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BY MATILDA BRIMELOW
IN MY 15 HOUR EXAM I HAVE EXPERIMENTED IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS TO TRY AND GAIN THE RESULT FOR MY FINAL PIECE THAT I WANTED TO ACHIEVE. I EXPERIMENTED THROUGH THE DARKROOM CREATING NEGATIVES, USING TRACES OF MY HANDS AND FINGERPRINTS AND SCANNING MY HANDS IN AND EDITING THEM ON PHOTOSHOP.
EXPERIMENT 1
FIRST I USED TRACES OF MY HANDS AND FINGERPRINTS USING BLACK PRINTING INK ONTO PAPER
I COMBINED THESE TRACES ON PHOTOSHOP AND CURVED THEM TO CREATE A CONTRAST IN COLOR. THIS HAS HELPED ME TO UNDERSTAND THE DEFINEMENT OF THE TRACES AND IF FINGERPRINTS OR HANDPRINTS ARE WHAT I WANT TO FUFIL IN MY FINAL PIECE.
EXPERIMENT 2
I THEN ATTEMPTED TO CREATE NEGATIVES OF MY HANDS USING THE TRACES I HAD CREATED. I DID THIS BY PRINTING MY HAND ONTO A SMALL TEMPLATE AND THEN PRINTED THIS SMALL TEMPLATE ONTO ACETATE. I THEN WENT INTO THE DARKROOM AND PUT THIS ACETATE PRINT INTO THE ENLARGER AND EXPOSED THE PAPER TO LIGHT FOR 2 SECONDS. I DEVELOPED, FIXED AND WASHED THIS PRINT AND ABOVE IS THE OUTCOME I CREATED. DESPITE THE NEGATIVE BEING INTERESTING WTH HOW IT PORTRAYED THE DETAIL IN MY HAND, IT WAS NOT WHAT I WAS LOOKING TO ACHIEVE FOR MY FINAL PIECE.
THIS WAS THE TEMPLATE I USED TO CREATE THE ACETATE FILM FOR THE ENLARGER, THIS PRINT COMES FROM A TRACE OF MY HAND USING BLACK PRINTING INK.
EXPERIMENT 3
FOR MY THRID ATTEMP FOR MY FINAL PIECE, I CREATED MORE TRACES OF MY HAND PRINTS. I USED PHOTOSHOP TO INVERT THESE. I THEN LEVELED AND USED THE CURVE FEATURE TO CREATE MORE OF AN IN DEPTH VIEW OF THE TRACES, AND THE PRINTS THAT ARE ON MY HANDS.
THESE WERE THE OUCOMES OF THE EDITS, I WAS HAPPY WITH THES PRINTS AND LANNED TO USE THEM IN MY FINAL PIECE.
FINALLY I DEVELOPED THESE FURTHER AND BLURED THE PRINTS CREATED ON MY HANDS USING THE BLURRING TOOL ON PHOTOSHOP TO CREATE AN ABSTRACT VERSION OF MY HAND PRINTS.
EXPERIMENT THAT LEADS TO FINAL PIECE
EXPERIMENT 4
I USED TWO DIFFERENT TYPES OF SCANNERS, A DESKTOP SCANNER AND A PRINTING SCANNER. THE DESKTOP SCANNER CREATED THE SCANS WITH A MORE PINK BACKROUND TO THE, I DID NOT USE THESE DUE TO THE LOW QUALITY SCANS CREATED.
FIRSTLY I STARTED TO SCAN IN MY HANDS, I TRIED THIS AT DIFFERNT ANGLES IN THE SCANNER UNTIL I FOUND SCANS WHICH I WAS HAPPY WITH.
I THEN LEVELED THE SCANS I WAS MOST HAPPY WITH TO ENABLE THEM TO LOOK LIKE THIS, THIS IS THE CLOSEST I HAD GOT IN MY DEVELOPMENTS TO THE GOAL I WAS HOPING OF ACHIEVING, THIS RESEMBLING THE GARY SCHEINDER CRITICAL LINK OF 'PHYSICAL TRACE'
I THEN DECIDED TO ENCORPERATE THIS PRINT OF MY HAND THAT I HAD EARLIER EDITED IN MY EXPERIMENT 3
FIRSTLY I REMOVED THE BACROUND FROM THIS PRINT AND MOVED IT OVER AS A NEW LAYER TO MY LEVELED SCAN OF MY HAND.
WHEN THE PRINT WAS ON MY HAND I RESIZED IT TO MATCH WITH THE SIZE AND ANGLE OF MY HAND.
I THEN USED THE LAYERING TOOL TO CHANGE THE PRINT FROM NORMAL TO THE COLOR DODGE SETTING, THIS MADE THE PRINT MATCH MY SKIN TONE AND THE GLOW I WAS LOOKING FOR WHEN RESEARCHING. I THEN MOVED THE CAPACITY DOWN TO 50% TO BLEND IT IN TO THE SCAN.
I THEN SAVED MY DEVELOPMENT.
THIS IS THE FINISHED RESULT
I THEN DID THE SAME TO ANOTHER ONE OF MY LEVELLED SCANS, LAYERING THE HAND PRINT, BUT I USED A DIFFERENT BLURRING TOOL TO ACHIEVE THIS. THE BLURRING TOOL WAS COLOR DODGE AND THE OPACITY IS 65%.
THIS IS THE FINISHED RESULT
FOR MY LAST FINAL PIECE I LAYERED A PRINT OF MY HAND WITH THIS LEVELED SCAN AND USED THE BLURING TOOL 'DARKEN' AND THE OPACITY AS 67%.
THIS WAS THE TRACE THAT I USED FOR THIS DEVELOPMENT
THIS IS THE FINISHED RESULT
PLAN FOR EXHIBITION
I HAVE DECIDED TO CHOOSE THE STICKER WALL FOR THE EXHIBITION AND THESE ARE MY DESIGNS FOR THE STICKER.
THIS IS THE TEMPLATE FOR THE STICKER I WILL BE USING AT THE EXHIBITION.
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