Help me fill this bag!!!
Yes, I really do need your help to fill this bag, or maybe not fill it!!! Allow me to explain…….. In a little over seven weeks we’ll be boarding a flight on the start of a month long vacation that will take us back to the UK for the first time in several years. The first stage of that journey …
Gaining in Confidence – Part Two
Well here we go with part two of this particular post. I’m actually quite excited to be showing my first images with the 60mm Konica Hexanon f/1.2, having resisted the urge to rush in and post up early examples I took my time and got to know the lens a little better before showing any results. What I know so …
The Allure of other Formats.
My introduction to film came through 35mm and in particular the Yashica Electro 35 GSN at the same time that cemented my love of rangefinders which in turn lead me to Leica. Although I did dabble a little with MF when I acquired the Yashica Mat 124G and Voigtlander BESSA I at the time I thought of them as a …
Gaining in Confidence – Part One
“I’m nothing if not determined…….” This is certainly proving to be an adventure and I have to say I feel I’ve taken a stride forward with this latest shoot, it’s fair to say I’m slowly gaining in confidence. My first experience HERE was really more a case of getting acquainted with the model, sharing ideas with a view to doing …
Dipping my toe….
Yes, I’ve dipped my toe….taken another tentative step towards one of my photographic objectives for 2013. You can read and study all you like but in the end there really is no substitute for experience and I picked up some valuable experience here. I have a photographic vision for my work in this genre and these are some way from …
The Scanning Dilemma
A couple of weeks ago I posted some film shots HERE, my initial title for that particular post was going to be quite simply “Film Heaven”. As I set about scanning the images for the post I began to feel a genuine sense of frustration. I was unable to achieve an adequate level of sharpness and in addition to this, …
A Film Legacy – Pt 3
It gives me great pleasure to present the third installment in the Film Legacy series of images by the late amateur photographer Roland G Phillips-Turner, it’s a post tinged with more than a little sadness on my part because as things currently stand this will be the final installment. For anyone that missed it the first part of this guest post …
Film Heaven or Hell……?
Film Heaven or Film Hell – Leica M6 – 15mm Voigtlander Super Wide Heliar f/4.5 – Fuji ASTIA 100F Film Heaven or Film Hell has been selected by the Editors as a Leica Fotografie International (LFI) Master Shot. Well, the postman arrived this morning bearing gifts, so I made a decision to delay the post I had prepared and publish a little bit of …
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