I spent the middle of the day yesterday shooting Adox CHS Art 50 large format film primarily to release the dark slides for some other work. These were processed in Rodinal at 1:25 using the latest iteration of the MOD54 insert. I know that the film is a tad distressed as this batch has always […]
Fuji PA-145 back on Toyo View
This has not been a good week for me. Coming down from an exhaustive but rewarding event as part of equals=ephemera to slump into post-admistrative treacle and a home without a dog that seemed to be very much bigger than he was, I needed to find something positive to do and when I finally got […]
Busy ephemera Saturday
Saturday, as expected, was the busiest day of our first week in Gallery 3 at Ipswich Town Hall. We started off with a continuation of large format photographic techniques and created a new Rembrandt lighting arrangement in the low key studio using barn doors and snoots with honeycomb grids to control the lighting. The lighting […]
Waldringfield rape and barley
At the beginning of the month I went in search of the Bowser in my earlier post. Could I find it? No such luck but a left here and a right there and suddenly before my eyes was a Constable and maybe a Monet unfolding. Out came the Toyo from the boot and the last […]
July 15th – strange day
Yesterday I travelled up to London to deliver my Taylor Wessing 2013 National Portrait Prize entries alongside Keith Locke (http://www.keithlocke.co.uk) , a consummate professional when it comes to photography. We had eagerly awaited the delivery of our entries for weeks now. However, the day dawned with the release of results from the university and all was […]
Everything is 6 weeks late
By everything, I was initially thinking of the flora in the normally sunny county of Suffolk, which is both normally a sunny space but also 6 weeks late this year on account of abysmal weather. Weather that I made full advantage of in my 10 Minutes piece on gutter, grids and yellow lines. Today is […]
Hare(sic) today, gone tomorrow
Yesterday I went to Wickham Market to view City and Guilds needlework exhibits. Some stunning work executed by the exhibitors with very clever use of form and colour. On the way in there were two Alvis cars of differing models and was lucky enough to get to talk to the owners of the green one […]
Rejuvenated photographer
The latest assignment at UCS has taken the shape of a competition entry. I decided to enter the Fuji-film student awards ‘The Colour of…’ and despite a slow start with having a week off from a bad attack of influenza I am now buzzing. 10 rolls of 120 Fuji 160NS/400H plus 6 5×4 160NS later, […]
Fujifilm Student Awards 2013
I’ve been very quiet for the last week on account of a very bad attack of influenza. I’m not back up to speed yet and have had to take the week off from University to recuperate. I’ve been catching up on new assignment work and have taken up the option to enter the Fujifilm Student […]
Large Format Portra 400
I’ve been a bit tardy of late with many other tasks to undertake but here are two examples of Kodak Portra 400 shot on my Toyo View 45C. Obviously the reduction in file size will have compromised the copies here but the detail and visual data knocks the spots off digital (in my view). These […]