By everything, I was initially thinking of the flora in the normally sunny county of Suffolk, which is both normally a sunny space but also 6 weeks late this year on account of abysmal weather. Weather that I made full advantage of in my 10 Minutes piece on gutter, grids and yellow lines. Today is […]
Rejuvenated photographer
The latest assignment at UCS has taken the shape of a competition entry. I decided to enter the Fuji-film student awards ‘The Colour of…’ and despite a slow start with having a week off from a bad attack of influenza I am now buzzing. 10 rolls of 120 Fuji 160NS/400H plus 6 5×4 160NS later, […]
Large Format Portra 400
I’ve been a bit tardy of late with many other tasks to undertake but here are two examples of Kodak Portra 400 shot on my Toyo View 45C. Obviously the reduction in file size will have compromised the copies here but the detail and visual data knocks the spots off digital (in my view). These […]
Polaroid large format film
A friend of mine got some refrigerated old Type53 Polaroid film for me yesterday. I’ve shot and shoot Polaroid flim on my medium format kit but this was poetic. Just why has this gone out of fashion? Given the continued production of both B&W and colour 5×4 film I cannot see why even the Impossible […]
Film Prices on the up (again)
Apparently Fuji are upping their film prices this month by 20% owing to a worldwide hike in the price of silver of 50% in the last year. Couple that with lower demand for film then I suppose it is to be expected. I had noticed that Kodak prices are already up. Still, a 5×4 negative […]
Film or Digital?
In the seemingly never ending march of increased mega-pixel sensors do we take time to step back and ask whether we really need them? I have shot 6x6cm through to 35mm to early digital 3.3 mega-pixel through to 8 mega-pixel Dx and 12 mega-pixel Fx and back to 35mm film, 6x6cm film and 5×4″ film. […]
Formats – what to use?
I shoot in a variety of formats from 35mm film through APS sized, Dx and Fx digital to 6x6cm and 5×4″ film. I found over the years that that my taking rate rate increased drammatically even by not using the burst rate. I realised that I could afford to chance it and not really ‘waste […]