Showing posts with label Fujifilm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fujifilm. Show all posts
Wednesday, 17 May 2017
Saturday, 13 May 2017
London St Pancras…
A brief trip south by train last week saw me travelling lighter than usual, restricting myself to one camera and just the two lenses…
Packing a single, small bag at the last minute didn't leave much room for photographic equipment but I managed to squeeze in my Fujifilm X-T10 body + XF 35mm f2 R WR lens combination and (for a bit of variety) the 14mm f2.8 R lens.
I didn't get much chance to take photographs until I was passing through London St Pancras station on the return journey but did come up with a couple of images whilst changing trains…
Paul Day's 2007 sculpture 'The Meeting Place' (also known as 'The Lovers') stands at the south end of the station and I never get tired of looking at it but invariably end up photographing it from the 'wrong' side which at least lets me also capture some of the fantastic 245ft wide train shed, designed by William Henry Barlow and constructed by the Butterley Company in 1868. The ultra-wide 14mm (135 equivalent: 21mm) lens allowed me to capture the full 9m height of the statue.
I switched to my current fave lens, the tiny, weatherproof 35mm f2 (135 equivalent: 53mm) for a quick shot of Martin Jennings' wonderful bronze statue of the former Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman which commemorates the poet's successful campaign to save the station from demolition in the 1960s.
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
Expired Film Day 2017
Can it really be almost a year since my last post? 'Bad Andy!'
Anyway…
"Expired Film Day celebrates the joys of using film whose Use-By date has (preferably long-since) passed. One of the particular pleasures of being a film-using photographer in these modern times is the abundance of expired-but-still-probably-pretty-good film on the market, found in grandparents’ attics or at thrift stores, or sourced from the freezers of pros who’ve gone digital.
Expired film can be unpredictable: if you know how it was stored, it might be easy to compensate for its age, if that’s even necessary. If you don’t, your results could range from dark, to flat, to color-shifted and beyond. Many people today say the potential unpredictability of using film is part of what draws them to it over digital; using expired film takes the existing unpredictability of using film and compounds it."
The above is lifted from the 'Expired Film Day' website, explaining the idea far better than I can…
Expired Film Day is tomorrow, March 15th, and I'll being joining in by using up some of this…
In these…
So that's some Ilford Pan F+ dated 2007, a couple of rolls of Fujicolor SuperG Plus 200 dated 1997 and some Kodak Gold 100 dated 1996!
Add one classic camera (Olympus Trip 35 - a charity shop find) and one unloved runt of the litter (Nikon FG-20 + 50mm Series E lens) and I'm all set.
Wish me luck!
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
Friday, 31 July 2015
Just take the photo!
I wonder how many of us, even with digital photography, end up not taking a photo just because the conditions we find ourselves in are less than our ideal?
For example… While visiting friends at the weekend one of their cats suddenly appeared outside a rather high (but ground floor) window and kept peering in, all wide-eyed at the humans in her house!
For a few minutes we just watched (and chuckled at) her amusing behaviour but I didn't reach for my camera because I'm not that keen on shooting through glass (Ariel's antics would've kept me amused (photographically speaking) for ages without a window in the way).
Eventually though I did pick up my camera (Fujifilm X-E1 + 18-55mm lens) and grabbed a couple of shots…
I'm glad I did and I'll try to overcome my reluctance to take a shot when that person/car/cloud is in the 'wrong' place or indeed that cat is on the 'wrong' side of the window in future…
Friday, 24 July 2015
Nightwires, Nikon F3, Neopan…
Off to an album launch party at The Tap in Derby tonight celebrating the release of The Nightwires second album "Life of Sound" and as usual I'm planning to take a few photos… with this setup…
Nikon F3 HP, Nikkor 85mm f2 AIS lens and some (out of date) Fuji Neopan 1600 film…
Wish me luck!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)