Experiements

As much as I like my black photos I feel like I need to expand my choices to see if I like other options that I am currently blocking myself from seeing.  The following is a list of options I want to explore:

• Use a twin lens reflex camera
• Print & draw/scratch on photo paper
• Explore disposable cameras
• Arturo Herrera technique
• Play with zerox machines; "Poor man's lythography"
• Photograph through glass
• Mixed media with photo paper; Rauschenberg
• Wade Guyton technique
• Wax on top of photos
• Make my own paper: photo transfer images onto new paper
• Step away from portraits

During the critique on Friday Jim mentioned that we shouldn't feel like we need to do something completely different if we like something we are already doing; and because I love my black photos I am definetly going to keep them in mind and perhaps combine them with a new technique.  I am leaning towards some of the ideas on the list more then others but I intend to try all of them.  I feel like I am being reintroduced to photography and it's exiciting because it is reminicent of when photography first came about and people were always experimenting.  I'm going to start the process of elimination on Wednesday.  In my photo class we are doing a color workshop so I will finally be able to see how the film from my Arturo Herrera technique turned out!!  High hopes high hopes :)