Behind the Scenes: Photographic Transfers

Photographic Transfers

Over the past three months I got an idea in my head to make my own paper and then proceed to transfer images onto it. After long hours and several mess ups I have landed on something I'm proud of.

The reason this project came about is because in one of my classes we were asked to make a behind the scenes video. Thinking about what I photograph and how I do it, personally, I figured it wouldn't translate well into video. Having to now think outside the box I knew I wanted to do something visual. That's where the idea for photographic transfers came from, but I wanted to push it further. Why buy a piece of wood, watercolor paper or even fabric. What could I do that would make this mine? It was this thought that prompted my desire to create my own paper.

Enjoy my handcrafted prints.

image by Tiffany Dyer

image by Tiffany Dyer

image by Tiffany Dyer

Glass Flowers: a working title, a working series.

These are some of my favorites from the past few weeks, with my body of work building these will have to sit on the side lines until this collection is more complete and they may make an appearance again. 

image by Tiffany Dyer

image by Tiffany Dyer

image by Tiffany Dyer

Deconstructing Flora

These images are from an older project. I enjoyed doing this but haven't done anything with this series since my first shoot. What my readers/viewers may not know is that I'm a twin. Yes, we're identical. But the cool thing about this project was that I bought flowers and then had my sister draw a deconstructed image, I then proceeded to mimic the drawing with a photograph.

Enjoy.

images by Kayleigh Dyer and Tiffany Dyer

images by Kayleigh Dyer and Tiffany Dyer

images by Kayleigh Dyer and Tiffany Dyer

images by Kayleigh Dyer and Tiffany Dyer

images by Kayleigh Dyer and Tiffany Dyer

images by Kayleigh Dyer and Tiffany Dyer

images by Kayleigh Dyer and Tiffany Dyer

Low Tech Polaroid III

You can't live on a farm without other animals or fire pits. These are normal things that I became accustomed to from spending a decade of my life on a horse farm.

Low Tech Polaroid
Low Tech Polaroid II

image by Tiffany Dyer

image by Tiffany Dyer

image by Tiffany Dyer

image by Tiffany Dyer

image by Tiffany Dyer

image by Tiffany Dyer

Low Tech Polaroid II

You can see the first set of images here. This go round I've been focusing more on the type of farm I grew up on. When I was eleven my mom decided it was time to fulfill her life long dream of getting a horse. We started off with one and then my folks thought it would be a good idea to make a business out of it and before I knew it we had seven (including a donkey) and was still adding more and selling others.

Even though I don't see me ever inheriting the horses that we still have I do like going back home and looking out a window to see them standing there in the field.

image by Tiffany Dyer

image by Tiffany Dyer

image by Tiffany Dyer

image by Tiffany Dyer

image by Tiffany Dyer

image by Tiffany Dyer

Refinement, expansion, call it what you will

I've been updating my work and expanding on what I have instead of collecting 12 images and calling it quits. This is an expansion and a more in-depth study to one of my previous projects.

Inspirations came from two places, the way Vincent van Gogh painted and the secondary plot line from Walt Disney's Beauty and the Beast. I've done a total of three photo sessions and I plan on doing more. Not only is my process of images are evolving but so are my thoughts and statements to this piece. I plan on having a more concert body of work (as well as a statement) in the future.

image by Tiffany Dyer

image by Tiffany Dyer 

image by Tiffany Dyer

image by Tiffany Dyer

image by Tiffany Dyer

Low Tech Polaroid

I've been quiet for a few weeks. But there are good news, I've been working on a new project.

I've always loved Polaroid images, the way they look and the fact that they are instant. While conducting research for my Polaroid influenced project I found Lucas Samara. He would manipulate the image while it was exposing to give it a painted/surreal look. I instantly fell in love with it. However, there was a dilemma I faced. I have a Polaroid Land Camera but it doesn't work, also getting your hands on the film can be a little pricey if you're not ready for it. What was I to do? I still wanted to have an instant approach to the images. I decided to use my cellphone to capture the images and then put them into PhotoShop to edit them how I like.

Below are some examples. They're still works in progress but I'm happy with them so far.

image by Tiffany Dyer

image by Tiffany Dyer

image by Tiffany Dyer

image by Tiffany Dyer

Expansion: final run

The final images to complete this project, at least for now.

images by Tiffany Dyer

images by Tiffany Dyer

images by Tiffany Dyer

Expansion: colors

I love how fruits and vegetables have a wide variety of colors. Thus this batch of images, enjoy.

images by Tiffany Dyer

images by Tiffany Dyer

images by Tiffany Dyer

images by Tiffany Dyer

Expansion: citrus

This week I decided to go a little brighter, with citrus. Enjoy the smells of lemon, lime and oranges.

images by Tiffany Dyer

images by Tiffany Dyer

images by Tiffany Dyer

Expansion 2.0

I've been working on a body of work for a few weeks now and after producing what I thought was good work I wanted to see what I could do to it to make it better. For the vegetables I knew I wanted to reshoot after I shot my fruits with the 100mm macro lens. Thus have revisions/edits/reshoots for the vegetables was a given. The feedback I got for my fruit images were that some were a bit darker and that my color stripes may not be working as well as I thought they were. Since the images (one of the outside and one of the inside) are supposed to be seen side by side the color stripes were cutting the images off from one another abruptly.

I present my new additions to my project. I give you 2.0

images by Tiffany Dyer

images by Tiffany Dyer

images by Tiffany Dyer

images by Tiffany Dyer

images by Tiffany Dyer

images by Tiffany Dyer