Well its been over 4 months since my last post on these and it has been a wild ride. Beyond the holidays, my wedding and now the global pandemic I can only really think about my artwork as a whole. A few weeks back I started making prints of some of my vortographs that are for sale. They are print on demand, but I use an amazing printer that prints and mounts them on metal and they are pretty glorious.
As much as this may become a future reference for people that maybe researching into the topic of Vorticism or how to make vortographs I sort of want to leave this a general seceret until I know more about the optic trick I am doing. It isn’t nessicarily something I want to horde to myself but I would hate to see what I been studying turn into something like a lens filter and discount what I been looking into. What I will say though is that this is all done in camera and soon ( within a year or so, just gotta make the correct connections) I may have an upgrade to what I been using to make these. If I can manufacter or patient the general design I wouldn’t have an issue bringing out what it was or DIY versions since they work all the same.
Aside from selling prints and the what I hope the future could be on these slowly I am realizing that the inital camera lens means a lot for these images. Generally I stick with a 50mm but when jumping between my Sony and my Canon I noticed the macro lens I have on my sony seems to give a better depth in the photos. Truthfully I should probably look into using my 85mm or find a 100mm macro for these although I am unsure on how well that will turn out. Eventually I will have some test shots of that. I should revive my flickr or make a new account or some other photosharing site to record some of my tests.
Realistically this is all in a testing phase at the moment. Although I can get finished product that I like. There can be more that is done to make them better. I have no doubts that they can become better in terms of sharpness throughout the image and more abstract in the same way.