Wednesday, July 14, 2010
>>Taken From the SNICHOVAULT<< Friends, Rodents, Quadrupeds
This is probably my favorite still life series I've made so far. I made this using two carousel slide projectors, projecting the negatives I've been using in all this time. There's a unique sound and smell to a room that has two hot projectors burning dust at the same time. I used a dim modeling light to kill all the overflow projection in the background. I shot it on Ilford Delta 3200 because it was still so dark despite all the smelly light.
One thing that is probably only interesting to me is seeing these effects in their positive state. Normally when I'm making my negatives I'm thinking in terms of opacity and what it will look like inverted to it's negative. It's also cool for me to make a straight shot but still have the look of my usual style of alternative photography.
This is the negative I used for this picture and for at least one of these projector shots. So in the positive, anywhere on the negative that is black will hold back light onto the mannequin, and would then again show up black in my picture. But what's cooler is everywhere that is white respectively shows up white, but because the background is also white, sometimes it appears as a hole in the figure:
Pretty snazzy amirite? This one I always thought had more of a zombie vibe to it, must be the shotgun blast to the gut. Truth be told these are movie inspired, or at least a movie was on my mind, it just wasn't a zombie movie. Art inspires art, that's just the way of the world.