At this point in real time, I have started shooting with a 35mm film camera, so I cropped my pictures on 6x7 film to emulate this.
Showing posts with label Medium Format Film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medium Format Film. Show all posts
Thursday, 19 November 2015
MA Photography - Time - Initial photographs
These are my initial photographs that I took in conjunction with my diary. I used a Mamiya 7, which created super sharp images. However these photos were difficult to take as I found the rangefinder focusing system hard to use, it was such a tiny rectangle in the middle of the screen, which made it difficult to use. I also made a mistake while processing the film, I think I used too little developer which created these bubbles at the bottom of my images. I used only 400ml of 1:1 dev and water.
Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Initial Ideas
My initial idea is to photograph in the area near my house known as Ceasers Camp.
The area is to me very topographically interesting as it has all sorts of types of landscape. There are thick dense forest areas, pathways, dirt roads open vistas, views for miles over Farnborough and even lakes. The area has a personal connection with me as although it is somewhere used for military training, to me it is tranquil.
I grew up in London and there were no places that I could go to escape the city and wander and ponder lost in my own thoughts.
I would like to also take a few self portraits in these areas and show my reactions and emotions due to the different environments within Ceasers Camp.
I would quite like to experiment with an old medium format camera. An interesting feature of this old camera is that to advance to the next area of unexposed film, one must manually turn a dial which drags the film. One can stop turning at any point and still be able to take a photo. You could have double exposures over two places where you would normally have a photo or drag the film while exposing it, the possibilities are endless really.
The area is to me very topographically interesting as it has all sorts of types of landscape. There are thick dense forest areas, pathways, dirt roads open vistas, views for miles over Farnborough and even lakes. The area has a personal connection with me as although it is somewhere used for military training, to me it is tranquil.
I grew up in London and there were no places that I could go to escape the city and wander and ponder lost in my own thoughts.
I would like to also take a few self portraits in these areas and show my reactions and emotions due to the different environments within Ceasers Camp.
I would quite like to experiment with an old medium format camera. An interesting feature of this old camera is that to advance to the next area of unexposed film, one must manually turn a dial which drags the film. One can stop turning at any point and still be able to take a photo. You could have double exposures over two places where you would normally have a photo or drag the film while exposing it, the possibilities are endless really.
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