-
The film developing company Analogue Wonderland arranged a photowalk in Cambridge with a small fee for participants. It came with the benefit of a free film and developing and scanning.
I was using the Nikon F80 I mentioned previously. It had a fault that I discovered when I got back the scans. I thought the film wind-on mechanism wasn’t working. But after more thought I realised the shutter… -
In the last 100 years in the United Kingdom, the Conservatives have been in power for 63 years including a coalition government and national government periods.
We’ve had national governments in times of war when it was considered too important for the country to be run along party lines because of the threat of invasion or the effects of a world-wide financial crisis.
If I use Hungary as an… -
Nikon brought out the D60 digital SLR in 2008. It weighed 522g (18.4 oz) and it had a 10 megapixel sensor.
I took one to India when Tamara and I went in 2010.
For an unrelated reason I was looking at the India photos today and I can see how they don’t stack up against the quality of today’s digital cameras. But really the D60 was a tiny package and – well judge for yourself on these photos of…
-
-
A few days ago I put up this photograph taken with a Ricoh GRIII. As you can see, the background is quite noticeable. It is a plain background (the wall of a Public House) but it is still obvious as a background.
So a day or two later I went out with my full frame Canon R60 and had another go. As you can see, the background is now more even. And that is entirely down to the aperture and the…
-
I just watched a video by a photographer in which he said that because shooting film requires more attention to exposure, shutter speed, aperture, and metering, so the emotional investment makes the final outcome more meaningful..
He accepts that it’s a personal thing. A viewer doesn’t care to know how a image was made or what went into making it.
So here’s a question: Does any of what the…
-
I had a yen to shoot film with a film camera small enough to slip into a jacket pocket. It would probably have to have a fixed lens. That is, not an interchangeable lens and not a zoom. Either of those would be bound to make a camera bigger and heavier.
Shooting film means slowing down, but I didn’t want to carry around a separate light meter, not even a light meter app on a smartphone. So the…
-
-
I was looking back through a piece that I originally posted on another site on July 17, 2010,
I have updated it at the end. It makes grim reading.
In 1991 the United Nations Food and Agriculture Oganization adopted a plan of action for the worldwide reduction of incidental catches of seabirds in driftnets, longlines and gillnets used by fishing vessels.
TerminologyA longline is a baited… -
Hollyhocks photographed against the wall of a Public House.
How can you tell they’re a photographer? It’s a joke but the way you can tell is the way they look at the background behind what they want to shoot.
They don’t look at the object. Well yes they do of course, but they look at the background to see how the object will stand out..
If the background is confusing then the camera will…
-
I have an account with Notion (an online productivity tool). Notion is now branching out to enable users to create websites out of documents the user makes in Notion.
So… I looked at Notion for the first time in years and found a piece of text that I think I wrote ages ago. This is the text
“Not On A Ledge” is a thrilling novel written by author John Widthens. The book follows the story of Stan…