Category: Articles
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ILFORD Photo’s new interview series kicks off with EMULSIVE
Welcome to “Lockdown Sessions” a new series of interviews by the folks over at ILFORD Photo. This new series of interviews with members of the global film photography community kicked off with none other than EMULSIVE — me — a little earlier this week. Speaking with Matt Parry, ILFORD’s Marketing Communications manager (and past EMULSIVE…
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5 Frames…from 4 cities on Kosmo Foto Mono 100 (EI 100 / 35mm format / Nikon F3/T)
Photography for me is used to capture the things I like and to provide a welcome distraction from the comings and going of modern life.
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Staying creatively engaged: Drawing your crazy dream camera
I’ve been trying to keep my local film photography community here in the Philippines creatively engaged as we’re 3 ½ weeks into…
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The Hypersensitive Podcast Episode 11: The not-the-coronavirus episode
Recorded on April 6th, Hamish and I managed to fill an hour and a half with reflections on episode 10, how we’re…
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5 Frames… Of Baltimore’s East Side with Fomapan 400 Action (EI 320 / 35mm format / Canon A-1)
This particular day another photographer and I met up to wander around Baltimore’s East Side to take photos in different neighborhoods.
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Pandemic on Polaroid: Sheltered at Home
I was 2,500 miles away from home when COVID-19 started to unravel the fabric of our daily routines. On the road for work at a…
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5 Frames… In Bangalore with Bergger Pancro 400 (EI 400 / 120 format / Pentax 6×7)
For long, my go-to ISO 400 film in 120 format has been Kodak Tri-X 400. However, since I read about Bergger Pancro 400 on EMULSIVE, I…
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Film stock review: LomoChrome Metropolis XR 100-400 in 35mm and 120 format – A new color negative favorite
In 2019 Lomography announced the launch of a Kickstarter campaign to fund a brand new film emulsion: LomoChrome Metropolis XR100-400.
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5 Frames… With ILFORD FP4 PLUS (EI 125 / 35mm format / Nikon F2)
The two things I like the most are surf and film photography so naturally, the beach and the waves are a constant in my photos. Photography was always on my mind. It’s an old love that never, till now, was taken too seriously. I remember when I was twenty my friends used to pay me…
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5 Frames… Getting to know my Mamiya RB67 on Fomapan 100 Classic (EI 100 / 120 format / Mamiya RB67 Professional S)
I originally set out to shoot this roll to try and nail down a few teething problems I had with starting home B&W development again. The first two rolls I had developed had small black specs all over the negative and concentrated particularly along the sides. Finding myself with a day off and no plans…
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A world-first? Creating a traditional wet plate portrait over the internet from 4,000 miles away
With half the world under lockdown and the rest being advised to implement physical distancing and other measures to stop the spread of COVID-19, a traditional approach to studio portraiture and other relatively close-quarters photography needs a rethink…
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5 Frames… On my father’s last day at work on Kodak Portra 800 (EI 400 / 35mm format / Pentax Spotmatic II)
After 27 years of working at the airport, my father was recently informed that he would be let go. He started at the Belgian national carrier Sabena in 1992, continued to be employed when it went bankrupt in 2001 and survived two takeovers since then. My father loved his work, loved being at the airport,…
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Lessons learned from 828 frames of 35mm film shot in India
During my recent trip to India, where I had 9 full days with which to shoot, I shot 23 rolls out of the 44 I had chosen to take. I am usually frugal with my shutter, and try and make my images in as few actuations as possible. I gave myself a little more leeway…
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5 Frames… With Fujifilm Fujicolor Pro 400H (EI 400 / 35mm format / Canon EOS 1000FN)
Hearing good things about FujiFilm Fujicolor Pro 400H, I thought I’d get involved. I’d be using the camera body of Canon EOS 1000FN, which was big in the early ’90s. The camera seems sturdy and reliable, I tend to overexpose by one stop, as I think the light meter may have deteriorated over the past…
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My first roll… Of 35mm film – Fuji Superia X-TRA 400
Regular readers might remember a conversation between Hamish Gill and me about the false narrative that is the “constant stream of success” on social media. You know what I’m talking about: perfect photos of perfect scenes with perfect cameras. It doesn’t exist outside of perfectly curated personas but is persuasive enough that it frustrates the…
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5 Frames… With ILFORD HP5 PLUS (EI 400 / 35mm format / Nikon F3)
My father taught me to bulk roll film, develop and print back in the ’80s. Today I shoot mostly using digital cameras but I’ve recently acquired a Nikon F3, a Pentax Spotmatic and a Minolta Autocord 75mm f/3.5 TLR. In the spirit of “use it or lose it”, I have lost all of my old…
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Squaring the circle: Polaroid rises from the ashes of The Impossible Project
A little over 12 years since The Impossible Project’s inception, the company has squared the circle and become the very brand whose products it was created to save.
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Stuck at home? The “Stuck At Home Photography” blog has you and your creativity covered
In 1993 I had a book published of photographs that had been taken over the previous few years. I was running an art gallery with my wife, the painter Debbie George, where we both worked. We had our own work that we wished to do and had three small children to bring up, so we…
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5 Frames… With a Liquid Cyanotype Kit on Fluid Cold Press Finish Watercolor Paper
The way the paper showed the details in the lacy leaves was more than I had hoped for. And the tactile process of arranging items that I loved on paper was therapeutic.
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New “Paper Blues”: Pre-rolled cyanotype paper for your 35mm film camera
Brand new for 2020 and a world photographic first, these pre-rolled 35mm film cassettes are loaded with specially coated cyanotype paper, which will allow you to use one of the world’s first photographic techniques in any 35mm film camera ever made. Say hello to “Paper Blues”.