Printing A0

Recently I have been printing some A2 size prints of my 10x8 captures. Originally I intended to display them as their negatives on the wall, they are just so nice, but after printing my 5x4s at A3 size to show in tutorials, I really liked having these prints to hold and show. Its so much nicer to have a print in your hands than a representation on a screen. Seeing the size difference again made me think of printing big. I thought for a week about it, and I decided to take the plunge. The work needs to be as big as possible, to have the effect. Shooting on 10x8 demands consideration, when you take a photograph on 10x8 so much work and setting up as gone into the process that it is highly considered. These shots cannot be merely walked by, when for example you are using an SLR, you walk around and snap at so many things, when using such large format everything is methodically thought through. These photographs cannot merely be walked past, so the Print needs to be large, to demand attention.
I chose the image I wanted carefully, as I cant simply print another if it does not work out well. I even had to rescan the negative to ensure I had enough resolution, just to be methodical. I went over the image from the start. Again I left in the problems of the scan process, and paid attention to the development process so the strange effects came through. I rotated the image to make things simpler when printing onto the 'roll paper', which was big enough to fit a A1 across, or an A0 lengthwise.
I methodically went through the print settings, 16-bit output, Super Fine Detail, unclick high-speed, all through the paper options.
I printed a test strip, of approximately 3 inches to check the print, check the sharpness, the tones, the resolution. All was great so I decided to proceed. It took around an hour and a half to finish printing. When It was finished I noticed quickly there was several inches missing from the other side of the print.
I had to come back the next day to do another print. I guess there was no definitive way of knowing the roll was nearly done, it sure looked like there was a fair amount of paper left. If I had not printed the test strip it would have printed the whole image, but I am still glad I did the test print, because I can imagine if I printed the whole thing before checking and one little thing that I might have overlooked could have ruined the whole print. The next day when I printed everything went without a hitch. Again II went through all the settings, though they hadn't changed since the previous day.

Kairos and Chronos

In a tutorial with David Moore, he suggested I look at the ancient Greek theories of time as a way to understand my concept more.

Chronos - the first ancient Greek work for time, it refers to measured time, like on a clock. we have the English word 'chronological' as in the natural order of one thing after another. The sequence or timeline of events or narratives or patterns.

Kairos - the other ancient Greek word for time, but this refers to time that is not measured by a clock or by some other time measuring device, but refers to the opportune moment (a bit like the Henri Cartier-Bresson, the decisive moment).

It seems to me that all photographs are in some way Chronos. The shutter is open for an exact moment of time and is recording a holographic world described by various wavelengths. Onto a plane of photographic material. My project is taking the Chronos, that all photography, is and making work personified by Kairos, which is given form, given a 'voice' by my photographs surrounding my relationship with the camera. It started as a way to try and control the Chronos but because I am human, I cannot do this, so I subject myself to this beautiful Kairos.

Information from -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairos
http://mckinleyvalentine.com/kairos/
http://www.lifeofasteward.com/chronos-kairos/

The Cane Hill side project

While I was starting this Resolution project I toyed with the idea of presenting a further continuation of a series of photographs that I started in 2012. I have previously updated this project when I displayed images in my first year of uni as part of the "Environment" project we did. I was thinking I would show a continuing series of images about an area that has been slowly decaying over a number of years. The area is going to be developed in to a housing estate which adds another dimension to the decay there as it is slowly being broken apart by the humans in charge of its development, the human vandals and the natural weathering of being abandoned from its original purpose.
I took these images from my facebook page hence some of them have a watermark symbol is on them.
The series sits something like this:

The main reason I thought maybe I can display this project for Resolution is because it has seriously started to become broke apart, and things that existed there a year ago or two years ago or three years ago are simply gone. I had already started to work on my theories and photographs surrounding the concept of time. Here are my recent images:

I do not want to use these as my final project as I think the project will only be done when the area becomes a residential area. It might take a few years, and it will be interesting to see the change from abandoned area to building site, to finished developed built area. This series almost fits with my idea about time and photography, but not really for the right reasons, it is about a glancing relationship between the area and the photographer, rather than between the camera and the photographer. I thought I would share this though as it is an option that I considered.