Yesterday, I got my images back from a drum and bass rave that i attended. I had brought my camera with the intention of taking shots inspired by the work of Ellie Rousseau’s garms and sets. My intentions were to capture photographs of the rave community and capture the scene and environment through fashion and a mixture of portraits. I’m pleased with the outcome of these images but the scanning process was very different to how i had scanned my 35mm images in the past. Previously I had been using the photography unit’s scanner to scan through my colour negatives but they expressed that the system is more used to black and white negatives rather then colour negatives, resulting in my images to look faded and not pick up much colour. I decided that i should experiment with getting the images scanned at colour stream, which i was not disappointed by. Moving forwards in my final major project, I think it would be interesting to get my research project photographs rescanned but professionally as i believe that the images could look so different and perhaps show a different tone to the image. i’d like to also continue with the rave photography as i believe that the images are getting more stronger the more i continue with it. As for my end result, I hope to create something that features lots of photography together as a collective.
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