lomographics : evaluation

This project was really interesting and really made me appreciate how film photography allows you to develop a relationship with your images. However, in this I am not entirely happy with how my final images turned out.

Some of the techniques I used to re-introduce elements of the initial photographs didn’t work as well as others and didn’t make such interesting images. Also I believe my physical object could have been designed better to recreate the feeling of selecting images to view which is a part of instagram. I am not really sure if I communicated the idea of technology degrading photography through my project. I think I could have achieved this by managing my time better to be able to really have a clear direction of how I was going to do this.

In the end, although my project does not quite successfully portray my idea, I feel that I myself have a better appreciation for film photography after working with the images for so long. I also think some of my images are quite interesting to look at.

lomographics : final images

lomographics : second remediation

After reshooting my negatives and running them through photoshop to get the positive images, I reshot the images through the computer screen in order to get the pixilated look that you get from shooting through a screen. I feel like this step was important to my project as it ties the images back to technology.

lomographics : remediation

For my remediation, I wanted to take an element of the photograph and apply it to the negative in a way which replicated its presence in the original image. I feel like some of them turned out better than others, but these were my favourites.

Rubbing the negative on pavement - image was from the crocodile bikes where we rode on pavement. I think this one is the least successful of the ones that worked out alright. I like how the action is pretty direct from the image but the markings it made aren't very good looking. I think it would have been better if I could have actually attached the negative to the wheel of the bike and see how it scratched it that way.

With these images I placed ice-cream over them and let it melt a bit. This relates well to the original photograph as the ice-cream actually was melting and going everywhere. I love the fluid look of the melting ice-cream, it looks like the work created by Chadwick which I am pretty pleased about. I found the marks which the ice cream left on the negative pretty interesting too, especially which bits remained unaffected because this bit was in ice-cream too (seen in the first image)

For these images I submerged the negative under water to replicate the girls having their feet underwater too. This didn't really do too much to the negative afterwards however.

I like the fact that with this image, the sand is laid across the negative and in the negative I was laying across the sand. I feel like it gives a good connection to the subject matter and remediation technique. However, again it didn't change the image too much.

This is probably my favourite remediation of the series because I did use colour in it. I placed water over this image as we were standing looking at the waterfront and unlike the other water image, we were over it not in it. In this, my niece also commented on how the water was "so blue" so I used colouring to portray this. The way that the colouring moved through the water on the negative was beautiful and again made motions like Chadwick achieved. I also like the way that it dyed the negative in a way that almost resembles ripples in water.

Overall, I am reaosnably happy with my remediations. Although they didn't all go how I had planned, I feel as though I have a few really strong images and am interested as to how they turn out once they are inverted.