"A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth." - Richard Avedon

Friday, 2 April 2010

Week 6 - Black and White film - Street Photography

For my final week of the blog I have decided to do a roll of 35mm black and white film. When I realised that I still had to do a week with film I thought long and hard about what I could do and what genre of images turn out better when on black and white film. I then decided that I would try something completely new to me, Street Photography. I have seen quite a few artists which are amazing street photographers which mostly focus on B&W photography. Out of all the colour street photography that I have seen there has only been a few artists which I have seen which achieve images which are as good or better than the artists in B&W.
I am going to be shooting my film in Truro where I live. I am going to track the journey which I take down to the city and then around the city. I am hoping that all my images come out correctly on the film so that I have more to choose from when selecting images to put on my blog. With the pictures which I choose for the blog I am hoping to tell a story of the place in which I live and the things which I see. When taking the images I will kep the quote "Make the familiar the unfamiliar" in my mind to help me to produce the best images that I can.

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