It's these kinds of details which leap out at me - I don't know how long this sign has been there, but it exudes character... Taken on Ilford HP5+ in November 2006.
A candid portrait of DJ 'P-Funk' in November 2006. The shot was taken using available light (small DJ lamp) on Ilford Delta 3200 film.
If anyone would like to have me work on a particular photographic assignment, please let me know via the Contact Form. So far, I have carried out a single assignment for a friend (portraits of their pet greyhound) which has been very well received (there's no point in spouting a load of BS at this point, I'd only get found out).
Since my experience is low, so the prices are too - I'm pretty much doing this to build a portfolio. Heck, if the assignment is interesting enough I may even do it for nothing... or at least just for expenses.
So. The Ixus. Fantastic, so I got another one - and so far it hasn't been stolen. Unfortunately, the APS film format now seems to be dying out - it never did kill off 35mm with it's user-convenience being outweighed by the smaller negative and more costly processing.
Of course 35mm (the 135 format) didn't kill off roll film - 120 film, with its 6cm square negatives is still very much alive and kicking about 100 years after its introduction. Reckon we'll still be using Compact Flash in 2094?
Submitted by namcom on Fri, 28/09/2007 - 15:03.This photography lark might be getting a bit more serious... I've just joined York Photographic Society, enrolled on an evening class ('The Art of Photography'), and subscribed to Black and White Photography magazine.
Here's looking to better pics!
Submitted by namcom on Fri, 21/09/2007 - 18:13.
This was getting on for 6pm in York on Friday - concerned customers all over the UK withdrew over 1 billion UKP from Northern Rock amid concerns for some of its investments. Of course, taking away 1bn pounds is going to make it much more stable now, isn't it?
Yashica FX3, Agfa APX400, Rodinal 1+25 10 minutes
My first camera was a Kodak Instamatic 177X which I was given for a present (Christmas I think) when I was something like 9 years old. This was a fixed-focus camera with 'cloudy' and 'sunny' settings, and using 126 cartridge film. If it was too dark, extra light could be supplied by 'magicubes' - little plastic items containing four flash bulbs. The pictures (when they'd been developed and you'd got them back from Boots) were square which, looking back at them, seems a bit odd.
An early success for my experimentation with cyanotypes. The original was created on Crimson and Black Watercolour paper from a digital negative (original negative was from my Lubitel 166B medium-format camera).
A long and convoluted path to a final image, but there you go. Cyanotypes definitely have a look of their own...
One of my early black and whites - taken with a toy camera on Ilford HP5+
A recent press release from Ilford gives film users reassurance in film's future - a renaissance even: THE FUTURE OF FILM (14th May 2007).
Submitted by namcom on Tue, 15/05/2007 - 10:11.
