Thursday, 17 March 2016

Shoot 3 - Boiled Film

This shoot was taken in Bournemouth on a trip. I boiled the film then took the shots. I used a agfa super silette which is a rangefinder and it is fully manual and I find it easy to focus quickly so I use it for street photogrpahy, although I have to worry about the settings as its manual. I used an old film I found with a 200 ISO. I was looking at Mathew Cetta and another technique he had used to destroy his film, boiling. I did this before I shot the roll, I found that this was not as sticky as the lemon juice shoot which as a consequence didn't stick, so I got no double exposures this time. I boiled the film for 8 minutes, This came out with great effect. The range of colours go from purple tinge to blue to yellow. Which is the first 2 layers of the colour film, and would like to see if I can break the green layer next time. I used this time due to a lomogrpahy post by the user Dopa  which showed how to get the effect he got, although all his shots were blue and mine had a range of colours.
I liked the shoot due to the randomness of the the boiling, as it adds a sense of excitement to the shoot. I think that my favourite picture is of the girl on a train with a purple tinge and smudge on it. I like it as its a portrait, and I don't to them often and her head if framed by the smudge, which is going on a diagonal across the page.
This shoot went well as it really distorts the images enough that the colours look like they bleed into the reality of the image. I would like to experiment with other lenses which exaggerate the image such as fish eyes and wide angle lenses to extend my idea of changing the truth through post production techniques I can do

This picture was one of the first ones I took, but was right next to where I opened the back of the camera.

This is blurry picture but the colours on the top look like they are bleading through. And I was walking while I took the shot.

This is my best endit, only the first layer was destroyed as it has only gon purple.

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