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After completing our film project, we learnt the process of developing. Firstly, you take the film that has been wound up into the darkroom, when you are inside in the complete dark, you open the film cassette and unwind the film. Then you wind the film onto the reel. All of this can only happen when you are inside the darkroom because of the film's light sensitivity. You place the reel into the film tank and close the lid, followed by turning on the red light (which can only happen at this stage in the process). You add the developer to the film tank and wait, then you pour out the developer out and you are left with the developed film.
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Anna Atkins was a botanist who used cyanotype method photography as a way of documenting her botanical work (in three volumes) and is often considered the first female photographer. Her interest in photography was based upon the fact that she could record everything she saw to reference, for other specialists and for the future which is why less than twenty copies of the book were made, it was specific to a certain set of people. The publication of British Algae was one of the first book publications using light sensitive materials. She wanted to become a better scientist and this way of documentation was much more reliable than having to sketch and draw out her findings.
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Experimenting with black and white film.We experimented with black and white film, and then made contact sheets of our final images in the dark room. This set of images were titled 'left behind'. I explored my local area and took photos of items that had been left behind, littered and abandoned on 35mm film. The images below are scans of my favourite ones, but I chose to present the images (with a few more favourites) in a simple collage way because I felt that it demonstrated the meaning of the images in the best way.
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