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Below are some of the common errors that can occur when processing black and white films. Unfortunately some of these errors can result in the images being lost or partially ruined. By knowing what has caused the errors, you may hopefully prevent any repeat incidents.
Film entirely blank - No visible images or edge signing
A completely blank film with no images and no signing (i.e text in the perforation areas showing product and numbers) - indicates the film has received no development at all.
Blank ...
A double set of images for us to go through this week as we ran this #ilfordphoto #fridayfavourites theme of #favouritefilm for an extra week. We love it when their are a variety of images to choose from, it's always exciting to see what people are shooting with our products.
@timdobbsphoto My normal/fav film is HP5+ but I have been shooting FP4+ quite a bit recently and I am loving the range of tones it produces with lovely smooth grain .. Mamiya 645 on FP4+ dev in ilfotecHC #ilfordphoto #fridayfavouri...
In the summer of 2017 my friends, novice climbers, asked me to climb Elbrus with them. This is the highest mountain peak in Russia and Europe. The idea sounded great, especially because I have loved mountains since my childhood. But my campaign plan immediately included a large-format camera, with which I have been travelling for many years (mostly, of course, by car with a camera in the trunk).
For a while I wondered if I should take a big camera with me too. Would it be better to take a Hasselblad? But...
In the midst of ever more sophisticated technology we live with the illusion of saving time by doing things with more speed, and increasingly relying on computers: programmes work out difficult problems, they plan for us, think for us. Files, servers and systems store information for us, including photographs - hundreds of millions of photographs.
A Slow Practice
Samburu warriors, Kenya
Rob Fraser is drawn to photograph people whose lives are shaped by traditional practices rooted in specific lands...
Image: Double exposure portrait series
Technical info
Film Used: ILFORD XP2
Format: 35mm film
Camera: NIKON F3T Lens: 50mm NIKOR-S 1.4 Exposure time: 1/60
Aperture: 5.6
Other equipment: -
Location: Kyiv, Ukraine
Firstly, tell us the story behind this image. What inspired you to shoot it?
I was attracted for a long time to the visual capabilities of multiple exposures. But I had no concept of how I could go beyond the simple multiple overlapping of frames, until I visited Marcel Ducham...
It took a while for you to start sharing for this week's #ilfordphoto #fridayfavourites theme of #6x7, but you came through n the end!
@JoeBrayford A lone tree on a rainy morning in The Lake District #IlfordPhoto #IlfordFP4 #FridayFavourites #6x7
@2071photo Portrait of Photographer @kernieflakes Pentax 6x7 + Hp5 400 #fridayfavourites #ilfordphoto
@aisbaby It’s #ilfordphoto #fridayfavourites and with the theme, I want to say my heart goes out to Venice ? I had the pleasure o...
In late 2019, we invited the global analogue film photography community to take part in our latest survey. This time we focused specifically on darkroom printing.
The survey ran for 1 month and had an incredible 5,439 responses from 87 countries around the world. A huge thank you to everyone who took the time to offer your insights and share the survey for us.
Why darkroom printing?
We have seen sustained and continuous growth in film for a number of years. However, darkroom printing has not yet cap...
Meeting Viktory
I fell into dance photography quite by accident. I was a member of a meetup group of photographers in Boston, and one of the people I met at their events invited some of us to shoot in his studio with Viktory, a traveling ballet model. I was shooting landscapes almost exclusively at that time, and I had hardly ever shot with a model before. Luckily for me, Viktory is very experienced and was able to work with our varying skill levels. Little did I know at the time that I would still be shoo...
We recently had the pleasure of turning the tables on one of the stalwarts of the film photography community when we asked Em if he'd be the first of our interviews in the 'Lockdown Sessions'. We're so glad that he agreed.
What made you set up Emulsive.org and what were your initial plans for it?
My-first-roll...-Of-35mm-film-Fuji-Superia-X-TRA-400-by-EMULSIVE
EMULSIVE started as an idea in early 2015. I thought I should put up a blog where I could post a few photos and blog about stuff that I'd lea...
For the second of our Lockdown Session interviews we cornered another well known face in the film community, Hamish Gill. (We're just glad he could fit us into his hectic schedule)!
Section 1 - The Beginning
Share your favourite image / print shot on ILFORD film and tell us what it means to you?
Image by Hamish Gill shot on HP5+
That’s a tricky question. The above image is the one that immediately came to mind. I don’t darkroom print myself, but I did print at a workshop at AG Photographic a few ...