Photo labs prices/printing

Research on Photo labs prices/printing.

My idea is to print my final image at the size of A0. This image with be a collage of my corner shops as i have 75 final images but don't have the space to display all of these photographs, and also the price of printing is quite a high factor to take in to consideration. I have combined my 16 images to produce my final piece of work along side a book which I am producing so I can use the whole of these series of images as they work along side each other. I have done some research on what I want and I am aiming to also look into having a very high standard of photo quality, I am also going to look into having my final image printed on a textured matt paper to bring the image alive. I spoke to martyn before I decided to collaborate these 16 images together were we discussed printing and suggested Paul graham's 

Printing Labs/Prices.

Metro Print 

Metro-printing.co.uk

Ao

Matt

£63.00

DSCL

DScolourlabs.co.uk

A0 

satin 

£49.99

The print space

theprintspace.co.uk

A0 

C-type Matt

£54.56

Blackburn college reprographics

A0

Matt

£11

Professional photo prints

professionalphotoprints.co.uk

A0 

Matt

Rectangle large format print

£32.00

Paul Grahams 

A0 

Textured matt

£50

Developing My Idea's.

Developing My Idea's

These are my Idea's for my starting point for my final major project. These are idea's such as the things i'm aiming to photograph and also the structure of the images and also the way in which I am aiming to capture the images. I made this mind map to help me concentrate and keep Idea's forming for my final major project. 

I formed this mind map to help me plan out the area's I am going to photograph around the Blackburn area, I will be adding more area's to this mind map as i go along to show the area's I visited to captured  photographs of street names and local Corner shops.

The mind map below shows all the street names i will be aiming to capture to produce my series of street name photographs. I have used a large range of street names which are in all different parts of Blackburn such as areas like, the town center, roe lee, revidge and many more.

These on the below mind map are the goods that a traditional corner shop would of traded to the locals of the area. These have changed over the years, but some have stayed the same.
This list helps me gather information about these goods so i can compared the change in the goods which, are sold now to the ones that was sold as some of these are still sold in our local corner shops today.

Experimenting With Angles

Experimenting with angles ''Bulls Head''

1)

2)

Evaluation.

When planning to go and photograph this pun ''the bulls head'' i had planned to concentrate on the angles and the lines which make up the photograph in which i did and you can see in these photographs.

As you can see i decided to capture this photograph central with the main door. There are many shapes within this one building some being triangle, rectangle circle windows and many others. In photograph number two i think it is alot better composition and i thought it out alot more thoroughly this is shown from the angle which is just of center to the bridge i did this to make sure i captured and filled the frame fully and to the best of my ability.

This image is made up of many shapes/lines which are shown through the yellow lines on the road shapes within the iron work on the railway bridge and also within the building itself the use of black and white within photograph number two shows greater characteristics and somehow makes it have an age about this image in my opinion this bottom photograph works better than my original image. 

John Londei Research.

John Londei 

''His Words''

This project shot over a fifteen year period as my photographic tribute to an era that is fast disappearing all the photographs were captured on a 10 x 8 plate camera.

It began in the 1970's when i came across an old chemist shop near to my first studio in leather lane, there were something about the shop that fascinated me. It was more than a shop it was a place were people went for advice for there aliments were the owner had time for the customers as a photographer i just had to capture it on film i knew its days were numbered in all there is 60 shops each one is unique and each has its own field speculation. The range is from diverse from flowers to condoms from ballet shoes and to umbrella's aswell as london shops the scence covers many parts of the country from the isle of harris to the isle of wite customers were never included. just as important as the shopkeepers.

they were integrate to the photographs and as such i approached the project as a portrait to these people running the shop meant so much more than a business some how it felt as if they turned the premisies into living in titles and them self

 were cherished and long serving memebers of the community. And how proud they were to still be serving it. I was constantly surprised at the coporation they gave me dispite the time taken with setting up, composing and lighting. I cant tell you how many times i have had to wait patiently for customers to leave or the number of blown fuses due to antiquate  electrical system.

I think the timing was spot on visually the shops were at there peak they had a faded beauty a pertain the only the passing years could bestow and like there shops the owners were mostly elderly way past retirement i admired there stubborn refusal to submit to the relentless march of time. In the end for so many of the traditional small shopkeepers represented had, it would be ill health that brought down the shutters on there cherished shops forever.


Corner Shop 1982, 78 Chapel Green Road, Hindley Wigan Lancashire.
''This Shop Doesn't Need A Need.''

 

Chemist 1973, Morrisons Chemist 101 Leather Lane London ECI
''We  Took A Load Off The Doctor''

Barber, 1981 High Street Prestwood Great Missenden Buckinghamshire
''I Guess I'm Part Of The Scenery'' 

FishMonger, 1984, Geo Tallet & Son 22 Broadway market, Hackney London E2 
''Soon as they throw us out, we're finished''

Butcher, 1978 Fred Butler & Sons 2 Fagley Terraced, Bradford Yorkshire.
''Now and then it feels as though its all been a bloody waste of time.''   

Green Grocer 1983, C.Powell 15 Brockley Rise Forest Hill London SE 23 
'' Keeping Us honest and growing up strong.''

Jewish Deli, 1983, Rog's 137 Cannon Street London E1 

''I've done a double life sentence.'' 

John Londei Evaluation.

When you look closely in to Londei's work, you can automatically see he captured all the images on film, ''10x8'' plated camera which has gave each individual photograph a vignetted effect around the corners some being more defined than others.
John Londei when photographing must of built up a relationship with all these shop owners which has helped contribute to these photographs composition. I like how he has not just captured the outsides of each shops, but ventured into the shops and captured them working and it all shows how traditional shops would of looked and functioned. 
You can see that each of these photographs which John Londei has captured has great composition and can speak a million words, which help to bring photographs like these come alive. He hasn't just focused on the type of local shop he has took all different types of local shops into consideration such as barbers, butchers, fishmongers, and many more. I have chose to use these 7 photographs which i photo copied out of the book shutters down as these are the main ones that stood out from the rest and have a very traditional look to them.
This is a great series of photographs that John Londei captured over the fifteen year period. and still play a major part in the way today's corner shops are run in Blackburn.

Pablo Picasso's Researc

Pablo Picasso Research. 

I have researched and looked closely into Pablo Picasso's cubism paintings

as the cubist paintings are made up of broken objects and shapes which resemble in

an abstract form highlighting the defined shapes, Picasso was also known for his 

collage-like effects which made one painting. I am working very closely with angles within this project which is why I have been inspired and looked closely into Picasso's cubism paintings as you can see with the work there are lines and angles in which i aim to look closely into within this project. 

Pablo Picasso's Cubism 

'Still Life with mandolin and Guitar', 1924 (oil on canvas)
(1881-1973)

Weeping Woman', 1937 (oil on canvas)

This is another example of a cubism painting, this isn't Pablo Picasso's work.

I have researched and looked closely in Picasso's cubism paintings as the cubist paintings are made up of broken objects/shapes resembling in an abstracted form, highlighting the defined shapes, Picasso was also known for his collage-like effects which made one painting. I am working very closely with angles within this project which is why I have been inspired and looked closely into Picasso's art forms. As you can see work there made up of lines and angles in which I aim to work closely along side within this project.

All these three images i have chose are made up if angles/shapes/line. 

Which I am working with when capturing my corner shops as how all the different shapes on the buildings make up my one photograph.

Discussion on traditional corner shops.

Screen Shot's From Discussions.

Below there is 4 screen shots were I had joined groups such as Blackburn past and history of Blackburn on a Facebook page which is where people can discuss all about the history of Blackburn. I put on a question which was "I'm just wondering if anyone can help me, i'm studying photography and i'm doing my final major assignment at Blackburn college, i'm documenting corner shops and how they are thriving in Blackburn and id like to know other people's opinions on how they have changed over the years? this would be a great help thank you", With this i got a great response from many people of the generation were they had lived through have a corner shop etc these are the screen shots of which i have written out each response underneath.

History of Blackburn Lancashire.

This screen shot is of the page History of Blackburn where my responses wasn't as good as the other pages i had posted this on as there was only one useful comment placed on this i have used this as evidence of what a corner shop was like in the past.

Blackburn Past

The screen shots below show a post which I posted on the Facebook page Blackburn Past on facebook which is another history page within Facebook, i got a great response from this group as you can see in the screen shots below i have also copied these out too as it is all evidence of what a traditional corner shop looked like.

What people's opinions are on traditional corner shops.

Judith Addison.

" I've always lived in Oswaldtwistle. There were alot of corner shops when i was a child in the 1950's, mostly grocers, There main advantage was that you ordered your bread there everyday from Monday to Saturday. It would usually be a child of the family to went to the loaves up and ordered for the next day. Corner shops were also known for the "Penny box" from which children bought sweets for example penny arrow bars, with there spending money. Their were alot of other kinds of shops on the street corners in particular chip shops. Most shopping was done locally on a daily basis at corner shops or shops on the main road of your local town, especially the co-op. On a Saturday afternoon the shops in the small towns were closed you went down to Accrington market on on the bus. Milk was delivered daily by the milkman who might of been a local farmer or it might have been from a local dairy like white-well dairies most household didn't have a fridge most people had a daily paper delivered from the local newsagents now most of the corner shops are converted into houses".   

Lee A Gosling.

My great aunt had a corner shop in Blackburn, she invented penny lolly's i think, 

I am pretty sure she was still receiving royalties up to her death years ago because Walls bought the idea. 

Carol Osman

My Nan had a grocery shop on the corner of wimberly street, there seemed to be a shop on most corners then, she sold all of the usual things, there was a tin with a glass top that had broken biscuit's in and we was allowed to have 2 bits each "wow we thought we was so lucky" and if i helped her serve a customer then i was allowed a whole one. It is a shame that all the houses and the shops have all gone and new houses built in their place. A lot of changes have been made to Blackburn and some not for the better, so that is what i think.

Anne Holding.

Our local co-op had a long wooden counter. Butter was cut and weighed on the scales, Bacon was sliced while you was there. Biscuits were in a wooden case with a glass front and you could choose a few of each as you wanted, dog biscuits were in a big sack and was picked out with a big scoop and weighed for you "NO SELF SERVICE" you made your shopping list before you went and handed to the shop keeper and she would reach down what you wanted we also had a green grocer with a horse called (dobbin) and cart that came round door to door he had fish on the back which he headed and tailed for you and threw the fish heads to the local cats who waited at various points down the road. It wad a treat to give dobbin a carrot. Cake shops had the cakes on glass cake stands in the window.

Francis Buckle.

The corner shops as my generation new 72 years are in a different time warp now...maybe chip shops, hairdressers (unisex) even cafe's and a whole range of different variety of things now to try and tempt us all in. Mostly grocers and green grocers, wool shop,iron monger, mostly the everyday essentials which was needed and could afford and if you had little money the grocer would put you items on the tick ie: you payed at the end of the week (payday) we had no credit cards in those day nor cheque books... all we had was cash that's why you kept the same grocer... i have owned hairdressers in the past and that is the only way some people could manage to get their hair done these days Tesco's etc have in store salons these days, i now live in Leyland (but most of my life has been in Blackburn) and we had a lot of of corner shops...butchers,barbers,mobile phone specialist and we have now got a corner shop that's an old fashioned ale house, we even have an old fashioned toffee shop but the big boys are the grocers. 

This is a photograph which Francis Buckle emailed me and sent information about.

" These where the posh shops in Blackburn her parents would use these on a Saturday maybe if they had a bit of money.






Jayne Vernon.

It used to be safe to send a young child to the corner shops and they new who you were so you couldn't get away with anything in the days of people having newspapers delivered to them it kept the shops in touch with the local community. Now there aren't so many and it ain't so safe and they seem less personal. 

Angela Mason.

Wish life could go back to those lovely times, I'm only 51 so although i remember the corner shops they were already changing as i grew up. However things are different now. No personal services, no one has a time for a chat, supermarkets are too busy, hate the even more shopping trolleys that go around the supermarkets, "how unsociable is that when people won't even go to the supermarkets but sends a worker around to shop for them!!! We have a local corner shop up until last year when it was sold to a new owner he used to drop all the old folks heavy items off or if they couldn't get there due to ill health he would drop there shopping off until they were better.

An out line of what a traditional corner shop was and the goods it supplied based on the opinions on the Facebook groups.

This is my overall evaluation on traditional corner shops, I have gathered this information to give me a bigger insight of what a local traditional corner shop would of operated like.

All these opinions are off local Blackburn people and the surrounding area. These opinions are of a generation that grew up through the times when corner shops were thriving, traditional style shops. There opinions are of how the shop operated I.E, the way the shop keeper would serve you. This entailed you giving the keeper your shopping list and he would gather together the goods you needed, Also most goods were behind the counter and was supplied to you fresh unlike today's modern packaged goods.

The way the shop traditionally looked compared with today eg, traditional big wooden windows which allowed the goods to be displayed. They also told there opinions of how the traditional corner shop was the main hub of the community eg, the shop was not just a business it was your neighbor and everybody new each other. Other opinions are of how you can have goods on credit "TICK" which they would collect there goods daily but pay on their pay day of that week. This is a proven traditional way of surviving for the traditional families of that era compared to the modern day as credit has changed as now we have credit cards, and other methods of credit. Another opinion is the way the traditional shop sold their goods they did this by selling there goods in small quantities eg, selling single biscuits to the local children compared to the modern day were they would only be sold in a packet with a minimum quantities in the packet and also meats such as bacon was freshly sliced and other foods were wrapped in paper.  

Corner Shop Contact sheets.

Contact Sheets.

These Contact sheets are of all the corner shops i have photographed around the Blackburn areas some of these areas are, Shadsworth Estate, Whitebirk Estate, Intack Area, Wensley Fold,Witton Area, Roe Lee, Blackburn Town center, Bank Top, Griffin, Mill Hill. I have spent many weeks on photographing corner shops in all the area's of Blackburn to show how they are thriving in today's life. There are many shops which have closed down within Blackburn but the ones that are still open out weigh the closed down ones.

Contact Sheet Corner Shops.

The first shop on the top line is the first corner shop image I captured and the one that inspired me to further this project into my fmp. 
The composition and the angles within the corner shop images I have captured are the corner shop defined.
The area's I have photographed for these contact sheets are the Intack area, Johnston Street Area and the Shadsworth Area. I captured these images at 5am to get the best result.
I have also experimented with the ratio's 1.1.5

Contact Sheet Corner Shops.

There is a range of areas within these two contact sheets areas such as Wensley fold, Redlam, Little Harwood, Witton and Mill Hill. 
I chose to document how corner shops are still thriving within the Blackburn community. I have used different angles to capture my images from the risks i had was the busy roads i was photographing and also the lighting i had to plan my area's i was going to photograph, as the lighting was a big factor.