Category: Articles
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Ultra large format stereo wet plate photography: my camera build and results
You may remember me talking about my plan to build an Ultra Large Format (30×40cm) stereo wet plate camera in my interview here on EMULSIVE.
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A practical guide to… Lith printing
When mainstream photography was entangled with the darkroom, the act of printing a photo would show the artist’s hand as much as what was photographed.
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5 Frames… With Agfa Precisa CT 100 (EI 100 / 35mm format / Pentax K1000)
On the Summer Solstice of 2017, I took these five photographs on one roll of Agfa Precisa CT 100, my Pentax K1000 and SMC Pentax-M 1/2 50mm lens.
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Four years of EMULSIVE – a retrospective
WOW. Four years. You might be getting tired listening to me talk about this website as my “labour of love” and yes, I feel your pain but it is what it is.
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5 Frames… With Kentmere 400 (EI 800 / 35mm format / Nikon F4S)
“I thought it was color!” That was what my friend Adele texted me when she saw the scans I’d sent. I can understand her surprise.
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Travelogue: Following in Vivian Maier’s footsteps, my trip to Chicago
Traditionally when I go away on holiday, I tend to pick the less touristy places. That way I can get a better feel for a country and its people.
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Changing gear: how the theft of my kit pushed me into medium format
Changing Gear is a new series here on EMULSIVE where photographers are invited to talk about equipment or events that have changed the way they approach the world through their lens.
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Amazing canned food pinhole selfies (featured project and how to)
It all started with some idle musings between a few photographers. Some were expressing a bit of disdain for the “selfie generation”, which triggered a chain of thought that lead me to a fusion of pop-art and selfies.
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5 Frames… With Fujifilm Fujicolor Pro 400H (EI 400 / 35mm format / Nikon F100)
In July of 2018, I made the switch from 100% digital to 100% film. I started out shooting manual SLRs (Nikon F3 and Nikon FE2) and was pleased with those cameras.
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5 Frames… With Fujifilm Natura 1600 (EI 1600 / 35mm format / Leica M7)
I used Fuji Natura 1600 for the first time in early December of 2018 during a three-day trip to Liverpool and its metropolitan area.
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How I built my darkroom for less than $500
“Oh sure, it may not look like much, but it’s going to be my new photo darkroom.” I said this, with a touch of nostalgia, a bit of a whim, and the driving force of practicality around the return
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The Hypersensitive Podcast Episode 05: Holiday Hugs
I took a short holiday to rest my weary soul and as fate would have it, bumped into Hamish in a pub in London.
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Into the heart of SREDA Film Lab
Recently, my friend Lorraine Healy sent me Kosmo Foto’s article on some rather cool film packaging produced in Russia by SREDA (СРЕДА) Film Lab.
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EMULSIVE April 2019: month in review
April might seem like a distant memory as we go barreling into the second half of May, so let’s pause for a minute and look back at the 26 “things” published here on EMULSIVE over those 30 short days. ~
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A new TETENAL product for (and from) the film community?
The recent the opening of the SilvergrainClassics Studio/Lab in Germany gave Marwan El-Mozayen, editor-in-chief of PhotoKlassik International and co-owner of the lab the chance to organize an impressive meeting of the minds. There was an opportunity to let company
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5 Frames… With Kodak Ektar 100 (EI 100 / 35mm format / Canon Canonet QL17 GIII)
It all began in the summer of 2018 when I made a trip to the United States.
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5 Frames… Of mountain bikes with ILFORD Delta 3200 Professional (EI 3200 / 35mm format / Canon EOS 650)
Winter has come…to BC, which means a lot of cloud, some snow and the sun setting around 3:30pm, which is kind of ridiculous.
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5 Frames… With Kodak Panchromatic Sound Recording Film 2374 (EI 100 / 35mm format / Lomo LC-A) – by Andrea Taurisano
My choice fell on Kodak Panchromatic Sound Recording Film 2374, a film I had never heard of until I saw a few dusty rolls in a photo store in Ukraine.
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5 Frames… With ILFORD HP5 PLUS (EI 1600 / 35mm format / Nikon FE)
These 5 frames are from a roll of ILFORD HP5 PLUS I shot on my Nikon FE and 24mm f/2.8D lens while visiting Toronto earlier this year. It had been raining for two full days.
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Film photography in album cover design
I discovered my love of film photography by accident. Being a collector, I have always frequented thrift stores for anything I could find of interest.