I think I may have to try fogging the paper before shooting as there seems to be a really high contrast. I have been reading up on this and paper reacts differently to light than film. Another contact print. The area of sand has almost blown out. Off to the college as the exhibition ends today so we have to collect all our work. Sad as this is my very very last contact with the place... for the time being.
Thank you so much for all the lovely comments and favs on the pier from yesterday. I am a day behind but off this weekend so hopefully get some film finished and developed.
This is wonderful Ingrid. So moody, pull of grain and texture and depth. Big Fav, and sorry for the lack of comments on your project recently, off the scale busy this end!
@seanoneill Hey Sean! No worries, i haven't been the best either, seem to go through busy phases and i just dip in and out of here :) thanks for the fav. Will catch up with yours too :)
@ingrid2101 Thanks Ingrid. I am going to have a good look back through what I have missed in your project later today hopefully. A mountain of emails to send to my chinese factories this afternoon, then kettle on, 365 open.....
Fav again for me. Love these shots on paper. Just going to ask the stupid question that has been going round my head re paper. Is this a special camera that takes photographic paper instead of film? Or if not how do you do this? By the way I like the high contrast but I can appreciate it's frustrating if you are getting parts blown out that you don't want to be.
@rachelwithey Thanks Rachel :) it's an old camera, 1930's - it was designed to take sheet film but after seeing work on Flickr i thought i'd try paper instead. It has a dark slide at the back to load the paper into. So only one shot at a time. It's frustrating yet oddly rewarding! I take a changing bag out with me so i can load more paper but doing it blind gets tricky!
I have a sense of seeing this scene through the eye of someone or something. It could almost be winter, with blowing snow. Such a bleak and barren feeling. Love it.