I
don't know about you, but I find it difficult to get back into the
swing of things after a break. I find it hard to get my brain out
of park. It would seem that the longer I get in the tooth the more
likely I am to make the silliest of mistakes. Take earlier in the
year for instance.
One
Sunday afternoon we thought we would take a trip out to the Humber
bridge. The day had turned very warm with a light breeze and rolling
clouds. Ideal for making pictures. Earlier that day I had cleaned my
SQAi and loaded up all my film backs with fresh film. Not unusual in
it's self, except one of the backs was loaded with an out of date
colour film. I placed this back on the camera and thought no more
about it.
It
was a great day to walk across the bridge and along the way I made
pictures of whatever took my eyes fancy, happy in the knowledge that
they would make good mono-prints. After making twelve pictures I
changed the film backs with one loaded with FP4+ and continued on my
merry way.
When
unloading the film backs at home I discovered that the unmarked back
had colour film in it and not the Foma 100 I thought I was using. Ah!
How would these pictures work in colour? The reason I ask this is
because I think and see differently when using black and white film.
Or do I?
An
unexpected chance to test what I have been saying and doing. When the
pictures came back from the lab, the first thing I noticed was the
way they had been composed. In fact the colour does not add anything
to some of the pictures. I would not have made any of these pictures
in this way had I known it was colour film. It would have been a
different set of pictures altogether.
