Finally Doing Some Prep

After some months of not really doing much about preparing for my exhibition I’ve now made a start on sorting our some suitable images.

With advice from my trusty and ever-helpful digital darkroom expert OBP, I’ve been using the Solarisation technique on some architectural shots from London. Having seen the odd results some people have shown off, I was not keen to try it but have learned how very impressive the approach can be if used with restraint and sensitivity.

One, of an apartment building in Chelsea Harbour, looks more like an Art Deco line drawing than a photograph, helped in part by the lines of the building that mimic the kinds of great ships of the period.

The technique was ‘discovered’ by Man Ray’s photographic assistant working in the dark room http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_Effect

I’m also hoping to photograph some classic French landscapes when I’m in Aix-en-Provence at Easter, weather permitting. With what I’ve already got and taken more recently, plus what I get from a fortnight in France I should have enough material to go at.

So far I have about 7-9 possibles from shoots in London and Paris. Given the exhibition is about selling, I need to gear my pieces at the more commercial end I guess, though I’m not sure I know well enough what will sell. I’m looking to a friend to help me with that though. First though, I need a list of possibles, probably initially 20 or so that we can then weed.

May’s really not that far away now, so need to be getting on with it!