Up Down All Around

I've been in uni all day doing 'Up Down All Around', the colour project, and it went quite well for once. I haven't managed to do the contact print yet but I've printed six pictures. The brief said at least 5, but I wasn't too happy with the way the fifth came out and ran out of negatives that weren't underexposed, because I'd done half the film with candlelight and half with a lamp. The candlelight ones came out with a red cast, and the lamp ones with a yellow one. I thought the yellow ones looked nicer and had more contrasted negatives, so would be easier to print good pictures from. I did a sixth one so I had a couple to choose from.

The first and last are the ones I'm not sure about...


Here is where I'm up to with my 'Portraits', black and white project:

I'm only happy with a few of these too, but we've been given an extra day of printing later in the week, so I'm going to redo some of them.
The above three are fine, the one below has a 'splodge' on the right hand side which I'll need to remove, but I'm happy with it other than that.
I'm going to try this one on a lower filter, because compared to the others it's a lot more contrasted.


And the skin tone in the next one is a lot darker than the others, so I'll also have to sort this out.

I'm going with the theme of 'photographing a conversation'. They knew I was there and taking photographs of them, which would make them pose even if they were trying to act natural. When a camera is placed in front of a person, their reactions will change. I didn't want to put them in any particular pose, I wanted their personality to come across as they talked amongst themselves. But this summons the question; would the images be much different if I had been hidden from the subjects, and they hadn't been aware of my presence?

If you compare these to the examples in my past blog 'R.I.P. Loreal Contour Resist', they haven't turned out quite as exaggerated. Even so, I like the outcome, and prefer these to the original straight-forward prints.