City: Shoot and Final Prints

For my City shoot, i chose to use the city of Canterbury. Its a big student town, filled with lots of different people and interesting characters, so i thought that this would be the best place to get the street photography shots i was after. Armed with my 35mm slr, i took to the streets with it round my neck and a caple trigger in hand and began shooting. I shot 3 rolls of film, but for some reason, only one of them came out, the others came out completly blank.






I had set the shutter speed to 1/60th of a second, and the aperture wide open at f3.3. This was because it was a dark overcast day. Also, i felt that the bluring in the images would help to emphasize the fast pace of city life. Unfortunatly, this also meant that the fast majority of the images were just blurry and not really useable. Out of the images i managed to pick out 5 that i felt worked best.


As all of the images were taken with the same exposure settings, i tried to make prints using the same settings to keep them all looking the same. I found the perfect exposure time was 10 seconds, and to add some contrast, i split that 5 seconds on grade 2, and 5 seconds on grade 5.