Catch up.

So I've missed the first week of this assignment due to a short break down south but I'm back and ready to see how this all works.
While I've been away I have been reading 'Michael Langford Basic Photography'. I was told by a tutor that chapter 10 would be a good aid to help my knowledge when shooting with the 5x4. Chapter 10 is based on 'Exposure Measurement'. Sounds quite simple I'm sure you're thinking but without the little digital light meter in the bottom of the viewfinder, you start to get a little panic on. The Book explains what differences your Fstop, Film Speer and Shutter Speed can potentially make to your final image. Although this was something I researched quite a while ago I thought it a good idea to give myself a re-fresh, just incas. I'd got a bit rusty

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The Camera its self was quite easy to work out once I'd got my head around the basic setting up procedure. Like a 35mm Camera it's Photograph at it's most basic. It doesn't have an options menu that takes years to work your way through. This leaves the creativity, beauty and potential mistakes up to the person taking the photographs.

So It was time for me to load up a Dark-slide and take it for a whirl. Here's my first Two Negatives (inverted in Photoshop)

It was raining pretty bad outside so my creativity was bound by the safety of the canopy of the College.

Before anyone comments, yes that Lamp post is bent and it's not my dodgy photography!! 

What did I learn from taking these Two photos? 5x4 Camera aren't an easy piece of kit to carry about. Although I do like how personal everything feels while the cloak is over you. It's just you and the little picture on the glass pane of glass.