#practice based research

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Still working through the backlogs

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What is your methodology?

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Methodologies in Practice

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My first successful (but 3rd attempt!) venture into film photography (1)

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My first successful (but 3rd attempt!) venture into film photography (2)

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3rd attempt

It worked!

I think I hadn’t pushed the bottom compression button properly last time and that’s why the film might have snapped.. Either way I’m just relieved that my camera actually works, and I can finally experiment with it!

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2nd attempt- more lost photographs

So after finding out I had probably not loaded the first roll properly, with help, it was loaded properly- and this happened! I took it with me to Sheffield on the weekend because I thought it’d be interesting to photograph an unfamiliar place, luckily I took digital versions alongside as I planned on comparing them.

I wound it back exactly as it says in the manual, so again I have no idea what could have gone wrong, but I’m determined to get this right!

I’m going to give it one last go before borrowing a friends film camera to experiment with as at least we know that one works!

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Results of trying out cyanotypes myself! (Using ‘Sunography’ paper)

I used one of my own photos and inverted it and adjusted the contrast and brightness accordingly to achieve a good distinction between light and dark. I then printed this on to acetate (resulting in a kind of negative). (2)

I waited for the sun- cyanotypes are a type of photogram and expose to UV light, and placed the acetate on top of the ‘Sunography’ paper and waited 12 minutes before removing it. (3)

By rinsing the paper, all of the bits behind the darker parts of the acetate become ‘white’- as light was unable to get through, and the blue and darker parts are the lighter parts of the acetate.

I’m really surprised with the detail in the shapes, especially the boats! I wasn’t expecting it to look as sharp as it does- but I’ve learnt from last time not to move the object (or acetate) at all after placing it down! I hadn’t tried this method with acetate before but I’ll definitely be trying it again!