Final Evaluation

Throughout this project I aimed to capture the essence of movement through the use of both digital and conventional photography. The way in which I captured and displayed the movement which I captured for the digital part of this project was to create a flip book. To do this I used the continuous shutter setting on my camera to capture a large number of photographs of things as they moved. This proved to be a fantastic way to capture these images as when the flip books were put together, they run nice and smoothly and work well as flip books. I am happy with the way this part of my project turned out. In addition to this, I also had to capture movement through the use of conventional photography which included the use of film cameras. While doing this project, this was the first time I had ever used film a film camera and at first I found it slightly frustrating that I could not view the image once I had taken it as I have got so used to with the use of digital camera with full colour displays which I am used to dealing with. As I was using film cameras as part of this project, this meant that I had to develop my prints in the dark room. As it was my first time with a film camera, it was also my first time within the dark room and although I found it slightly tricky to get the hang of at first, I really enjoyed my experience in the dark room. By doing this project I have learnt a lot of new skills and techniques, one of which being how ISO, apertures and shutter speeds work together in order to control the amount of light which is let into the camera. Another thing which I learnt through this project is how to use a conventional camera and how to develop prints in a darkroom as I did not previously know how to do this. One way in which I could have organised my time better throughout this project would be to upload each of tasks to my blog as I complete them rather than all in one go at the end of the project as if I fall behind slightly with the write ups for the project, this process proves lengthy. My favourite part of this project was working within the dark room as this was a new experience for me. I really enjoyed experimenting with different length exposures and then watching my image appear in front of my eyes as I developed it. That said, I did have a couple of problems at the beginning of my darkroom experience. This was only due to not exposing the photosensitive paper to the light image projected from the enlarger for a long enough period of time. This was soon rectified so it did not prove to be a massive problem.