new images

I added 5 new pictures to our list upload system.
Here are some words on how they wer made and why, with this mix of old and
new technologies.

The pictures were made with a technical camera, a Linhof.
Instead of a plate with a lens a plate with a tube was mounted. A Kodak
professional filterholder was mounted on the tube with its three screws.
Normally you whould mount it on the lens.

Instead of a filter (these filterholders adapt a square sanwich made of
nylon in between a gelatin filter can be mounted of about 2 inches square) a
pinhole was mounted.
On the back of the camera was a Polaroid cassette loaded with 400 ASA b&w
film-pack. A three minute exposure was required (trial and error exposure
method).

The thus obtained positive was scanned and worked on in both Photoshop and
Corel Photopaint. These programs have different qualities, the former seems
to stem from the photgraphic world, the letter an add-on to a drawing
program (this is subjective).

An interesting point in this method of working is that from each step one
can go forwrd or back. Say that a scan is available, with software
techniques the image can be manipulated to a second image.
Call the original the parent, a parent can have many children, but every
time the artist can turn back to that parent.
Call the children the second generation of images, they can also provide the
basis for further results.
One pinhole can lead to a "family" of images from which the most successfull
can be chosen at a certain moment in time.
At a later moment in time I will take a file (call it a "paiting" or
"aquarel") and work on it in an attempt to obtain other results.

The fact that a pinhole lays at he basis of these constructions gives them
specific qualities. Long exposure-times and a certain unsharpness are ideal
for certain parent.
It is not a split second registration, my model will move in the 3 minute
exposure and I sometimes don´t want details but say a charcoal sketch to
start with.

In this method the old techniques mix with the new, each with their own
qualities.

Let me know what you think of the images and artistic approach.
Received on Sun Jan 13 12:28:33 2002