If the date in your timezone is the 28th day of April, then it’s WPPD. Get your pinhole camera(s) loaded with film (if you haven’t already) and make some pinhole photographs! It’s HIP, it’s FUN and you will LOVE the photographs made! Once developed/appreciated/printed/scanned you can upload your best here: http://www.pinholeday.org/
So, the darkroom is mostly completed, apart from getting the plumbing connected up. I have managed to spend a few creative hours testing my skills as a print-maker. I hope to improve with time, but was quite pleased with the results I obtained for my first few prints. I managed not to waste too much [...]
Ever since, well, a long time, I have wanted to enlarge and develop my own prints… the old fashioned way, in a darkroom, using traditional techniques, chemicals, enlargers, etc etc A couple of years ago (damn, was it a couple of years ago already?) my friend Paul and a few other friends got together and [...]
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013
I may have mentioned this before, but I like to listen to Radiolab. It is one of the most interesting programs I know of, usually covering an eclectic array of topics with fantastic editing and sound design to boot. I hadn’t listened to it for a while so while the other night my wife was [...]
Thursday, November 29, 2012
After finishing a second colour roll of film in my Yashica FX-D camera (the other roll sitting on my shelf for a month or two), I decided to develop some film for the first time in a while… although I wasn’t sure if my chemicals were still viable, so instead of wasting two rolls of [...]
Sunday, November 18, 2012
I took this photo with my iPhone and ‘instagrammed it’ – which is basically applying filters post capture to give it some of the characteristics that I love from my use of film & toy cameras (which I did not have on hand at the time) I instantly felt it was one of the best [...]
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
TALES FROM THE EVENT HORIZON (VI) Into the Vortex! ~ It begins! Having skimmed over the surface of the event horizon we slip lower into the whirlpool of energy that will take us through the horizon and towards the singularity… *Note: ‘The Event Horizon’ series of images came from some expired packs of SX-70 film [...]
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Old Factory GateHouse in Newport, taken with a light-leaking Lubitel 166 – this factory is now demolished.
Bronica SQ-A with Zenzanon PS 40mm f/4 lens, late afternoon light (failing) hand held 1/30 sec exposure on f 8 Film: Fuji Neopan 400 Developer: Rodinal 1:25 Temperature: 20ยบ C Time: 6 minutes Exhibited at Melbourne Silver Mine’s ‘Unsensored 2011′ Collingwood Gallery, this was to be the first dark room print I exhibited for Unsensored, [...]
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