Black and white, without the white
Some time ago, I shot a whole roll using my Mamiya C330 and Mamiya-Sekor 55mm wide-angle lens. Due to a shutter fault (ie, it wasn't opening at all at the time*) the pictures on the entire roll and half of the following roll (until I switched lenses) all turned out identical. Here's an example.
In this particular one, I find it interesting how this spurious feature has had an equalising effect on the different subject matter. The occlusion of any original information about the photograph at the point of taking causes a complete lack of metadata. What we know about a photograph - the extra information outside of the photograph (such as the photographer, the time, the place) - can affect our perception of the photograph itself.
Here, we have a total occlusion of intra information, within the photograph, which in turn prevents us from forming distinct perceptions regarding the way I originally shot these photographs. Even I've completely forgotten what the original subjects were, and when and where they were taken. Thus, I'm finding it quite difficult to sort out which ones are the good ones and which ones aren't quite so good, such is the strong effect of the information occlusion on my perception of the photographs.
* since fixed by dismantling and catching the things that go sproing across the room before they indeed did.
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Jwaterfalls (72 months ago | reply)
Smile. Oops.
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brendadada (72 months ago | reply)
Heh, I've done that too. :))
How did you get the data strips to scan, though? My scanner frames cover them, and the film won't scan without them...
Paint Monkey (72 months ago | reply)
I'm not sure how Ian does it...maybe a bit of the blue peter sticky back plastic involved...like this
www.flickr.com/photos/paintmonkey/186802658/
Ian Tindale (72 months ago | reply)
I eschewed* the plastic frames. I placed the neg strip directly onto the glass, and gently shut the lid so as to not cause it to drift too far out of true. Then set the scanner preview to 'normal' instead of 'thumbnail', then draw a frame manually. Technically, this should have been scanned as a negative, for the title to be true, but as you can see, it's simply what the film looks like rather than the image.
* now there's a word you only ever see written down, never spoken out loud, for some reason.
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MartyPG13 (72 months ago | reply)
Funny :D
eff_two_for_a_week (69 months ago | reply)
Ian, you're in a class of your own here, really enjoy your stuff!!! f2
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