Posted by Rhys (Darlington, United Kingdom) on 5 April 2008 in Abstract & Conceptual and Portfolio.
Ok, there is a theme and a story to all the shots for this week. Last Friday I came across an old CD-rom which included a file entitled ‘Misc_001’, contained in the folder were lots of old photographs that I had scanned from negatives about 4-ish years ago. I first started taking photographs with an SLR when I was about 14 or 15 (a good 20 years ago!) and I think some of the images in the Misc_001 file may even go back as far as the ‘beginning’. Anyway, I have decided to drag a few of them out of the archives, some may be 5 or 6 years old and some even older, to be honest I can’t quite remember the dates, but for most I do remember the locations and other bits of information so I will try to add what I remember as I post each shot. They were all taken on a Minlota Dynax 7000i with a Sigma 28-70mm lens and more than likely they were shot with Ilford Hp5+ film. I used to do all my own B&W developing and enjoyed breaking the rules with the processes and chemicals just as much as I do now with Photoshop. The downside to this is that the digital scanning process has highlighted several flaws and visual horrors such as excessive film grain, reticulation in the film emulsion and lots of scratches etc. However, in an industry seemingly obsessed with clarity and super mega pixel counts its kind of refreshing to remind myself of how it used to be, in fact the rough and ready feel to some of the posts this week just remind me of what really attracted me to photography in the first place. This would have been taken in either late 1991 or early 1992 when I used to get a lift to college everyday from a friend. One rainy day I decided I have a go a shooting some shots of the moving vehicles through the rainy windows. I got quite excited about it and thought it was a great idea until I developed them and found that they were awful! So, in a fit of rage I took sandpaper to the negs and deliberately scratched them to bits! I instantly prefered the results.
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A fit of rage that bore interesting results. It's good you just scratched the negs and didn't rip them I like these images.
5 Apr 2008 1:13am
You've been right ! Awesome!
5 Apr 2008 2:41am
Raining, raging... what a living picture... no word to add... very good tryptic.
5 Apr 2008 5:32am
Nice story and great result!
5 Apr 2008 2:33pm
Well I didn't know you were prone to fits of rage, and now that I do know, um, well, I think these look great, really really great . . . :-)
5 Apr 2008 4:26pm
@Oswegan: I suppose 'fit of rage' is too strong, more like a desparate/drastic moment of frustration :)
Sometimes you need to forget a little about the kind of quality you refer to so as to see the art in things... or to bring art into them.
5 Apr 2008 9:29pm
wow ... I really like this one !
28 Apr 2008 3:36am
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