Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Somehow I've agreed to put some photos in for an exhibition. I don't know what I'm doing!
This Tolifo Palm Light is awesome though - amzn.to/40NKM7h
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Ok, so without someone contacting me and asking me to send images for an exhibition, there is literally no way my work would ever end up involved in something like this. I don't consider anything that I've made to be worthy of exhibiting!
When I first got the message I was so close to turning it down. And even now that I've submitted work, I kinda wish I hadn't. I feel like what I sent was disjointed and poorly planned.
Having said all that, I wonder if I would ever feel any different in a similar situation? I wonder if I act the fool and berate my own work to avoid ever having anyone judge it for what it is?
It's a common thing, right? To essentially sabotage yourself so that anything you create is never your "best" work, and therefore cannot be judged as such.
Hmm...
Aaaaanyway, enough of that pyscho mumbo jumbo. Multi-exposures on black and white paper reversal... what did you think?
I like the effect. With some time to reflect I'm starting to wonder if the effect, and the sense I was trying to convey, may actually have been better served using film sheets, and having more latitude.
As I explained at the end there, the narrow latitude of the paper reversal technique leads to a sort of amorphous blob exposure effect, rather than the buzzing overlayed images that you would get with film. And maybe the buzzing was actually what I wanted.
But the premise still works - as a means of introspection it does offer an alternate view of oneself. The inability to immaculately replicate a pose, causes the final image to be a build up of multiple views of the face... all the same face, attempting to be the same each time but inevitable unable to, and the final image being a compilation of multiple slightly different views of the same face amalgamated into a single image.
I think there's something in it, as a technique, as a means of introspection. But I confess I may still need more time to express myself on this one!
Normal programming will resume next video - back to low quality photography with far less though put into it....
Drop me a comment, let me know your thoughts.
Somehow I've agreed to put some photos in for an exhibition. I don't know what I'm doing!
This Tolifo Palm Light is awesome though - amzn.to/40NKM7h
(affiliate link)
Ok, so without someone contacting me and asking me to send images for an exhibition, there is literally no way my work would ever end up involved in something like this. I don't consider anything that I've made to be worthy of exhibiting!
When I first got the message I was so close to turning it down. And even now that I've submitted work, I kinda wish I hadn't. I feel like what I sent was disjointed and poorly planned.
Having said all that, I wonder if I would ever feel any different in a similar situation? I wonder if I act the fool and berate my own work to avoid ever having anyone judge it for what it is?
It's a common thing, right? To essentially sabotage yourself so that anything you create is never your "best" work, and therefore cannot be judged as such.
Hmm...
Aaaaanyway, enough of that pyscho mumbo jumbo. Multi-exposures on black and white paper reversal... what did you think?
I like the effect. With some time to reflect I'm starting to wonder if the effect, and the sense I was trying to convey, may actually have been better served using film sheets, and having more latitude.
As I explained at the end there, the narrow latitude of the paper reversal technique leads to a sort of amorphous blob exposure effect, rather than the buzzing overlayed images that you would get with film. And maybe the buzzing was actually what I wanted.
But the premise still works - as a means of introspection it does offer an alternate view of oneself. The inability to immaculately replicate a pose, causes the final image to be a build up of multiple views of the face... all the same face, attempting to be the same each time but inevitable unable to, and the final image being a compilation of multiple slightly different views of the same face amalgamated into a single image.
I think there's something in it, as a technique, as a means of introspection. But I confess I may still need more time to express myself on this one!
Normal programming will resume next video - back to low quality photography with far less though put into it....
Drop me a comment, let me know your thoughts.
