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Introducing our 15th interviewee and one of Film Finishing's newest team members, Paul Cliff.
Who are you? What’s your job title at HARMAN technology and how long have you worked here?
My name is Paul Cliff and I have been with the company since February 2023.
Tell us a little about your day to day role.
I work on our 120 roll film spooling machines. I love everything about it. It’s been like taking control of a classic car, learning all its idiosyncrasies and intricacies; it’s an absolute mar...
We have had some fantastic entries submitted for this week's #ilfordphoto #fridayfavourites theme being #themefree. Take a look at our top picks for this week:
@jessmathewsphotography. Stirling Ranges, Western Australia shot on Ilford XP2 Super 400 using Canon EOS 5.Developed at @silverhalidestudios #ilfordxp2 #ilfordxp2super400 #ilfordphoto #fridayfavourites #themefree
@sbills15. A mixture of ILFORD film - Delta 400, Pan F plus (top right and left bottom) and some HP5...
Gosia Janik gives us the lowdown on how she captured this striking portrait.
Image Title
Xu Jing
Technical Info
Film Used
ILFORD HP5+
Format
Medium format 6x5
Camera
Mamiya 645 AFD
Lens
Mamiya 80mm f2.8
Exposure time
1/60
Location
Home/studio in Madrid
Firstly, tell us the story behind this image. What inspired you to shoot it?
I often work with “new faces” - models that are sent to me by agencies to shoot a session for building or renovating their portfolio.
Xu was sent to me by...
Introducing our 71st In Focus interviewee, Malik Rainey. Malik specialises in editorial and social documentary photography. However, Malik only became hooked on film when his friend Teo traded him his Pentax P30T for his bike.
Section 1 - Background
Share your favorite image/print shot on ILFORD film and tell us what it means to you.
This image is an all-timer for me! I always find myself returning to this image because it’s perfect, from the little girl smiling directly at me to the boys playing baske...
I was personally really looking forward to today's #ilfordphoto #fridayfavourites theme of #madewithortho as its my favourite film in our range. As always you shared some fantastic and creative images with us. These are my favourites.@peter_durst For @ILFORDPhoto #fridayfavourites here is a photo of the Glacier Lagoon on Iceland’s ??Southern coast, #madewithortho on the Hasselblad w 80mm no filter. September 2021. #ilfordortho #believeinfilm
@PlantingCabbag1My friend Param at the Kolkata Bot...
You have all shared some fantastic images for this week's #ilfordphoto #fridayfavourites, with the theme being #themefree. From double exposure to street photography, take a look at some of my favourite shots this week.
@davejsherwood. A classic shot for this week's #themefree #fridayfavourites, looking out from the tunnel under Westminster Bridge, towards the Houses of Parliament. Shot on #Delta100 via a Nikon FM2.
@serolfitnas. Double exposure portrait ✨? Hasselblad 500 CM?️FP4 Plus ...
What it’s like to be a penguin
Possession Island is a rock in the Southern Indian ocean, about the size of the Scottish Isle of Rùm. It harbours a small French research station (a couple dozen people year round), and half a million seabirds. We have been monitoring King penguin populations there for the past decades: fascinating birds, King penguins. They may look clumsy on shore, but each of these little characters has been scouring through the wildest seas in the world, year in and year out, weatherin...
Brutal & Beautiful
In June of 2022, I set out on a 3500 mile motorcycle trip with my close friend David Wright. We left from Los Angeles, CA with our end destination being Glacier National Park, searching for the space in-between life’s brutal & beautiful exploration of our short time upon this world. I personally have gone through life altering changes these past few years; death, a divorce, more death, the on going pandemic and having to confront life, loss and the overwhelming notion that time...
A History on the Road
In May of 2023, I loaded up the car and I headed off to the North Cascades. The freeway had just reopened after a long, icy winter. I was desperate to break out of my work routine and follow my creative pursuits.
Growing up in the American Southwest I spent my childhood in the back of my father’s pick up on our family’s retreats. Being from a blue-collar middle class family, we were never going anywhere fancy. We made pilgrimages to Arkansas in my youth where abandoned and di...
One Specific Speed Rating
Us film photographers are used to the limitations of our medium. In fact, we often regard them as strengths, and not weaknesses. But even we can’t really take issue with the suggestion that as soon as we begin to expose a roll of film we are limited to one specific speed rating, making it more difficult to adapt to quickly changing light conditions. On digital: no problem. Just whack the ISO up to some implausibly high number, and keep shooting. Sadly we just can’t do that mid...