New work

One of the new images from Easter '10.

Mamiya 6 MF 75mm

Fuji Pro 160S

First roll of slide/positive film

Mamiya 6MF 75mm f/3.5 lens

f/11

Fuji Provia 100F

Aberystwyth and a barn and marsh along Solway Firth (ish)

By the coast pt. 2

This should my final post for a few days as I don't have any other work that is really edited. I am however expecting another roll of film to be returned this week.

All apart from the final image are taken on:

Bronica ETRSi with a 75mm lens

F/16 or F/22

Fuji Pro160S

Final image:

Mamiya 6MF rangefinder with a 75mm F/3.5 lens

F/22

Fuji Pro160S

Somewhere between Port Carlisle and Anthorn.

Bronica ETRSi 75mm Zenza (something)

F/16 or F/22

Fuji Pro160S

I have a feeling people will eventually get bored of looking at 'seascape' photographs, I don't think I'll tire of taking them though. I think I need to work a bit harder on my compositions, so that all of the horizons are at the same height (maybe?).

I also need to try to find a setting when scanning the negatives so that I can get similar results (in the colours).

Easter '09

Bronica ETRSi with 50mm Pe lens(?)

I imagine something like f/2.8 or f/3.5

Fuji Pro160S

Taken some time around last easter when I got lost on what turned out to be a 10 mile round trip.

Since taking this I have made a habbit of getting lost when I go walking, though I have now realised that I take these photographs as some sort of reminder, or marker to remind me for the next time I visit.

Black and White (large format failure)

Wista 45 90(ish?)mm lens

f/11

Ilford Delta 100

My 2nd real attempt at photographing during the day using black and white large format film. This was just a test shot to remind myself how to use the combi-plan large format developing tank.

I asked for some advice from the technician who said that I agitate the film too much and that I was going to be using too much chemistry.

(I think I have proven that I shouldn't have listened to him, and that I should have found the instructions on the internet beforehand)

Atleast I know for next time. I am currently trying to make this 'tide mark' a little less noticable using a gradient tool in lightroom that one of my friends told me about.

Black and white

All taken with a Mamiya 6MF with 75mm f/3.5 lens
Mostly using f/16

Ilford Hp5

 

My first real attempt at taking black and white photos in a while. 

I was looking at debris left behind by the floods (that hit the local area at the end of last year) particuarly at different shapes and textures.

Matchbox pinhole camera

My first attempt making and using a match box pinhole camera.
Ilford Hp5

Self directed project - new work in progress.

6am wake up.

7am start.

20ish mile round trip (in a car).

4 rolls of film.
24 hours to develop.

Thank you fuji for sending my negatives back with trackmarks on them and more dust on them than you'd find on a box in a loft space. I am going to spend the next few days trying to clean them up, aswell as alter the colour balance. Below are some examples. All shot on a Mamiya 6 with Kodak Portra 160 NC at f8/f11.


 

 

  

I have been attempting to remember/retrace/map where I have taken my most recent photographs. (The first two photographs were taken along the straight diagonal line in on the map above.) Hopefully this will be incorporated into my work in some way.

Post Christmas experiments.

2nd attempt at swinging using a large format camera.

MPP 203mm

Pro 160S

F8

1 second?

 

Wista 45 90mm

F22

30 minutes

(rather underexposed, I probably should've used a wider aperture 'cause there was little ambient light in on the foreground.)

I like the snow capped mountains in the background though, I guess that's good.

Field

MPP 

F8 1/100th

Fuji Pro 160S

Camera back right swing

Fields

Bronica ETRSi

Fuji Pro 160S 

Zenza 50mm

(I didn't keep note of apertures or shutter speeds)

Crow

A sort of work in progress from last year. A self directed brief which was based on a documentary assignment given to us before it.

Mamiya RB67
Pro 160S

Christmas Break

I have been taking quite a few photographs over the Christmas period using an ETRSi and a MPP. With the MPP I have been trying to use the tilt and shift functions (is that the right phrasing?)

I am going to get the film processed when I get back to Carlisle on Thursday.

Christmas Tilt-shift attempt.

Micropress MPP 203mm F8 lens

Fuji Pro 160S

Taken through a window so the light is...err refracted from the decorations.