Waterfall Country
On the weekend I managed to get out of the house and visit Waterafll Country, an area in the Brecon Beacons well known for it's massive beautiful waterfalls, fast flowing rivers and rocky surroundings.
I have recently decided to shoot almost exclusively in b&w for a while to try and get into the b&w mindset; it was pointed out on phototakers that I might be just taking colour photos in b&w instead of looking for proper opportunities to take advantage of my chosen medium.
This mindset was not very easy to keep while photographing waterfalls, it seems pretty hard to take a shot in b&w that wouldn't also work in colour, however, I feel that the b&w has helped to attract the viewer towards the water and textures of the rocks (my main subjects). If left in colour I feel that your attention would be dragged towards the large chunks of green that are the trees and grass in the foreground and background rather than the almost colourless water and rocks.
When I got home I realised that I had made a very silly mistake with both of the rolls of Pan F+ that I had shot. I had the meter set to 125asa instead of 50asa, this was due to the fact that I had been shooting FP4+ previously. Due to this I had essentially underexposed both rolls by a stop and a third, to recover the rolls I had to push the development a little. I looked up the film and developer on the massive development chart (a great website for finding out development times for different films/developer combinations). The negatives have turned out a little thin but I was pretty happy with the results I managed to get.
I have recently decided to shoot almost exclusively in b&w for a while to try and get into the b&w mindset; it was pointed out on phototakers that I might be just taking colour photos in b&w instead of looking for proper opportunities to take advantage of my chosen medium.
This mindset was not very easy to keep while photographing waterfalls, it seems pretty hard to take a shot in b&w that wouldn't also work in colour, however, I feel that the b&w has helped to attract the viewer towards the water and textures of the rocks (my main subjects). If left in colour I feel that your attention would be dragged towards the large chunks of green that are the trees and grass in the foreground and background rather than the almost colourless water and rocks.
When I got home I realised that I had made a very silly mistake with both of the rolls of Pan F+ that I had shot. I had the meter set to 125asa instead of 50asa, this was due to the fact that I had been shooting FP4+ previously. Due to this I had essentially underexposed both rolls by a stop and a third, to recover the rolls I had to push the development a little. I looked up the film and developer on the massive development chart (a great website for finding out development times for different films/developer combinations). The negatives have turned out a little thin but I was pretty happy with the results I managed to get.
posted by Rhys at 9:31 AM
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