Last Friday was the longest day ever as I waited at home for my very large C-Type prints to arrive from Metro following an exacerbating group meeting about our degree shows. I just had to get out of UCS as fast as possible that day which made the rest of the day arduous to say […]
Metro Imaging Free Range 2014 and Kodak Portra 400
Three years ago I had never used a large format camera apart from watching my dad using his father’s half plate camera. I was fascinated by the roller blind shutter screwed onto the front of the lens , mesmerised by the brass and mahogany and even at the tender age of 10, blown away by […]
Four weeks and counting
Four weeks from now the bulk of our Lux Locus Degree show should be built. We open for the VIP view on the evening of 5th June. The next VIP night is 12th June in Free Range, London. All in all, these shows, London being the most expensive, have set us back £11,000 but such […]
Neglected viewpoint
There has been so much going on lately that I have not been yomping into UCS at my usual times. Over the last 3 years I have walked a more or less similar route into UCS and crossing over Bond Street, I always look back over my shoulder to see if the doors are open […]
Scanners and experiments with Ilford DDX
I ran out of Portra 400 the other morning and all I had left in my case was HP5+ or FP4+. The FP4+ had been loaded when I took delivery of the Toyo 45A and 135 mm lens. I went straight into full blown colour was was taken aback by how tack sharp that Schneider […]
Fly tipping – here today, gone tomorrow
I have or should I say had found a new site to explore for my Edgelands project this past Tuesday. I re-visited the site today in impossibly bright conditions to find that my tableau of found offerings had mostly been cleared away. The berries were still on the bare shrubs but the fly-tipped detritus had […]
High Tension Shoot
I have never been keen on high tension power lines draping over built up areas and there has been quite a number of reports over the years regarding the affect they have on the poor souls domiciled beneath them. Well, today I got a taster of what it is like. After 22 days of fruitless […]
Daft idea trying to shoot large format in this weather
I am shooting medium and large format images for my degree project. I am so glad that I got off to a good start back in the early autumn as just lately it has been a washout although nothing like the trauma suffered by people in the West Country and now the Thames Valley. […]
Constable Country – Turner Sky?
I tried to make the best of the near still conditions yesterday morning, the calmest weather for over a month, to shoot some large format work at my current project locations. As with all things like this the wind or lack of it was perfect but the light at Freston Hill and Cattawade was dreary […]
Edgelands continued
Yesterday saw a full on 6 hours of shooting on large and medium format film. Plenty of Portra 160, 400 and Ektar in the can waiting to be processed. These are HP5+