighting were most effective to photograph in. From this I was hoping that I would have both successful and unsuccessful outcomes which would lead me to make informed decisions based on my actual outcomes in my next set of experiments.

I was really impressed with my first set out outcomes and surprised at how well it had actually worked. I focused on multiple exposures and overlaying pictures to see which worked and I tried to overlay certain textures with stronger patterns, I really didn’t know what to expect and was worried it wasn’t going to work at all. Some have worked better than others but I was never expecting them to all be perfect.

Here is a contact sheet of the first two films put together and the next four pages I have picked out successful and interesting outcomes to discuses in further detail about why and how they are created.

Blog I decided at this point to create a blog area purely for all outcomes to be uploaded onto. I wanted a separate space where they could all be together rather than stuck on my computer. I felt it was important to have them all somewhere so that they could be viewed as a collection all together. I decided not to edited down these outcomes that I put up on this blog because sometimes something you first though was pointless may not be and if I left it out and forgot about it I would be limiting myself.

I have decided to use my uni blog to upload specific outcomes to discuses further and in more detail. I wanted to use my uni blog to reflect on what I am doing, how I am doing it and the success of the outcomes I have.

This link to this is: http://rachellland.tumblr.com/

Silhouetting The photos that I was initially most impressed with were when the first picture had been a silhouette and another image taken from the second picture had filled this silhouette.

This is done through taking a photo of something against the light so the silhouette is created, this part of the film is then practically unexposed and then the next picture you take the image will fill in the space of the silhouette and expose with the different picture, for example, a lamppost filled with leafs above. I then thought that this would be something really interesting to develop and the effect creates some interesting outcomes which at first look you may think were edited in photoshop.

This is something new that I had learnt but I did not no exactly how to do it until it happened neither did I try to control what my silhouettes would look like.

Camera Rotating These pictures were created from overlaying the same object but from a different angle. The converging lines and rotation of the object made for some interesting outcomes and it works most effectively when it is a strong image such as a building or something with a strong shape. These initial experiments have been created without trying to line anything up and rather with a chance and coincidence of an outcome. I decided I wanted to continue to work like this in upcoming experiments as I feel rather than trying to force something to work how you want it’s interesting to see how something happens without thinking about it too much, it has worked effectively for these images and I hoped it would for others in the future.

Upside Down These images were taken when I took one picture and then flipped the camera upside-down and took that picture again. I thought that this was particularly interesting however I do think that the two here I have taken are not exactly that strong there is potential with this technique that I decided I could develop.

The two pictures were taken on overcast days and I would like to try this technique out on a day with clear sky. The whiteness of the clouds seemed to wash out the image too much but perhaps with clear sky this would not happen.

Most Interesting Outcomes I was so impressed with the outcomes that had come out of these first experiments and on this page is a selection of ones which I found most interesting. I think some of the most successful ones are when a texture is placed over an image or two contrasting pictures are places together such as branches of a tree against a building or some kind of structure.

This initial exploration gave me confidence that what I was doing and what I had planned to do was going to work. After this exploration I felt that the film that worked most successfully was the 400 ISO. The colours seem to be richer which is what my previous research about the two films suggested would happen. I also felt that the colours worked and looked so much more interesting when the sky wasn’t so overcast. I was then hoping for a lot more blue sky days as this helps to make the images much more interesting.

One thing I found was that when I went to get the images developed I asked for them to be put onto a disk and I explained that it wasn’t all set in exact frames and to just cut them where they thought they should be. Looking over the negative I felt that some images had been cut in half especially the endless panorama ones and I think this may have taken away some of the effect. Bellow is an example of a negative to show what I mean.

After this first practical experiment I felt like I had gathered a good selection of evidence to then allow me to make an informed decision about what experiments I was doing to undertake next and areas to develop further.

What next?

I then decided that the next stage in my work would be to develop ideas from the first outcomes. I wanted to photograph more colourful objects or buildings and choose a day with blue skies and subjects of interest such as places like Kingston or London. I also wanted to develop the idea of filling silhouettes and upside down photographs. After this I then planned out what to do next which included making a splitzer and exploring with this technique and then exposing both sides of the film.

Tutorial Next I had my first one to one tutorial with Mike he had looked at my first experiments which I had uploaded onto my blog and I had then began this tutorial discussing my proposed experiments. He brought up the idea of old photography and how do they make you feel, what are the emotions link with photographs? He also suggested that I needed a notion of what is going to catch peoples attention such as a sensitive subject?

We then discussed the idea of clean environments and new buildings and applying the technique of film deterioration to the image of something clean.

We then discussed that as a designers I need to be socially aware of what is happening around me and to use emotions to make my work more interesting and to give it more meaning.

I then spoke about how I am planning to create a Zine for Handmade and Bound, something I can use my initial photography experiments for. I was then questioned about the format of the Zine, I had an initial idea of a photography based design to let the images speak more for themselves. Mike then suggested that I could include text on the cover to introduce what it is about and a statement at the back about the body of work and where the images have come from my name and the date.

We then briefly discussed how this could lead into a final major project. I explained that I wanted to use my interest in photography to develop into a publication of some kind. I am interested in layout, the combination of text and image, so this would be a perfect way to present my work. In brief two ‘Subject and Context’ I researched into a future prospect to be involved within a multidisciplinary studio with perhaps a slight lean towards publication design. Taking my final major project and using my hobby and love of photography to develop into a final major project of a publication would allow me to use, explore and develop my layout skills.

Second Experiments: Film 3 and 4 My next explorations involved me developing on the successful outcomes from my first set of experiments. I wanted to develop on colour, silhouettes, multiple exposure and the use of structures and buildings.

Here is a selection of images from films three and four. Overall this film I feel was successful and shooting on a day with brighter lighting conditions and blue skies helped to add a different kind of mood to my images. The following pages are also selected images to discuses in further detail.

Silhouettes My previous experiments lead me to develop more outcomes using silhouettes and filling them. I decided to choose buildings or strong shapes to use as my silhouette and then an interesting texture or pattern to fill it.

Something that was an interesting juxtaposition was when I used a man made structure such as a building or sign and filled it with something natural such as flowers of leafs. The opposites of the nature and man made created interesting outcomes of texture and colour.

Another intriguing outcome of this technique was with the cactus. I photographed the initial silhouette sideways and then took the next picture of a horizontal pattern from another cactus with the camera straight up. The pattern re-fills the cactus in the opposite way you would expect the pattern to flow and makes for a really interesting picture.

Portrait Silhouettes I wanted to explore this after initially working out and realising how to create filled silhouettes and decided to try it out with people. Using my mum as the model I tried it out on different textures. I think these are really interesting and could be developed further with different kinds of patterns and textures to fill.

It would be interesting to try this out and develop the idea of portraiture combined with these techniques. I think with the element of someone being in the image it adds a different dimension to the pictures and helps to add to an emotional response rather than it being purely landscape.

Upside Down I then decided to try out some more of these outcomes and this time it was much more interesting especially with the buildings and the blueness of the sky. The previous ones in the nature appear more like a blur of colours or an interesting pattern but the buildings create weird reflections that merge into each other. This was something I wanted to develop further and try out some more of these type of reflections.

Water Another areas I chose to develop this time was to try and turn the water into a pattern or texture to developing on the first outcomes. These images are interesting to look at, especially when there are ducks in the water as it looks slightly strange that they are floating on leafs or trees. I thought that this could be developed using man made structures and buildings to see what this looked like.

Turning The Camera On my second experiments I wanted to explore and develop the process of turning the camera and taking the picture of the same thing from two different ways as I had found that this was an interesting technique. I used structures of buildings and found some really fascinating results when the different lines converged beyond what we would naturally be able to see. Another one I found particularly interesting was when I photographed a greenhouse from the inside and then went and photographed the outside on top of it again adding to the idea previously discussed. Both of these outcomes created a sense of movement and an image that we could look at in a similar way to when we recall a memory. It is looking at the building or object from different perspectives as if we are there walking around it.

Colour Something I wanted to include and use more of was colour. These two films I have been able to shoot on days with blue sky and I have used places and chosen things to photograph that have more colour in. I think it is slightly more interesting and creates a strong image when there is more colour involved. It created a different mood from my first set of images but it does depends on what kind of mood or emotions I am trying to provoke from my audience as to which type of colours I use.

Book Binding Workshop I attended the book binding workshop with Mette Ambeck because I enjoy book binding and as I was thinking about my final outcome being a publication I thought this would benefit me. I have done book binding workshops before and in fact have actually already learnt the binding technique we were shown that day however I did find it interesting for a number of other reasons.

I really liked the way Mette approached her ways to design and make books.

Rather than adding to the paper she created images by taking away the paper.

Although I have not experimented this throughout the semester it is something I am very interesting in and could incorporate into my publication design in some way.

I also really liked the way we had to approach this workshop, bringing in many different papers to bind together. I really liked how the paper were juxtaposed the different patterns, textures and weights all put together to make one book. It was this element of the unexpected I was again been confronted with like in my photography. I feel like elements of this workshop I could push forward and further within my final outcome.

I enjoyed learning a new technique which she showed us called ‘fake embossing’ where you can make it appear as if the page has been embossed however it is just another thin piece of card underneath the front cover. I did intend for my embossing to be on the front but judged it wrong and it ended up being on the back. This is something if I was to do again I would pay closer attention to.

Zine: Unexpected Outcomes My zine for handmade and bound was based on my photos from the studio work I was doing. Its called unexpected outcomes and is photography based. I chose the size to be A5 because any bigger and it would have become more costly and hard to print and any smaller because it wouldn’t allow people to see the images clear enough. After I had made them I did think that they would have worked really well on a larger scale and some as large prints. This would be something to think about for my final major project.

I decided to use a paper which is 96 gsm, slightly thicker than standard photocopy paper but not too thick. I wanted it to be able to open up flat but feel substantial while holding it. The paper is very slightly textured which I think adds to the effect I was trying to create of something of a slightly high quality. I wanted my zine to feel like it was hand made to reflect the photographs.

I used a simple pamphlet stitch to sew it together and left the thread long so I could tie a bow in it. I wanted the thread to again be visible and show its structure, hiding nothing again adding to the feel of it being hand made.

The layout I chose for this was very simple with 1-3 photos a page. I wanted to use this simplicity so the pictures could be shown big and speak for themselves rather than being squashed together with many image.

I wanted to add a small something else that they could take away so included each a small square printed picture on a slightly thicker card.

After this I started to think about packaging for my zine. I didn’t want it to just be there I wanted to include some way it could be protected and presented. I decided to use a simple brown parcel wrap. Initially I was going to use white paper but thought it would be too white and clean I felt it needed a contrast and the parcel wrap did this and also added an element of receiving a gift. I designed the packet on an envelope style and was initially going to create a whole envelop but decided that by cutting the top bit off and leaving it open would work better. Leaving it open allows people to see what is inside it, inviting them to pick it up and look at it. I decided to package it with the stitching side facing the top so you can see the thread bow, again adding to the wrapped up parcel hand made feel.

Click here for online version: http://issuu.com/rachelxc/docs/zine_ online3

Handmade and Bound I made a limited edition of 6 zines to sell in handmade and bound, selling them for ÂŁ4 each. I kept one for myself and put in 5 at the fair. I only ended up selling two but I am happy that I actually sold any. I find it interesting that someone wanted to buy my work and am really please that someone out there has my photographs. It was a great opportunity to contextualise my work in an environment where I could sell them and they could be bought.

I decided to enter handmade and bound because I saw people had done it last year and had wished I could have done it. I enjoy making little books with my work, exploring layouts and thought that this would be a great opportunity to make something out of what I am doing and have the chance to sell it.

It was interesting to explore layout designs while I was making this zine because I want to maybe end up with a publication of my photographs so starting off with this simple photography based zine was an interesting way to see how my images worked on the page and along side other pictures.

Tutorial This tutorial I found interesting because it made me think about why I was selecting different images and the reasons behind why I thought some worked better than others.

First of all I showed a few of my pictures and then was asked why I had chosen these pictures. I didn’t really have a reply as to why I had picked them, perhaps because I found them aesthetically pleasing? It was suggested that I needed to think about why I was choosing these images out of my experiments. I wanted to continue with all experiments I had said I was going to do but then need to think further into why these pictures work well and why I select certain images.

By having more meaning behind why I am picking images it helps to lead me away from the fact I am just taking pictures. I don’t want to be in danger of what everyone else is doing. I need to gain control over what I am doing and the process rather than let the process gain control over me.

It was suggested that I looked at these books; Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes and On Photography by Susan Sontag. It was also suggested I looked at John Stezaker’s work and so got a book out about his work.

Research: John Stezaker As suggested by my tutor I looked at the work of Stezaker and came across this book. I liked the way he used found images to create new images all together. The book claims we can ‘trace the legacies of the Surrealist movement and the international situationism in the work of British artist John Stezaker’ and it was this Surreal feel to his images that I liked and gave me a way to think about my own images.

Stezaker has created work using silhouettes which is very similar to some experimentations I have created. I have not being influenced by his work as I came across it after I had created them experiments but I am trying to use his work and ideas behind it to give a greater meaning to my work.

‘There is an aesthetic texture to the image, which, in collaboration with the placing of the silhouette, and the choice of the source imagery from which it is cut, create a profound sense of both depth and perspective. One appears to be looking deep ‘into’ the image, while at the same time attempting to perceive three converging and conflicting sight lines from within the image.’

This is an interesting quote which I feel relates to what I am trying to do, create texture and calibrate different images to make one. I want to create an image that makes you look ‘deep into’ it to work out what is happening and all the different lines converging together.

Stezaker has explored the ideas of horizons, which is something I am also doing within my work flipped images upside-down.

‘Horizons, sight lines and image edges thus become synaptic in Stezaker’s collages, enabling simultaneously both connection and disconnection.’

I like the idea behind this that you can use horizon, straight lines and edges to create a connection between images to form one or a disconnection to create images that appear strange. I wanted to create images that look different to a normal photograph and ones that would provoke thoughts about what is happening and how it is happening and created.

‘Stezaker achieves by way of re-employing the notion of the edge, contour and horizon. Though his identification and isolation of the fragment of the image – the ‘apocalyptic certainty’ – he creates a profound new identity for the image, so by the identification and reassertion of contour and horizon Stezaker obtains a dramatic visual effect.’

An example of this in his work is on a train line the two images places together create new vanishing points.

‘The viewer is denied visual orientation; yet at the same time, the experience of perspective certainty is acute: the non-sense of the images asserts its own clarity, short circulating the visual cabaret of optical illusion.’

I found this interesting because its by making the image confusing and hard to read that created the new image in itself. I have experimented with this idea of playing with the horizon of an image to create dramatic visual effect. It adds another element to the image that people are not use to seeing and experiencing.

Stezaker did not want to add new images to the world by recycle existing ones.

This idea in relation to my own work I feel as if I am trying to take on this idea even though I am creating new images. I am trying to recycle what we already see and take in into a different viewpoint and make it different.

Death of an image is something which is in his work. Stezaker’s work uses the idea that the image has to die of its original meaning to be re-awakened to a new meaning.

‘Stezaker engages directly with the continuos flow of images through modern society, releasing the image from both its context and its accompanying meaning, and granting it new autonomy and new visibility. He achieves this through the succession of interruptions and interventions that disconnect the images from its referential bearings. First through encountering and identifying an image within the vastness of the image flow; and then re-enchanting the image by way of some further device: through inversion, isolation, incision, excision and collage. In the manner, Stezaker’s work creates instances of transcendence – a sublime within mass media – in which the views, too, is disconnected from the continuous flow of images and experiences a new and heightened perception, at once stilled and alert, awake to the uncharted capacities of image and meaning.’

I thought this was another interesting quote because it basically is explaining that Stezaker is making use of a flow of images supplied by the mass media and changes it to give it new meaning in different ways and techniques.

Although I am not taking existing images I am trying to use this idea of taking images that are normal and scenes that are normal. Images that people look at daily and making them more interesting and changing them to make them different through the techniques and uses of the camera.

Research: Tom Wood I went to the Photographers gallery and it wasn’t initially to see this but I decided as it was free to have a look and see what it was about and I am glad I did.

The exhibition was about Tom Wood recording the daily lives of people in Liverpool and Merseyside over the past four decades. It included portraits of peoples and documentation.

I found all the images really interesting even though many did not exactly relate to my work. What I picked up on was some of the names of the pictures. They all had captions which I found particularly interesting and really simple.

It made me think about this in relation to my work, Mike suggested about including text within my images, would simple captions about the images work?

Another very interesting thing I found was a technique of photographing reflections in windows. Wood was documenting a bus journey and the images looked so similar to how some of mine have worked. These had been taken through reflections but echoed the multiple exposures in my work and it gave me ideas about documentations, documenting a journey or traveling somewhere. Showing movement through my photographs of a journey or an event with movement?

Presentation In this presentation I focussed a lot on how to present my work and what would be the best way to get across what I had done so far. I decided to use a power point and talk about each slide as I felt this was the best way to allow me to show examples of my pictures and briefly discussed them.

I found the feedback really helpful and again one of the things that was brought up was the fact I needed to push it beyond the aesthetic. With Lomo photography there is a danger is being pulled in by the seductive nature of the pictures, something which I don’t want to fall victim too.

It was suggested to go to an exhibition at the Barbican to view the Everything Was Moving: Photography from the 60’s and 70’s because there are photographers there who have used the technique of multiple exposures but have dominated the process rather than letting the process dominate them. I booked my ticket for this for the following week.

I spoke about the experience of taking a film of pictures and how it was long a time consuming. Tutors suggested that this was all a part of the process of using film photography and it is against the speedy digital media, it was part of what I was doing and an interesting observation.

Ally then suggested that my work was based on coincidence and chance. I thought this would be interesting to look up about this and there meanings. She also suggested I look at the book ‘All messed up’ by Anna Gerber.

I was also told to look at Tichy who is another photographer who works with film cameras and see what his work was about.

Ally also spoke about how my process was an element of surprise and that the slowness of the process makes it different Overall from this presentation I felt like I had a lot left to do over the next 3 weeks, more research and more experiments.

Research: Tichy Titchy started off using a basic Russian made camera but soon began modifying it and building it with whatever he could find; empty spools, elastic, empty food tins etc. This is something I found interesting, he uses a camera which potentially will decrease the quality of his pictures but does it and doesn’t care.

He spend most of his time capture images of women, catching them topless of in bikinis if not then glimpsing at different body parts on show such as a knee. His camera often lead to images coming out askew and many images over or under exposed and mostly not even in focus. I like this about his work because it’s quiet like what I am doing, chance photography taking pictures but not knowing the exposures or exactly what will end up in the image, chance photography.

Once developed and printed his images were often left around his house or turned into beer mats, left out in the rain and other circumstances which lead to distortion in the images. Again this is something I am trying to explore, destroying films in different ways to add another dimension to the image.

He would sometimes take pictures from a distance through a fence or something which lead to traces of textures and patterns in the images which could be another texture to add on top of an image which I thought I could try out.

His images had potential within the murkiness and unease and through my experiments I am trying to create potential in the photography I am taking.

The images I am unsure of how they will come out, chance photography, unexpected outcomes.

Information collected from: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/aug/02/art.photography

Research: All Messed Up book All Messed Up is a book about the ‘important role that mistakes and accidents play in the creative process.’ When we try to aim for perfection we make mistakes sometimes things go wrong and we end up with accidents that work to our advantage. This book was suggested to me by a tutor and I have found it interesting to see other briefs made from accidents and chance. I found it really helpful to read about chance and the unexpected, having it explained in relation to the creative process helped to make me think about my work being made up of chance outcomes and mistakes.

‘We have all found something beautiful or intriguing by chance’ The book starts off talking about how ‘No matter how hard we try to control the creative process, it is inevitable that we encounter an element of unpredictability – something unexpected.’ I found this really interesting because my experiments have been based on this idea of controlling what I am taking the photos of but its a total element of the unpredictable, no knowing what my results are going to be. ‘sometimes these mistakes and accidents end up working to our advantage’ Many different things have come out of mistakes and quiet often in order for something to progress it needs to go wrong or rely on chance.

Paul Virilio in 2003 opened a room called ‘Unknown Quantity’ it was his first attempt at making his idea of ‘Museum of Accidents’ happen. He believes that accidents should not been seen as separate from the world and we should be interested in failures.

Using his idea in the creative world we can apply this as think of accidents as something positive. Van Megan claims that accidents ‘reveal the true identity of an object’, that we have to stop negotiating the concept of the accident and start dealing with it in a much more productive way.

An interesting concept this book talks about is ‘taking oneself out of the creative process’ for example William Anastisi who did a set of ‘blind drawings’, literally looking away from the page and drawing. I really liked the idea that in a process you could take yourself out of it and allow the material to take over. I feel that this is what I have done especially in my first experiments. I didn’t think too much about what I was taking and I let the process speak for itself and the outcomes happen by themselves. I find the idea of the accident and chance very interesting and it is what initially drove me to this project.

The two examples I have here are very similar to what I am doing and an interesting way to control my work and an interesting way to see how others are using techniques I am also using.

Image on the left, is from a collaborative project between two people. Each person selected a theme of communication and photographed things within that theme and then the next person re winds the film and takes pictures fitting their film, resulting in multiple exposures with contrasting themes. I really like this idea of contrasting themes, unpredictable outcomes but each photographic journey conveys a theme and the two themes collide together.

The image on the right, of the eye, is again very similar but documents a journey of different people. They asked photographers to document their daily life and each person took a frame every 20 minutes then rewound the film and passed it on to the next person in a different country who then repeated the process. 100 people participated and each film was returned unexposed so no one knew the results. It was in a publication called shift which I have now ordered at a small cost of £5 to see how it was laid out and to see the results created.

Andre De Freitas I found this work really interesting the way the image filled the whole image of a person. I think it helps to make it more of an intriguing image evoking emotions when there is a person involved. Instead of just drawing, Andre tried to imagine themselves taking a photo of the subject. ‘After that, my insertion into the world of photography was almost based on instinct.’ http://andredefreitas.com/Double-Exposures

Tamara Lichtenstein ‘The unique charm of analog photographs connected with the original handcraft of photography fascinates me.’ I really like her work and take on multiple exposure again using a living subject such as a person or animal combined with a texture or pattern from nature. http://www.tamaralichtenstein.com/

Multiple Exposure Research I decided a way to push my work further would be to see what current photographers and other people are doing with multiple exposures. I wanted to see what kinds of different projects people are using this technique for and how they are doing it. Here are a selection of different photographers I have found and an example of their work. I have briefly analysed and discussed their work and techniques. I decided to email them to see if I could get a response about their approaches to their work but no one got back to me. On the right is a copy of the email I sent. I am a bit disappointed that no one replied to me because it would have been interesting to hear from someone who is clearly recognised for their ability to use multiple exposures.

I think it is particularly interesting that most images I found within this subject involved people merging with textures and patterns. I think it is a strong concept and the fact that a person is in the images creates something more and evokes ideas and emotional responses such as who are they? why are they there? what are they thinking? why does this texture or pattern relate to them?

People vs Places Collaborative project created by each shooting the same roll of film but each stick with a theme.

‘This double exposure project allows us to step back from having full control of the image making process and trust in one another while allowing coincidences to happen naturally on film.’ The film is exposed twice one person does people and the other place. It results in converging and clashing photos. They look like ‘random pieces, but carefully thought-out double exposures’ http://www.petapixel.com/2012/09/28/people-vs-placesdouble-exposures-by-two-photographers-on-one-roll-of-film/

Dan Mountford These are a series of portraits called The Worlds Inside of Us. ‘Dan describes this series as “a visual journey through our minds by calm and tidy means which the reality of everyday life does not show.” He explores the use of double exposure in his photographs, successfully isolating parts of an image in camera with no help from our friend Photoshop. His images are captivating with their thoughtful execution and composition, and there’s no doubt that we will be seeing more exciting work from him in the future.’ http://grainedit.com/2011/03/03/dan-mountford/

Christoffer Relander This work is particularly interesting because not only does he just fill faces he filled a whole silhouette of someone. I like the strong textures he choses to use. It is interesting that it is black and white something which I have not tried but seems to work particularly well. http://www.christofferrelander.com/projects/multipleexposures/

Olivier Morris His work consists of mainly exposures of silhouettes and textures and landscapes. They are really beautiful and he creates very interesting contrasts. Again I feel the added in element of a person in the image draws you in a lot more to the picture and gives something to focus on. http://www.lomography.com/magazine/lifestyle/2011/04/08/ oliver-morris-goes-analogue-all-the-way

Quotations from my research that have helped me to gain further understanding of what I am doing and to help explain to a reader of my portfolio about the essence and concept behind the experiments I have done. Books include: ‘All messed up’, ‘Camera Lucida’, ‘On Photography’ and quotations from myself to her explain work. This page should be viewed as a ‘sound bite’ - ‘a sound bite is characterized by a short phrase or sentence that captures the essence of what the speaker was trying to say, and is used to summarize information and entice the reader or viewer’

What is it about multiple exposure I decided to go back and think about why I liked creating multiple exposures and what it was about them that worked differently from a single image now I had done a lot of research into the area or chance, unpredictability and seeing what kinds of projects people were creating from this technique.

It is a way of taking two photos and making something better by converging the lines and subjects together. You don’t know what your going to see until you see it, there is an element of surprise and I find it interesting to take photos of what isn’t actually there and what is in our minds melting images together like in the way our memories are recalled.

The way we recall a memory of a journey or an event isn’t as a still image instead we merge memories together of textures patterns and movements brought together creating a kinetic image. Multiple exposures add an element of movement that single images cannot offer. It offers an alternative way to create a transient image mapping time like when we recalling a memory, we remember movements and motions like the way it happened rather than one static image.

I hoped that this would help me to develop a concept behind my work, the documentation of an event, day or journey captured in layered photographs.

Me vs Jessops As my next upcoming experiments were going to be soaking the films in chemicals I decided to ask Jessops where I get my films developed if I was to soak them and bring them in would they still develop it for me as I didn’t want to bring it in and ruin their chemicals and be banned from there. They said no that they wouldn’t under no circumstances because it could lead to their chemicals being destroyed.

I was really annoyed after this because I felt like all my plans were ruined and I would be unable to do the experiments that I really wanted to do.

I decided to then look over the Lomo website and comment on someones photo who had soaked their film and see what they said about it and how they had done it. I asked if they had developed it at a lab and just not told them and they replied explaining they had developed it themselves and had said she heard the lab people can get really annoyed if you don’t tell them.

I then realised it was possible to develop your own colour film with the Tetenal C-41 kit they had suggested but I thought it was going to be too hard. I thought about just taking the film in anyways and just not telling them but then decided to research how to do it myself anyways.

Later on down the line after I had worked out I could do it I decided to go back into Jessops and ask them if I had developed my own negatives would they scan them in for me and put them onto a disk. I was told this was no problem and so I used the Epsom Jessops a few times, no problems there.

Me vs Jessops I then went to the Kingston store and they did the same thing for me but this time because one of the films was so badly damaged they decided not to scan it in. Which really annoyed me because I told them they would be damaged and can you just scan them in anyways. I decided to go back to Epsom and told them what had happened and they then scanned it in for me. I decided to keep the chemicals I was developing my own destroyed film in separate to my non destroyed film so still returned to Jessops to get other film developed. It was while I was having film developed I asked them to scan the extra negatives in and put it on the same disk. I don’t think I ever really got charged to have the negatives scanned as they always just charged me for one disk and the development of a film and as I asked them to be put onto the same disk I don’t think that they charged me.

This was never a problem until the last time I went to the Kingston store. The lab man was really rude to start with the assistant at the till was asking about how much to charge and he came over and didn’t smile once, fair enough maybe he was having a bad day but then he asked how many exposures I was looking to have scanned in from my negatives which I then replied well theres two 36 exposures which was 72. Baring in mind I have never been charged for this service before and I was already buying a disk for a film I had asked them to develop which cost £11.

He then seemed to make a number up out of nowhere and said that for 72 exposures he would charge me £20, this is on top of the £11. I was so shocked that he had just made this up and I didn’t understand why I would pay £10 for each film to be scanned in when I was paying £11 for one to be developed and scanned in. He then told me that I couldn’t have it on the same disk as you couldn’t do that, I knew you could because every other time they had done it.

I decided to not pay £20 and just asked them for the one film to be developed.

I was so annoyed because it was my deadline in less than 2 weeks and I was now worried that I wouldn’t be able to get them scanned in. I told my mum the situation and she said someone she knew had a negative scanner so I ended up scanning them in myself, it was time consuming but I didn’t have to pay £20.

I thought Jessops were really rude I had spent quiet a lot of money on developing and films with them over the last couple of months and decided to email their customer services to find out why I was told I would have to pay this much. Here is my email I sent and the email I got back on the right.

How To Develop Colour Film So after deciding I wanted to destroy some film stupidly thinking this would be easier than it actually turned out to be. I was pushing the limits of the film and of the photo development places. As previously discussed Jessops wouldnt develop it so I then had to think of an alternative.

After feeling defeated I decided to, instead of been annoyed, fix this problem. I started to research into if it was even possible to develop your own colour film.

It sounded hard with all the chemicals and temperature controling but I had developed some black and white photo sensetive paper so understood the three steps vaguely. After hours of research and youtube videos I found out how to do it and decided that it wasn’t going to be as hard as I thought.

I found the videos the most helpful when coming to how to do the process they talked through it as they were doing it so it and made it much more simple.

Both of these links really helpful on how to do it, seen in a visual way of them actually doing it and speaking about what they were doing and how: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1718csN3I0U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB8qXU7dkNk The difference between developing colour negative and black and white negative was that the colour chemicals had to be at a temperature of about 38 degrees celsius. I was confused of how this would work and how to maintain the temperature but decided that the people in the videos were doing it all at home exactly how I would and they seemed to be able to get it to work.

I bought some Tetenal C-41 Colour Negative kit developer from ebay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tetenal-102226-CT-C-41-Negat-Kit-1-0ltr-Rapid-221137352270pt=UK_Photography_DarkroomSupplies_ SM&hash=item337cd0364e I also baught a developing tank which came with and held two plastic reels. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pro-Universal-Film-Developing-Tank-for-2-x35mm-120-/120858145746?pt=UK_Photography_DarkroomSupplies_ SM&hash=item1c23b4f3d2

How To Develop Colour Film This is the kit I got called the Tetenal C-41 in 1ltr size. Here is a picture of how the kit comes, image on the right of the bottles (I got it from http://www.flickr. com/photos/tony_kemplen/5442228179/sizes/l/in/photostream/ because I didn’t take a picture of my own but it is the same as what I had) You have to mix the chemicals with water following these instructions: The three small colour developer bottles (each 100ml) mix in a bottle with 700ml of water. The two bigger square bottles (each 200ml) mix with 600 ml of water and finally one of the small bottles (100ml) mixed with 900ml of water. These are then the three stages for development. CD, Bleach Fix BX and Stabiliser.

The way I did this was: I sat the three bottles in boiling hot water of about 50 - 60 degree Celsius to allow the chemicals to warm up to temperature. I let them warm up to about 42 degrees, carefully checking with my thermometer. By allowing it to warm up to above the 38 degree temperature it allows for the temperature change once poured into the container. First of all the film must be loaded onto the reel in total darkness and put into development tank which allows you to do this process in the light as it is light proof.

Step one: 5 min pre wash in hot water to warm up the tank and film to temperature, agitating the film pouring water out and re filling a couple of times Step two: Pour in the Developer for 3 minuets and 15 seconds. Agitate for 30 seconds and then sit in the water for rest of time. Invert the container 4 times every 30 seconds. Pour back into container.

Step three: Pour in the Bleach fix for 4 minuets and repeat the same process as before.

Step four: Rinse in running water and pour out repeatedly for 3 minuiets Step five: Pour in the Stabiliser for 1 min. Agitate for 30 seconds and then let sit. Pour this out and then you can open it up.

Step six: Hang up to let dry.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tony_kemplen/5442228179/sizes/l/in/photostream/

Soak In Red Wine I soaked the film in red wine for 10 minuets. This created some quiet interesting and psychedelic colouring stains on the images. I really liked this effect it added another layer onto the images, effecting the film and the photo in a different way, to something that I could do. This time it was an effect completely out of my control other than what I had chosen the element to soak it in.

I enjoyed the fact that no image was the same and every mark looked so different.

The colouring of the picture themselves was slightly different which I also really liked. Its just another effect and different way to approach photography.

While I was shooting this film I was thinking about movement in the images.

I tried to choose some things to photograph that would allow me to show something moving in one image. For example the picture of the cyclist and the car, I took two pictures quickly on top of each other. One image had a car and cyclist in and the next was a car. I didn’t want it to be perfectly aligned up as I have previously done experiments with photos in similar formats in year two and found it made the image more interesting when it was not perfectly aligned.

Roasting The Film By roasting the film for 2 minuets I was adding intense heat to it and by adding heat it basically causes the film to expire. If you store the film in a cooler place it will last for longer but in a hotter area it will cause it to expire quicker. By adding the intense heat it causes the film and the chemicals in the film to expire.

It basically made the images look quiet grainy and washed out, I wouldn’t really say it was the most interesting of my recent experiments but it does add a slightly different effect than a standard image.

I think this would be interesting to use if I was to try to create the effect of something being old and being washed out. It has it’s own style and some of the images turn into interesting textures rather than images.

While I was taking these photos I was by the river and there were a lot of birds flying about. I decided to take this opportunity to try to capture movement happening from the birds. I did this by taking pictures on top of each other as the birds moved and then with an endless panorama style showing them moving along through the pictures as I moved around them.

Put The Film Through A Dishwasher This one was the one which was most effected by the chemicals and process and the first time I went to get my negative scanned onto a disk they didn’t even actually bother to scan this one in at all, maybe they thought it was too ruined I did manage to get it scanned in the end I told the people at Jessops this time to just scan it in as best it could be I wanted to se the effects of what happened to the film I didn’t care about the quality of the images.

The film was badly damaged and burnt out but this added completely new and different patterns and textures onto the image which is why I haven’t cropped it in the traditional square frame format that the Diana takes. I wanted to show the effect on the unexposed part of the film. As it went through a long cycle of the dishwasher it was subject to intense heat of the water and the drying process and it resulted in probably the most interesting and strong results yet.

Boiling The Film This effect has created some really strange and interesting outcomes with more psychedelic colouring like the wine experiment. This time however it looks slightly more pink and washed out. As I took these films on the same day I no it wasn’t the lighting effecting the colouring it was the way this was then effecting by the boiling hot water. This is similar to roasting the film as the intense heat causes it to expire but this time it left water marks and stains on the negative, I think it has also melted the film and the chemicals creating strange colours and some interesting shapes.

I feel this was again another interesting effect on the film that was out of my control. It is interesting to see the different in both heat categories one with water heat and one with dry heat.

Splitzer So if I’m honest I really didn’t like the outcomes of this technique even after a few days of seeing it and looking again. I was expecting it to be a bit more interesting. This was my first time using this technique and I guess this could be why, I may not be doing it right. Here are a some examples of outcomes. The ones down the right hand side are the outcomes I was most impressed with but the rest I didn’t think much of. I have done many different experiments and I don’t think this will be one to continue with.

Film Developed On Both Sides I did this idea because I thought it would create some interesting overlays but how the results came out I was not expecting at all. I didn’t really understand what had happened and why my images were so red, I thought maybe I had done something wrong at first. I decided to go back to the original source where I had got this idea from and compare my images to theirs: http://www.lomography.com/magazine/tipster/2012/09/28/rad-redscalesexposing-both-sides-of-your-film-for-maximum-lomographic-awesomeness I realised that this was a technique called redscale which I had totally missed when I originally looked at the post. I decided to do another search on the lomo website to see what else came up and I came across someone else’s work which has inspired me to try this again: http://www.lomography.com/homes/hodachrome/photos/16351808 They had used a splitzer to create mirror images in redscale which looked so interesting it made me want to try it out.

Moving back to this technique which I decided to research more about it and how it worked. I found out it has actually got a name for it EBS (exposing both sides [of film]).

This is an extract from wikipedia explaining the process of why and what happens to the film: ‘Redscale is the name given to a technique of shooting photographic film where the film is exposed from the wrong side, i.e. the emulsion is exposed through the base of the film. Normally, this is done by winding the film upside-down into an empty film canister. The name “redscale” comes because there is a strong color shift to red due to the red-sensitive layer of the film being exposed first, rather than last [the red layer is normally the bottom layer in C-41 (color print) film]. All layers are sensitive to blue light, so normally the blue layer is on top, followed by a filter. In this technique, blue light exposes the layers containing red and green dyes, but the layer containing blue dye is left unexposed due to the filter. E-6 (color slide) film has also been used for this technique.’

Here is another really helpful link I used which helped to explain how they actually did the technique, what weather conditions he took them in etc. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hodachrome/ collections/72157630430810888/ He explains that you take the first set of pictures on a bright and sunny day and the second set on a dull day. Or you can use a splitzer all along and across the first set of images and mirror them with the same them on the redscale. This would require going back to the exact same places as you did at first and this does however involved a lot of control. I did however still want to give this a try to see what results I could get.

After looking at these results I had two types of outcomes. One very red and one where the original image came through more with hints of red. At this point I didn’t have a clue why this had happened until I researched and realised that when the redscale image was taken on a bright day it came through stronger but when it was taken on an overcast day of somewhere darker it would only come through a bit.

I feel like this technique braught back the element of the uncontrollable and the unexpected. I was then in two minds about how much I wanted to control this, practically it would be interesting to next time document and write down each image I take and then again for the second time to see why different results are coming out in different ways but then another side of me likes the fact that I don’t no why it is happening and why I have such different results.

I want to carry on and do this again and due to the technique of shooting the film twice rather I can use this on a different camera, one that winds on automatically as I will be shooting twice.

Redscale Film 1 These were some really interesting results I had captured using this technique. The images here are the most effected by the redscale, the image has been completely taken over by the redness and the original blue of the image stripped out.

It was also interesting when there was some kind of silhouette because then the blue would show through and contrast with the redness. It created all kinds of different and interesting effects which I had not come across yet.

Redscale Film 1 These were another set of outcomes from the redscale film which I really liked because they held the original photograph and the redscale image only slightly came through a bit. I think they have a really good potential and at this point I hoped that my next results work come out as interesting.

Tutorial This is my third and maybe final tutorial of this semester and I decided after having one with Mike and Luke to have one with Ally as it would be interesting to see all the tutors ideas on the project I am doing. I also decided to have a tutorial with Ally because in the presentation her feedback was really helpful and the book (all messed up) she advised me to look at I found really helpful.

I showed Ally some of my most recent experiments on film destroying and splitzer to see what her thoughts on this were as she had already see other experiments during my presentation.

I started telling Ally about Jessops and how I had had to develop my own colour film because they refused to develop it and she really liked this conversation I had had with them, Rachel vs Jessops and pushing film photography to the boundaries.

I decided to explain why I was doing the experiments and what my motive was that it is a still snapshot of memory and memories of a journey and that this semester I have tried to capture movement in one still snapshot. It was suggested to think about memory and visualising memories.

During the tutorial Ally was talking about my portfolio and ways to layout my finding and experiments. It was suggested to do a page about me and my experiences with Jessops. I thought this was a good idea to point out the interactions that I had while trying to develop my films. Another interesting idea was to then to layout my experiments like contact sheets with times and dates on, having a continual theme to show all of my outcomes and experiments.

Another interesting idea Ally suggested was to do a page of quotations from books I had read. I was telling my mum about this and she used the word ‘sound bite’ to describe it.

‘A sound bite (sometimes incorrectly written as “sound byte”[1]) is a short clip of speech or music extracted from a longer piece of audio, often used to promote or exemplify the full length piece. In the context of journalism, a sound bite is characterized by a short phrase or sentence that captures the essence of what the speaker was trying to say, and is used to summarize information and entice the reader or viewer.’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_bite I have read a few books and lots of information and definitions about what I am doing and this would be a really interesting way to get across the essence of what I have found out in a really interesting way.

Another interesting idea Ally suggested about my images was to try projecting them on a projector and to physically layer some on top of each other. This would be a really interesting way to push and develop this photography beyond what it is now.

I also explained to Ally that I was a bit worried I felt like I didn’t no where this was going to take me but she told me not to worry because I hadn’t finished my experiments and that I would by the end of all my experiments and research have a better idea. If im honest as I am writing this I am still worried about what I am going to write in my proposal but as I am making this portfolio I feel I am getting slightly stronger and stronger ideas as I am reflecting and re analysing my results.

Overall this tutorial was really helpful and gave me confidence about what I am doing and helped and give me ideas about how to develop work and set it out for in my portfolio.

Redscale Film 2 I decided this time to try this technique with a different camera. I have a Canon EOS 3000v which again takes a 35mm film. I decided to try a different film camera out because I wanted to use a camera which had a different style to the Diana. The Diana is interesting and I love using it, it gives a unique feel to the images. I really liked the outcomes of this camera not only for the redscale effects but for how they were really sharp pictures.

However going back to the red scale effect from this camera, this time I took into account about what I was doing after my previous research about weather conditions. I went with shooting on a sunny day and then shooting on a cloudy day to get this effect. I wanted to develop the slight redness as I thought it was really interesting and wanted to see what else I could come up with. I had already got quiet a few outcomes with the Diana from the other outcome, shooting both on sunny days.

It is also interesting when taking the photos on the flipped side the pictures of the red layer come out upside down. It is particularly interesting in examples like in the previous page of the large image. The sky is clear and the image of a building is printed upside down across the sky. It creates really mysterious images with buildings where they shouldn’t be.

Redscale Film 2 Here are some examples which I feel worked really well and created some interesting results. The swan in the water was one of my most favorite outcomes. It is interesting to mix the water with a red shadow of a building.

It adds a different dimension to the image rather than just being a swan on water. Buildings being projected on top of water or simple textures such as sky seem to work really well as you can clearly see the image rather than an image of converging jumbled lines.

The image above of the church worked really interesting I was using a splitzer for the first images which you will see on the next page and this was the last splitzer image, as I didn’t align them properly, which I will discuss on the next page, I thought it was finished and removed the splitzer creating this image (next page will discuss this one in more detail) Another one I found interesting was the next one along of the bridge the redness has created a fire effect. It was really interesting as it was the only one that I captured creating this fire effect. I just really thought that redscale added a different element of converging images together and playing around with the chemical process of how the photo is taken onto the negative.

The final one I really liked was the smaller one on the far right of the river and the redscale image of the building printed over the side where there was a building already. The redscale seems to merge in really well with the original building and then merges into the water. It is a strange image as it looked like it merges in but then it also looks strange as it goes into the water upside down. It a really surreal effect which I found really interesting.

Redscale Film 2 This is part of the same film as the previous pages but I decided to control the first 14 shots to create an effect like this. However I didn’t actually successfully do this how I had intended.

As previously discussed I had looked at this link bellow and I wanted to experiment with this technique to try to create images like this : http://www.lomography.com/homes/hodachrome/photos/16351808 I had to control my experiments in order to make this successful and to do this I took a photo on my iphone each time I took a photo on my camera and made note of what and where I had taken this picture so that when I went back to take my next image I would know where to take it and what to take it of. I used a splitzer on the camera while taking the first set of images so the blue would only top half and then again put the splitzer in the same place while I was doing the redscale half. As you can see by these images the technique process worked well but the way I aligned the images didn’t work.

I didn’t realise how much I had to control the frames and didn’t pay attention as to which frame I was taking each image in. On this camera it shows which frame you are on on the screen. I also took an image (bellow) looking outside my window to test how it worked.

When it came round the taking the pictures on the redscale side I realised about the counter of how many frames I had left. I was using a 36 exposure but on the counter it said I had 35 frames left. I was so annoyed because I hadn’t taken this in to account and now I was working on luck as to if this came out. I also couldn’t remember if I had taken an image outside my window or not.

I went with the theory that I hadn’t taken an image so I started taking my redscale pictures leaving out the first picture I took so that I then ended up with each frame a frame behind. It didn’t work how I wanted it to at all and nothing lined up. I was dissapointed but learnt from this to make note of what frame I was on and then I would know where to start the redscale.

Althought this part of the film went wrong I did learn what I need to do next time. I do think that these outcomes are quiet interesting but I think someone would look at these and realise that they are wrong and see how they were supposed to work.

Redscale Film 3 I decided to try and do this technique again and try to line all my images up perfectly. I did manage to get the frames in the correct order but I didn’t actually line them up correctly. When I re loaded in the frame for the second time It went in further than I had done the first time and results in this.

I think it is really interesting how the entire film merged together into one picture.

I am disappointed that I couldn’t control the experiments this time and have now run out of time to do another film but if I get a chance to I will try to do this again and this time maybe count the sprocket holes and how far they go into the camera so I an align it up correctly.

Although this is a failure I have again created something unexpected and different to what I thought I was going to get. It is all part of working with film cameras, never knowing what will happen exactly even when you try to control it.

Baking Powder For this film I soaked the film in hot water and baking power for 30 minuets.

The results were really interesting and the chemical reaction caused the colouring to completely change to pastel shades of pinks and purples. It also burnt the film in areas which added an interesting texture on top of the image.

The format of the Diana Mini is square images. When you scan them in it automatically sets it to dimensions of a standard image size so it scans in with black blank film. I would normally crop it afterwards to just the square frame but I thought it was really interesting the way it was effected the blank film and the colouring on there.

Bleach This film was soaked in bleach and hot water for 5 minutes. The effects within 5 minuets were really surprising and the colouring that this created was so strong and crazy and I don’t think it needed that any longer than 5 minuets.

This colouring again adds a different dimension on the images, something completely unexpected I didn’t think it would produce such strong results. It hasn’t burnt out the film, perhaps because it was only in for 5 minuets maybe longer and it would have burnt the film but like as before I have kept the blank film either side of the square image because the effect on the blank film was just as interesting as some of the images.

It is also interesting to point out the the three images down the right had side of the pictures were not effected by the bleach in the same way as the others.

The only explanation I can possible give for this is that it was at the end of the film and may have been very tightly wrapped up on the spool and so the bleach didn’t get a chance to either reach or touch it.

Detergent : Failure This film was soaked in detergent for 1 hour but as you can see it is all over exposed. This wasn’t because of the detergent this was through fault of myself and using the long exposure setting on my camera rather than the automatic super fact shutter speed which I should have. So this caused everything to come out pretty much white apart from a couple of things.

You can however see a slight effect from the detergent causing quiet a blue colouring on the images. There is a couple of images however such as the obvious one on this page and the large one on the page before which have worked and I think this is due to the darker weather conditions.

Before I soaked the film I realised just as I was close to finishing the it I did realise that it was on the wrong setting. This did really annoy me because I knew it was all going to come out white but I decided rather than to throw it away I would just soak it anyway and see what happened.

Lemon : Failure This film was soaked in lemon juice and hot water for 1 hour but as you can see it is all over exposed like the previous. They both came from the same film, I just cut it in half to allow me to do more experiments and save time.

Again this was due to the camera being on a long exposure setting causing everything to come out pretty much white apart from a couple of things.

You can see how the lemonade effected the film causing interesting colouring on the white over exposed part and the black from the non exposed part of the film.

This again did really annoy me but I wanted to soak and develop it to see what would happen and if anything would come out interesting. I think as a collective this does work quiet well because it doesn’t really show any imagery its just textures and strange colours.

Lemonade Second Time I wanted to do my lemonade (and detergent) film soak again because the over exposure of the images I feel took away from what I could have got if the pictures had worked. This time I was really impressed with the outcomes. The colouring and the stains across the pictures was really interesting.

Again I kept the blank part of the film on some of the images rather than just cropping it to square frames because some of the colours and effect on the black were really different to anything I had seen yet. A good example of this is the large image on the previous page. It interesting because I don’t know why it happens or what caused it.

I did have a problem with this film though when I was shooting it it seemed to get jammed inside the camera and it wouldn’t go round after about 15 exposures so I had to wind it back in and start a new film. It was really frustrating but this could be what caused it because it may have got scratched as if jammed or as I was pulling it round.

Detergent Second Time I decided to do another film in detergent too because I wanted to see the effects it had on normally exposed film. I again soaked it for 1 hour in water and detergent.

I did however have another slight issue with his film because after I had taken the whole thing for some unknown stupid reason I thought I had wound it back into the canister but I hadn’t and I opened it up to the light. The colouring is quiet faded but it wasn’t as damaged as I had expected it to be.

I think the colouring may have come out slightly less faded if I hadn’t stupidly opened it up to the light. The effect the detergent had on the film was very blue and made the images all have a very blue filter. I quiet liked this effect as most of the other chemicals had caused pinky or purple colouring this was something a bit different.

I was glad that this film hadn’t been completely ruined and that it had worked because I had had quiet a few things go wrong in my last experiments. I decided to do another film the next day before I developed them all incase this one came out completely ruined and as it hadn’t I decided to do something else with this film.

Washing Machine As I took a spare film incase the one I had opened was completely ruined I decided to try and put it through a process I hadn’t read about to see what would happen. I put this one through the washing machine on a delicates wash. I decided to do it on a delicate wash because I knew what had happened to the film in the dish washer on a high temperature and I wanted to see if the chemicals would do anything to the film rather than the heat which I no will burn away the film.

The effect this process had on the film was actually really quiet different to what I have done before. It wasn’t destroyed majorly or anything but the colouring was constantly changed to a faded green blue. I did actually realy like this effect it made the film look really old, I no the Diana creates different effects and does make the film look quiet old but this effect of running it through the dishwasher did something else to the film.

While I was taking this film I did a couple of experiments with my dog moving to show movement within an image. As the you see the two images on my left of my dog running towards me I have tried to capture him moving across the garden. I feel the second one at the bottom of the two images has worked most effectively as he has moved slightly right to left allowing the previous image to be seen clearly. It is interesting to try to capture the movement of something in one still image.

Evaluation This semester has been particularly interesting and challenging for me. I have always found it hard to place myself within the design industry as I have never felt I am strong in one area but like to experiment with many areas. I found brief one ‘Who Am I?’ a really helpful and interesting way to introduce who we are and make us begin to think and reflect over what we do within out work and what we are good at.

It was while I was doing this brief which sparked ideas coming from projects and outcomes I have previously encountered and how these could inform and be worked up and developed into a final major project.

A photograph I had taken in year two in particular stood out for me. It was taken on my Dina Mini camera and had been subjected to the technique of multiple exposure by mistake. This started off my thinking process of experimentations with film cameras and pushing the boundaries of film photography. Another project which I had tried to capture movement within one still image was from year two. It involved capturing an image each day in the same place over one month and then layering them together in photoshop.

I think I made a well informed choice to approach my final major project in this way, bringing in my passion and enjoyment for photography and thinking practically about what I may need in order to help me get a job in the particular area I wanted to go into. Taking this all into consideration I feel that I have a good knowledge of the professional environment I want to enter and where my work would situate in. I also feel that I know what I need to do and the skills I need to use in order to succeed.

In relation to the experiments I have undertaken to inform my final major project I feel I have learnt many new skills over this period and have a lot of different ideas I could develop and choose to turn into final major projects. After researching and creating outcome I feel like my work is situated into the area of surrealism as many of my outcomes are strange and have an element of the unknown to them.

Over this semester I have particularly tried to use the GDNM blog area to post my outcomes, thoughts and reflections as to what I am doing. I feel this has worked exceptionally well and has really helped to me put together this portfolio. I decided to use the blog this semester as a way to reflect and evaluate my work as I was going along. Each time I had feedback or a tutorial These two pieces were picked out by tutors during the feedback of my first I would immediately type up what had happened using my notes I had made. presentation and this is what has informed my experiments and thought I feel this has not only helped me to reflect and evaluate as I go along but is processes throughout this semester and in relation to my final major project. also something important to do to allow progress within your work. If I had not written down my thoughts and reflected on what I was doing at the time I would The second project Subject and Context I found challenging as I always have have struggled to then analyse and write about all my work when creating my found it hard to fit myself into an area of Graphic Design. I approached this by selecting the three main areas I wanted to explore; layout/editorial, photography portfolio. I feel I have constantly been evaluating and consolidating my studies, outcomes and experiments which has lead and structured my experiments. and being in a multi-disciplinary design studio. My research lead me to the conclusion that I wanted to work in a multi-disciplinary studio but one maybe I have found it is interesting to put my portfolio together looking back at my that has done a lot of work in layout and publication design as this is an area I thoughts and writing about experiments I have done weeks ago. Reflecting on am really interested in and enjoy. the semester as a whole has helped me to think about different ways I could Brief one and two had helped me to think about my final major project and what take my final major project.

I could produce to help me gain access to my ideal job. I had an idea of using I feel as if this year I have worked really hard to focus on reflection and critical a project involving photography allowing me to create my own material which I analysis of my work. I also feel that I have done thorough research into could then make an end result of a publication with. Using photography would what I am doing and what other people who use photography technique be something I could develop into a project I would enjoy doing, I could learn similar to what I am doing. I feel it has helped me to inform and develop my many new skills and then create a publication at the end, linking back in with experiments to a much greater level. where I would ideally want to work within once graduating.

REFLECT

DEVELOP CONCEPT RESEARCH CONCEPT

TA K E PHOTOS DEVELOP PHOTOS

E VA L U AT E

P U B L I C AT I O N RESEARCH

MAKING P U B L I C AT I O N

PORTFOLIO

Final Major Project Proposal At this point in time I have a number of ideas which I could go with and I feel I have no refined one idea as of yet. I have tried to reflect on my experiments as much as I can to produce a strong concept but feel I am struggling too. I have identified three main areas which could be developed into projects.

One is to continue with the theme of letting the process predict what will happen and use the concepts of chance, failure and unexpected outcomes. I need to home in more of a purpose for what I am taking my photographs of and this is what I am slightly struggling with if I was to peruse with this idea. I have however really enjoyed the process of developing my own film and destroying the films in different chemicals. I have loved the outcomes and find them both interesting for the photographs and the textures it creates on top of the images.

Could this be developed into an idea such as different outcomes of The second idea to develop and one that works with a strong concept of what I am photographing is to choose two separate themes and converge them together by rewinding the film back after the first exposures and re exposing it causing the film to be made up of contrasting multiple exposures. I feel this would add a stronger concept and element to what I am taking photos of but then I feel I am missing out on some interesting experimental outcomes which the film destroying and soaking has given me.

The third idea is to work on the concept of memory and how we recall something as not just a still image but as a kinetic thing. I could take this is two ways by first of all documenting movement or something or second of all documenting my movement around a place.

I feel that over the christmas period I need to work on and refine these ideas and bring elements of each together to form a strong project. I feel I just need more time to refine the ideas.

I do however know that I want my project to result in a publication. I feel that doing this would be a well informed choice because I can include my photography combined with layout and publication design skills. I feel my photography work would best be suited to a publication format as you can see the collection of outcomes and work as a whole thing working together to convey an idea. Choosing the format of a publication I hope will help to show a future employer in the design industry that I have these skills. I also feel that my work could be interesting as large scale prints and do not want to rule out the possibility of creating large scale prints.

Books Ambrose, Gavin.Harris, Paul. (2006). Layout. Lausanne : AVA Publishing SA Barthes, Roland. (1981). Camera lucida : reflections on photography. London : Vintage.

Brook, Tony, Shaughnessy, Adrian. (2009). Studio culture : the secret life of the graphic design studio. London : Unit Editions.

Farrelly, Liz. (2001). Zines. London : Booth-Clibborn Fineman, Mia. (2012). Faking it : manipulated photography before Photoshop. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art Francis, Pat. (2009). Inspiring writing in art and design : taking a line for a write. Bristol, UK. ; Chicago, Ill. : Intellect Books : University of Chicago Press George, Paul St. (2008). Sequences : contemporary chronophotography and experimental digital art. London : Wallflower Gerber, Anna. (2004). All messed up : unpredictable graphics. London : Laurence King.

Klanten, Robert.Ehmann, Sven.Bolhöfer, Kitty.Schulze, Floyd. (2010). Turning pages : editorial design for print media. Berlin: Die Gestalten Verlag Monheim, Fabian. (2002). LOMO : don't think just shoot. Booth-Clibborn Noble, Ian. (2011). Visual research : an introduction to research methodologies in graphic design. Worthing : AVA Academia Polke, Sigmar. (2008). Sigmar Polke : photographische Arbeiten aus der Sammlung Garnatz. München, DE : Schirmer/Mosel Zappaterra, Yolanda. (2007). Editorial Design. London: Laurence King Sontag, Susan. (2002). On photography. London : Penguin.

Stezaker, John. (2011). John Stezaker. London : Ridinghouse.

Exhibitions Photographers Gallery: Tom Wood – Men and Women Photographers Gallery: Camera Obscura National Gallery : Seduced by Art: Photography Past & Present Barbican: Everything was moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s

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