My Shoot at Central Station.
Well I did my shoot at Central and all went well, at first. The actual shoot and the help from Merseyrail was great. Escorted down to the Northern Line platform, set up no problem. Angles, composition, metering, all looked good. It is at this point when you do get the strangest events though and something I am sure many photographers will have come across. A, shall I say, reasonably old gentleman, was coming down the escalators and commented "don't you need permission to take pictures here?" Too which, of course, I replied I have. "Not from me you haven't."
Anyway, I transgress, back to the important bit. Shoot, as I said went well. Took a number of frames, waiting til
l the opportune moments, when a train had decamped. Few at 3 second exposure at f16 and a few at 6 second exposure at f22and I was using a neutral density filter, ND4. Now being my usual over excited self I then thanked all concerned and rushed off to develop the film at College, could not wait to see the results.
Now it is at this point that I feel I have to mention this is my first real attempt at shooting film. From conception, to taking the image, to developing and printing. On the film I also had some other images I had already taken, practicing slow shutter speed for movement. So, off I rush and into the processing room. I know in my mind what I have to do. Feed the film onto the spiral and put it in the tank. Simple, you would think. No, there was I in the pitch blackfumbling around and messing up. Would the film go on the spiral properly? No. I tried again and again in the dark and eventually thought I had managed it. Into the tank it goes and finally I can put the lights on. Fill the tank with developer, agitate for the first minute, then again five times every minute after. Temperature was a bit high so rather than the full ten minutes it was only nine and then in with the water to stop the developing. Still, at this point eager to see the results it was
then in with the fixer, agitate again then leave for another ten minutes. Time goes by slowly when excitedly waiting, I know, I know, but I was like a kid with a new toy.
Disaster though. All done I take out the negatives and they are ruined. I did not have a clue what I had done wrong. Rushing off to Steve. our lecturer on film, he tells me. When feeding the roll on to the spiral it had not gone as should. Rather than feeding on with a slight gap, as in spiraling, the film was touching itself. The developer could not get in and around and hence did not develop properly. Out of something like sixteen frames, it looked like I maybe able to salvage two. However, even those, when printed are not perfect.
The concept turned out okay and the movement, especially at 3 seconds is really good. but because of the developing problems, I feel I have not nailed the shots as I should. So re-shoot is called for. Scanned and posted on here so you can at least see what I was looking to achieve. Would be interesting to know peoples opinion in relation to the original inspiration of Titarenko and his work.
Anyway, I transgress, back to the important bit. Shoot, as I said went well. Took a number of frames, waiting til
l the opportune moments, when a train had decamped. Few at 3 second exposure at f16 and a few at 6 second exposure at f22and I was using a neutral density filter, ND4. Now being my usual over excited self I then thanked all concerned and rushed off to develop the film at College, could not wait to see the results.Now it is at this point that I feel I have to mention this is my first real attempt at shooting film. From conception, to taking the image, to developing and printing. On the film I also had some other images I had already taken, practicing slow shutter speed for movement. So, off I rush and into the processing room. I know in my mind what I have to do. Feed the film onto the spiral and put it in the tank. Simple, you would think. No, there was I in the pitch blackfumbling around and messing up. Would the film go on the spiral properly? No. I tried again and again in the dark and eventually thought I had managed it. Into the tank it goes and finally I can put the lights on. Fill the tank with developer, agitate for the first minute, then again five times every minute after. Temperature was a bit high so rather than the full ten minutes it was only nine and then in with the water to stop the developing. Still, at this point eager to see the results it was
then in with the fixer, agitate again then leave for another ten minutes. Time goes by slowly when excitedly waiting, I know, I know, but I was like a kid with a new toy.Disaster though. All done I take out the negatives and they are ruined. I did not have a clue what I had done wrong. Rushing off to Steve. our lecturer on film, he tells me. When feeding the roll on to the spiral it had not gone as should. Rather than feeding on with a slight gap, as in spiraling, the film was touching itself. The developer could not get in and around and hence did not develop properly. Out of something like sixteen frames, it looked like I maybe able to salvage two. However, even those, when printed are not perfect.
The concept turned out okay and the movement, especially at 3 seconds is really good. but because of the developing problems, I feel I have not nailed the shots as I should. So re-shoot is called for. Scanned and posted on here so you can at least see what I was looking to achieve. Would be interesting to know peoples opinion in relation to the original inspiration of Titarenko and his work.
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