The last six years I picked up my first camera about six years ago, and I haven’t looked back since. Well, not on my choice of beginning Photography, but I have looked back on my choice of cameras. Over the past six years, I’ve achieved quite a bit, and I’ve enjoyed every moment of it – […]
Split grade printing The version of split grade printing described here is that taught to me by the ILFORD head printers, Mike Walden and Terry Offord, and is the simplest, fastest way to make good darkroom prints from pretty much any negative. (The exception is really underexposed negatives to print these you usually only need […]
Hand colouring The idea of adding colour to a monochrome image by hand dates back to the beginning of photography. At this time it was the only way to get a colour photograph. Although colour photography using the three colour process was put forward just short of thirty years after the first photograph by Nicephore […]
“I have yet to see — much less produce — a colour photograph that fulfils my concepts of the objectives of art.” Ansel Adams. Some of the greatest and most iconic photographs ever taken have been in black & white. Masters such as Ansel Adams, Cartier Bresson, Sir Don McCullin, Mary Ellen Mark and Sebastiao […]
Green films Happy St Patricks Day! We’re sharing images today from our favourite ‘green’ films. HP5+ and Delta 400 @scottmicciche Drug of choice, morning must, tastesogood . . #hasselblad #500cm #ilfordfilm #hp5 pushed two stops, developed in HC-110 for 11 minutes @santimurillos #indiefilmlab #hasselblad #ilfordhp5 #analogfeatures #filmisnotdead @ajwk60 #jogger in the evening sun #analogue #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #ishootfilm #ilfordfilm #ilforddelta400 #hc110 @IsabelCurdes #JustAdd Silence – from #Teesdale in […]
Lifelong love of black and white Growing up in the late fifties and sixties, one of my favourite movies was The Day the Earth Stood Still, a lot of which was shot at night in black and white. That early exposure to film noir inspired a lifelong love of black and white photography, especially at […]
