My Own Invented Special Effects Technique - Pure Photography Using Light & Film might interest readers who are using film.
My technique enabled the creation of a Kodachrome Transparency that had both a portrait and a negative image of a tulip, on the same emulsion. At that time my photographs were described as ground-breaking!
Since there is growing interest in photography with film these days, I believe that my special effects techniques, will now prove to be of more interest, as most of the possibilities available digitally were also possible with film.
Projection photography was my form of 'Painting with Light' where the images were blended, masked, and manipulated with crystals, reflections, textures, and coloured filters.
The projected images were not always projected onto a screen, and the chosen screen often became the subject of the picture; for example, I have photographed projected images; on a feather, a flower, a shell, a leaf, a butterfly wing, and even on to the edges of the pages of a book. Images (both transparencies and negatives) can be blended too, by using more than one projector.
One part of my own website 'Special Effects - The Magic Lantern' - explains exactly how my International award-winning photographs were created, these led to over twenty one-man exhibitions (many organised by Kodak).
‘Spirit of Spring’ - was the first ever picture taken on Kodachrome, that included both a negative, and a positive image, all on the same emulsion! See how it was created
There are also many more award-winning special effect photographs on my website.
Please do have a look at: -
The introduction to ‘The Magic Lantern’ by Sir George Pollock, (a past president of the Royal Photographic Society).
Press Reviews and a list of my One-Man Exhibitions in the 1960's.
The Contents page of the various techniques fully explained.
I hope these techniques will be of interest and perhaps even inspire readers.
John Neville Cohen
https://www.jncohen.net/magic.htm
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