Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Prints 4 and 5

Paying my full attention to printing the past few weeks I now feel that my prints are getting better and better, next to perfect in being lined up and getting brighter after increasing the amount of acrylic compared to mixer I'm using for the prints.

River Start

It appears that I've been working backwards, the first print that I did 'Splash' will actually be the last in the series and this most recent print with Exeter Cathedral in the background will be the first. These five prints now show the journey of leaving Exeter St Davids Station through to going through the tunnels of Dawlish, and the train being splashed with the rocky waves breaking over the walls that protect this stretch of the railway.
As I've been moving on with each print I've been experimenting with different amounts of acrylic seeing what ratio creates a better print and I've come to the conclusion that using 33% is much more effective (while not being too much) compared to 25% that I originally used on Splash.

Cathedral 

Now that I've got my five prints of the 'Dawlish' Journey I now need to decide what to do next, start with a completely new journey altogether? Keep going with this original footage? Or find a way to extend it, keep going on the same journey. Either way I need to go and get more footage, luckily I've got tickets booked to head home so I'll be getting the camera back out and looking completely normal filming the journey as I go with the camera looking like it's glued to the window, with my hand also trying to keep the whole thing steady.

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