This contact sheet shows the images I made during a short skateboard session I had with Zac. I experimented with shot angles and different types of skateboarding photography to represent the sport, with the influence of skateboarding magazines and typical skateboarding short films such as the film in my previous post. I also briefly experimented with shutter speed the capture whole movements, and I am happy with one of the outcomes of this experimentation.
FINAL PRINTS DATES:
Select your final images for both EXAM and COURSEWORK (if you haven’t completed this already)
Wed 3 May 13:00
– those sitting exam Tue 2, Wed 3, Mon 8 May
Thurs 4 May 15:00
– those sitting exam Thurs 4, Fri 5 and Wed 10 May
You must make sure you have uploaded prints, saved as your name and in a high resolution (Min 3000 pixels) in the folders on Image Transfer
BLOG: End your blog with evidence of the following:
Show evidence of how you intend to present and display your final prints – make mock up in Photoshop – for example. a single image or diptych, triptych, predella, size A5, A4 or A3, typology-style grid, collage etc
Write a final evaluation (250-500 words) that explain in some detail the following:
how successfully you fulfilled the EXAM brief and realised your intentions.
links and inspiration between your final images and exam theme including artists references
analysis of final prints/presentation in terms of composition, lighting, meaning, concept, symbolism etc.
Go through all your blog posts and make sure that you have completed them all to your best ability, e.g. good use of images/ illustrations, annotation of processes/ techniques used, analysis/ evaluation of images and experimentation.
Present your final outcomes in window mounts or on foam board, label with name, candidate number, attach velcro and put in a BROWN/BEIGE/YELLOW folder.
To achieve a top marks we need to see a coherent progression of quality work from start to finish following these steps:
Personal Investigation (coursework): Students listed here MUST bring in all CW from last year (AS) including final prints/outcomes.
Jade Perez Jasmine Alder Tanisha Bougourd Bradley Grant Mattie Knapman Leigh Laverty Adriana Luiz Zach Marshall Ryan Marett Rochelle Merhet Nina Powell
Becky Scaife George Tidy Emile Pitter Jake Stanley Chrissy Knight
The following students have been selected as candidates for external moderation:
Externally Set Assignment (exam):
Jade Perez Rosanna Armstrong Thea Civi Molly Happer Ben Knight Brooke Lidster Elana Marie Megan O’Connor Emma Richmond Eve Smith Chrissy Knight
Nina Powell
Jake Stanley
As an element of my performance work I wanted to try a more surreal approach and experiment with editing techniques such as superimposition. I did this in Photoshop by layering or duplicating the images and adjusting the opacity and positioning. This links back to the early research I did into artists such as Idris Khan who has explored combining multiple images in his work. I think this has been a worthwhile experiment because it has allowed me to develop and emphasize the idea of movement and create a slightly spectral appearance. I could expand on this idea by refining the outcomes I have and also trying different variations and effects. However in a way I prefer the simplicity and clarity of the original images and I think I would rather dedicate my time to investigating interesting presentation techniques for my final outcomes.
I have now collected all of the water from the different locations and they are in the buckets.
Getting the sample from the desalination plant proved more difficult than I expected because there was no way to get in without breaking the law. But I managed to get the water sample by asking one of the workers to get the sample instead, he was very nice about this and helped me.
Last night I submerged all of the negatives in their respective buckets of water and left them all overnight except for one.
The water from my friend’s swimming pool I kept my eye on because this was the one where I was not sure about the potential result. After 30 minutes I checked the tester piece and it had changed colour. It went from the dark brown of the negatives to a very light brown. I decided to check back in another 30 minutes and when I did the test sheet was a very pale white colour. When I saw this I pulled out the real negatives and hung them up to dry off, I did this because I did not want the images to be completely destroyed which is what I expected would have happened if I had left them overnight.
Bleached Negatives After 1 Hour In Pool Water
27/04/2017:
I moved the buckets into my shed to keep them out of the rain, and hopefully to keep them a little warmer to help any fungus to grow.
30/04/2017:
I removed the negatives that were dipped in the two saltwater solutions because the images were starting to deteriorate. The top yellow layer began to fall off and was no longer attached to the other layers. I tried to make sure that it didn’t just come completely off and for the most part this worked well, after this I kept the negatives flat to make sure that the layers did not completely remove themselves while they dried. One of them had a lot of sand on it so I washed this off from the undamaged end.
In total only three images were damaged by this process, so I’m going to put the other ends of the strips into the water to see if I can get the same effect to happen again.
Negatives Damaged By Salt Water
03/05/2017
This morning I checked on the negatives that were till in the water and I got a bit of a shock. The tap water negatives were almost completely destroyed in the submerged part. The damage to it is far beyond what I had expected. I tried to remove the negative as carefully as possible from the water but unfortunately almost all of the of the gelatine layer on the third image from the right was removed and the other images were also very heavily ruined. This has really surprised me because the tap water was the one that I thought would damage the negatives the least but it has done easily the most damage the the physical gelatin layers.
At this point I also removed all of the other remaining negatives and have left them to dry before being scanned and printed. The negatives in the saltwater buckets seemed to have had the same kind of separation of the layers that they did before but to a lesser degree.
Negatives That Were Suspended In Tap Water
04/05/2017
I got all of my negatives, print and scans back from the shop today and I am really pleased with the results. I did not expect the images to turn out as well as they have. I will not post them all here because I am going to do their own blog post for them but I will post a few of the more abstract ones.
Now that the process of making the images is complete I will move on to displaying them.
Damaged by Water from Desalination PlantDamaged by Tap Water
A large part of ours lives was once occupied by skateboarding, and this is something I want to reflect on briefly in this shoot. Skateboarding is an amazing past time that is an extremely social sport with no rules to stick by, and as a result it became such a big part of my life (not as much in the past years) and so I want to portray this almost social environment.
I also think it would be fitting to experiment with a short video of Zac skateboarding. I have an old handheld video camera with a fisheye lense, and these lenses are commonly used to film skateboarding videos.
Below is a video made by a group of older Jersey skateboarders. It shows the fun of skateboarding around jersey with friends, and I may use it to inspire my video techniques when making this film, and doing the shoot.
This is an example of this typical shooting style for skateboarding. It focuses on shooting from low down to get a good angle showing us the best view of the skateboarder. I may use this technique when photographing Zac skateboarding.
