The Concept

First studio photography project.

I was pretty keen on trying to use news papers as the background and light it somehow - but what the heck, I couldnt be arsed to.

Ok so this fine tuesday this week me and Matt had the studio booked for us for 3 hours from twelve to three, but having been out the night before I only managed to show up around half twelve just to find out that at that point Matt was still well asleep. There I was with all this studio gear half-way set up suffering from a terrible hangover. I think it was nearly 1 or something when Matt gives me a text saying he couldnt get up but he'll try and get to uni as soon as possible.
Anyway, finally when hes around I decide to turn the whole lighting plan upside down placing the flashes in random positions and not really even bothering to think about the ratios or anything - thats what you have digital cameras to preview with for - and simply gave him a 35mm black and white neg to play around with. NO CONCEPT.

Speaking of concepts. Why the hell do we have to think about something as irrelevant as a concept is when youre doing your very first project and just trying to manage to work out how everything works. Even loading a 120mm film to the film back of the Hasselblad 501CM
took me ~5 minutes. There was a problem I never knew the cause of: the camera wouldnt always let me wind the film after exposing the previous one without putting the darkslide back in, taking the back off, wind the mechanism a couple of times and put the back to its place again. I asked the technician but he never said anything really.

Back to the photos. Im pretty pleased with them, somehow the lights worked really well and the negs came out nicely too - no fingerprints from the loading room or anything! I made some resin paper prints and ended up making 6 matt fibe paper prints for the critique tomorrow morning. Two of the print couldve been better though, I had some issues with dust on the negs I couldnt get rid of, I got frustrated after washing the other one of the frames 3 times and it still wouldnt be clean enough so I just made up my mind to try and spend the coming weekend spotting the two prints before submitting them next week. Thumbs up!