Anyway, the other evening I was out in Portrush for a wee dander while Missy was at her Pilates Class. It's pretty hard-core, otherwise I might have been tempted myself...but instead I wandered about the place, Hasselblad in hand. Taking the air, as they say around these parts.
It was a lovely evening, peaceful and warm(ish). The clouds caught my eye:
I stuck a deep red filter on the 50mm lens and pointed the camera skywards. I'm in a lith mode at the minute, so out came the Foma paper and some by-now-pretty-old Moersch Easylith developer and away we went. I think I made a mistake by trying to be too clever, though, since at first the clouds came out with a beautiful warm pinky tinge to them. For some unknown reason I decided it wasn't enough so I dunked it into some cupric sulphate bleach and tried to sepia it. All that happened, of course, was I lost the original pink colour. On the plus side I think it accentuated the white of the clouds a little, so it wasn't a complete disaster.
I can feel a 'cloud' project coming on...
Your work in the darkroom gave those clouds a sense of being tangible, as if you could feel their nooks and crannies if you were to touch them. Interesting!
ReplyDeleteI was waiting for someone to see an elephant, or similar, in this print Jim :)
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