So I've got a couple of new things from my Photography course to upload, the first of which being our Urban Environment project. For this we were required to simply go out into the 'urban environment' with a film camera and take some shots on black and white film, to be developed and presented by ourselves in college.
For this I decided to head down onto O'Connell Street (Limerick) bright-ish and early in the morning, set up the camera, and basically take periodic shots of the street view all day (using every half-hour as a very rough guide). By the time I went into college to get a film camera, however, they were all taken out so I had to venture out and find my own. Unfortunately I had no film camera in Limerick, but one of my friends up here had in his possession one of those little fish-eye cameras with the non-changeable settings. However I think these shots came out pretty well despite this, especially in how the circle of the fish-eye provides a bit of a voyeur feel. But anyways here they are, complete with lines from the scratched scanner glass:
Now, the last project we undertook; Portraits. For this project we each had to take a non-photographic portrait, in the rough age bracket of Albrecht Durer's self portraits up to Van Gogh's self protraits, and then using the studio lighting room next to our darkroom we had to construct a modern version of the portraits.
I chose Parmigianino's "Portrait of a Man Reading a Book" for mine;
... and this is my finished photo-portait:
