Darkroom lab owner, photographer, printer and workshop host, Lina Bessonova is one of the busiest interviewees I’ve had on so far this year.
Tag: ILFORD Delta 100 Professional
Using a contact sheet to actively curate an image
Contact sheets are an incredibly useful tool when it comes to reviewing and learning from your own approach to photography, and when curating a series of shots down to one final “keeper.” I am an advocate of constant review
Darkroom technique: fine-tuning the negative
Back over the summer of 2018, my beloved Bronica SQ-A became gravely ill, and I sent it off to the camera spa for some TLC.
EMULSIVE’s most popular film stock reviews of 2018
It’s the fourth article in 2018’s end-of-year lazy post, this time counting down the most popular film reviews here on EMULSIVE over the course of 2018.
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5 Frames… With ILFORD DELTA 100 Professional (EI 80 / 35mm format / Leica MP)
In the beginning, there was film. My favorite emulsions for the decades starting in 1976, were slow speed Kodachrome (25 and 64) and Tri-X shot on a Canon F-1n.
Camera review: teak wood meets carbon fibre, the Chamonix C45F-2 4×5
After my first exposure to working with large format sheet film in a DIY pinhole camera, I decided to explore this line of film photography a bit further.
Photography: Day market #01 – Shot on ILFORD Delta 100 Professional at EI 200 (120 format)
Day market #01 Shot on ILFORD Delta 100 Professional at EI 200 Black and white negative film in 120 format shot as 6×12 Push processed one stop Development notes: Kodak HC-110: 1+47, 20°C/68°F, 10:00 (N+1) No presoak, 1-minute initial agitation, 5 inversions/minute, normal stop/fix/rinse
Photography: Split #05 – Shot on ILFORD Delta 100 Professional at EI 800 (35mm format)
Split #05
Shot on ILFORD Delta 100 Professional at EI 800
Black and white negative film in 35mm format
Push processed 3 stops
Photography: Above as below – Shot on ILFORD Delta 100 Professional at EI 100 (4×5 format)
Above as below
Shot on ILFORD Delta 100 Professional at EI 100
Black and white negative film in 4×5 format
Comparing Fuji NEOPAN 100 ACROS, ILFORD Delta 100 Professional and Kodak T-MAX 100
This whole project started when I realized I had been blindly allegiant to certain black and white films for a number of years without any particular rhyme or reason.
EMULSIVE's most popular film photography experimentation articles of 2017
What would film photography be without the experimentation aspect? Sticking to box speeds, recommended developers and “the right way” of doing things is boring
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Photography: Loading bay – Shot on ILFORD Delta 100 Professional at EI 100 (120 format)
Loading bay
Shot on ILFORD Delta 100 Professional at EI 100
Black and white negative film in 120 format shot as 6×6
EMULSIVE interview #159: I am Toby Van de Velde and this is why I shoot film
Hello and welcome to another fresh EMULSIVE interview, today with Toby Van de Velde, freelance photographer based in the south of England.
Photo story: ILFORD Delta 100 Professional + Pyrocat HD semi-stand
From the first time I heard about a developer named Pyrocat HD, I was hooked by it is look.
Photography: No smoking area – ILFORD Delta 100 Professional (35mm)
No smoking area
Shot on ILFORD Delta 100 Professional at EI 100
Black and white negative film in 35mm format
Contax AX, Hasselblad Planar F 80 F/2.8
EMULSIVE interview #150: I am Toni Skokovic and this is why I shoot film
It’s a real pleasure to be able to bring you today’s interviewee, Toni Skokovic.
EMULSIVE interview #147: I am Isabel Curdes and this is why I shoot film
I’ve been looking forward to this for a while and in fact…that’s all I’m going to say about it.
EMULSIVE interview #134: I am Monika and this is why I shoot film
Finally! That’s all I’m going to say about today’s interview.
EMULSIVE interview #127: I am Hilde Heyvaert and this is why I shoot film
Creative, experimental, quirky and always evolving.
Long exposure film tests part one: ILFORD PAN F+, ILFORD FP4+, ILFORD Delta 100 Professional
Long exposure film photography is a technique central to my currently ongoing photography project, Where We Meet.
Capturing the smooth extensions of water movement, contrasted with static elements of the shoreline is the key to this visual narrative.