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Re: colour entry
Bruce Hemming 2008-Sep-30 08:50:00
Oh Lordy Caroling, now you've put me on the spot! The artwork is
something that my memory has dredged up from long ago. Strange how
certain things stick with you - images in particular. It's a process
that does interest me, something I think of as persistence of vision,
not as in the usual sense but the way that memory preserves images.
It seems to work for others too, as I sent this image to an old
friend who has lived in New Zealand for 25+ years and he instantly
new exactly where I had taken the shot.
Back to the artist's identity - my first thoughts were that it might
have been Victor Pasmore, his son John was my senior tutor at
college. He is still a friend but I rarely see him, although
coincidentally he will be at another friends opening next week so I
will ask him then. Howard Hodgkin is another possibility but I'm not
certain that it was him. I'll have to try and find out now!
For anyone else interested in a similar experiment I'd pass on the
following that I learnt. If you want to create the blur by moving
the camera - which was my original intention - you will need very
high factor ND filters. The highest that I had available was 3 stops
which is nowhere near enough to get a slow enough shutter speed to
enable a controlled movement ( I still think in terms of film at
times - f16 on a 5x4 field camera with 3 stops ND on a slow speed
film would have worked). As that didn't work it was back to PS
manipulation which some might think of as cheating but it is
controllable of course.
Regards
Bruce
Bruce Hemming
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