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Started back at college yesterday, spent the whole day in the darkroom processing a roll of medium format and developing some images from when I went to Hartshill Hayes during the break.


Here are a couple of scanned images which I've developed:


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Second shoot

I woke up quite late on Tuesday, expecting the weather to be dismal like the past few days and thinking I'd have a nice day slobbing around doing nothing. However, my mum had other ideas and talked me and my sister to go out photographing again while the weather was decent.

Despite the sun, it was still fairly cold and after the last shoot, Emily was adamant that we wouldn't go anywhere until she'd got some tights. 

The somewhat 10 minutes we were in Asda looking for tights, the weather had gone from being beautifully sunny to being so dull that it was like someone had turned off the happiness in the world.

So; armed with two cameras, a tripod, 2 rolls of film, a pair of tights and my mum in the back of the car (she became my pack mule for the day) we head off to Bentley Woods in Atherstone.

It rained a fair bit on the way, but had cleared up by the time we'd got to the woods so we started shooting.

Here's a picture of me wrestling with the Halina A1 medium format camera.

(Picture taken by my pack mule).

We weren't there an awful long time because the cold got to all three of us and it started raining again, but here are a couple of snaps I've messed about with slightly.


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A few examples and complaints about the weather.

Following on from the previous post; we didn't actually make it to Coombe Abbey. Instead, my sister and I drove around Nuneaton looking for suitable wood areas and ended up in Hartshill Hayes (never been before - lovely place!)


It was fine all day while we were looking for somewhere to shoot - nice and overcast, no harsh sunlight but no rain - until we were about 2 minutes away from Hartshill and the clouds began falling. 
The rain didn't last long though so we headed in to the woods and began shooting.

This is one image which pretty much sums up the day. Walking across fallen trees. I was nice enough to let Emily wear her coat for most of the day as it was no warmer than 10.C and all she had on was a knee-length dress!

I also ran off a roll of medium format film on my Halina A1 after fixing it (using the word "fixing" lightly as I think it's unfixable) and these are 2 separate exposures which I scanned in on a normal document scanner.




I'm hoping to get out again as soon as possible, but the weather is abysmal lately!

First shoot!

So today, I woke up early (around 9:45am - that's early for me!) so that my sister and I can pop in to town and go to a few charity shops to see if we can pick up a few outfits/dresses before we go to Coombe Abbey to start the first shoot!
I must admit I'm quite nervous because these will be first response images and the majority of ideas that I come up with only really hit me when I'm actually shooting - so anything could happen!
Also, considering that it's the first day of the Easter holiday and it's fairly sunny today, I am dreading the thought of a million-and-one kids running around the woods in the background...


And I've just checked the weather: it's meant to rain today. Argh!