If you've come here hoping to see a photograph of yourself, hold your horses! I used a film camera, the images are being developed and should be up here in the next 3-10 days (took a lot of photographs, I'd like to space them out a little) in the meantime have a gander at my new blog if you're so inclined.
The story: today, me and a creep I happen to associate with my good friend Govindi decided to do a photo-shoot in which we asked to take photographs of complete strangers, though she is not actually a photographer, she is very good at not feeling awkward when approaching strangers and asking to take their photographs. Unlike myself.
We went into WHSmiths and printed off 50 business cards with a bad clipart image of a camera, a link to this website, my name (Amy S-P, still feel uncomfortable about putting my full name on public sites and such) and the words student photographer.
We had business cards, we were legit, we just needed to pluck up the courage to ask someone, lucky for me Govindi has no shame and we were away snapping left right and centre. (in reality we wondered for ages looking at people and subtly nodding, I felt a bit like a serial killer picking out victims or something...)
The idea was really so I could get over my fear of taking photographs of people, but it's also an interesting social experiment.
I used a Nishika N8000 for some images, and an Olympus AF-10 for the vast majority of the photographs, and I used film because I forgot my DSLR, having to wait for film to be processed and not being able to review an image instantly, fills me with a strange sense of excitement.
On a slightly random note, I also bought "Hockney's Photographs" from the Oxfam bookshop, featured as a backdrop in the photo above.
:') You make me seem like such a creep.
ReplyDeleteAnd I particularly enjoyed the serial killer reference.
You are such a creep, and you know it.
DeleteI knew you would (creep)