Monday, 29 March 2010

Cleand-Up Photos and Bronica Attempt 2

Firstly, I've cleaned up some of the photos I uploaded in a somewhat unfinished state last time and am uploading the finished versions on here now. I wanted to keep the grain but removed all the smaller pieces of dust and scratches, as well as some light leaks and slightly adjusted the levels to turn some of the darker grey tones into true blacks. The images below are the results of this.

Secondly, my second attempt with the Bronica was for the most part unsuccessful. With these photos I attempted to shoot in natural light rather than using the unpredictable flash, still using a high iso film and using close-ups of the body. Unfortunately I achieved only 3 images, none of which were particularly astounding, these can be seen below. The rest of the images were very heavily under-exposed, leading to almost black images which could not be salvaged, despite numerous attempts to fix them in Photoshop. However, I still wish to continue to use the Bronica and high ISO film as the first images were such a success in their texture and grain. My next step is to re-shoot after re-educating and re-acquainting myself with the lightmeter so as to get more correctly exposed images. I think the difficulty I have been having is that I still want the images to be very dim and 'Henson-esque', which is a difficult way to light photos.





In the meantime I still need to shoot some more 'cut-up' images of the body with my polaroid camera and then intend to move onto using black and white 3200 iso and eventually chocolate 80 iso film. Here's the latest in the set below.

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