11-17-10 – Artistic Bent

Think of a rule, then break that rule. If you think there’s something to it, run with it. If you don’t like the effects, break a different rule.

“You are part of a rebel alliance and a traitor….”

Couple of questions:
Are multiple exposures with a film camera allowed?
Is “cross-scanning” negatives allowed?

Anything done in camera is kosher.

I’m not sure what you mean by cross-scanning. Setting the scanner for positive film, scanning negatives, or vice-versa, then inverting in post? I’d lean towards allowing that, but haven’t had any artistic success the few times I’ve tried it. I’ll let the modmins rule on that. I have scanned c-41 process BW as color to pick up a nice sepia tone on some of my sprocketography, to no complaints.

I can’t see why that wouldn’t be kosher as BW conversions by desaturation or filtering is allowed. And when I asked about it a year ago, concensus was that scanning my BW as color for the sepia effect was kosher.

Yeah….. Technology’s a biatch sometimes. I guess that should read “most things” done in camera. General concensus has been if you can do it with film, and your digital camera allows it, it’s kosher.

Basically, technology is progressing to the point that it removes the necessity of knowledge or talent from the creative process.

It really isn’t. Mostly this stuff just allows people to take bad photos and make them worse…

Yep. Shooting a roll of, say, slide film, then scanning in the negatives as black and white negatives, or shooting B&W film and scanning it in as colour film. It gets similar results to cross-processing.
To be honest, I have only done it once by accident, and I am not sure I would use the results. I just want to know if the possibility is there.

I would think thats fine. As for allowing anything in camera I would say in general anything you can’t do on film in camera and is not allowed to be done on computer is usually not allowed to be done in a digital camera.

I still don’t have a clear understanding of the spirit of this theme.

/that won’t stop me from throwing something into the mix though.

I’m presuming this is a fairly open ‘whatever you consider artistic’ contest, as opposed to the ‘artsy-fartsy’ which as I understand you’re supposed to conform to what is considered an ‘artistic style’ (as in impressionism or whatever).

Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, because I’m hoping to shoot all three this weekend.

I believe the spirit of the theme is to explore artistic styles one may not have considered before (bokeh, Vaseline on the lens, soft focus, blur, etc, just to name the few I can remember right now). At least that’s how I’m interpreting it. Instead of focusing on one artistic style, we get to choose which one we like and post one of those.

Personally, unless Hubby can find me filters (or fake filters), Ima gonna attempt to use plastic wrap and Vaseline to do that soft focus thing. I may head over to the Dodlin Road this weekend to see if I can’t get that wind turbine in action and get some blurring from that. Other than that, not sure.

I think those waterfall pictures with the dreamy/flowy water is pretty artistic, too, but that may not count.