The first 8 images, displayed above, are all shot on film. I chose to follow this as the focus of my project as it is a medium that I feel is very important to me. In the above photos I tried to get a variety of the different looks one can achieve using the medium, using a multitude of different subjects and settings for each photo. This is one part of my hobby: the creation of art.
Given the medium, the largest challenge in creating this collection was the cleaning up of the image. I often in my own work leave the dust and scratches as an aesthetic choice, but as the project dictated that we had to clean the photos up, I had to sit down and teach myself a new process to get the photos coming out as clean as possible.
The second half of the images as displayed above are all taken digitally, to display the second part of my hobby in film: collecting the gear. The items displayed above are the tools by which I made the art in the first 8 pictures, and I think that is a story in and of itself. A major part of learning film is learning the process, and understanding one’s equipment and appreciating the process at every level is critical to the medium. While the first half of the collection is concerned with what is created, the second half is focused on how. As the tools and the art cannot really be separated from one another. The medium is in and of itself a critical part of the creative process and the story and feelings evoked therein.