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52 Assignments: Experimental Photography

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52 Assignments: Experimental Photography

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ISBN:
9781781453544
Publication Date:
7 Oct 2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
GMC Publications
Imprint:
Ammonite Press
Pages:
128 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 12 - 13 Feb 2026
52 Assignments: Experimental Photography

Description

52 Assignments: Experimental Photography is a mission brief, a photographic workshop, a personalised journal, and an anarchic guide to putting the creativity back into your photography. It is filled with prompts and projects, nudges and sparks, innovations and inspirations, and - most importantly - experiments in shooting, processing, and printing, to help you kick your photographic habits, step out of your comfort zone and create your own collection of experimental work. The book features 52 colour-coded commissions and concepts with alternative ideas for composing, creating and printing photographic images. You will be briefed to tackle modern uses for traditional film (hacking vintage film cameras, making pinholes, playing with plastic, collecting the filters that inspired Instagram) and traditional uses for digital (multiple exposures, extreme speeds, timed challenges, focus tricks), as well as lo-tech and hi-tech ways to manipulate your prints (staining prints with water, digital effects, photocopy prints, burning photos, printing on flexible surfaces). The rest of the journal's pages are styled for you to add your own thoughts, notes, lists, Top 10s, technical specifications, quotes, and even sketches and doodles, creating a record of your own 52 photographic assignments. These may be completed weekend by weekend over the course of a year, or dipped into every time you need to bring a new edge or experimental approach to your photography.

Contents

1. Losing focus 8 2. Rasterbate 10 3. Drive-by shooting 12 4. Inkjet transfer 14 5. Screen star 18 6. Go off-piste 20 7. Camera tossing 22 8. Reflected reality 24 9. Pan-tastic 26 10. It's a small world 28 11. Cross-processing 30 12. Step & repeat 32 13. Zoom burst 36 14. Wet prints 38 15. Pinhole making 40 16. Pinhole taking 42 17. Bokeh filters 44 18. Freelensing 46 19. Multiple exposures 48 20. Plastic fantastic! 50 21. Redscale 52 22. Joiners #1 54 23. Joiners #2 56 24. Scanner art 58 25. Copy art 60 26. Sprocket shots 62 27. Cloudscapes 66 28. Tea time! 68 29. Burning up 70 30. Rip 'n' stick 72 31. Into the light 74 32. Framing 76 33. $1 ND filter 78 34. Illustrated text 80 35. Dip 'n' dunk color 82 36. TTV 84 37. Textured glass 88 38. Paint with light #1 90 39. Tilt lens 92 40. Chip can macro 94 41. Paint with light #2 96 42. Brenizer method 98 43. Projected images 102 44. Freeze frame 104 45. Laser transfers 106 46. Holgaramas 108 47. Distressed negs 112 48. Paper negs 114 49. Splash of color 118 50. Power of three 120 51. Solargrams 122 52. Shoot soft 124

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