Wednesday, 16 December 2015

Shoot 5 - Disposable camera in colour


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. 
Running up the stairs so we could put pizza in the oven. The colours in the picture is very off what they were which adds to the old aesthetic of the pictures. It looks a lot like they could have been taken along time ago.

In bed watching youtube, This looks very grainy which adds to the old aesthetic with a person using modern technology. 

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