...a plethora of creative nonsense...
Reading Time: 2 minutesI have quite a thing for Ilford XP-2 film. For those who don’t know this is a C41 (i.e. the colour process) film, designed to be printed as black and white – aimed at those who want monochrome images without black and white processing. However, …
Reading Time: 5 minutesThere has been a bit of a buzz recently about this new film produced by Adox. This promises ‘Imploding Colours, Bursting Reds and Toxic Grain’. I have read that it was in fact a dud batch with one of the layers incorrectly coats. It is …
Reading Time: 6 minutesOne of the benefits of shooting black and white film, is its latitude, the range of contrast it can reproduce. I am not going to go into great detail about this here, as for the purposes of this tutorial it is not necessary, read up …
Reading Time: 6 minutesI have been waiting all year for these… Last year, I bought a couple of rolls of Rollei IR400 from AG Photographic, having read a bit about the crazy effects of infra-red photography. Shooting Infra-red Sadly this does not let you see through people’s clothes as some …
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve used monochrome conversions for gig shots on a couple of occasions, often when the lights are poor, as it can give a moody and timless effect, like an old black and white zine. Ilford produce a black and white film – Delta 3200, which …
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve just got the second film back from expreiments with the new practika camera. Again, I am blown away by how these look, the feel of them is very different from digital and far more forgiving of exposure. The first set here are from an …
Reading Time: 3 minutesSo, it’s happened. As you will know, avid reader, after getting very interested in photography alongside my undergraduate dissertation, I bought myself a DSLR about 18 months ago. I remember as a teenager also being quite into photography and admiring my neighbour and scout leader …