I took a Pentax k1000 film camera, loaded with hp5 film. I chose specifically hp5 film instead of fp4 because it has more grain, I thought this would add well to the idea of being dark, mundane and gloomy. During lesson, I walked around southend with the intention to go behind shops and photograph them. The idea was to take Gohlke's idea of photographing the backs of billboards showing the reality behind a brand and do it with a slightly different approach. The shoot only took me about an hour, I spent only a short amount of time because I was tasked with shooting, processing and printing in only about three hours. Processing went well, however because I didn't have a lot of time to print, I found that my photographs turned out quite soft, what I could have done is used a contrast filter to make the blacks a little blacker and the whites a little whiter.
How I feel it went
I'm not completely satisfied with the outcome of my final images, if I had more time I would have gone to london and done the same thing, what I found was a bit of an issue was the back of all the shops all looked very similar, with bins and broken glass on the floor. Another thing I could have done to emphasise the dark look was put a pair of tights over the camera lens, this would have given the photograph a very grainy effect, this would have made my work slightly resemble nakahira's work.
Conclusion
Overall I'm happy with the result however I do feel there's room for improvement. I think what I should have done is been a bit more experimental with the shoot and the printing, one example would be the tights idea. With the printing I could have used a filter to up the contrast on the photograph, I could have burnt in places which are a lil overexposed from the sun, or another experimental idea would have been to scratch the film adding to the gloomy effect.
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