Forum: Photography


Subject: Yngwie...

doruksal opened this issue on Jan 10, 2002 ยท 21 posts


doruksal posted Fri, 11 January 2002 at 2:23 PM

I'm thankful for all the comments, but cool down as this image is not new: dates back from 1996.
So, it does not have the least chance of being a contest entry. :)
Besides, it realy is not a photography...
The master for this image was designed once to become the part of a photogram project, but it never had the chance to reach the happy end.

I was a medical student by then (in 1996), and I was deeply involved with b/w photography as we were able to shoot, develop and print our own b/w photographs by working in the university club for photography.
Yet, I was also involved with anything that is graphic -nothing changed since-, and X-ray graphies were one of my primary concerns.
I was not able to become a radiologist, but was able to gather many radiographies.
Among them were the so called "erroneous" graphies that were dumped for not being proper for radiologic evaluation...
...And among these erroneous films, the ones that were "burned" by static electricity charges were the ones that I was most crazy for...as these charge burns resebled lightning strikes in every direction, and as they also were perfect fractal patterns in the wild..!
(The static electricity were to hit those films totally out of chance while the technicians were loading and unloading the films into the cassettes.)

So, I was a fool for searching in the garbage bins of radiology department to find those fabulously erroneous graphies...
During these expeditions, I made good friendship with "Hilal", a radiology technician who was into photography herself.
In the darkrooms of conventional radiology section, we spent some time for rubbing the unused radiography films on plastic-like surfaces to bring forth the static electricity to burn the unused films, for being able to take the control of creating sparkled images of our own.
After rubbing the films for a certain time, we were devoloping them as if they were properly shot x-ray films.
After trying this on approx. fifteen films, we started to think that we were spending unused material and unpaid for them...and our moral side stopped us for further experimenting...

I was primarily thinking of creating photograms out of these sparkled images, but graduation time came and I had to leave aside my photographical and darkroom experiments in the name of studying for the examinations...
(Unfortunately, never had the chance to get involved with photography again seriously...sigh...)
So, these films were kept in my stock until yesterday, and the subject of this month's contest made me take them out of the depths of my room...
..Just to share, not to contest... ;)

This particular image is one of the scanned films...
The films are A4 sized, and I had to scan the particular film in two parts, then combine the parts into a single image, then convert it into sepia tone, then adjust for color tone and saturation, and finaly, negativise the image using PSP6.02...
Glad you liked it...
...Hope I was more adjusted to photoshoppin' like the masters among us...

Now, I have to return to my night duty in the hospital...
My best regards, thanx again, and see you soon... :)