I have made series of photographs based mainly on Cecil Beaton, using a medium format camera and film, as opposed to a large format camera. I have also taken colour digital photographs to go with the black-and-white film pictures and back them up. I think this project has gone really well, especially since I had to take the photos, develop and edit them in two weeks. The images themselves have turned out better than I expected. The first shoot I did I lost most of the images, but the second one was much better, and I didn't loose a single one. Overall, there is only about 3 photos not in focus, including on the film that got caught in the first photo session.
I'm happy with how the images have turned out - even though they don't all work together, they are all pretty good images in themselves. Of the 3 film images I've chosen to use, all are very different, but very similar. They are the same size and shape and hats and flowers feature prominently. Although I didn't mention flowers in my initial proposal, it seemed natural for me to include hair-pieces generally.
I did struggle a bit with the dark room - I don't think I developed of the negatives correctly, part of one is mostly black but still usable. The grey-scale varies between the pictures, and image that went wrong the first time I developed it, is much darker on re-doing due to (I think) using fresh chemicals or leaving in the developer for the correct time.
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