Producer Post 5
May 4, 2010
I’ve basically finished the project at this point- I’ve printed out all my images on 11×14 sheets and matted them for my final photography assignment as well. (Dan said that would be okay since I’ve put so much work into this series and it was through that class that I decided to combine the digital elements with the darkroom prints).
Here are the final images:
Do you like how they are laid out on the black background or would you prefer me to post them individually? (posting them this way was Julie’s suggestion). Basically my concept for this series is about experimenting with process and blurring the distinctions between digital and wet process photograph. The series progresses through the clarity of the figure as well as the technique involved. The first 2 images are digital compilations, where the figure is very clear and an obvious focus of the image. The 3rd image was shot in film and developed in the darkroom, and I used a less dramatic solarization effect to just get a subtle variation of tone. I overlaid a section of a digital image I took to blend it more with the first 2 images. The fourth image is film and developed in the darkroom with no digital manipulation, I just used a dramatic solarization effect. The fifth is also film and was printed in the darkroom, and I cleaned it up slightly with photoshop but didn’t use any overlays. The sixth is also film with the solarization effect so dramatic that the figure is harder to distinguish, and then I overlaid digital images to obscure it even more and add color. On the seventh I used a similar process as in the 6th but the figure is even more disguised.
Julie looked through my previous posts and saw these images and said she would like to see them included, not necessarily with the whole series but just to exemplify part of the solarization process:
All I really have to do now for the final week is write my artists statement to explain my concept and process and change the layout if you recommend it. I can talk to Dan about getting my prints back before next Wednesday if you’d like to see them in person.
