My First Home Developed Film – The Scans
Here are my favourite frames from my quick test roll of film that I developed for the first time at home (read all about it here). These were all shot at ISO 400 on Kodak Tri-X on a Canon EOS … Continued
My First Time Developing a Roll of B&W Film
I’ve been planning this event for months now, waiting for the busy wedding photography season to calm down when I’d have a bit more time to try some film developing. I have read ‘a hundred’ articles and Flickr forum posts … Continued
LOMO Lubitel 2
I’ve been really looking forward to shooting with the Lubitel 2 – my dad kindly gave me it; it was his first camera when he bought it back in the 1960s. Here’s a snap of my dad giving me the … Continued
Olympus 35RC – Fuji Neopan 1600 – Leeds Photographers’ Get Together
Two weeks ago I travelled to Leeds on the train to meet up with some of my fellow wedding and portrait photographer friends. We are all members of a support and social network that help each other run our photography … Continued
My B&W Negative Scanning Workflow
The only thorn in my film photography side so far is scanning the negatives. There are too many choices and I want to know that my method is getting the most from the negative but is relatively simple and easy … Continued
Scanned Negative Image Files – EXIF Data
I’m a bit of an organising freak… well I am in spirit if not always in practice! I like to try to catalog and keyword my images in Lightroom (nothing too time consuming). Now I’m shooting film again I am … Continued
Exposed Film Ready For Processing
Since shooting my first two rolls of film (for about 6 years) I am now gently easing myself into shooting film again, but not just with the modern Canon EOS 3; with my vintage Russian FED rangefinders and the Yashica … Continued
My ‘New’ 1960s Yashica-Mat TLR – TtV
Whilst I’m trying to figure out the best way to scan my colour negatives properly (boy is that hard to master), I thought I’d share a quick TtV (Through the Viewfinder), as it’s commonly known on Flickr, of my latest … Continued
Welcome to My Brand New Photography Blog
Hello and welcome to my brand new photography blog! I want to start a personal photography blog to help rediscover making pictures for me. I am a wedding photographer based in the Scottish Borders shooting in a photojournalist style. So … Continued