#multiple negatives

[zurich-snows]

Palmetto Gnome. c. 1948–1950) by Val Telberg (American, 1910–1995). Gelatin silver print, solarized photogram and multiple negatives

[hermitprivilege]

The fact that the French word for bulldog is “Bouledogue” will never not be funny.

[haxyr3]

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Grammar tip of the week: Unlike in English, in Russian multiple negatives is often compulsory. In many cases you should put more than one negative word or/and particle to build a correct negative sentence. Here is an example from Wikipedia: "Никто никогда никому ничего не прощает" (No-one ever forgives anyone for anything). Negative word here is не, and negative particle is ни that goes with literally every word in this sentence.

[mdunckleyphotography]

Fossilization on Flickr.

I got a flyer from my old school DCAD earlier this week telling me about their student show which got me thinking about some of my older film work. So I flipped through the old portfolios and found a few that I could scan and load up. This shot was part of an emulation project on Jerry Uelsmann. I had apparently foolishly chosen to try to emulate Uelsmann‘s techniques. I remember my teacher pulling me aside and asking me if I was sure about my decision. I think he had seen other students trying it and knew how tough it can be to create images like Jerry Uelsmann, part of me knew he was right to be worried but I wanted to challenge myself. Naturally my attempts were not nearly as refined, complex, or as masterful as his but I really liked this project. This image was created using two negatives. One shot of a mouse’s skeleton left over from one of my cat’s kills and another of tree bark. The idea was that the skeleton would look like a fossil found within the tree. In the darkroom I used two enlargers, one for each negative. To get the mouse in the tree bark I cut out the shape of the skeleton from a previous test print and used it to block the light during the exposure of the tree bark negative. Blocking the light created an unexposed area of the page for me to put the skeleton into. I moved the print to the other enlarger which held the skeleton negative and used the other part of the cut out to block out most of the page except for the area where I wanted the skeleton to appear. After scanning it last night I made adjustments to contrast and sharpened it up a bit. Nikon N80_Nikon 85mm f/1.4D All Rights Reserved © Mike Dunckley_2013