Taking inspiration from the Youtuber Dottie I have taken a shoot with 2 disposable cameras over the course of 2 days, and when even I wanted to document anything I took a picture. This was to force me to use film instead of using it sparingly. The pictures were taken in and around Reading University on a weekend when I was visiting my friend.
Dottie is a youtube who is very artsy and talks about subjects in a poetic way, and in one video she set herself a challenge to use 3 disposable cameras in 3 days, so I wanted to link that into the idea of using film isn't as precious as I have been using it and not thinking about setting and just shoot pictures.
I found that as they were so easy to use I was able to easily take pictured quickly as there were no setting to mess around with apart from flash.
The whole shoot has a nostalgia feel, It looks like the pictures I saw when I was a child. It really captured this feel of the prime time of film use. A lot of the pictures has this grain on it when it was taken at night without a flash. I took a few selfies, which in the context of when it looks like it was taken the selfie wasn't as common as it is now. I think the shoot went well, I used 2 cameras in 2 days and I struggled to do this, as I wanted to get perfect pictures when using film as I was paying for the pictures, in the end I used it as i would my mobile phone camera. I also found that in some cases the focal length of the picture is about 1/2 a meter which meant a few of my pictured were out of focus.
This is my first shoot in colour using a film camera, I couldn't develop them myself as our dark room wasn't equipped to do so, but I have got the negatives back so I can create black and white images from them if I wish. I also found that you don't feel as connected to the picture when you dont process it yourself, Its really just like using a digital camera but less expensive if you damage the camera.
I asked for it to be cross proceed but unfortunately I don't know if it was or wasn't, I would assume not as there is no evidence from the pictures. This I will now go onto look into a company called lomography who are trying to bring film back.
Duck pond in Reading, It looks old from how the saturation of colours are. It looks like old film, how I remember our family photo album. |
Swan on the pond, I managed to snap a swan, and after I took it it jumped out and spread its wings to Chase us, didn't manage to wind the camera in time for an after shot. |
Shooting from the hip doesn't work as well as you hope, I got a rather shaky picture, I like how it very |
Th thing about this picture is that it looks old, but we have added the twits that we are taking a selfie, which a modern thing that people use phones for. |
In bed watching youtube, This looks very grainy which adds to the old aesthetic with a person using modern technology. |
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