One of the first images taken with me 1971 Hasselblad 500c was my son eating his breakfast, well Batman eating breakfast to be exact. Some beautiful natural light from our large dining room window was perfect and he kept gazing outside every now and then. I’ve got into a habit of using Fomapan 100 as a first roll when I get a new camera, my reason being is I now know how it performs, its
Talacre Lighthouse on 4×5 Large Format
Category: Landscape, Long Exposure, MPP Micro Technical Mark VI - 4x5, Wales
On my journey home from an excellent photographic adventure in Snowdonia, February earlier this year (blog post ‘February 2020 Snowdonia Trip‘) with my friends Matt and Ian we planned to stop off at Talacre Lighthouse, Point of Ayr on the North coast of Wales. We set off walking along the beach and the long grasses coming up through the sand looked amazing. The movement in the grasses and clouds caught my eye, I wanted the
This is actually a test shot taken with a £10 Pentax K1000 I picked up from browsing Facebook marketplace. I’ve never used the camera before so it’s just a random test shot of my daughter Rosie sleeping but I love it. It’s HP5 shot at 400 and its a straight scan apart from a couple of big hair dust spots removed from the scan. The shot is one of my February 2020 submission to the
Two nights away in Snowdonia with a couple of photography friends in February 2020 was a much needed break. We all shoot film and have lots in common, Ian knew the area very well but for this post I will show one of the shots from our trip out to Llyn y Dywarchen, Caernarfon, Snowdonia National Park, Wales. Llyn y Dywarchen is a lake in Snowdonia National Park not too far from Rhyd-Ddu, Caernarfon. Llyn
Quarantine large format 4×5 portraits
Category: MPP Micro Technical Mark VI - 4x5, People, Photoshoot, Portrait
So we are in lockdown due to COVID-19 and it’s the ideal time to try out some large format portraits with the kids in the back garden. Here’s the process of capturing a 4×5 photograph of my daughter Rosie just before her 10th birthday. I used my 1950’s Mpp Micro Technical mkVI with the Wray London Lustrar f4.5 184mm Lens. My film choice was Fomapan 100. Here’s how I got on…. It’s crazy to think
Yes I know it’s one of the most photographed trees in the UK but lets see if we can get something a little bit different shall we. I was using the early 1950’s MPP Micro Technical MkIV4x5 large format camera and I had some Fomapan 100 with me loaded up. The weather was slowly turning for the worst and the light slipping away. I metered for a shot that I though would empathise the tree