Tag: ILFORD HP5 PLUS
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5 Frames… From my third trip to Iceland on ILFORD HP5 PLUS 400 (EI 1600 / 35mm format / Pentax Spotmatic SP)
Iceland is a photographer’s fairy tale island. It’s almost impossible to take a bad picture in the land of ice and fire.
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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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5 Frames… On ILFORD HP5 PLUS (EI 400 / 35mm format / Leica M1)
You don’t see many references to the Leica M1 but it is perhaps the purest photographic tool. It has a good viewfinder but no rangefinder and no other automation. It has the same body as the M2 but as you can see from the first photograph below, there is no rangefinder window (it’s blanked out…
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Add to queue: Interviewing Roger Lowe (Shoot film like a Boss)
I would like to introduce you, dear reader, to Mr Roger Lowe. He has a film photography YouTube channel called “Shoot Film Like a Boss” which I discovered quite recently but I am quickly getting through his entire back catalogue. Roger has almost 10,000 followers now and covers a lot of things that many film…
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Photoset: No curtain call – ILFORD HP5 PLUS at EI 3200
A WORLD OF ITS OWN. A GLIMPSE BEYOND THE APPARENT. SHOT ON ILFORD HP5, EI. 3200 PER USUAL, THE ATTENTION IN A THEATER IS FOCUSED ON SOME KIND OF HUMAN ACTION – ACTING – WITH THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE VERY BASE FOR IT ALL COVERED IN BLACK VELVET AND PAINT, SEALED OFF AND HIDDEN…
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5 Frames… On New Year’s Day 2020 in Hong Kong with ILFORD HP5 PLUS (EI 800 / 35mm format Nikon FM2)
This is not your ordinary “5 Frames…” article. Unlike my fellow shooters who took their cameras on trips or journeys, I took my Nikon FM2 onto the busy streets of Hong Kong during a mass rally against the government on New Year’s Day 2020. I have been a casual film shooter for the past year…
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My year on film in 115 photos: A 2019 retrospective or, my not-a-365-project
What follows is my 2019 in film photography, a 365 photography project that was absolutely not a 365 project. In this article, I share the results from 115 of the sheets/rolls of film I shot in 2019. It boils down to over one hundred photographs taken by yours truly, all wrapped up in a couple…
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Embracing winter conditions in my film photography workflow
Winter 2018 was when I really buckled down and took black and white photography seriously, as a response to a few uninspiring grey-feeling colour rolls. I wanted to take command of that grey aesthetic, and quickly went through pushed ILFORD XP2 Super, Delta 3200 Professional, Delta 400 Professional, and even some SFX 200, looking to…
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EMULSIVE interview #210: I am Carlos Lopez Medrano and this is why I shoot film
Welcome to 2020 here on EMULSIVE! I hope you all had a peaceful ringing in of the new year. For my part, I was in bed ten minutes after the fireworks finished. I’m pleased to be able to kick off the year off with my first film photographer interview of 2020: number 210 to be…
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EMULSIVE interview #209: I am Paulo Monteiro and this is why I shoot film
Ladies and gents, allow me to introduce you to this week’s fresh EMULSIVE interviewee: Paulo Monteiro. Over to you, Paulo. Hi Paulo, what’s this picture, then? PM: This photo was taken moments after the baptism ceremony of an artisanal fishing boat in Rabo de Peixe, São Miguel Island, Azores. For me, it sums up much…
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5 Frames… With ILFORD HP5 PLUS (EI 400 / 35mm format / Voigtlander Bessa R4A)
This project isn’t the most conceptually rich, but it certainly is full of life. I recently purchased a Voigtlander Bessa R4A and immediately headed down to the coastline with a roll of ILFORD HP5 PLUS and ‘mans [sic] best friend’, my dog Vito. I am used to shooting with old manual film cameras and was…
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Travelling with film: My Sri Lankan travelogue
I suspect it’s a common dilemma, you’ve booked a holiday with your partner (and or family/friends) and there’s no doubt the destination was influenced by potential photographic opportunities. How on earth are you going to balance wanting to take lots of photos with what other people want to do?!
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EMULSIVE Interview #205: I am Jeremy Calow and this is why I shoot film
If you spend any time checking out landscape photographers online – especially if you’ve been eyeing up 6×17 format photography – you will no doubt have come across the work of today’s interviewee, Jeremy Calow.
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EMULSIVE Interview #204: I am Richard Davies and this is why I shoot film
Plates, films, stars and scenes. I’ve been following today’s fresh interviewee (on social media!) pretty much since EMULSIVE came into existence back in June 2015 and I’m so, so happy to have finally been able to get him on for an interview. It’s Twitter’s Palaeoboy, aka Richard Davies! Over to you, Richard… Hi Richard, what’s…
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Travelogue: Walking through Europe captured on film Prague to Lugoj
To take you on this journey, I’m sharing with you my contact sheets and pulling out a few of the finished photographs from each.
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The Bronica ETR: 40 years old but not an old dog
When I came back to film photography in early 2018, very soon I wanted to try medium format film. Not being sure if I would like it with its lesser number of photos per roll compared to a 35mm film…
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5 Frames… With ILFORD HP5 PLUS (EI 1600 / 35mm format / FM2n)
The second day of sunshine… What bliss… It has been dark and grey for a couple of weeks. A huge contrast to the nice and warm temperatures of southern Vietnam where I had been.
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An early swansong? Reviewing the CONTAX AX: autofocusing manual lenses
When it comes to autofocusing manual lenses on film cameras there is really only one option: the unique and relatively short-lived CONTAX AX. Chunky sibling of the CONTAX RX and…
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The Frugal Film Project: the project that turned into something else: halfway update
Halfway through… six months in already? How did that happen… didn’t we just start? Actually, we are settling into our routine but the bloom is off the rose…
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My return to film: Stuart Skene
I was born in 1982 so by default, my first experiences with photography were on film.