Darkroom

After using a print film SLR camera for the first time in years, it was time to print my own photos.
This would involve a darkroom. I got the negatives developed by one of my tutors and I was ready.
I was shown how to use an enlarger with the correct lenses to get the best out of my image; it took my a few trial and errors until I got a good image.

We were told about the paper we are using to print the image on, we learnt about light and time of exposure to the light. I had a few problems at first understanding and made plenty of mistakes exposing the images for to long a time in the light and having a black print when printed.

I found that my photos I took had good exposure and were really good images.

Here is one of the prints I created and scanned on to the computer.

Project

Ok then, the title of my work is Grid project.




My project is based around the area shown above. This square mile is E6 on a map of Brighton.

The task has been set, I must research this area, find out what is interesting and document my findings by using photography as my tool.
The first week, I have taken out a digital and a SLR camera and started taking photos of buildings and monuments that have interest to me in this area.


Here are a few photos that have been taken with the digital camera.









I will upload the rest and keep them in a folder using Photoshop as I go on.

The first Post

Ok,
This is my first Blog ever, its about time to, I have only really used MySpace to Blog before but that is a bit different I presume.

So what am I going to use this Blog for?

I want to use it to document my progression in the Photography work for my degree (media and communication studies) at the University of Brighton.

To start of, I have enjoyed taking photos for a long time, mostly of my biggest interest which is Cars, I have taken many photos of friends and family before with a lot of photos been taken all around the world during my travels.
I haven’t really had a chance to go in depth and understand photography more until now, so I am hoping this module in my course will help my progress to better level and understanding in the world of photography.

Sam

Below are some photos taken by myself in the past couple years...