Enchanted. 16th December.

I haven't yet finished my Christmas shopping which is quite bad as the shops are going to be packed over the next few days! But I will make it and it'll be ok! I got this perfume a little while ago as a Christmas present, I lost it for a while, but I just found it again and it is actually really lovely. I am not an avid perfume wearer, but I will wear this perfume!

Anyway, I have a Mamiya RZ-67 on loan over the next couple of weeks, I also have a few rolls of colour film so some landscape shooting is inevitable! Quite excited about both shooting with the camera and then seeing the results of it! 

Noel McGlinchey - Security Guard. 16th November.

This photograph is inspired by Richard Avedon's "American West" portrait series, I took a 5x4 large format technical view camera ( sinar ) into Peterborough and photographed a couple of people who I thought looked interesting, one of them was this man, Noel McGlinchey. I had stuck some white colourama against a wall to serve as a backdrop and got him to stand against it for a portrait. I love the portrait, only shame is that scratch that is on the negative due to the tray developing process. 

I took this photograph last wednesday, but I had only got round to printing it today.. so I think it does count as my daily photo as darkroom printing is a process which finalises a photograph!

Just Like Polly Chandler. 14th November.

Today I was using the 5x4 technical view camera, I asked my friend to model (Mary Tenney), and I took a couple of Polly Chandler inspired photographs. I also developed and printed this negative today, so it is actually a photograph which shows exactly what I have done today! I also have another shot which I did not get round to printing, so I'll try and upload that soon... and I have a couple of 5x4 street portraits which I need to print!

I love this photograph, and I am soooo happy with it, I am inspired to take more photographs like this.. so WATCH OUT! :D

This is the photograph I was trying to copy:

Pylons in the Morning. 12th November.

Ok, so today I have probably committed a photographic crime as I am using a photograph I took on my phone for my daily photo, let me explain! I went out this morning with the Bronica & my 35mm SLR to do a little bit of Landscape work as the conditions were perfect with there being a little bit of mist about. I did not take my DSLR though and I have to wait till Monday till I can develop my films! 

I have a few more plans for the Bronica over the weekend, want to shoot some portraits, maybe try a little bit of street photography as I'm in London tomorrow... so my analogue output this week will be high, but my digital output will be low! 

Film is better!

Bronica! 11th November.

So, I am shooting with this beautiful piece of image-making machinery over the weekend. It's a Bronica SQ-B and I fear that when I finish using if I am going to end up spending all of my money on one! I have a few different films to try out in it, all black and white (so I'll be developing them shortly after shooting them), I have a few different styles I want to try out with it (landscape/portrait) and I'm just generally excited about using it!

Lloyds of London in 5x4. 3rd of November.

So, today I developed the film from the 5x4 shoot I did at Lloyds of London.. and here's a quick scan from the shoot! The quality is not that great as I have a basic scanner, but looking at the negative you can really appreciate the great amount of quality that using Large Format can bring! 

5x4 Pinholes. 21st October.

Today I had a little go with 5x4 pinhole photographs! The first photograph is my shot and the second is a group photo which was exposed for 2minutes, so a little bit of motion blur! The negatives were tray developed, I was responsible for the chemical process of the negatives, they have a few marks and scratches on, but I shall try and improve my technique! I do really love pinhole work and with the 5x4 it is amazing, the angles are really wide and the depth of field is almost never ending as the aperture is f128. I look forward to experimenting further with Large Format pinhole cameras and seeing what I get!

Time for some film! 20th October.

Today I decided to go for a walk around the city and find interesting things to photograph as I have a roll of 35mm 36exp colour film in my SLR waiting to be used! So I went for a little walk in my spare time and found some rather interesting things to photograph. Some people may say that I was wasting film, as I had no real reason or purpose for my photography, I simply took photographs of things I wanted to photograph. I have still got a few exposures left, but when I get my film developed & printed I will upload the best shots :)