Narrative photography: Black and white film processing

Black and white film processing

We used a film camera and processed the images in the dark room. 

The process which we went through is in my sketch book. 

This was a test to see how much light we needed to expose onto our photographs before developing them to make them at the correct brightness, which wasn't too light or too dark. 

In the end we decided expose the light for 15 seconds as 5 seconds made it too light and 20 seconds made it too dark. 

In our group we made a photographic print of one story each. 

Here is my story of the theme climbing up a tree.

I thought the whole project of narrative photograph was interesting and I also enjoyed myself working in groups. I am pleased with my final series of photos which is the story of me climbing up a tree and I think that they look like they have been taken many years ago. In addition to this they also remind me of the black and white story boards which I researched by Duane Michals. I didn't find anything in particular difficult and I found the process and experience of the film processing fun and I would consider doing it again with different themed images.