Introduction: Copper Etching With Ferric Chloride - a Beautiful Process
My friends wanted to try out their hacked camera and vintage lenses, so I took them to the boatyard where I grew up, and showed them some of my jewellery making techniques.
I use the chemicals commonly used to make circuit boards at home, but draw designs free-hand to create textured metal to use in my jewellery.
Set to a dreamlike song by Roger Paul Mason from Brooklyn based band Jets and Snakes, the result is a mini-documentary/music video showing the creation of an etched copper button.
(For the Camera enthusiasts:
I use the chemicals commonly used to make circuit boards at home, but draw designs free-hand to create textured metal to use in my jewellery.
Set to a dreamlike song by Roger Paul Mason from Brooklyn based band Jets and Snakes, the result is a mini-documentary/music video showing the creation of an etched copper button.
The video was shot using a hacked Panasonic Lumix GH2 - the sleeper hit of the indie camera world - an ultrabright vintage manual f1.4 50mm Pentax-M lens and Panasonic's superbright micro four thirds wide lens 20mm f1.7 lens.
The camera hack (by Russian hacker Vitaliy Kiselev) unlocks higher bitrate settings in the camera)
Participated in the
Workshop Contest
