Tag: Praktica TL-5B

Nuclear Implosion

Nuclear Implosion

Reading Time: 5 minutes There 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 

Image Rescue…

Image Rescue…

Reading Time: 6 minutes One 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 

Infra-Red – Part one.

Infra-Red – Part one.

Reading Time: 6 minutes I 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 

Black and White Gig Shots

Black and White Gig Shots

Reading Time: 2 minutes I’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 

Further Experiments with Film

Further Experiments with Film

Reading Time: 3 minutes I’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 

Charity Shop Goodness

Charity Shop Goodness

Reading Time: 3 minutes So, 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