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Reading Time: 2 minutes While I am busy archiving photos and generally sorting stuff out a little, I found these scans. Every year at High School we had a “Special Week” – with various activities. One year was a photography workshop where we took and developed out own films. …
Reading Time: 2 minutes This is a simple 110 cartridge film camera, designed by Schlagheck Schultes Design; like the rest of the range it is styled in black and silver and has the ubiquitous red sensor button for the shutter. The film is advanced by closing and opening the case after shooting. It has a 3 element resin Color Agnar Lens at 26mm with a fixed aperture of f/9.6. It has a socket for Magicube Flash Bulbs.
Reading Time: 4 minutes I have been going back a bit to get some more ‘blog style posts onto this site (something I originally aimed to do) – inspired in part by managing to edit a good selection of film scans which have been hanging about for ages, and …
Reading Time: 4 minutes And so, back again to the dreaded Lomography. It is funny how it always ends up there. One thing I will say is that the Lomography crowd have an almost insatiable desire for hacking things, making cameras do weird and wonderful effects and sometimes I …
Reading Time: 4 minutes Following on from my post on stand development in Rodinal a few days ago, this seems as good an opportunity as any to write about another film for which I used this process, along with some digital trickery to create some exciting hybrid images. The …
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sometimes I wonder about my sanity. A long time ago, I bought a random collection of old film from that den of iniquity that is Ebay. I think I was pulled in by the fact that it had a couple of 126 Cartridges, which are …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ever pushing the boundaries of odd techniques in kitchen development – I decided in the middle of a hectic and busy developing session recently to try something a bit odd. Cross processed, bleach bypass slide film. An experiment in blue Quite what led me to …
Reading Time: 4 minutes I was asked by work to attend a meeting in York the other day – so with my best bargaining head on I agreed to this if I could have the rest of the day off, as York in the run up to Christmas is …
Reading Time: 7 minutes Don’t worry, this isn’t an advert on finding a cheap ‘experience’ or anything like that (if you want that you can go here), it is about doing film macro photography with retro tools that you can often find very cheaply. I love finding interesting bits …
Reading Time: 3 minutes Kodak Ektachrome Professional Infrared EIR Film has become a bit of a holy grail for experimental photographers, and I have seen it command prices of over £100 on ebay. I was lucky enough to get hold of a roll in a mixed bundle of old films (along with 2 HIE Black and White infra-red rolls for about £14 – I guess the guy didn’t know what he had!).
EIR is a ‘false colour’ technical film, coated on an Estar base with a sensitivity from 380-900nm – this covers the full visible spectrum and some of the near-UV and all of the near-IR range. Near Infra-red wavelengths are rendered as a deep visible red, and due to the ‘Woods Effect’ (reflection of n-IR wavelengths from foliage) this means that foliage comes out in this colour creating strange and bizarre visual effects.
Reading Time: 6 minutes White balance refers to how your eyes identify colour in an image. What I aim to show in this tutorial is that sometimes, there is no ‘correct’ white balance, it is a matter of taste and creative vision. I am going to try and avoid …
