27th September 2023

The weather forecast is a bit grim and today is the photograph your object in a completely different location to where it would normally be day. In view of the forecast one of the year one students took the train home yesterday and took it to the seafront with her family. She managed to get some photos using her own DSLR and large format film camera with the sunset in the background.

Start of the day and we had instruction on how to use film cameras that our tutor had requested from the Photography department. This is the first time I’ve ever really used a film camera since I got my first digital camera. Even then, I only ever really used the point and shoot and take your film to Jessops or Boots to get it developed. Anyway, digressing!

Myself and the other first year took the cardboard train down to Uphill Beach, trying to beat the weather to get some photos. We were quite lucky in sourcing a good location, as the previous weekend had been the beach races so we had mounds of sand to use. Because of the wind we had a few problems in getting it to stand up, so we used the sand to support the back a little bit. The effect of this was that it made the train look like it was coming out of the sand.

When we finished trying different angles to get the images we wanted, we then went back to Uni to develop the film.

This part of the day was the most interesting for me as I love photography and have never really been involved in the developing of my own film. Actually winding the film on the spool in the dark was quite a challenge.

Whilst we were waiting for the negatives to dry, I used the time to develop the images I’d taken with my DSLR camera on photoshop. The brief was black and white so really it was just sharpening the clarity, cropping and changing from a colour image. I could have set my camera to shoot in black and white – but honestly I can’t always remember when I’m on the spot which function menu is which.

Looking forward to tomorrow developing the images.