User:THY/ Focal camera
10.10.2019
Before coming to this class, I always shoot images with the available functions of the digital camera without fully understand how it works. With this workshop, I become conscious of every choice I made to build my own camera. I built a slit-scan camera without a shutter speed and I count the exposure time manually.
First tryout
Location: Rotterdam central station
Why: The Metro always go through a black tunnel to get to the next station and it gives me the feeling of time and space displacement. Therefore, I want to try achieving that visual effect through my slit-scan camera.
-Shutter speed time for each photo: 15s - 30s
-Distance between camera and subject: 2 meters minimum
What did I experience?
-Because I have to roll the film strip constantly, it got stuck halfway and I had to come to a dark place, open the back and fix it.
-My slit slide was wobbly made out of cardboard, which was thick and did not has a straight slit line
-Out of focus
-I didn't have a tripod, my camera was shaking when I rolled the film
What do I do next?
-Replace camera slit slide (thinner than the previous one)
-Find a box or something to keep the camera stable
-Reduce the shooting distance to 1 meter
Moving images tryout 1
Moving images tryout 2