BOW: A3 today’s plan & resulting contact sheet

Front room trashed – wish I had studio space. Ah well…

Just bought some new printing materials to play with, will venture further afield to find more tomorrow

Plan today

Reshoot film cutting into flesh – Dawned on me I don’t need to shoot myself for this. It’s just too difficult. Will work with a friend Monday morning.

Reshoot shadow puppets – Have done this morning, but only with one lamp and window light. See below. Think I might need a bit more light and no daylight on the white paper. Bit of tinkering in LR – needs tidying up in PS. But took several poses. Will use these to make a page for the dummy and think about lighting a bit more.

Reshoot gold leaf squares – proper exposure – Spent ages looking for a very bright pink silk dress I am sure I still own to put the leaf squares on but couldn’t find it so stuck with black cloth. But better exposed. Barely touched in LR. (First image cropped only and a small amount of vibrance increased)

Ditto photographic plate – Can’t get this one right at all. Tried scanning on my Epson scanner, which isn’t terribly pretty – makes it look quite weird, waves of light bouncing off the silver surface not ideal for the poor scanner

Screen Shot 2020-01-17 at 13.54.06 — Screenshot of my own scanner preview – back of the plate, not terribly pretty, but it coped very well with the other side which has an image and is coated with developing chemicals, fixer etc. but a not very good picture of me is not what I’m after – so will keep trying with the blank side.

Shoot gold fringe curtain in woods (if not raining) – didn’t get time to do this

Print, cut, slice, glue – create dummy booklet with what I have so far – I’ve put things in place but not glued as still have things to shoot and photograph

Order gold face/body paint – done

Find old film about gold mining in SA, print screenshot if appropriate image can be found possibly for dummy book – something to do over the weekend

Make circle, print and cut out for cover – still to do, not sure if I want it now, maybe

Tonight reshoot lightbox like cinema screen slow shutter speed to make light glow around box – I will do this tomorrow as have just completed cutting, printing, etc. exhausted!

Have postponed taking camera to Fixation to fix hot-shoe till Monday – too much to do.

Contact sheet from earlier today – some strange random ordering for some reason.. (not asked for it!)