Exploration with Ilford (200 and 400 ISO) Film and Fuji Colour Film (200 ISO) – 35mm Film
Starting at the beginning of the photography project, I wanted to understand and explore the different types of film, exploring with the textures, tones and details each film can deliver for the final outcome and ideas for the type of portraits and photography I was really looking for (finding the correct inspiration and motivation to capture the characteristic of the subject through the subject within the photograph).
The first few steps of the progression was to understand the Ilford HP5 film (practice the film, seeing the limits and skills of my photography to the test – push and pulling experimental with the chemical ratio and camera ISO settings within this documentary, street-based portraits) and Fuji Film (colour) understanding not just using contrast, lighting and context to tell a narrative within the film but explore what colour photography within analogue can deliver as a characteristic and nature, similar to the style of Saul Leiter’s photography – One street and documentary photographer who explored early colour photography within the 1960s to 1970s, which seems more narratively beautiful and descriptive as imagery than Martin Parr’s overly saturated and over-used film techniques (crossing processing, which does seem good and skilful a few times but it feels like Martin Parr’s work does too many times, lack narrative and notion of photography throughout his photography).
Link to the Blog:
www.jameswaylingphotography.com/blogpage/exploration-of-film-with-street-photography-early-beginning