Megan Colwell: Midterm Assignment

My Pictorialist filter set was originally made of sheets of semi-clear plastic folders that I cut up and used various things to make them have different effects like lipstick, mascara, toothpaste, hairspray, and teabags. However, I realized I couldn't use them unless they were really close to, basically touching, the object being photographed. So instead, I used a piece of plastic wrap that I sprayed with hairspray and stuck bits of tea grind, to as well as a piece of glass I found on the ground at the Mausoleum.  I also shot all the photographs using a sepia filter from my camera to give the images a vintage pictorialist look. This filter gives all of the photos a sense of unity as well.

Detailed wall candle in the Duchess's room at the Chatelherault Hunting Lodge

Taken with manipulated plastic wrap to soften the focus.

Columned window in the Duchess's room at Chatelherault Hunting Lodge

 Taken with manipulated plastic wrap which was moved to get the speckled effect of the tea grinds.

View of the Chatelherault garden from inside the hunting lodge

The effect was created by fogging up the camera lens to soften the focus of the overall image.

Looking up at inside of Hamilton Mausoleum 

Taken with the manipulated plastic wrap. Softens the focus and creates a pattern of reflected light.

Hamilton Mausoleum 

This effect was created with the manipulated plastic wrap as well as the miniature effect on my camera which blurs the top and bottom of the photo creating emphasis in the middle.

Hamilton Mausoleum

This effect was created the same way as the photo above.

The sleeping lions at the Hamilton Mausoleum

 Taken using the manipulated plastic wrap. Softens the focus and creates blurriness to parts of the photo.

The top of the Hamilton Mausoleum

Taken using a piece of a glass bottle. Creates a vignetting effect.

The lion, the face, and the Mausoleum

Taken using a piece of a glass bottle. The glass is placed so that some of the scene is not seen through the glass, emphasizing the vignetting effect that the glass has.

The face of Immortality above the gate leading to the crypt at Hamilton Mausoleum

This was taken using the piece of glass which was held so that only the smooth part of the glass would capture the image. The glass creates a soft miniature effect on its own, emphasizing the face of Immortality.