Tag: 2020 – May
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How-to: Make a UV LED box for cyanotype prints
In this article, I’m going to show you how to make a Cyanotype print with UV LED box as the light source. Cyanotypes are traditionally developed in sunlight and the prints are often referred to as “sun prints”. But it is winter, it is cold and UV light isn’t so strong and readily available as…
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5 Frames… In Brighton on ILFORD Ortho PLUS 80 (EI 80 / 120 format / Yashica Mat-124G)
This small article was born from a meeting, that of my beautiful Yashica-MAT 124 G, just returned from a CLA by a famous American repairman specializing in these pretty cameras and a film that I had not yet seen, nor touched with my hands. We spent 2020 New Year in Brighton, a charming British city…
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The role of film snapshots in my work
For a while now, my photography goal has been on capturing a more energetic, or emotionally resonating type of moment than my earlier style, which was a little more withdrawn, involving distant figures and light architecture. The shift to film allowed me to constantly concentrate on finding the next “worthy” scene to work, as opposed…
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5 Frames… With expired Fuji Superia 200 (EI 200 / 35mm format / Olympus OM-1)
So a while ago now my girlfriend was looking through Gumtree for some sort of furniture we needed for a new place we were moving into. I can’t remember exactly what, possibly a dining table as I do remember a horrendous journey with the roof of her convertible mini down and me holding on for…
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Featured project: Human Remains / Restes humains
June. Rain. July. Rain. August… Rain again. The days were all the same. What to do in Paris during a summer as rotten as that of 2007? My wife had already been working abroad for several months. I felt lonesome and I was doing my best to keep on carrying on when the phone rang…
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5 Frames… Of 35mm film in a Kodak Brownie 1B (EI 125 / 35mm format / ILFORD FP4 PLUS)
This is essentially a thank you letter to this roll of ILFORD FP4 PLUS for tolerating extreme levels of abuse and still producing usable images. I not only shot this roll three times in two different cameras, but the second TWO times involved awkwardly passing it through a Kodak Brownie 1B (circa 1904-1916) which is…
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My First Roll… Of 35mm film (aged five years old), Kodak Plus-X Pan and an Agfa ISO-RAPID 1
The details are hazy, but the best I can figure is that my grandfather gave me this camera in 1967 for my fifth birthday. I still have it. It’s an Agfa ISO-RAPID 1. Very basic, and a bit like a Kodak Instamatic, only, can I say… worse? It too shot square frames on AGFA Rapid…
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5 Frames… Of Kodak Portra 400 (EI 400 / 120 format / Hasselblad 500CM)
Red has always been my favourite colour. Additionally, in my culture, the year I was born essentially gave me the fire feng shui; hence, the colour red (should) provide protection and luck. So this project RED has always been a dream of mine. I mean, this idea wasn’t original, of course, I was inspired by…
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The Olympus AF-1 (Infinity): A solid combination of affordability and quality
I first got back into film photography when I dug through some old boxes at home and came across my mom’s point and shoot camera. For those new to photography, a point and shoot camera is simply that: a camera that was designed to “point and shoot” without having to worry about technical settings. It…