1. What
No
Lens

2. Inspiration
Shomei Tomatsu:
• Born on 16 January 1930 and who died 7 January
2013
• Everything was moving: Photography for the 60’s
and 70’s at the Barbican
• ‘...was perhaps the most influential Japanese
photographer of the postwar era. His raw, grainy
and impressionistic style signalled a dramatic
break with the quiet formalism that defined
earlier Japanese photography

5. • ‘The intentional blur and high contrast heighten
the sense of energy...’

6. Others factors
• Time
• Boundaries
• What I enjoy
• Risk

12. Challenges
Composition
Light

14. ‘Shutter’ speeds at ISO 100 (I used
400)
• 2-3 seconds
• 3-4 seconds
• 10 minutes

16. Project 1
Aim
• To create raw and grainy impressionistic
images
• Atmosphere
Opportunity (seizing the moment)
• Snow helped me mask time
• Hand held
• Improvised to take steadier shots

23. Project 2
Aim
• Clearer images (tripod)
• Local period architecture
• Impression taken in another time

32. Cropped to remove signs of 20 /
th
21st Century influence

37. Unaltered

40. Spontaneous experimentation

41. creas

45. Cost
First film ‘Metro Imaging’ in Clerkenwell:
• Better quality scan but...
Process film £13.80
Scanning £18.00
Will do both for £20 but required separate processed
first time to ensure film could be scanned
Films 2 & 3 ‘Peak Imaging’
• Images lighter but...
Processed and scanned £6.65(excludes P&P)