pictures
Well, I suppose I set myself up for this one (Read my previous rant here).
Even though I have been singularly scathing about the level of pictures that I have seen in photographic exhibitions presented at our camera club (York Photographic Society), I must admit that I cannot level the same complaint at the club competitions themselves - the judges have not always scored the interesting photos particularly well, preferring safety over great art.
Submitted by namcom on Thu, 14/02/2008 - 09:58.
I know that this is getting a little repetitive, but I am still enjoying the whole Large-Format-Photography experience - this is my favourite recent pic, this time scanned from a contact-print, so it has a bit more punch. Unfortunately my jpeg-editing has darkened it a little too much, but hey - the web isn't a medium for high art!
Submitted by namcom on Fri, 08/02/2008 - 11:19.
I have just seen the first of my photos in print - I did a set of photos for an old friend who needed a new mugshot for the column he writes for Pro Sound News Europe - check Page 4.
My first photographic credit!
Submitted by namcom on Mon, 28/01/2008 - 10:26.
I did another batch of contact prints from my set of Large Format (LF) negatives last night, mainly because I wanted to do a reasonable set of prints of the 'family portraits' I did of my sister and her family before they emigrated to Australia. The plan is to get a set of decent prints and send them off to their new address.
Submitted by namcom on Wed, 23/01/2008 - 11:12.
Ok, so anyone who has read any of my recent posts will have noticed that I recently got a Large Format (LF) camera. What's LF then? Well, basically it's a film camera Format where the negative is Large.
:-)
Submitted by namcom on Wed, 16/01/2008 - 12:07.
On Wednesday, I received the film holders for my MPP Micro Technical camera, this finally freed me up to take some pictures (having had the camera and film since before Christmas!).
Submitted by namcom on Fri, 11/01/2008 - 10:53.
I've just come back from my local camera club ('York photographic society') where we had an 'exhibition' - actually a couple of CD-roms of prizewinning entries to a couple of competitions. The first was the FIAP: " FIAP 23rd Colour Slide Biennial 2004". Now, Ok, this is a few years old now but I thought it might be interesting.
Wrong.
Submitted by namcom on Wed, 09/01/2008 - 23:51.
I now have some filmholders (double-darkslides) to go with my recently-purchased MPP Micro-Technical camera. I bought the camera at a camera fair just before Christmas and spent a few contented hours getting the shutter up to scratch and making a temporary ground-glass screen.
Submitted by namcom on Wed, 09/01/2008 - 12:24.
I probably have too many cameras. There, I've said it. I cannot possibly use all of them all of the time, but I do use all of them some of the time.
Submitted by namcom on Sun, 23/12/2007 - 12:04.
I've started selling up some of my accumulated clutter in order to buy some stuff I actually want. My list (currently) is:
- Fender Jazzmaster guitar
- Ebow
- Some form of digital SLR
- A decent photo printer (A3+)
Of course, this is all going to take some time, and may require the shedding of a lot of stuff...
Submitted by namcom on Tue, 30/10/2007 - 22:13.
