coloured film

Shooting coloured film.

For this project as i had decided i just wanted to capture images of everyday places or objects on our streets here in the north east/Hartlepool i chose to work with coloured film on my 35mm camera. I chose to do this because coloured film is something i have wanted to work with for a long time. As i went to shoot some rough areas of hartlepool and the nearby colliery village of Blackhall i felt the retro kind of effect coloured film photography gives would work well with the dated shops and buildings i was photographing.

As i have never worked with colour film and therefore not worked in the coloured dark room i got my film developed at asda. I got 6x4 prints with my film and the images put onto a cd. Getting small 6x4 prints was really helpful to me as it aloud me to lay out my images in front of me and see which ones worked well together as a set. It also meant i was able to see straight away the quality of the images when printed.