JUSTIN L. STEWART PHOTOGRAPHY: ART

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Precious Moments Chapel: The Assignment That Wasn't

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Sometimes things don't pan out. That's what happened with this assignment. That being said, I got to go to a place I'd never otherwise go.

On that note, never visit the Precious Moments Chapel during the early spring before there's signs of life — child angel statues + leafless trees is unbelievably creepy.

I also took this strange assignment as an opportunity to test out my iPhone6s' camera capabilities, seems as that was the major reason I switched over to the iPhone after holding out for so long. There's a few of those shots mixed in this edit. It performed well, and it was nice feeling as if I had a second camera without all the additional weight of another body. Thanks for looking.

Sorry for the nightmares.

Friday, May 20, 2011

My Squashed Fruit Gum Project

Here's a small version of my Gum prints I did for my final. The process I printed them in is called Gum (Gum Bichromate). You first make 3 digital negatives for the image (you split the image in Photoshop into it's three colors red, green, and blue). For each negative there is a corresponding color of gum which you have to print it with. The three colors of gum you use are yellow, blue, and red. The average layers on the prints below is about 6. It takes approximately an hour to do each layer. Most of the time is spent waiting on the print to finish washing. I spent over 40 hours printing all of these. It was a really interesting experience and the more I printed the more I learned. I shot the pictures with my Yashica 124-G and scanned the film (Expired Fuji 160)

For those more interested in the concept, the project was a reaction to Edward Weston's "Nature Series"

Hope you enjoy them!