Monthly Archives: July 2009

Today I was a cinematographer

Today I did the third of my video interviews for this blog. I am interviewing other film photographers and darkroom printers in the uk. The videos will be uploaded at a later date when they are all edited and finished. Today it was a photographer who I have known for over thirty years and who [...]

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Paper Negative

I have been using resin coated paper in an old kodak Specialist 7×5 camera this weekend. I wrote recently that using it had distracted me from actually looking for pictures, but I keep being drawn back to it.
I have had a student of mine staying over for two days, he is from the university where [...]

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iPhone apps

I have just accquired the Wordpress app for iPhone which will allow me to update the blog on the hoof. Isn’t technology wonderful sometimes!
Here are a couple’ of pictures taken on the phone:

I also bought ‘The Massive Dev Chart’ app, which is an absolute must for anyone processing film out there.
I’ve been referring to The [...]

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An unproductive time

My posts have been delayed recently because I have been away a couple of times and had a number of teaching workshops to do.
In my personal work, I have been using a 5×7 inch Kodak Specialist camera with old Ilfospeed paper in the back. This technique can produce lovely results, but often the paper negatives [...]

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