Following my London shoots, I wanted to test an idea that had come up in a feedback crit that perhaps the imposing nature of the buildings that I had captured in London only had that atmosphere due to them being located within central London. I very much believed that the buildings had their own presence and form regardless of where they may be found. to test this I decided to do another shoot but this time in Cheltenham, a town very much different in vibe and tone from London.
For this shoot I decided to use a Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 6×9 rangefinder.
1952 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta with FOMA 100 Classic
The shoot went well as conditions out on the day were very good, clear and bright. I shot using an external light meter and used the uncoupled rangefinder built into the camera to set my focus. this worked well as my images came back decently exposed and very sharp.
These shots were ones that I felt had the atmosphere and form that I was looking for, with large facades that radiate out when lit in the way they were on the day, however there were some shots that came back and I had obviously not wound the film far enough on and this created some very interesting double exposures that have been dubbed the ‘Six by Question Mark’ negatives owing to their very large size, I estimate them to be on average around 6×14/16 in size. this would make them difficult to work with as they are not a standard sized negative. I scanned them in and this worked well enough to have digital copies of the images over properly darkroom made prints.
Taking into account my planned presentational style, I felt that these images would be very strong candidates to make the final cut, as their long lucid forms created some very unique atmosphere that would translate well to a large print.
with all the images scanned in, I edited them in a similar style to the rest of my images for this project, and ended up with very powerful images that fit in well with my project.
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