35MM.

Introduction to 35mm.

We were each given a roll of BW 35mm film and sent out to take photos around Leeds centre, or anywhere of interest really. We had the option of borrowing colleges Pentax's or our own 35mm if we owned one. I have an Olympus OM10 so I chose to use this as I am familiar with the settings and how it works for me.

At first I wasn't really sure what I want to document. I began on Briggate, the main shopping street in Leeds where there is always a large crowd of people. I took a few shots of what was around me but wasn't really satisfied and could sense they weren't great results. So I headed round towards the Corn Exchange and decided to document the vintage store windows and things of interest around that area.

I developed the film the next day at Vernon Street darkroom and created a contact print. Later I scanned the images that I like and re-touched them slightly by adjusting the brightness and contrast.

I've selected my favourite...

INSPIRING.

WAYS OF LOOKING PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL - BRADFORD.

I have to admit, out of everybody's work that I looked at, there was only one persons exhibition that really moved and inspired me. That was Daniel Meadows. Usually when I look through a photographers collection, I find the odd image or even set that I can find fault with, or I just personally don't like. But I was completely fascinated with every single image displayed, the ideas and concepts of each project and how they had been taken.

Daniel Meadows is an English documentary photographer. In the 1973 he was granted a double decker bus from the Arts Council and travelled around England in it with a make-shift studio, removed seats to allow space for a darkroom, and the windows were used to display his work. He stopped in different places and approached all walks of life for their photograph by him. This project was labelled 'Living like this.' Following this he tracked down the people he'd photographed and took the same image years later.
He wanted to document life at that time and what better way than through the lens? It's the only true way of seeing life as it really is. He also did a series on Factory Records in Manchester around the time of the Hacienda, and then a documentation of suburban life in London.

Here's some of the images I saw at the exhibition:

EXPERIMENTING.

ONE DAY BRIEF.

We were sent out in groups for the day with a Canon 30D to experiment and explore the use of depth of field and capturing movement. The aim was to achieve a variation of well exposed images displaying shallow depth of field, greater depth of field and sharp and blurred movement.

Here is what I came up with:

greater depth of field

greater depth of field

shallow depth of field

shallow depth of field

focused movement

blurred movement

TEN

ONE DAY BRIEF.

The brief consisted of everybody in the class writing down any word or thing and then the choices were mixed up and drawn from a hat. 10 in total. They were:
1/ Something gory
2/ Alcohol
3/ A fence
4/ Trees
5/ People
6/ Chinese Food
7/ Weather
8/ The Park
9/ Doors
10/ Flatmates/someone you live with
We then did a presentation of everybody's work for each category and voted our favourite from each. The winner one 1x roll of film. I unfortunately didn't win but it was still a worth while project and interesting to see how other people work.

Here's a few of my entry's.

Doors

Flatmates

The Park

People