Darkroom Experiments Part 1

These were my first experiments in the darkroom. I wanted to give them a painted look. As if the images were coming to life, moving and jittering around the page. Watched the ring before I experimented with this image, so it's possible that the where Film was being stretched was to see what was at the edge was quite an influence.

In my first Critique it was suggested that I could put my digital images on to acetate and print them out in the darkroom. This is a reverse image from the acetate. I accidentally scratched the acetate before I printed this, but I thought it looked quite interesting, so I scratched alittle bit more into the image around the edges. The scratches and other subtle scarring in the image reminds me of Sally Mann's work. It's as if you were piecing together the image, the cracks and other imperfections are coming together to form the person.

To darken the area around the edge of the cloth I printed over the area twice, moving the position of the paper slightly the second time round. I wanted