Sky Darcy Edwards: older work, WIPs, discussion.

Main is skydarcyedwards.tumblr.com Instagram, Cohost, website, etc: https://linktr.ee/skydarcyedwards Photography, drawing, and neural networks. Horror, the Weird, queer, and wildlife.

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This is my old art blog.

Instead, follow my current one: @skydarcyedwards

Also see links in my bio.

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U-193-X

A nature and horror project. Drawings and artefacts as evidence of a similar but distorted world.

Covid hit in my final semester, preventing the physical install I wanted, it had to be online. I was frustrated and turned it into an archive.org project relating to archival aesthetics and institutional opacity. So I made it a chaotic and hard to navigate mess.

Review: "The most horrible thing I have ever seen."

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Augusta

Sky Edwards

2024

Canon R7

Canon EF 100-400 L IS USM

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Oh, that's how gender euphoria feels.

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My photo "State the Obvious" in Project See & B, issue 2.

For the theme Signs, I explore my use of and frustration with signs and signalling.

Double exposed film photograph.

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Fox Tooth

Sky Edwards

2022

Kodak Gold 200

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Don't Worry About It

Sky Edwards

2024

Lomochrome Purple XR Petillant 35mm

Ricoh XR-10

Porst 55mm f/1.2

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Toby once worked in a haunted house. I don't think they ever really stopped.

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I've recently created the stupidest camera.

120 film, takes 68 format macro shots.

Body and shutter: a box brownie.

Lens: a broken Canon EF 50mm f/1.8. Which isn't a medium format lens. However, the lens is so far from the film that it should mostly cover the medium format frame.

The obvious side effect of this is the changed focal distance: 51.5mm from lens to subject, which cannot be adjusted.

Aperture: fixed and unknown.

Shutter speed: set by the brownie, so only 1/45 ish or Bulb.

In theory this thing should have excellent image quality (the 50 1.8 is surprisingly nice) and be a nightmare to actually use. Note the almost total lack of exposure control, so I will probably only be able to control exposure with flash or filters, or just having the correct lighting to start with.

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Keep in mind that this is not using the f/1.8 aperture. It has an arbitrary, unknown aperture. Finding the correct exposure could be a challenge.

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First attempt: I calculated everything basically right.

Fuck yes.

Hell of a vignette, but not too bad for a 35mm system lens on 6x8 medium format film.

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Butch Angle

Sky Edwards

2024

Wolfen Orwo NC500

Ricoh Singlex TLS

Asahi Super-Takumar 55mm 1:2

A Dutch angle is a tilted shot.

[hexane-nightmares]

I've recently created the stupidest camera.

120 film, takes 68 format macro shots.

Body and shutter: a box brownie.

Lens: a broken Canon EF 50mm f/1.8. Which isn't a medium format lens. However, the lens is so far from the film that it should mostly cover the medium format frame.

The obvious side effect of this is the changed focal distance: 51.5mm from lens to subject, which cannot be adjusted.

Aperture: fixed and unknown.

Shutter speed: set by the brownie, so only 1/45 ish or Bulb.

In theory this thing should have excellent image quality (the 50 1.8 is surprisingly nice) and be a nightmare to actually use. Note the almost total lack of exposure control, so I will probably only be able to control exposure with flash or filters, or just having the correct lighting to start with.

[hexane-nightmares]

Keep in mind that this is not using the f/1.8 aperture. It has an arbitrary, unknown aperture. Finding the correct exposure could be a challenge.

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First attempt: I calculated everything basically right.

Fuck yes.

Hell of a vignette, but not too bad for a 35mm system lens on 6x8 medium format film.

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Hobby: lurking ominously.

Sky Edwards

2024

Lomochrome Purple

Model: @nuclearautumn

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Water Under The Bridge

Sky Edwards

2024

Ensign Selfix 320

Lomochrome Purple 120

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I love the colour of Kodak ProImage 100. As far as I'm aware it isn't really a professional film, but it is very affordable. It's my go-to general purpose colour film.

Sky Edwards

2022

Ricoh XR-10

Kodak ProImage 100

SMC Pentax-M macro 1:4 50mm... probably.

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I'm a Very Serious Artist

My first ever roll of Portra. It's very nice.

Ft @cunodoesntfuckingcare and Emus

@skydarcyedwards is my main art account.

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Charlie and Goldie

Sky Edwards

2024

Ricoh XR-10

Porst color reflex MC auto 1:1.2 55mm

Reflexlab Cine 800T

Models: Charlie and Goldie

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State the Obvious

Sky Edwards

2024

Double exposure on Kodak ProImage 100

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The Vast

Sky Edwards

2024

Canon R7

Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM

Photo taken with THE VAPORISATION OF THE VASTNESS atmospheric installation created by Mesmerism for Strange festival.