Research
For this project I would like to do a 1960s mod theme. The images below are just a general google image search:
I like these images because it shows the typical mod character and what they would be doing mainly with their time. I like the actual colours of the images, the green/blue tint in the second one adds to the photo more I think. If it was just in colour or just in black and white I think it would look more plain but the tint shows more date in the photo like a polaroid film. It also has the white outline around the edge so it shows that it's been taken on an old square form camera.
I would like to focus on this theme/era because it's no longer around as much as it used to be to it's interesting to see what a modern day mod would be and look like.
I like these photographs by David McEnery because they aren't usually photographs you see of mods, you usually see ones of them on their scooters or in their group of friends. I like how these are just casual every day photographs of what they would be doing. I think black and white matches more and goes well with this theme because it shows oldness and I like how you automatically go back and think about the 60s when you see photos like this.
Proposal:
Title: Tiny FMP
Chosen theme/topic: 60s Mod
Chosen options/formats: 35mm black and white film (fashion photography)
Concept: 60s mod fashion and lifestyle
What are you going to produce? A sequence of photographs based on the 60s mods. They will run as a sequence, in order of when they were taken
How are you going to produce it? Plan shoots on location and take my photographs sticking to planned theme. I will look at photography I have researched for ideas and inspiration
Resources: Camera, 35mm black and white film, model, different locations
Powerpoint presentation:
Title: Tiny FMP
Chosen theme/topic: 60s Mod
Chosen options/formats: 35mm black and white film (fashion photography)
Concept: 60s mod fashion and lifestyle
What are you going to produce? A sequence of photographs based on the 60s mods. They will run as a sequence, in order of when they were taken
How are you going to produce it? Plan shoots on location and take my photographs sticking to planned theme. I will look at photography I have researched for ideas and inspiration
Resources: Camera, 35mm black and white film, model, different locations
Powerpoint presentation:
Shoot 1
For my first shoot, I went into a vintage shop that sells vinyls and suits and thought it would be good for a 'Mod' style shoot which I wanted to do in the first place. The things I don't like about this shoot are that the shop was a bit small and had small windows which made it difficult for me to get the lighting right so my images are a little dark but I'm going to change the curves and exposure using Photoshop. The other thing is that I think it's a lot harder to focus indoors because of the lighting, so some of my images are a little unfocused in places they should be.
For my first shoot, I went into a vintage shop that sells vinyls and suits and thought it would be good for a 'Mod' style shoot which I wanted to do in the first place. The things I don't like about this shoot are that the shop was a bit small and had small windows which made it difficult for me to get the lighting right so my images are a little dark but I'm going to change the curves and exposure using Photoshop. The other thing is that I think it's a lot harder to focus indoors because of the lighting, so some of my images are a little unfocused in places they should be.
This is one of my favourite images from the shoot. I like the composition and the differential focus. How the suits at the front are out of focus and the further they go back, the more in focus they get. This is an edited version of this photograph. I changed the curves, levels and exposure to add brightness and some contrasted shadowing.
I got the idea for this shoot from the research I did. I loved the image by Dezo Hoffman and really wanted to recreate images in a suit shop. I think it goes really well with the theme I chose.
Shoot 2
For this shoot I wanted to try something different. I thought taking my pictures in a bedroom in front of a mirror would look really effective because instead of just photographing the front and the back of him, getting the back of him in the foreground and his reflection in the mirror and switching between focusing the front and back would really work. I like those images, but again with the lighting indoors it's hard to get a perfect exposure. I'll edit these brighter on Photoshop too.
After that shoot I thought we could get some outside, so I gave him a 1960s Kodak camera to match the 60s theme and took some photographs of him taking photographs. Also, taking some on the bridge of him walking I think look really natural and not as staged as they were. I prefer them to look more natural because they could start to look cheesy if I staged them. So I told him to just walk over the bridge slowly and look over and the boats and took some shots of him doing so.
I think the lighting on the ones outside look so much better than the ones indoors. Also, I find focusing outside is much easier too, so those ones are in focus and correctly exposed.
I picked one of my favourites from the shoot to edit. I turned the brightness up a little and changed the curves to give a little more contrast along with making it lighter. I like the focus on this image, how the mirror is completely out of focus. It adds more to the photograph I think, rather than everything just being in focus, it leads you to the subject first and then you look around the image and notice he's getting ready in front of the mirror.
Also, I like how there are marks on the actual image. This was done by complete accident, when I was first developing my film, I had trouble putting it onto the reel in the black out back and it put marks on all my images. But I think it adds to the images, it makes them look old and like they were actually taken in the 60s.
Shoot 3
For this shoot, we were in a shop that sold old books and comics and outside the shop there was an old Land Rover. I took some shots looking at The Beatles books to get a feel of the year and I thought taking some in front of the car would be good too. I've had a lot of compliments from people outside college and on my photography page saying how good the ones with the car are. Some people actually thought they were genuine 60s photographs. Those ones weren't my personal favourites, but ever since all the compliments, they've started to grow on me.
I thought I would edit an indoor image because I think they're the ones that need brightening the most, the outdoor ones I think are perfectly exposed and so I chose one that needed editing. I edited the curves and level to make it a little brighter and have a bit of contrast and shadows. I also used the spot healing brush to get rid of unwanted marks from the print. I think the marks that I got from the plastic reel work on only some of the images, on others it can ruin them. In this image, I got rid of the biggest mark only.
I like how this is composed, with the head chopped off at the top. Kind of like how David Bailey works, he always cuts the top of the head out of the frame but it works with the image. I also like how he takes up the majority of the frame so there's no distractions and he's the only subject. I don't like how it's still a little dark and dull so I think it should be edited just a little bit more to make it a bit brighter.
Shoot 4
Because of the fact that I found it a lot easier shooting outside because of the lighting and focusing, I tried all doing all of this shoot outside. I think I had a problem whilst I was developing the film for this shoot because I have dark and bright patches and lines in my photographs. If I can find a way to edit them out, I think some of the images will be considered as finals.
I included both the original scans and the black and white ones I edited just to show what they look like. You can see them better in black and white. Overall, I liked and enjoyed this shoot. I filled up one whole roll with just one shoot because I had a limited time with the film camera so needed to get them done as soon as possible. I wish I had more time to do lots of different shoots on this film roll because my images haven't turned out as good as I imagined they would.
Process of developing film
Final images
Evaluation
I enjoyed this assignment as I was able to try again with a film camera, I don't use film cameras a lot for my work because I think it's just quicker and easier using digital and you don't have a limit on how many images you take. But I think in this, a film camera worked a lot better than a digital would have done because of the theme I went with (being the 60s).
The first roll of film went a lot better than the second, the first one had little marks on from the reel but they're easily edited out on photoshop. The second roll has dark and bright lines through it which I'm really disappointed about because I think I would have considered some of those images as finals. I definitely think my images represent my theme. They show a 60s fashionable mod in scenes where you can't really see modern things so you get the feel of being in that year.
Reflecting on my proposal, I think I managed to reach what I wanted to. I wanted to shoot in suit shops and vinyl shops and I did that. I was also pleased with the images I got during those shoots. In my proposal, I also said I was going to produce a sequence that go in order, and that's what I have done.
I chose these images as my final images because I think they work well together as a sequence and visually, they're my favourite. I liked how they looked old because the film was a little bit scratched and had small marks on, I could edit them out but I think it adds to the actual image keeping them in.
If I was to re-do this whole assignment I think I would do a lot more shoots, but because this was only a really short project I didn't really have the time to use lots of different rolls of film, develop them and scan them all in. So I think it's good that I got images I'm pleased with out of just the two rolls. I would also try go to a lot more different locations. I wanted to take some with a Vespa scooter because they were what the mod's had in the 60s but even though I tried to find someone with one or just one parked up, I couldn't find one. That's what I would like to try harder to do next time.
Overall, I have enjoyed this assignment. I've learnt how to develop film on my own, before I was a little nervous about doing it on my own but I managed well so I'm pleased with that. I think this will encourage me to use film more often.
write about images more, the story and why I chose the locations I did. Explain more about the story of the person in the different locations.
For this shoot, we were in a shop that sold old books and comics and outside the shop there was an old Land Rover. I took some shots looking at The Beatles books to get a feel of the year and I thought taking some in front of the car would be good too. I've had a lot of compliments from people outside college and on my photography page saying how good the ones with the car are. Some people actually thought they were genuine 60s photographs. Those ones weren't my personal favourites, but ever since all the compliments, they've started to grow on me.
I thought I would edit an indoor image because I think they're the ones that need brightening the most, the outdoor ones I think are perfectly exposed and so I chose one that needed editing. I edited the curves and level to make it a little brighter and have a bit of contrast and shadows. I also used the spot healing brush to get rid of unwanted marks from the print. I think the marks that I got from the plastic reel work on only some of the images, on others it can ruin them. In this image, I got rid of the biggest mark only.
I like how this is composed, with the head chopped off at the top. Kind of like how David Bailey works, he always cuts the top of the head out of the frame but it works with the image. I also like how he takes up the majority of the frame so there's no distractions and he's the only subject. I don't like how it's still a little dark and dull so I think it should be edited just a little bit more to make it a bit brighter.
Shoot 4
Because of the fact that I found it a lot easier shooting outside because of the lighting and focusing, I tried all doing all of this shoot outside. I think I had a problem whilst I was developing the film for this shoot because I have dark and bright patches and lines in my photographs. If I can find a way to edit them out, I think some of the images will be considered as finals.
I included both the original scans and the black and white ones I edited just to show what they look like. You can see them better in black and white. Overall, I liked and enjoyed this shoot. I filled up one whole roll with just one shoot because I had a limited time with the film camera so needed to get them done as soon as possible. I wish I had more time to do lots of different shoots on this film roll because my images haven't turned out as good as I imagined they would.
I chose this image to edit because I think it shows personality and it's a little more personal compared to the other photographs. I also think this was one of the images that was less effected by the dark and bright lines. Although you can see them, I am going to try edit them out.
I like the scenery I chose for this photograph. It's not modern and clean, it's more of a run down and gritty street. I like the composition of the image, how there's something going on in both the left and the right. I don't like the lines and maybe I could change the position of the model so it looks like he's interacting with the cat like it's his own that might make it look like we're outside his own house even though we're not.
Process of developing film
Evaluation
I enjoyed this assignment as I was able to try again with a film camera, I don't use film cameras a lot for my work because I think it's just quicker and easier using digital and you don't have a limit on how many images you take. But I think in this, a film camera worked a lot better than a digital would have done because of the theme I went with (being the 60s).
The first roll of film went a lot better than the second, the first one had little marks on from the reel but they're easily edited out on photoshop. The second roll has dark and bright lines through it which I'm really disappointed about because I think I would have considered some of those images as finals. I definitely think my images represent my theme. They show a 60s fashionable mod in scenes where you can't really see modern things so you get the feel of being in that year.
Reflecting on my proposal, I think I managed to reach what I wanted to. I wanted to shoot in suit shops and vinyl shops and I did that. I was also pleased with the images I got during those shoots. In my proposal, I also said I was going to produce a sequence that go in order, and that's what I have done.
I chose these images as my final images because I think they work well together as a sequence and visually, they're my favourite. I liked how they looked old because the film was a little bit scratched and had small marks on, I could edit them out but I think it adds to the actual image keeping them in.
If I was to re-do this whole assignment I think I would do a lot more shoots, but because this was only a really short project I didn't really have the time to use lots of different rolls of film, develop them and scan them all in. So I think it's good that I got images I'm pleased with out of just the two rolls. I would also try go to a lot more different locations. I wanted to take some with a Vespa scooter because they were what the mod's had in the 60s but even though I tried to find someone with one or just one parked up, I couldn't find one. That's what I would like to try harder to do next time.
Overall, I have enjoyed this assignment. I've learnt how to develop film on my own, before I was a little nervous about doing it on my own but I managed well so I'm pleased with that. I think this will encourage me to use film more often.
write about images more, the story and why I chose the locations I did. Explain more about the story of the person in the different locations.
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