Task 3More experimental techniques.

Jonah Adshead

Scanography

Scanography involves capturing images using the scanner on a photocopier. You can place objects or press body parts such as your hands or face onto the scanner. This creates quite interesting images that can be played about with even more by doing different things when capturing the image or “scanning”.When faces or body parts are placed on the scanner the image looks as though they are squashed and it gives a very interesting deformed look to the images. If objects or body parts are moved as the scan is going it can leave these interesting movement trails.Placing objects on the scanners can also produce interesting and abstract images and show objects from a perspective people maybe haven't seen before.Because the photograph is almost being taken in a box the images can get a very interesting claustrophobic feel of entrapment to them and so have been used by many artists to explore issues such as mental illness and fear.

Harris Shutter

Harris Shutter is a technique where three different images are taken of the same scene, ideally with the camera on a tripod so that the stationary objects are in the same place and only the moving ones will change. The images must then be put into Photoshop and the colour channels are played about with. First one channel, for example the blue colour channel must be copied and pasted into the photo you want to use for your final image. The same must be done with the green and the red colour channels on the other two images. Once they have been pasted into the final image you should see the colour levels of the moving image showing in the different colours across the photograph.This technique can be a bit confusing and difficult to work in Photoshop but once done creates very interesting results and has potentially limitless possibilities as all is needed is a moving subject. It would be easy to experiment further with this technique.The traditional way to create Harris Shutter images with film photography takes much longer than the modern method. This original method was used by the creator of the technique Robert Harris of Kodak and to do it he would re-expose the same piece of film with 3 different colour filters, red, blue and green. This photos would be taken on a tripod to keep the camera steady and when complete will achieve the same effect as the modern method but with the use of film photograph rather than digital.