Some of my uni work...

[Nnnnsic]

This was some of my uni work from my 3rd year so... 2004 I think?
Buggered if I can remember.

In any case, one of my friends was asking me for some photographic advice and I told her some of the stuff I did that she could try and I showed her some of the examples.

These aren't scans... these are lazy shots from jpegs I shot of when we were sticking the work to the walls.

Anyway, it's about sleep...

[wendellt]

bud i like the last one is hte concept something like you dreaming about sanguine female thoughts?

the others are intruiging with an abstract narrative

excellent work

[macka]

How did you achieve this? The last one stands out for me as the most interesting, but perhaps if I knew more about how you took the shots they'd hold more interest.

[xerubus]

last one for me... interesting processing. feel like sharing?

cheers

[Killakoala]

Very surreal and abstract Leigh. I quite like the style you have produced here but i think you might be ahead of your time. One day your work will be highly sought after and prized. Good luck with it.

[Nnnnsic]

More than happy to share.

These were done in the darkroom and consisted of two layers.

The first was a black and white neg in an enlarger.

I laid my photographic paper down just as normal, checked the safety light, and then put down the second layer.

The second layer was a high contrast image of someone printed on a laser jet.

So you've got an image of someone on paper literally on top of the photographic paper. What you get is a slightly longer exposure time (after you pull the safety light off) as well as a paper-textured version of your image with an inverted portrait of whoever it was that was on the laser print-out.

As such, you could never really print the same image twice without using a paper negative, and as I usually printed on fibre for these, I didn't even bother. I got what I'd probably call a "similar duplicate" but they weren't completely identical.

There were a few more in the series, and one day I'll scan or shoot the entire series properly.

Here's another:



I'd actually experimented with this process one year prior in second year when I first touched infrared film (well, Ilford SFX200 is the weakest sort of IR there is, but still...) and blended it with a headcrab zombie from Half-Life.

The first three images in this series were done using a less thought-out version of this process whereas the last three which can hardly be seen were done digitally and don't use the same principle.

[Nnnnsic]

And nah Wendell... it was merely just about me dreaming.

In Uni, I didn't really have a lot of friends outside of it and inside of it, few people really let me take their picture, so I became very self-portrait oriented.

If it was a project that was either portrait or studio-based, it was very likely that I'd be taking pictures of myself.

I decided with this series I'd go one step further and use images I'd shot spontaneously of my friends for a different purpose altogether.

[macka]

Thanks for the explanation. For me this idea works best (based on the examples you've shown) when you can see what both images are if you look carefully enough, which is why I said 4 was the most interesting.

[bonou2]

Nice work, my type of moddy photography. I love this stuff!!

Cheers
dan