Sunday 29 March 2015

Own take on a 'Kodak Moment'

I've always enjoyed film over digital, to me it feels more photographical, it's better, it's real. I like the fact that you cant look back at the shots, the fact that you could or couldn't have got that shot the way you wanted or even at all. It holds a lot more emotion because it can either be happiness when you receive your negatives back and they came out as you remembered the moment or sadness that it was missed out and a moment you enjoyed and had hoped to have captured, has been lost in the realm of blank negatives. You find yourself being much more appreciative of everything, the moments captured, the shot itself because unlike digital you aren't just sat there clicking away until you've got a picture you're happy with. There is also the fact that it gives you a look and feel in which you can only edit with digital or which many app's on your smart phones try to achieve.
Below are some photographs shot on 35mm from my own personal hard drive.






Monday 16 March 2015

Other photograph platforms

As they own Instagram (If you didn't know now you do) it only feels right to talk about Facebook as a photographing platform as well. Facebook even before owning Instagram had a great photograoh section to start with, it had your automatic folders; profile pictures, cover photos, timeline photo's in which you can upload a photograph from your computer whether it be one of your own or a downloaded one and mobile uploads, in which you go onto the Facebook app on your smart phone and upload a photograph either from your gallery or take the photograph there and then and upload it. It also already had Instagram interlinked so when you post something via the app, with the click of a button it would also share it to your Facebook profile (buying Instagram just gave them more control and wealth). As well as all of this you can make your own folders so you can categorise your photographs when uploading them like your own personal album or pictures folder like on your very own desktop computer or laptop. There is even more, like on Instagram, you can tag people within the photographs that are your friends who are associated with the photograph they may be in it or they may understand the subject, as well as tagging them, it appears on their timelines in their 'tagged photos' section. This all just makes your profile more colourful and helps people get to know you, your friends and your interests and with the involvement of Instagram it helps even more. With all of these folders you can give privacy settings apart from cover photo's so you choose who see's them, whether it be everyone, friends of friends, just friends, select friends or just you and no one else.

Below is an example from my own profile with the folder I have.