Cram- week 2

This week in cram, i enjoyed the most!

 Not only we got shown how professional  photographs work on developing their films but also we really worked on our camera skills and photography skills!

However unfortunately i had to leave for the second part of the lesson  because i had to attend my GCSE drama course at the junction.

However for the first part of my lesson was enjoyable because we got to develop our films, this was on the cameras which we had taken photos in groups before, We had to use black bags instead of the dark room because it was much easier!

We got told on how to use the black bags and had to use our hands to guess were everything was. A black bag is when there are only to wholes for you hands which go in and you have to feel your way through, you put in your film and you put in your films and some scissors ,which you will need to use when you r are cutting the film,and you had to take the film out of its case cut the unnecessary bits of , which is why you need the scissors, and put the films in the developing box.All this had to be done in the black bag because even if a speck of light was hit on the films it would totally ruin our films which would ruin our photos so you had to do this with precision and focus.In the bag you will need : film reel, film container, and scissors for cutting the film from the film spool.

I did this successfully then handed it over to my partner to develop the film and use the guide sheet which showed us the different steps in developing our films.
step 1- Prepare the chemicals which you need.

step 2- Be sure that the temperature of the chemicals is the same as the water your are pouring in the container, you can do this by using the and cold water and getting it into room temperature (28 degrees roughly) and you can use a thermometer for this.

step3- Start a timer so that you can me as accurate as possible for the best results


step 4-Put the chemicals in and every minute give the chemicals and film a little shake and a tap, do this for 7 Min's.

step5- Once you have done this rinse out the film and add some fix and keep on rinsing till all the chemicals are out.

Things you need ot develop a film.

final step- take your film out and you should be able to see the negatives of your film, however some of our exposures were to much and so some of our negatives were either to white or to dark.
We then hanged them up to dry, after that working in the same pairs we chose on object and our object was a clock went around parkside school and took different pictures with the clock being somewhere in the pictures, sometimes in was in the background sometimes we had things leading up to the clock for instance a white parking line.
We then went back and uploaded the pictures onto the laptop and saved and deleted the ones we wanted/or didn't need.

We could of have improved on our lighting and leading on lines and perhaps our rule of 3rds, however in the end we developed our films by working together and took some fantastic pictures!
Looking forward to next lesson!