Re-Frame Project Day 4

28th September 2023

I enjoyed today. We developed our film photographs. It was a good experience learning about the exposure unit and how to test the time needed to get the right exposure, and how to enlarge the image.

Follow the instructions on the cards, and fingers crossed it should all work.

Test Sheets – you have a piece of card that you move along the test strip at second intervals, then you count the number of sections along to give yourself the correct exposure. I love this because you are in control of the feel of the image, making it softer or sharper. I often thought developing film was shrouded in lots of mystery and difficult. It isn’t, but because of how my brain learns things, I will possibly need my hand held a few times before I feel brave enough to go it alone.

I loved this image, and I would have liked it to have been the one the rest of the team chose to be enlarged and put on the wall as our final image. It hasn’t been.

I really feel like I’ve stepped back into some dystopian novel the way the tracks appear from nowhere and go nowhere. The train is just abandoned on the beach.

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