Black and white photographs

For my cityscapes project I tried to replicate Ansel Adams work. I tried to replicate the composition of a Z layout where there is something in the background of the photograph, the front of the photograph and in the middle. This layout makes photographs more interesting and well composed. 

I took my skyline recreations around Bradford using a sekonic light meter.  

 The complete white images are very overexposed.  

Test strips how long they were exposed for and their photographs with a border. 

2-10 seconds

12-20 seconds 

 12-20 seconds

22-30 seconds 

2- 12 seconds

 14-20 seconds This test strip didn't go as planned as the timer ran different times for example I set the timer to run for 2 seconds but when I pressed it, it went on for longer somehow.

I think the border makes the photographs look even better and more professional. This was my first time using black and white film and I did find it rather interesting and it also made me appreciate photographers who use old fashioned cameras because there is only one shot they can take and it has to be perfect. I also appreciated modern day cameras because I rely so much on the playback button to see how my image turned out. 


These photographs also didn't go as planned as they were very over exposed.
These are the test sheets. As the image wasn't exposed properly on the test sheet I had to expose the image longer in hope that it would become a bit darker so the buildings would be visible. 

30 seconds 

62-70 seconds

The images are a bit scratched from the tongs when they were in the developer, fix and water but also fingerprints from when I picked them up after.

This photograph was exposed for 1 minute and 30 seconds and the contrast on the enlarger was on the maximum 170.

This photograph was exposed for 1 minute 34 seconds 

This image was exposed the longest for 2 minutes and 30 seconds.

I think the reason this photograph couldn't be exposed properly was because it was taken from the inside of a window and on such a high aperture.

Core project: Task 7 Presentation of how project went

Core project: Task 8 Exhibition Layout

Sorry for the bad quality pictures, they were taken on my phone.

The photographs on the top row and bottom row were printed at size 10 x 8 and the photographs in the middle column were printed at 12x8 at Max Spielmann in Bradford.  

I took these photographs trying to decide how the name tags for my food should be.

I really liked my tags above my photographs but they were more advertising than showing off my photographs.

 This is how I decided to have my name tags because it doesn't distract the eye away from the photographs.

On exhibition night: (better quality)

Some of my photographs printed a little blurry and that's because when I was resizing them in Photoshop I went back to the originals and printed them from that and for the others I didn't and that's a lesson learnt for the future.

As well as photographing being exhibited we had to produce another outcome. I decided to produce a cookery book with recipes and my pictures for the Food Academy and Flannels.

I am very pleased with the outcome of my book but the only thing I did wrong was I got the Food Academy's name wrong and wrote Flannels. The pages are matte and I had to add some extra pages as the recipes were quite long. I didn't have an order for my images because I was rushing to get it finished and shipped as soon as possible but looking back at the photographs now I should have made an order. 

Core project: Task 6 Final Images

 Food Academy - French

 Mamma Mia - Italian

Yo Sushi- Japanese