Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
It seems I'm not overly content with whatever any camera or medium seems to offer and I frequently search for ways to interfere with a predictable output.
I've always been interested in the idea of a negative created from a digital file and while my end result is pretty strange to say the least it's given me an interesting insight into how various technologies can be overlapped if you're interested ... or bored! 😀
I selected a specific digital image from my D700 shot at a gallery opening a while ago. The photo itself was intriguing because it's of a semi holographic image inside some kind of weird glowing sphere ... I got a large blown highlight in the center of it no matter what angle I photographed it from!
I had some old 4x5 sheets of TX320 laying around that I'd originally used to practice loading film holders in the light for my Crown Graphic when I first got it. I fixed the negs to clear them then washed and dried them. The next step was to invert the selected file in photoshop and attempt to print the inverted image on to a 4x5 sheet in my R2400 to give a genuine negative. It sort of worked but the material of the negative, emulsion side or other, really didn't like the ink and in the high density areas of the negative the ink separated like hammertone paint as it dried! 😱
I scanned the 4x5 in my V700 and although the ink separation looks a little like photographic smallpox I'm not entirely unhappy with the end result because I like the obvious analog look from the negative with the associated scratches and dust and it's interesting that something that started off as holographic image, got converted to digital, then to analog, then back to digital via the scanner. I guess in a wet darkroom environment it could have actually finished up as an analog print!
You probably think this was totally pointless ... but I had fun and learned something! 😀
I've always been interested in the idea of a negative created from a digital file and while my end result is pretty strange to say the least it's given me an interesting insight into how various technologies can be overlapped if you're interested ... or bored! 😀
I selected a specific digital image from my D700 shot at a gallery opening a while ago. The photo itself was intriguing because it's of a semi holographic image inside some kind of weird glowing sphere ... I got a large blown highlight in the center of it no matter what angle I photographed it from!
I had some old 4x5 sheets of TX320 laying around that I'd originally used to practice loading film holders in the light for my Crown Graphic when I first got it. I fixed the negs to clear them then washed and dried them. The next step was to invert the selected file in photoshop and attempt to print the inverted image on to a 4x5 sheet in my R2400 to give a genuine negative. It sort of worked but the material of the negative, emulsion side or other, really didn't like the ink and in the high density areas of the negative the ink separated like hammertone paint as it dried! 😱
I scanned the 4x5 in my V700 and although the ink separation looks a little like photographic smallpox I'm not entirely unhappy with the end result because I like the obvious analog look from the negative with the associated scratches and dust and it's interesting that something that started off as holographic image, got converted to digital, then to analog, then back to digital via the scanner. I guess in a wet darkroom environment it could have actually finished up as an analog print!
You probably think this was totally pointless ... but I had fun and learned something! 😀
