Pinhole photo portrait

Finally I manage to find an online programme which does a similar job to Photoshop – pixlr.com. This gives me a far clearer idea of the image I had in my head as a starting point. I like the ethereal, kind of filmic quality that the photo has. It was really taken with a Quaker Oats tub, directly onto photo paper, developed using chemicals in a very makeshift darkroom (this was on a day long pinhole course in Shipley W. Yorks) set up in a disabled toilet.

Maybe its because of my current mood (not positive) that once again I’m starting to feel a bit lost within the process… With the images which I’ve been making and accumulating over the last few months, I alternate between getting pretty excited, and floundering. OK. Task for the rest of the day is to review what I’ve done so far, and make a plan for Friday.

I did a short film using a flip video a couple of months ago. Something that seemed like a ‘sketch’ to the starting point of pinhole photos. Using some screen grabs from this, I’m TRYING to get a selection of them onto one page which I can then manipulate into some kind of order, which makes some visual sense. The trouble is, I’m not even remotely interested in becoming a photoshop wiz, so loose interest in the technical bit pretty quickly.

I do like though, how it coincides with my initial view of the film as being ‘a bit medical’, kind of like a scan or something. Maybe also like DNA – strings of cells, each with its own descriptive code.