Half-frame Sculptures
Another in the recent series of half-frame photos, including triptyches and the occasional diptych. Above is a sculpture outside of Winchester Galleries in Oak Bay, and below is a fountain in the same area, and a patio in front of Ottavio’s next door, a great delicatessen which has shown up in this blog before, complete with crow toes (though not for sale in the deli).
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I am coming to the conclusion that static subjects done in this way are not nearly as interesting as those that display some kind of change, like my recent ones of a single location that change by moving people around, or otherwise capture some kind of difference through time.
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Once again each of these is single digital image scanned from two adjacent frames on the negative.
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Olympus Pen, half-frame camera, Ilford Pan F Plus, ISO50, 1/50th, ~f11-f16 .
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burnt embers 
I can see this is a camera with so many creative possibilities. Enjoy the possibilities!
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Thanks Andy – I am discovering a lot of possibilities. I wish I could get film in rolls of 12 or 24 as in the old days, because waiting for the 36 (72 images) to run through the camera is a bit painful, especially while experimenting. But, the more frames, the less the processing costs per frame, so I won’t complain about it. Not yet up to, or interested, in doing my own processing, nor winding my own film. Perhaps one day.
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Oh happy days when I did all those things. winding film into a re-usable cassette and at the end of shooting, in the dark again, winding the film on to the spiral, assembling the developing tank and then processing it.
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Looking at these shot I think you might be able to make very nice panoramic photos, even 360 using multiple frames. Even in digital the pros advise to shoot panos in the vertical format. There doesn’t seem to be an end in sight to the possibilities available t you. I like these a lot.
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Hi Ken. A 360 pano is an interesting idea – I wonder how many shots that would be. I have done a few 3 part panos like the one that includes the HVAC vent, and I think I have one 4 part as well. There is a practical limitation which is that I can only scan about 7 frames at one time, and in vertical format that is not a lot of scope. I could of course scan them in parts and stitch them together, but that would kind of defeat the purpose of what I want to do. However, it is an intriguing idea and I should give it a try, just to try it out. With a fresh roll of film in the camera and maybe on my tripod with a video head on it. So far I have not attached this camera to tripod, but if I were ever doing something formal with combined frames, that might be a sensible thing to do.
I am having fun with the camera. The current roll of film has some attempts, which I have not seen yet as the roll is still in camera, attempts at triptyches with the middle frame being upside down and some other experiments with some frames with the camera upside down. If they don’t work out it will likely be because I did not align the images very well, which is kind of tough, or my vision was incomplete.
And, I have bought some filters, and ordered some more, which will be new territory for me – in the past I have only used ND and polarising filters – never coloured ones in black and white.
So I agree, there are a lot of possibilities combining the multi-frame approach with things I should already know about b&w film photography but never learned.
Al
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I like the shadows in the last pair of photos.
But, I agree – the shots with change/movement are more interesting.
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Thanks Melinda. These are all part of learning how to predict outcomes with this method and I should perhaps have just kept these ones to myself. I like the shadows and light in the last one, and the two-eyed effect of the sculpture in the first one and the exaggeration of the stair curve in the middle. All are interesting bits that are good to know when looking through the view finder in the future, if I can remember.
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