PH2010 Mini Projects: Final 'Interiors' Shoot with use of 5x4" Walker Titan

5x4" Paper Negatives- During the last few weeks before the deadline for this assignment we were inducted into the 5x4" cameras and I utilised this format and applied it within the context of my interiors mini project. I chose to do this because I felt it was a format that would go beyond the capabilities of digital slr's in capturing a sense of the place and also when shooting with this camera I spent more time engaging with what I was photographing and precisely composing the scene, frame, angle, aperture, metering, etc etc until I was completely satisfied- it requires another level of engagement with the subject matter, this works well with the ideas I drew from Paolo Roversi as I tried to give a sense of the energy and environment of the place through the use of natural and artificial lighting within the pub interiors and how this affected the scenes.
At first I had technical issues when I first got out the 5x4" as my tripod wasn't sturdy enough to take the weight of the camera and I did not have a cable release at the time and so for the Guild Pub exposure the shakiness is evident. I then got out a tripod from stores and bought a cable release and tried again the results much better as evidenced in the Adelphi and Source images. Although with the first 3 source paper negs the top of the image was blurred as I hadn't lifted and titled correctly. Of the last exposures for Adelphi and Source I felt the Source images was the most successful image due to how the scene has a high tonal range and therefore this works well at displaying the social setting of this pub interior suggesting a relationship between the recreated outdoor scene, use of the overhead lighting which creates cloud like pattern/texture on the wooden floor, from the comfort of inside- a quintessentially British Ideal, and within a pub too! Were there more time I would have liked to try out both colour and black and white 5x4" sheet film and to have re-explored the Manchester pub interiors which I had highlighted within my analysis of the shoot.