Alternative Digital Image

Digital Imaging Part 2

For the Experimental Practice  I have explored with new techniques such as the digital pinhole and digital negatives, I started by creating my pinhole where I used a lens cap using a lens cap means images will be only be pure colour because I have no lens and glass to interfere. Taking a small square piece of aluminum I gentle tapped a tiny hole in the center this is where the light will enter hitting the censer, I then taped it to the lens cap which had a hole where it had been drilled directly in the middle.

I was now ready to go out an shoot I decided to go the beach as the weather was nice but not only that I had to think of a theme that would compliment the colours and outcomes of the images as pinhole produces a more softy outcome that is suitable for landscapes. The project is all about experimenting and that is what I did I took my tripod and shot at different heights and different long exposure times, some shots varied from 30 seconds to only 1.

The outcomes where hard to guess because of the type of technique I was using, without focus and knowledge experimenting is all I could do but I liked the idea of not knowing what I was going to produce.

Out of my final 6 images I have chosen this image is my favourite because the high exposure and no focus washes out parts of the landscape especially the iron man in the centre giving quite an extraterrestrial feel about the photo. I really like the unusual subtle purple colours the pinhole has created as on the day I shot these images the sky was blue and clear. I could say digital pinhole is unpredictable and that’s why experimenting with it was vital because it was unclear what the final outcomes would be.

This is my least favourite image from the set compared to the other five because it has less character and interest, I believe it just looks like a normal but bad portrait the colours are not as vibrant and unusual. I chose to use it in my set of six because it worked and it was coherent but looking at it as a single photo I dislike it. Overall I enjoyed experimenting with pinhole and would like to use it again in the future because depending on the theme and lighting the outcomes are very nice, I would like to use pinhole with a 35mm film camera I believe this would produce a whole different visual aspect and mood to the images.

To create my six digital negatives I started by picking out the best images from recent projects that would work well for being turned into a negative, which will be printing onto transparent film, but firstly I needed to take them into Photoshop to edit.

To change my images I started by going to the curve tool and adjusting the control points, after that I went to adjustments then mode and applied greyscale. The next steps where to invert and flip the canvas horizontal, once applying these settings to all of my images I was ready to print my negatives off and take them into the darkroom to experiment with liquid emulsion.