Spare roll(s) of film…
Spare a thought for Adrian Brannan next time you lose an image due to overfilled photo folders on your computer. These fantastic photo collages are as beautiful as they probably are sanity checking, as each image is created from as little as 50 to one thousand individual 35 mm photographs…and they aren’t even digital! In fact, most of the photos are developed in Adrian’s own darkroom! Adrian seems to get quite the kick out of variety, as not only are the images made up from a variety of shots, but the shots themselves are taken from multiple locations with different films, processing techniques and at different times and days. Whew. Plus it seems to me that depending on how large you view them, they take on different qualities – beautiful painterly like quality when in a thumbnail format, fabulous textures when blown up a bit and a crazy patchwork of drastically different colours and tones when blown up a bit bigger (see two images directly above to see Piccadilly circus changes -the colours of the pavement vary from mustard to tan to green!)
I’m so impressed that I might even go take the camera out and shoot a few shots. The countdown begins…
Adrian’s work was spotted in the Completely London magazine from Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward, by August Media. Thanks!
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This really is amazing and right now I just love everything remotely related to London because I miss it so much! Thank you for this great inspiration. I will definitely check out the “Looking into the Past”. Cannot wait to see your own shots!
These are great photos. They almost look digital!
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These are absolutely stunning! I used to see students do something similar back in the day, but with 15-20 images, not this many. Great post!
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Me too. I thought the photos were digital and assembled using photoshop. But no! The photos are film and processed in a dark room. :O I never thought touristy shots would be this interesting. Definitely a new way of seeing a city. Thank you for the blog post. 🙂
Wow! Those are fantastic! Great post 🙂
Will follow you. 😉
These are amazing! Great post.
I can’t believe that this is done inside of a darkroom… I was thinking if it was digital there are certain effects you can use to crop it, combine it, where the time wouldn’t take too long to change up a normal photo. These pictures kinda remind me of some artists work and I love how you can see tiny details everywhere. Thanks for sharing this!
Wow.Good picture.It’s very stuned.Thank for share.
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Wow!
Amazing!
simply, WOW
Thank you for sharing this! These collages are amazing…I did a few collages like this..one at P.S. 1 in NY, and another one in downtown New Paltz, NY where I stood in the middle of a busy street and shot 25 rolls of film to create a 360 view of the busy street…I almost got killed, but it was totally worth it…putting the images together like a puzzle was time consuming but fun!…if anyone has old rolls of film I suggest using them by picking an area outside that facinates them and shooting all the rolls at different times of day(for different light)!
beautiful thank you
these. freakin. rock. that is all.
Nice, nice, nice!
These are some great photos! Here’s hoping you can post some more. 🙂
With Love and Gratitude,
The Intentional Sage
Nice!
Wow! Now THAT’s some serious creativity and talent!
Very unique content and hobby.. Thanks for bringing that across to us.. 1st photography, then creativity and collage..
Too good..
Great Pics!
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Wonderful – I love these – they do make you want to try the technique but it must really take some time.
Interesting take! I really enjoyed reading it! Plus I picked up some blogging tips from my visit here.
Ed
its hard to believe that they arent digital!!!superb work!!!thanks for sharing!
These look amazing… hopefully you could make some during different times of day like a night one and a sunset/sunrise one. These are more difficult but could become stunning works.
Wow, these are absolutely beautiful! I have never seen anything quite like this. Thanks.
Awesome and amazingly creative!
Cool pics.
Great work x
Oh yeah! Even without your explanation of the how’s these photos are amazing. I’m drawn in each one to see the variations and marvel over the choices. Very color-icious!
Looking at these makes me question if I am sober or not. This is some trippy stuff.
Great pics. Keep them coming!
great pictures! Adrian sure got talent and creativity.. I would just delete smugged and blurred pictures, guess I can keep them now.
wow. that was absolutely stunning and inspiring all-together. Reminds me very much of the work of David Hockney. Really creative and beautiful to look at. Thanks so much for posting. Im gonna give this a try 🙂
Beautiful work! The collages are so well made its incredible!
GREAT WORK
I did not understand what these photos are. are those painting or what.
I read the article it is good.
They are collages made from hundreds of photos!
Fist time i’ve seen this kind of work in my life ….very unique!!!
awesome!
Can someone say contemporary cubism??? Haha I love how he plays with angles and size, especially with the second one after the initial text (with the Eros statue in P. Circus). 🙂
Beautiful. Really enjoy the Picadilly Circus ones, both day time and night time. I lived in London for almost 2 years collectively, and this really brings the city alive for me!