McAleavy.org

At a recent shoot with Sammie B I went back to basics a little and shot a plain lightpainted nude. I have some Polaroids from that shoot to that I really should scan at some point too.

Torrent

Lightpainted self-portrait at Corra Linn.

On Saturday night I took my Canon 5D out to the Falls of Clyde with McInnes to do some more night shooting. We had made the same trip (in the dark) the the previous weekend, but as I had only my 5×4 with me the best I managed to do was fall down a hole while attempting to lightpaint a ruin. This time out I shot the falls instead, but managed not to fall in.

Coryphee

A cople of weeks ago I dusted off my old Nikon FE and shot some Kodak HIE infrared of Skin. I finally got around to processing and scanning it and, as expected, it’s made her blonde. Infrared film does the strangest things.

Arboreal

Polaroid transfer on watercolour paper.

Working with Polaroid material in the field can be a bit hit-and-miss, particularly when attempting transfers in the cold - it seems to always end up as a sticky, but colourful mess. Last time out I tried using warm water to wet the paper and so bring everything up to temperature, which seems to work quite well.

Sprite

Lightpainted at midnight.

Last Sunday I dug out my big torches and went over to Lanark to do some night shooting with McInnes. I discovered that my DIY radio shutter release can trigger my 5D from further away than I can hear, so I’m going to have to put an LED to the thing so that I can tell that the shutter has really opened. Had great fun running around in the dark, lighting trees and bridges with the 3.5 million candle-power light.

I had a shoot with Kat Love at the end of January, and shot some art nude stuff onto very outdated Polaroid 579. The watercolour transfers are in the Polaroid Nudes gallery.

Displacement (nude)

Convection (nude)