This error occurred out of an unpredictable move of my son. He simply moved, I also did not stabilise the camera properly, and, surprise, surprise, one of my best shots.
Author: tracypiperwright
Like a dance
This is a continuation of a series of work taken at various firework displays. This time I focussed on zooming right in as far as possible, getting right into the core of the action. Hand held, the camera and images become quite unstable and unpredictable.
The very action of taking the shot creates an uncontrollable movement. I click, click click and take my chances. The whole thing becomes a little like a dance. The images are incredibly varied.
Multiplied
The images were shot on out of date film from 1984 for its effect but contained images from a previous user. The images I took blurred over the top creating another layer of experience and an accidental collaboration.
Back to front
This roll of HP5 120 film was run through a Brownie Cresta the wrong way round, the resulting spots and stripes on the film are from the red counter/number viewing window which would otherwise show the frame number of the film. In this case it revealed the film to the light.
These images are selected from what is one roll film. Therefore I have made a conscious decision about which part of the film to present, although I consider the whole roll of film as the work.
Through the fog
I hand develop negatives in a caffenol solution so they often have mistakes in them which become part of the work. This time I overloaded the film canister when processing and parts of the negative remained under developed leaving a fogged look at the top and bottom of the image.
Painting the photo
These images were made playing around with my camera, with long exposures and the smallest aperture setting. Painting the photograph with the limited light coming into the camera. Using the idea of an error to create an artwork.
Leftover memories
While working on my project Memories, I was experimenting with perception and double exposure in camera. With that in mind sometimes the calculation of what exposure I was going to do got miscalculated leaving some actually very interesting images that I quite appreciate. That’s one of the reasons why I did not deleted them but I could not use them for the final project. This project was shot with a Medium format film camera.
Small is beautiful
This is a set of images from a series I’ve been working on for 3 years, taken at various firework displays. Playing with the camera, zooming in, using gesture and taking random shots.
Some of these I originally abandoned, feeling they were truly errors – especially when the results were so minimal. On looking at them again, I became fascinated by how a seemingly small event could hold within it something fascinating and beautiful.
Faffing around..
Faffing around with a ‘toy’ Digital Harinezumi camera in bright sunlight while visiting Arundel Castle produced this curious vision. The slowness of the sensor combined with a bit of camera movement tends to warp the images the camera takes, a bit like moving something across a flat bed scanner or photocopier as it does it’s business. The bright sunlight really causes the camera to bump up the contrast too and mess with colours.
The second image was produced by a Canon Ixus camera that didn’t survive a flight to the south of France and was in it’s final death throes.
In Pursuit of Error 