Give me some analogue

Playing around and experimenting is one of my favourite hobbies. It is very seldom I have done such radical edits in my works. But maybe I should. The problem is often you get a ton of edits and fixing that little blemish on edit number 23 takes a mastermind to figure out which effect it was. Playing around on my own is another matter. It's art. It's for my own curiosity.

Source

My source this time around was an exercise you will find in any photo book. Explore the depth of field kind of shoot. I didn't like it straight from the camera, so this is heavily edited. Saturation, curves and levels + a vignette fixed the greyish, flat raw file. It wouldn't matter much with the process they get afterwords, but still.

Edit 1. Aluminium plate

This is the kind of effects I remember when scratching offset-plates in the print houses I have worked at. I have never worked with metal photographic plates, so the closest I get is the printer type of situation.

Edit 2. The archive

Reminds me of the library I had a summer job in when I was 16-17. That section where the real old books were. I can almost smell the browning paper and imagine all the pairs of sweaty hands flipping through the pages up through the years.

Edit 3. Experimental

Weeee... I wonder what went wrong here.... Some poisonous spillage in the darkroom probably... Fun...

All edits with Aperture and Analogue Effex