reflection/evaluation

Reflection …

Starting a blog

One of the first things I did was start a blog. Which entailed having to open a blogger account using my g-mail domain, which I had set up previously, as without a g-mail account I couldn’t set up a blogger account, as Google owns blogger. After I had opened a blogger account I added people from the course, to my Google+ circles, so that they could see what I was looking at and what I was thinking about the images I posted on my blog. There was very few issues with this as Google+ and blogger are very user friendly and any problems I did encounter aren’t really note worthy as they basically solved themselves with just having taken the time to have a play around with them each in turn.

Going and taking pictures

I then went out and took some photo’s in the street photography style, with a borrowed camera at first, then when my loan came through I bought my own camera so I could take photo’s when I wanted too, without having the trouble of checking weather there was 35mm camera available and then having to borrow one out of the store. Mostly walking around and shooting but I did sit on bench and take some shoots as well. Taking photo’s of things I found interesting and or visually appealing, posting the contact sheets and prints from the shoots onto my blog. At first I didn’t have much idea about what I really wanted to produce as my final 5 prints, but as I took more and more photo’s I realized that the photo’s I actually liked where the ones with angles and circular shapes. The circular shape of the puddles and angular nature of curbs and square seaty things contrasted really well. I found it easer to achieve the circular shapes (from puddles) in rainy weather.

Developing and printing

After I had taken the photo’s I developed them and made some prints, I had a few issues at first with my film being under fixed, so I went back and re-fixed that film, I also I had a note worthy experience with one of the winding reels with my film not going on it properly, and ended up have to get rid of the film as the reel actually damaged it. Other than that I had no other difficulties developing. Whilst printing I had a little difficulty with one the enlargers being dodgy, the focusing light kept flickering on and off whilst I was trying to find the correct focus for the image which led to me having to find a different enlarger one that wouldn’t have this problem. The only other problem I had whilst printing was the simple fact that I couldn’t find the correct focus by eye so I had to keep borrow a focus finder from the store, which wasn’t really to big an issue until they ran out which meant I had to weight, im not the most patient person and weighting isn’t my strong suit and as such I found this to be quite a big issue.