Photography Project: Black & White Film


Here are some developed photographs selected from my 20 negatives.

Shooting, Developing & Enlarging

The process of shooting, developing and enlarging these images took me a total of 2 1/2 days at college. The most exciting part of the process was probably when the enlarged photographs went into the developer chemicals and you caught your first glance of the enlarged image in the dark. At points waiting 2 minutes for the photograph to be ready took an agonisingly long time, but it was so worth it! However there were a few photographs that didn’t turn out how I would have liked them to once they were enlarged, and there was also one that had an obvious thumbprint on it which was a shame. Even so, I have learnt so much from this project, probably more than my year of AS Photography!
 
Overall I really, really enjoyed this project. I especially liked the freedom of being given a film camera with 20 shots and being let loose to adventure wherever we wanted for a good 3 hours. This gave me a lot of time to think and consider carefully what I wanted to photograph and where I should go to do it.  I chose to go to Cheltenham in these three hours as it is quite far away but also has quite a wide scope of things to photograph. I think my research really helped me to focus on how I could bring out the full potential of a scene into a framed image. I was particularly inspired by Walker Evans’s use of shadow, light and composition in black and white photography. I also appreciated how we were using black and white film. I really like the effect of this as sometimes it can make things look quite abstract in terms of reflections and shadows. It also just brings everything back to the basics of light and composition. This project has really inspired me and I think I will now look at my environment in a slightly more appreciative way. Despite thoroughly enjoying this project and not really wanting it to end, I don’t think I will be specialising in it, however I would like to revisit it as a hobby perhaps outside of college.

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