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.

5) River walk contacts

4) Corrah best shots

I love the angel of the staircase and the way it's spirals out of the shot, as well as the lighting coming down from the window creates a sort of a light at the end of the tunnel kinda feel.

I really liked the angle that this shot was taken in respect to the dimensions of the room. I think it creates a movement in the image as appose to it being a very still landscape shot. I cropped the photo fairly narrowly as there was a lot of dead space and I felt the shot was a lot more dramatic like this.

I really like the geometry of all the lines created by the architecture in this image.

This is definitely my favourite shot from this shoot. I really like the contrast between the shot and the hallway. I feel having my friend taking a photo of the deserted building adds a nice narrative.