Pattern, line and shape

Karl Hugo Schmolz

Christian Staub

Here are 2 photographers who work in black and white, and also use lots of shape in their images!

Lajos Keresztes

some more inspiration with patterns!


Lajos Keresztes!

Signals of imagination

I really like this image i came across it looking through the Tashen book "20th century photography"

Something cheaper?

I then thought that working on my holga for this project would be out of my price range because of the cost of both film and development! i went on to ebay and managed to pick up an old film slr a Canon600 howver when the camera arrived it came with no manual and i seem un able to find much on the internet about this camera, not only this but the seller promised to send me a battery and did'nt so i had to order from and ebay seller in europe just to get the battery! when i began to scroll the internet i couldnt seem to find anything about how to work this camera and since film wise i am not familiar with to many film camera's other than a pentax k1000 and a praktica LTL3 i couldnt really figure this one out myself! i tryed to experiment with it however the film came out blank so either the camera is broken or i did something very wrong... i have left this camera to sit on my shelf until i can figure it out!

Experimenting with double exposures!

I also experimented with double exposures! whislt taking the images i thought about mixing 2 themes in particular life and death.. however it was something i didnt want to continue with as i wasnt sure how i could carry on mixing these two things without the project perhaps becoming a little to morbid and as it was a summer project i felt it should have a had a little but more of a happy summery theme! here are some of the double exposures i shot!

 I think this image is my favorite it is more not winding on the film enough than a double exposure but i like it a lot!

Mixing life and death (flowers and a skull)

Not a double expoure but another image shot at the same time that i like!

Idea 1

I began to shoot on film as this is something i dont do very often! i brought myself a holga (only had a small budget over summer) and shot a colour and black and white roll of film, i didnt have much of an idea it was mainly shooting a bit of everything just to get me used to shooting film, here are some of the things i shot! these images where shot whilst visiting my mums house over the summer-

(The old pig shed)This one reminded me of an old Horror film really liked this one!

Looking at them together! Not very different at all!

Shot on my phone using the "hipstamatic app"

Shot using black and white film on my holga camera

Experimenting with different formats

I also began just to mess around to look at my phone camera and different app's avaliable, by no means am i saying this is photography i just wanted to look at the comparision and how it can scarily be almost matched with modern technology!

 Visiting my mum shot at the same time as the holga images!

River :)

Looking at these images i think it is almost hard to tell the difference between what was shot on a holga and what was shot on my phone! Perhaps the only clear visual differnce is that the images shot on my phone are much crisper and less grainy, but the grain is what i love about holga's so there is no way a mobile phone could replace my trusty piece of plastic! for this project because it is over summer my budget is only going to be very small so far getting 2 rolls of film developed and buying the film it has cost me over £20 so if i am going to continue to shoot on a holga im going to have to get myself a job...