This was a project for my photography class. This was done on a 35mm camera entirely.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with dark room shenanigans, when printing photos in the dark room, you put the film in this lightbox sorta thing and lay paper under it. That way, the negative is lit up on the paper (since photopaper is light sensitive). The longer you expose the paper to light, the darker it gets. Then, you develop it so it's not light sensitive anymore with chemicals.
What I did was cut out pieces of Cheshire. The eyes, tie, ect. were cut out pieces while his body was sort of the inverse. I cut out the body, but used the paper around that so that the part I cut out would get darker while the rest of the image stayed at the darkness I shot it at earlier.
To make it simple, I layed the paper under the light with the light turned off. I sort of guess where Cheshire would appear in the image and arrange the eyes/white parts on the paper accordingly. I exposed it to a certain amount of light, so the image would be exposed onto the paper except for the areas like Cheshire's eyes.
After that, I layed the cut out of Cheshire's body so the paper would cover the rest of the image and the part cut out would cause it to be darker. I didn't do this for too long so Cheshire's body was see-through.
This was all pretty much dark room. The only photoshopping I did with this was some slight lighting (since the scanner does a bad job with that) and the markings where Rick is freaking out from the bullet in the wall. I did that because originally people didn't quite get it was a bullet in the wall, so instead of doing that process all over, I just went easy on myself and photoshopped it in. Everything else is entirely dark room tricks. -Posted on Oct 11, 2009 |
