As part of my Professional Practice I want to experiment with using layers both in camera and through darkroom and digital manipulation, this is an area with I touched upon last year with my fashion assignment so would really like to develop these skills further. With this in mind I decided to carry out a test shoot, both Jo and myself want to use the large format camera for our final images so we decided to experiment in the studio together. Jo was my model, and having carried out prior research I decided to shoot them in the style of Thomas Ruff.
The film used was, Ilford 125, 5x4 film sheets.
Large Format Camera
Detail Shot
The lighting set up, I used this set up as I wanted the lighting to be fairly flat and with no areas of real contrast.
Below are the images which i took in the studio and developed myself in the darkroom.
Darkroom for 5x4 film
Developer - stock solution ID11, 8 and half mins
Stop Bath - Pre mixed 1min
Fixer - 5min
Double exposure, 2x 250sec, f6.3
60sec, f6.3
The above images above have been scanned in using these settings:
Scan info
- select film with holder
- black and white neg
- 48 bit
- resolution 2400
- select image wiht marque tool
- save file as Tiff when exporting
As this is my first attempt at using the large format camera unassisted by tutors I have decided to leave the images totally unedited, they will serve as my starting point and further improvements both technical and compositional will hopefully be seen in my future work.
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