12) Film contact sheet experiments

I tried experimenting with splitting the contact sheet across multiple sheets of paper. I think it would work better if my strips were longer and they didn't fit to the paper as well as they do. (3x5 images) half a photo going off the edge and being on the next sheet would look a bit more natural and less cramped. 

With this one I chose a set of 3 images from each strip that were next to each other to print. I felt this looked alright but it was still a bit plain and didn't really add anything different to the piece.

I tried a similar approach to the previous one but this time I organised them a bit more sporadically to try and make the arrangement look a bit more natural and unorganised.

With this contact sheet I make hands were still a bit wet when arranging the strips and then the water made the contact sheets stick to the plastic a bit and created this ghostly white effect. I really liked this effect but maybe as something to experiment with on it's own, I felt it was too distracting and distorts some photos a lot and some not at all.

With this one I wanted to experiment with the shape of the canvas. I also sprinkled water over the plastic sheet which gives the infectious chemically look over the contact sheet.

11) film shoot 3

After researching Paul Phung I wanted to create images in a similar style. I decided to shoot around the Leicester University buildings as they have some really nice geometry and the building look fairly modern but aren't so new that they're just made out of glass and chrome. I noticed when printing this contact sheet that the scratches from the plastic plate that I used to keep the film flat whilst printing gave a nice worn look to the contact sheet. This is something I wanted to experiment with further and se what other effect I could create over the top of my contact sheets.

10) film shoot 2

I feel this shoot works better as a contact sheet that the previous ones as a lot of the shots look good at the same exposure. I like the big watermark which I believe happened as that area of the paper didn't get soaking in the developer as quickly as the rest. Like with the other contact sheet, I don't mind small 'errors' if they look nice. 

9) film shoot 1

I really like the images I got from this shoot. I much prefer film photography both when shooting and with the results I get. I think it works nicely as a contact sheet as most of the shots are exposed nicely, and go well together. I don't mind the white area of the second strip as partly why I like film photography is the small characteristics that give make it more of a human touch, as a pose to extremely clean and perfect.  

8) Paul Phung inspiration/research

Paul Phung 

Paul Phung is an artist I found through Flickr and has changed my view on black and white photography completely. A lot of the black and white photography I'd seen before was quite bad, there'd often be really deep blacks and really brights white and there were no mid tones. I also often felt people just turned there photo into black and white in the editing process just because the colours didn't match very well. I really like how Phung uses light and geometry in architecture to compliment the models in his shots. A lot of Phung's shots are very dramatic, minimalist and use a lot of hard lines to create impact. 

I love the way Phung has managed to turn what I believe to be part of a staircase from the previous shot and turn it into a more abstract shape. Due to the top of the image being completely white, it takes away the context of setting and allows it to be something complete different. As the concrete is the only subject, there's no scale to compare it to. If you don't think of it in a practical sense, i.e Phung wouldn't be able to take a photo of a large concrete maze, even if it was one, then it makes you think of it more fictionally. I personally think it would be cool if someone did illustrations of really small people walking along the top the concrete to turn it into a fictional landscape and show the large scale of it.

7) joiner contact sheet

I tried doing a shot like the ones i researched where they take multiple shots of an area to create one image in the contact sheet. 

I chose this green house as it had lots of straight lines so it would show the distortion and hopefully create a nice effect.

I think this one turned out slightly better as the multiple images adds more movement to the curve of the path.

6) River walk best shots

When editing these photos I wanted to make sure they were are on the darker, slightly moodier side of things as I felt that it compliment the tranquility of the river and just the general atmosphere of the setting.

This is my favourite shot from the shoot, I love the way the light from the sun is shining onto the subject. I like how you can still see the pathway of the bridge under the subjects hand as I feel it adds a lot of depth and shows the scale of the subject to the scenery.

I love the way the architecture flows round along with the meander of the river. I also feel the cyclist fits really nicely into the composition.