1st Shoot Results
At the weekend I followed through with my shoot plan that I had written. As I had expected it was too rough for the models to be able to surf, so instead they decided to go spearfishing. This limited the kind of photographs that I could take but I went out nonetheless. It was relatively rough and generally the weather was not very good so I used the ISO 400 film which would allow me to use a faster shutter speed to try and overcome some of the movement of the waves. Only having 3 different shutter speeds on the camera meant that it was a challenge in some of the rougher conditions and meant that I was nervous about capturing movement but it worked relatively well.
Out of 24 exposures that were meant to be on the roll of film I managed to get 26 images with one that was lost due to me making a mistake loading the film at the start. As this was my first time using the camera I did not expect the result to be spectacular and when I got the images back there were pretty much what I expected. They were not bad images but many of them had water spots on the lens that I did not think about, and although they are well exposed the lack of any direct sunlight does detract from the images a little.
The completely grey sky does fit well to help show how cold it was on that day, it makes the images feel very cold and chilly as it was that day. The high winds that day coupled with the cold sea temperatures made it very hard to take photographs, we could only stay in the water for about an hour and three quarters due to this and the tide so the area that we were in was limited and meant that It was difficult for me to take a range of different photos of different scenes. The contact sheet above shows 12 of the photos that came out from the shoot, they all have a similar range of relatively dull colours, the rocks did a fantastic job of breaking apart the monotony of the sky and giving the images some more interest. Although lacking in artistic merit the shoot did give me some ideas for where I could explore next. Water. Some of the images that I have taken, although the intended subject is uninteresting, have some very nice images of the water. Capturing the reflection of the rocks and the small, choppy waves gave some very interesting textures to the images. This is definitely something that I will continue looking at.
In addition to using film I also used my digital camera to take photos of the two of them as they were getting ready in the carpark above the beach and of them walking down. These images are interesting but they are still lacking in artistic merit and although they do show a progression of the guys getting ready leading up to the other photographs many of them are uninteresting from a photographic perspective even if humorous. They are insider photographs because the pair are known to me quite well, because of this the images have more of a connection to me than they would if I did not know the two. Some of them are shown in the gallery below.
