24) Regular film shoot

I did a shoot with the same camera in the same location with regular, unmodified colour film to compare to my boiled film shoot

I really like this image as it shows how even though it's a natural landscape, it's still very man made as the trees are in rows creating a path through the middle.

I find these images of the frozen lake very relaxing. I especially like the composition of the top one and I really like the darker areas in the corners of the pond, I feel it gives the image more depth.

I really like the top image with all the dark areas as it makes the viewer look into it more and use other areas of the image to interpret it, it adds a bit of mystery and uncertainty to the image which is what I want from my images, I don't want it to be 'given on a plate', I want the viewer to look at it for a while and think about the image rather than just glance at it and think, "oh yeah that's a nice landscape" and move on.  

The bottom image out of these two is definitely my favorite out of thew shoot. I was using a 50mm lens as that's the best one I had for landscapes, but as it has a fixed focal point it's better for portraits and singling out a subject in a area. I was able to take advantage of this and get a really nice shot with a great depth of field. I really like the clean organic film feel created with the out of focus area of this image.

23 Matthew Cetta film chemistry

Matthew Cetta has done a ton of experimenting with different liquid substances to see the different effects that you can create from damaging the film. He goes from everyday household items that we consume or use, to much harsher, more dangerous chemicals. Matthew also uses cheap 'toy' cameras often with plastic lenses to accentuate the effects.

Drano

Febreeze

Ginger Juice

This is probably one of the most unique images out of the series due to the edges looking like they've been melted into. My guess is that the ginger juice completely washed off all the emulsion from that those areas of the film.

Olive Brine

22) Boiled film shots

I am really pleased with the outcome of this shoot; the boiling water managed to distort the colours of the photos and add some nice shapes over the top, as well as being able to still see a lot of the scenery.

I don't particularly like the light pinks and purples with the green of the trees and plants but I find it more interesting of an image than if it wasn't there. Yet again, that is part of the fun with film and destructive film photography is that you're never sure what outcome you're going to get, the more I experiment the more I can narrow down what works best, but I still don't have 100% control over it, which I like as it encourages me to do more shoots.

 The top image out of these two is probably my favorite from the shoot as it is the most abstract. I love the warm blues and purples that the boiling water has created. I know as the photographer, that it's a shot of a river and all the light dots on the left is the light from the sun reflecting off the water.

I love the shapes created in the top image. They have a very toxic feel to them whit the big blops and lots of speckles.

21) Putting Film in Boiling Water (Preperation)

After really liking the images from my lomo shoot, I wanted to experiment further into messing around with the colours and textures of the images. Dustin Adams stated that he'd boiled his film in some of the shots on his Flickr. I looked further into boiling film and how to do it. Some people said to  unravel the film first to help it soak all of the film and others said that it's fine to just keep it in the canister, so I tried both. My lack of experience with film let me down here as I was unaware that even in the darkroom the film gets ruined die to it being exposed to light, so the unrelieved film was ruined and next time I'm going to use a black box. 

20) Photoshop film effects

Following on from editing my phone photos to make them look like they've been shot on film, I decided trying to re-create those effects with some of my dslr shots.

I think this is my best edit as

I created the light leak effect by using the brush tool with the hardness on 0%. After creating the light leak I changed the blend mode to screen to make it translucent. To make the shot look less clean and crisp I went to 'filter' > 'noise' > 'add noise' to add noise to the shot. I made it monochromatic as I didn't want to add any extra colours. I also tried to re create a scratched lens look. I did this by using a really small brush, drawing scratch marks and lowering the opacity of the layer down to 5%.

I think this is the best light leak I manged to create but I still think the image is too clean for it to look like it's been shot on film. 

With this edit I tried to get that cloudy white wash you can sometimes see with film photography. I also used multiple layers with the brush tool to get different colours into the light leak.

19) HTC M8 + fisheye attatchment + Snapseed app editing

I don't usually like smartphone cameras as I find they're trying to be really good but they're no where near any dslr standard so I don't see much point, especially seeing as you're paying around £600+ over two years and I bough an entry level canon dslr for £300. The strong points for them are that they're apart of your phone so theoretically you have it with you all the time, I bought a fisheye attachment for my phone because I find fisheyes as a bit of a novelty and camera phones also, so I thought they'd work well together. After taking these photos I looked through them and decided to edit them using an app on my phone rather than in Photoshop to keep the mobile theme running and to see how close I could get the photos to look like they're taken on film.

In this edit first I changed the image to black and white and adjusted the exposure and contrast to get a mix a dark to medium greys and not having any really dark blacks. I left the sky a little overexposed as I felt that it fitted well with the theme of film photography and light leaks. I added a little bit of noise to help it look more like a film photo then a super clean crisp digital one. Finally I experimented with the tilt shift effect to blur out some areas of the image and I think it's very subtle and works well.

The large amount of scratches on top of the image adds a lot of texture to the shot. It makes the path look really overgrown, which from the previous shot you can tell is quite clear. I really like the colours with this effect as well. The dark purples really compliment the cloud off yellows.

I really like the perspective in this image; the fish-eye bevel helps emphasis the steepness of the cliff.

I really like this shot as it shows the capabilities of the a fish-eye lens. I'm taking a photo almost directly down towards the ground yet you can still see the sky. Obviously there is an enormous amount of lens distortion, but like I said previously, phone cameras are a bit of a novelty, and 'quality' of the image doesn't matter too much. I like the fact that you can get some much scenery into one shot just by using a fisheye attachment, that only cost around £5. The light leaks effect on this image is similar to some of the image from my lomo (INSETR CAMERA NAME) shoot.

After looking back on this image I think I would lower the mucky scratched lens affect. I find it too 'in your face' and I think it'd look better when it's overlaid lightly and sits just on top of the image.

This is one of my favourites. Although the light leek at the top wouldn't happen like that as it's a fisheye shot, I think that gives almost hints that this wasn't taken on film which could be quite interesting. Most people at first glance would think this was taken on film but then other people will notice the light leak and it being a fisheye lens and realise it was edited onto the photo. It almost splits the group of viewers into 2, meaning they'll have different interpretations of it.

I wanted to see if I could make any photo look good by just using these effects. I just decided to take a photo of the computers next to me as the subject didn't really matter and to give myself a bit of a challenge. Taking photos of the sea or a flower is, generally more ascetically pleasing to people. I find taking photos of other things can be more challenging an lot more interesting to view and make sense of. 

18) Disposable Shoot 002 (St.Ives, Cornwall)