Fifth Contact sheet and edits

My fifth shoot was influenced by using a film camera. I took all my pictures using a Cannon T70. I took my time while taking pictures. I tried to compose my shots more by slowing down the shooting process which is easy with a film camera as you have to adjust the settings more and think before you shoot. This has encouraged me to improve my skill.

Best edit - Picture of girl walking in the woods taken in film.

A lot of the developing of my contact sheet and pictures has taken time. First I had to learn how to use the dark room which was a very enlightening experience in understanding how getting pictures in a right exposure to begin with help a lot when developing a picture to get the right exposure on the projector. It also gives you a sense of how hard it is to create pictures in a dark room, it is almost and art form in itself.

Tests in dark room, experimenting with exposures
with the projector

I found that while developing the contact sheet a lot of it came out over exposed, I'm not sure if it was the developing process or the actual exposure of the pictures. I think that I will eventually redo some of the pictures.
The best edit is of a group of trees and in the distance is a subject, a girl. It's a candid shot and Is one of he pictures that has a very large range of gradients of grey. It is slightly out of focus and is very over exposed and not developed enough so a lot of detail didn't get into the picture.
The other print I enlarged was a group shot of 4 people from inside a gap in the hedge so I got the branches in the picture encroaching on the group. This picture again was over exposed in the enlargement process and needed more time in the developer as if i hadn't taken it out it would have gone black.
My time in the dark room has been a lot of trial and error. I have learnt a great deal towards how important post-production is in both film and digital, but use of a different medium do so. I think that further more I have learnt that the more time you spend taking the picture the less post-production you will need. This will improve my digital in taking more time in my shoots.
For my next step I will return to taking time stacks taking the skills from film and apply it to digital which will develop my ideas further.