When will I be famous?
As I get older I am occasionally reminded that I am in fact, knocking on a bit. The trouble is, I don’t feel any older than I did in my mid thirties. A similar feeling pervades when I think of my standing as an artist/photographer. Am I well known, or still a small contributor whose work [...]
Categories: 1 Tags: 35mm, cameras, Darkroom, General, landscape, Large format, Medium Format, portrait, Street photography
Rip Curl Fisheye 2 Special Edition Camera
The Rip Curl Fisheye 2 Special Edition camera will produce breathtaking pictures in a unique 170-degree view. Using this camera, you can see the world in a nice, sharp, compact circle, dripping with punchy colours and great saturation and contrast, in one convenient 35mm print. This Fisheye 2 is ready to accompany you in all [...]
Long lasting
Have you amassed a large collection of negatives since you began photography? how about transparencies, prints, your camera collection? What is going to happen to all this stuff when you die? I have amassed a very large collection of all of the above, plus a collection of other photographers prints, glass negatives, books and ephemera. I have my [...]
Categories: 1 Tags: 35mm, Darkroom, General, Large format
Snow scenes again -the images.
I have been out on a number of occasions since writing the last post. Some of the films are processed, but not all. We have had days when I could get to my darkroom and lots of days when I could not. I have had to scan the negatives to show the results here, but [...]
Categories: 1 Tags: 35mm, cameras, Darkroom, Film., High contrast, landscape, processing, snow
Snow scenes again
It’s almost a year since I started this blog and one of the first articles I wrote was about shooting in the snow on Ortho film (See ‘High contrast snow scenes’, Feb ‘09). I also wrote another article on achieving higher contrast by altering the film ISO and increasing the development time (see ‘Flexible film’ [...]
Categories: 1 Tags: 35mm, abstract, Film., High contrast, landscape, Medium Format, processing, snow, Uncategorized
Night Photography
Although the weather is turning much colder now here in the UK, I really want to get out and do some more night photography. I’ve not done any serious night stuff for a while now and keep seeing shots while I’m driving or at other inconvenient times. I try to make a mental note of [...]
Categories: 1 Tags: 35mm, Fog, HP5, landscape, Long exposure, Medium Format, Mist, Night, Night Photography, Reciprocity, Tripod
Street Photography
Just over a week ago I found myself in the northern UK town of Bolton. I was there for two days with my university students who were doing a street photography project based on the ‘Worktown’ pictures of Humphrey Spender. Spender was part of a group of people who were involved in a mass observation project [...]
