An old picture I out together in my final year at Brighton University (2002). Background is the West Pier in Brighton, shot on slide film and re-projected onto a slightly yellow wall. The people (he's Phil, no idea what she was called) were shot in the studio, and put together on Photoshop. Interestingly enough, in these ancient times, we had no digital cameras (we also didn't have an indoor toilet, and Henry Fox Talbot was the course leader), and the university had only had the digital suite installed a few months earlier, so this final piece of work was the first time I'd properly used Photoshop.
Initially, I'd projected slides in the background, and tried to stand the models at an angle so I could capture them and the background at the same time. There was some success, but generally it would require an exposure of 3-4 seconds to fill the background in after the flash (the flash was required to make artificial sunlight to match the backgrounds. That, and to make it look non-shit). In the end , technology saved me. I owe my sanity to the 'Extract' tool. After I'd put the two pictures together, I printed the picture off, re-photographed it on chrome film again, projected and re-shot it again, and then printed as a normal negative. I don't know why I did the last bit, but it looks ok.
(I lied about the toilet and Bobby Talbot)
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