It's been cold, windy and wet on the southern coast of the Fleurieu Peninsula these last couple of weeks. There has been little to no opportunities to do any large format photography, nor to go camping at Murrayville on the Mallee Highway to continue the work on the silo project.
I've spent my time writing the texts for the Weltraum exhibition at Magpie Springs in early September, the Abstraction x 5 exhibition at the Light Gallery in late September, the Mallee exhibition at Atkins Photo Lab in mid-October , and the talk to the Flinders University Philosophy Club on 'Philosophy, Photography and the Environment' in late October.
I decided to take a break from the writing by scanning some vegetables that I'd purchased at the Victor Harbor Farmers Market on Saturday morning. I used the Epson V700 flatbed scanner:
In
scannography ---ie., using a flatbed scanner and computer exclusively for generating imagery-- the positioning of an object takes time to look right. The focus of scanner photography is
strictly on the object. So I could do seashells or seaweed gathered from the beach. It is low cost photography.
The parsnips came out the best because of their form. Tomatoes on a vine would be another possibility. I need a better dark cloth that I placed over the top of the parsnip. The one I used this time was one we used to keep the poodles warm. It had lots of fluff on it. Next time I will use the dark cloth for my large format photography. It's much cleaner.
I've been meaning to set up the studio to photograph the vegetables--table top photography--- but I have never got around to it, due to the problems associated with
setting up the studio camera, macro-lens, tripod and lighting.
