PH1300 - Introduction to Photography Practice: Part 1 Film and Dark Room.

Seeing as this is part one of my project blog I would firstly like to welcome you and thank you for reading my posts, sit down, relax, grab a cup of tea and put your feet up. Enjoy my babbling and pictures till your heart is content, now that being said let's get this started.

This is the introduction to my project for Uni, it details my introduction to photographic practice and goes into the techniques and styles that i will be learning and developing over my time here. The first project I took part in was a introduction to the dark room and photographic film, 33mm to be exact. Firstly we had to head out into the local area and take on location photographs, I myself was using a Nikon F3 with 33mm film, the area i took the shots of was Bootle located in Liverpool.

This first one was taken around noon, I personally like it because of the lines leaning up to the hill and then the buildings looming behind it, I noticed after developing it that it was slightly titled, this could be fixed in photoshop but I want to keep it as it is due the fact this is my first attempt ever at using film and I personally liked it as it was.

This one was taken around the noon as well, a little further down the road there was a garden with a skip in it, I looked at it and thought for a moment about how to compose it to look right, once I had my idea I took the shot, three of them to be exactly, the other two failed as I did not set the camera correctly, the ISO was not set right and was way off. However once I devolved this one after several attempts, It came out exactly how I wanted it to, I was extremely pleased with the outcome, the colouring and shadows became striking and the details became more defined.






Now, to sum all this up I will talk about my experiences with the dark room.

The dark room was quite the experience to have, I will admit I struggled at first but I got the hand of things after I had it explained a second time I got the hang on it perfectly. The process to develop film was quite interesting and took quite a bit of testing and practice before getting what you want, I honestly enjoyed working with it. Overall I found it to be a very eye opening experience, I learned a lot about the old ways of Photography and film, I made a lot of mistakes during this project and would love to redo it, but for a first attempt it's pretty good.