Starting to become

On Friday last week I had another test shoot with the Mamiya and the results are good. The flexibility of the digital negatives is exactly what I need.

For the test shoot I tried different backgrounds in the crim urban space around Elephant & Castle in London. The dusty brick walls and patchy concrete are exactly what I am after. I will add more images here soon. I chose this one because of the single plant that tries to take back it's rightful place in nature. I hope this reflects the theme of my project behind the subject, which is me. Perhaps the background should be more in focus, though?

On the image above I have tried creating something towards the final look I am after - becoming an animal. I have moved the eyes further appart and streched the chin down creating the space betweenthe nose and the upper lip. I don't want to make the changes too obiuos (though these ones obviously are) as the final image will be changing constantly anyway. I'm also working on the animated Flash version of this to show in the seminar tomorrow. Will post a link tomorrow here as well.

Here's another photo I took with Mamiya over the weekend. It's the semi-urban landscape around the reservoires in North London. It's still zone 3, but at the same time quite wild, while heavily reshaped by man.