Cyanotype processing

The cyanotype process was one of the first non-silver technologies used to create photographic images. Originated in the 1840's, it was not utilized in mainstream photography and was adopted as a copying technique, becoming known by the term "blueprint", with its blue background reproductions of large architectural and mechanical drawings.

http://www.alternativephotography.com/wp/processes/cyanotype/cyanotype-classic-process

Salt printing

Morning all! I watched a tutorial this morning on how to make your own photosensitve paper using natural salt, silver nitrate. See this link to view video

My 35mm film STREET PHOTOGRAPHY

Today I hit the streets of St Helens....oh whats sights!

I loaded my old Canon EOS 500 with a black and white 400iso film and mooched around inconspicuously.

Most of the images captured were taken at the hip so I could catch the people of St Helens off guard. My camera setting was on a 1/125 TV (time value) and the aperture (f stop) was either set at 4.5 or 5.6 with the lens wide open, set at 35mm.

It only took me half an hour to use the film up so I headied straight back to the darkroom to follow the below process 
loading a 35mm film into a developing tank

I then processed my negs click on this to see a similar process
My chemicals were ready mixed so I needed 300ml for each spool. In my tank was 2 so obviously I need 600ml of each chemical.
Dev process was 20 min, Stop process was 1 min and Fix was for 6 mins. I then rinsed for twenty minutes in water at a temp of 22c,
Last but not least I hung and dried out in the neg dryer for 20 mins.

I was so pleased with the results, I have attached below a contact sheet of my negatives for you to assess!

My contact sheet was made via photoshop cs4 using the app contactsheetII

I loaded my negs onto the comp via neg scanner

Garry Winogrand 35mm Film Photography

Garry Winogrand

 (14 January 1928, New York City – 19 March 1984, Tijuana, Mexico) 

Im in LOVE with his work!

Garry Winogrand shot with a 28mm lens for most of his life, which meant that for the majority of his shots he had to be quite close to his subjects (and in front of them). Therefore Winogrand wasn’t Henri Cartier-Bresson (trying to be invisible) but was actively a part of the action and immersed in the crowds. He would be very obviously taking photographs in the streets and would stick out like a sore thumb.

Here are a few of my favourite images 

Street Photography: NYC Above and Below

Our group presentation

Our group presentation

As promised, here is the link for the presentation I did with a few other students, as quoted in my earlier blog, we discussed the composition of each chosen photograph, including juxtaposition, ambiguity, leading lines and angles.

Take a look x

Composition presentation

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0ByO-swIa1GhEcjRxbmpFY19XRVE