By sandy | Published:
14/11/2012
I was looking through a box of old lenses and collected junk earlier this year, with an idea to sell off some bits on Ebay. I had sold some unused brass lenses, enlarging lenses and old cameras, and was about to list a little lens I had found languishing in the bottom of the box. [...]
By sandy | Published:
14/11/2012
I love the low sun and long shadows that are a feature of winter days. Shadows have been a fascination of mine for many years and will continue to be I expect. Every sunny (winter) morning the light shines directly into our kitchen and on this occasion I placed a piece of driftwood on the [...]
By sandy | Published:
19/10/2012
Using the Walker Titan pinhole 5×4
I have been using the Walker pinhole camera for a few months now, though not exclusively because I’ve been busy with a lot of paper negative stuff. Having shot with it in a few different locations, I have really grown to love it.
When I’ve shot pinhole stuff before, I’ve always [...]
By sandy | Published:
08/10/2012
I have been using large format cameras alongside other smaller formats for many years. Large format cameras have traditionally been associated with the master photographers, or with high end commercial work, so when I began, I worried about getting ‘perfect’ negatives like the experts. It took me many years to understand that they could be [...]
By sandy | Published:
21/03/2012
I’m writing a last minute post to mention a two day paper negative workshop I’m running in Haverthwaite, Cumbria (UK) at the end of April.
I have two places left and thought that perhaps I might find a couple of interested photographers here. The workshop will cover the use of different paper types, establishing a working [...]
By sandy | Published:
04/02/2011
Just before Christmas, I wrote and self published a book on the paper negative process. This technique is something I’ve worked with since the late seventies and one which I am particularly fond of. For those of you unfamiliar with it, in it’s simplest form it is just using photographic paper in the camera instead [...]
By sandy | Published:
01/01/2011
Have you ever thought about your own perception? How distorted it can be and how easily it can be influenced?
How can you or I see things and understand things correctly? and what exactly IS ‘correctly’? Should we strive to represent things accurately?
Personally I enjoy having my perception changed -and thinking about it I’m pretty certain most [...]
By sandy | Published:
28/09/2010
I have just written a technical review of the new Harman Direct positive Paper for Black and White Magazine here in the UK. The piece will probably be in the January issue, but I thought I’d like to share my enthusiasm for it here.
The paper comes in RC and FB versions and is pretty high [...]
By sandy | Published:
30/01/2010
As photographers we are primarily concerned with light, but often the most interesting shapes come from the absence of light – the shadows. We are usually instructed as photographers, that our exposures should be worked out accurately to ensure that we have plenty of shadow detail, but I often find that having a deep shadow, [...]
By sandy | Published:
08/11/2009
I had a visit from a friend the other day while I was doing some contact printing. He was asking me how a real Lith print looked, as he had only ever seen them in books. I told him that there wasn’t much to Lith printing, it’s pretty straightforward if you are just playing around [...]