But wait there's more!

Nearly forgot there, here's a couple of mildly messed with images from that last shoot - I'm really enjoying the symmetrical images you get through the simple process of copying and pasting an image onto itself and then flipping the top image and lowering the opacity to 50%. Here's a few

Sequence of images assignment and other thangs!

Slightly late uploading this one but sure what harm!

So yeah as the ol' title suggests I completed my latest assignment for my photography course in college t'other day.
Basically the assignment was to create a sequence of a minimum of six images about anything we chose.
Broadly speaking (or not at all) my sequence is about the relationship of life and death, and the cycle thereof. I decided to keep the images fairly simple to reflect this straightforward, singular theme so as not to allow for too much in the way of other readings. They were produced entirely on film, using my mercifully well-working Berlin Flea Market Camera (a Cosina Hi-Lite) with the double-exposing done in the darkroom, not in-camera. That was a really satisfying process to carry out, using the darkroom in college is, when it works, such a rewarding and enjoyable experience.
For the making of these images I was looking a fair bit at old spirit photography of the late 1800s/early 1900s, such as William Hope. Tell ya what, here's a couple of examples!

While researching these kinds of images, I came across these random photos which I really love, partly for the imagery like that of William Hope's photos, but also the sheer lack of information I could find about them; be it no photographer name, no subject name, whatever - that's what I love about outsider art, medium art, spirit photography and the like; the mystery around an image created through simply lack of information about its creation.

The titles are also brilliant, for example

"Partial Dematerialisation of the Medium Marguerite Beuttinger", 1920

 "The Ghost of Bernadette Soubirous", 1890

and a personal favourite -

"11", 1872, by Mr Reeves

So anyways, here's my sequence

...and back 'round to the start

I also brought along my digital camera to the park where we made the shots, to use as a sort of light metre to get the exposure and whatnot right on the film images. But naturally I had to take a few shots on that too. An interesting addition to the shoot was a small lightbulb Izabelle (my housemate and ever-enthusiastic model) brought along. Looking through it with the naked eye doesn't do a whole pile other than slight sharpening and bending but in front of the lens of my digital camera it produces some really cool refraction of light and blurring of imagery. Here's dem shots!

Pheeewwwie that's a load a stuff

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