Fishing the Flats

I went red fishing in Titusville, FL last week with a friend on his new boat. It was a really overcast morning and the fish weren't biting so I switched from fishing to shooting pics.

Easter at the Grandparents

I spent the Easter holiday in Bonita Springs, FL with my grandparents and a lot of my family. They live in a retirement community which consists of trailers of all different sizes and colors with an array of lawn decorations. The night shots are all long exposures, I mostly shot my Papa and the strange community they live in. All images were shot with Kodak Portra 160NC 35mm film.

The rest of the images from this weekend are on my flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dylanjohnston/?v=1

Tin Types

This was another class assignment in my alternative processes class. We coated our own plates and developed on the tin using positives and an enlarger. This is my favorite process for developing photos, we only developed using this process for about two weeks, I wish there was more time so I could perfect my images a bit.
These are a few of my favorites, the first two are long exposures of construction at a nearby hospital and the portrait was taken in the studio at a high aperture.

Spotted Trout

This was done using the Platinum Palladium process. I caught this trout one afternoon and took it home to fillet it and thought it would make an interesting triptych. The platinum palladium process gives the images a brown-yellow color with a lot of contrast which I thought looked good with these photos. I mounted the photos on an old 1" x 6" board but the photos got wiped from my drive, Im going to retake them and put them up soon.

Sarasota Boxing Club

There's a small boxing club down the road from where I live in Sarasota. I spoke with Coach Harold and he was nice enough to let me shoot the boxers for a few days as they did their workouts. I shot digital for this because I knew I had to take a lot of high speed photos in low light and I didn't want all the grain in high ISO film.

Sarasota High

Sarasota High School closed down in 2008 because of too much damage done to the building due to the fact that it was built in the 1920's. Ringling bought it and are currently saving up to rebuild it and turn it into a new museum. My lighting class got to go in and shoot for two of our classes. Most people shot models in the environment but I wanted to shoot the deterioration of the school. Having permission to shoot and being able to bring in lights to shoot was a huge help as opposed to breaking in somewhere and shooting what you can before anybody shows up.

Cyanotype Surfboard

My first time printing using the cyanotype process. I chose to print my board shaping series onto cyanotype fabric. I bought a beat up surfboard and refiberglassed most of it and threw a coat of paint on the back to make it like a blank canvas. Fixing the board was a project of its own. Each image is two pieces of 8x8 inch cyanotype fabric that I put together. The fins are other surf images I printed but they didn't go with the theme of the shaping series so I cut them into strips and pieced them back together on the fins to mimic patterns found on wood surf fins. Because I rebuilt the board I thought it was appropriate to only use the board shaping series because together they tell a story.

The final image is what the board looked like when I first got it.