Level 5 photography
Portraits
Third shoot with 5x4 black and white film field camera


Third shoot me and Rachel borrowed a camera to take back to the student halls we both stay there and know people there to photograph and have confidence with and they more likely to be happy to be photographed, I know they know they not strangers but strangers to other students in the class and tutors don't know them. We set up the camera at the back of my flat where the smoking area is as I like the rough urban look for a background. When taking pictures of them there was no awkwardness and just get on with it, but was silly at first but would do because really confident with me and just want a laugh for a bit and then pull serious faces. Even though pulling strangers are more likely to hide emotion and the look of their faces can be manipulated as they won't know how to act around someone who they don't know and can be interesting in what the person emotion is portrayed in the picture when developed as it could show nervousness or impatience or on edge to leave as the waiting for camera to take picture could get person feel intense or agitated.

When developed the photos some have gone blurred or just overexposed or half the image is made on the negative which was very disapointing as we felt if we got these images done we be able to produce finals on 12x16 paper to produce 3 as we could use one of the first shoot for final and 2 from this shoot but wasn't the case and was just muddled on why it didn't work as we felt we done the set up right on aperature and shutter speed but think my negative which had half picture is because the dark slide, one thin black cover was not fully in right so light got to it.