Wallace Koopmans Artlog

Four exposures on one Polaroid Spectra film.  Playing on the trampoline

Finally the answer everyone has been waiting  35 years to have. Which is better the Canon Ql17 GIII or the Yashica Electro 35 GX?  Really no one, just me?

So you can see that they are very similarly specified with the greatest difference being that the Canon is Shutter priority and the Yashica is aperture priority.  The next phase of testing will be to run some film through each of them.  As I can’t determine precisely the shutter speed or aperature for each of them I may not record any info but just take matching pictures.

The latest painting in the series.  I suppose I should give the series an actual name.  Until then it continues to be an exercise in expanding small elements of cameras beyond what the un-aided eye can see.  By isolating these details the paintings express different ideas that would not otherwise be exposed.

I guess this was someones idea of golden lions.  Taken with the Canon Ql17.

Maybe one day my art can warrant a crate, but for now cardboard will suffice.

I thought it would be fun to take pictures of the concrete lions I came across.  The fun didn’t last too long as there really is a limited number of forms.  Sometimes an idea runs into a dead end but it’s in the effort that new discoveries can be made.

Dunach elementary in Abbotsford, a rural school with a long history, is scheduled to be closed down this year.  These two images represent small instants of the larger times and changes that occur to a building like this and by extension communities.

Here is a different take, where I have literally placed Dunach Elementary on the proverbial chopping block.  Trite, but if you don’t know what is then how can you produce art that isn’t.

Not quite what I had in mind.  I wanted to make the background completely black and have the signs glowing.  The flash fired even though I believe I had it overridden, so I will need to figure that out as the idea that’s starting to develop in my mind won’t work with flash.  And yes this is a double exposure that isn’t one of those ghost signs.

I know I like looking at other artists work and thumbnails don’t give a very good sense of the brushwork so here is a deep zoom of my painting that will be at the Langley Centennial Museum and National Exhibition Centre June 11 to Aug 24 2011.  http://wkoopmans.ca/Deep_Zoom/daffodil_time/embed.html 

It’s sure hard to hold this sucker still.  Yes this camera creates very large 6×9 cm negatives but the problem is that to get sharp images you really need to use a tripod.  All of these shots suffer from some motion blur when you look close enough or if they were enlarged.  Also the fact that you only get 8 frames on a roll puts them in the $2 per exposure cost range.