The technicians at LCC started giving workshops. This part of my course is the one I am looking forward doing.
The first workshop was about film processing and the making of negatives. We can use a big machine to process our colours film that takes about 10 minutes. Love it!
For black and white processing, we can use the traditional method, the same I use at home. The great thing at LCC is that there is a drying cabinet (I hang my negatives in the shower at home and it takes forever). The chemistry is provided by Uni.

I approached this assignment without stressing too much. I just wanted to go out and enjoy taking photos in the streets with my two film cameras.

I went straight to Portobello on Saturday, shot two rolls of films and developed the same evening at home. I had not a particular idea about what to shoot, but walking and seeking for some in the street.

When I developed my films, I realised that my eye captured people faces close to faces in ads.

So I came back to Portobello the next morning with a clear idea of what I wanted to shoot.






The two images are not related to each other. In the first, I tried to create a narrative image, with Tatcher's and Queen's masks in the foreground, the Portobello sign and the flag.
In the second, I find interesting the portrait of a man close to the young face in the ad.
I think, as for every assignment, I get many ideas to develop in the future, if only I had time to develop now!


TECHNICALITIES
-The first development went wrong. I developed a 100 ISO film with 400 ISO times. I must be very careful next time.
-Also, I should buy a proper film can opener instead of using tweezers. I shut my fingers inside the pop up changing bag and I did not know if there was blood. Splatter negative development.