Enhanced Image Project - In depth Analysis - Arnold Mariashin

''Hand''

''Melon''

''Still Life''

Arnold Mariashin is a Russian Photographer who has interested in Photography since the age of eight.Since then he graduated with a film degree and known for contemporary photography. From his website it says that he uses a handmade large format camera that develop into an enlarger in his darkroom in his bathroom.

He uses liquid emulsion to process his images. This is a solution that can turn any paper into photographic paper. You placed the liquid on the liquid emulsion on and leave to dry. After this is you then placed under the enlarger for time that has already been sorted out then after it has been exposed to the light you then repeat the traditional photographic developer,stop and fix.

I love these images because you can see the brush strokes from when the liquid emulsion was originally brushed on. If you look carefully at the ''still life'' you can see the emulsion has cracked where at that particular point it was thick and when it has been dried it has cracked. I love this effect it has given because it make it look authentic. Again, I like the liquid emulsion as it gives the images a great texture and an illusion of layers. It's a different way of presenting images.

My favourite image out of these is the ''Hand''. I love the way the liquid emulsion and has picked up the different tones. It gives the image a soft touch and relevant to what the image is of makes it quite intimate.

Looking at this artist uses this material and the result that have happened has really inspired me for my own work. I really want to use this material and I think it will work really with my idea of political protest. With the strong colours and bold text I think this will work extremely well.With my bleached outcome I felt worked well as I printed them at home on my own printer and once put into the bleach they turned blue which reminded my of cyanotypes and was happy with the final outcome.

I could of improved my project by having more variety of negatives. Towards the end, I felt that I only had three negative I felt worked best with the liquid emulsion therefore I didn't have a lot to work with. If I had more time I would have taken another 24 roll of film to ensure I had a variety to choose from and not feel obligated to the same negatives.

During this project I have enjoyed broadening my knowledge on new technique and I am looking forward to uses these techniques in the future. I enjoyed all the techniques learned including; making handmade negative in the darkroom, improving my Photoshop skills creating effects on digital photographs. In the future I can now go on further to improve my images and not just developing them. I can now build onto them with these new technique and be able to enhanced the quality of the final outcome.