Alternative Photography

As for this techniques I was more familiar with it as we had done it before in previous lectures. It is very simple and there is a lot of room for experimentation. The ones that we did were light painting and multiple exposure. Both of these techniques would require the camera to be on a tripod and to have a long shutter speed. This means the settings would be around f3.5 100 ISO and shutter speed varying from 1 second to longer, depending on how much time you need to produce the image. For light painting you are free to choose any types of lights and experiment with different ones to see their affects. We only had our mobile torches but used different objects to change the colour like a blue glove and a bottle with pink liquid.  As for the multiple exposure we used one light and a remote to use the flash whenever we wanted. So we pressed the shutter while someone did a pose and the other flashed the light, the person would change the pose while the other presses the flash to get d...

 As said by Forbes writer Jonathon Ke ats, György Kepes has created some of the greatest photos of the century without using a camera (2015). Kepes was one of the students that was inspired by the previous artist L ászló Moholy-nagy  when he was teaching in the Bauhaus School in Germany. He has later went on to work at the school himself in the colour and light department. This artist has also created work which he labelled photo-drawings and what he did was paint on glass and place that as the object on the light sensitive paper. I have read that some of the things he liked to work with were prisms, cones, natural objects and eyes.  From first glance György Kepes' work seems highly interesting, just before I read that he makes use of prisms I was completely baffled to how he had such an outcome. He creates visuals that leave you wondering on how he created it and inspire me to try and experiment more. There is not a lot of information to how most of them are ma...

  Fotogramm (Moholy-nagy, I., 1926) Hungarian artist László Moholy-nagy was the one to bring back photographs as an artistic expression starting with the image seen here titled Fotogramm. According to the website Moholy-nagy foundation, he was the one to first coin the term Photogram from his exploration from 1922 to 1943. Seeing the photogram titled Fotogramm I am very interested in the technique he used, even the shades that are shown in the image. What has been mentioned in articles is that he used his hands, a paintbrush and unrecognizable pieces of strings. So far I have only done little experimentation but I think he might have exposed light to it several times, similar to what is done for long exposure. Moholy-nagy inspired many artist to take on this technique from his students he thought at the school of Design in Chicago to artists like Arthur Siegel and Thomas Ruff.  Looking more into his work I have noticed that he has used different materials to produce the photog...

Cyanotype 1 I have found cyanotypes to be a very interesting technique. This time the chemicals are used at the beginning of the process and they develop using only water. They are very similar to photograms in the way the light and objects are used. The cyanotypes need to be exposed to UV light instead of an electrical light source so we took them out into the sun instead of in the darkroom. The cyanotype process was slightly changed by Mike Ware which resulted in the mix we did on this day (Fbbri M., 2010). It starts by mixing the chemicals together and painting the paper with it, preferably a 250 gsm or more paper, and letting it dry. The chemicals consist of 10g Potassium ferricyanide and 25g Ferric ammonium citrate which are in powder form and separately mixed with 100ml distilled water each and then equally blended together. Besides paper there is also the option of choosing other materials like fabrics. Once the paper has dried one can set up the objects or in this case we even ...

This is my second experimentation on photograms as I am thinking of focusing on this technique for my final work. I quite like the style and effect it creates and it is something I have never done any experimentation similar to this. This time I used two transparent objects which are a plastic bag and an oval glass souvenir. This was the first time I was using transparent objects which means it needed a little bit more experimenting. For the final result I have which is the right image I used the aperture to its smallest which was f18 and gave it light for 10 seconds. For the first two I was not sure how to do the aperture and time but it was later explained by my lecturer and I fixed the setting to improve the images. I will continue to experiment with these objects and try to create based around that.

This and all of the processes we are doing are all new to me. This one like many others includes the use of the darkroom and some chemicals. What happens is light sensitive paper is exposed to light when an object is placed on it. The creates the effect seen below, the black is the exposure of light and the white is the object blocking the light. The paper is exposed with and enlarger which can be set in different F stops and for different amount of time. An enlarger is not a necessity for simple experimentation as one can use a simple torch. The specific paper below was exposed on f8 for 10 seconds. After the paper is exposed to light it is dipped in 3 separate chemicals. First it goes into the developer for a minute and a half, moved to stop for 30 seconds, in the fix for 4 minutes and lastly washed in water and hung up to dry.  This process was often used in the 1830's before the advancing of camera photography. Henry Fox Talbot was one of the people that used this process to cr...