Kings Cross St Pancras, May 2018
Fujifilm X20, Fujinon 7.1-28.4mm f2~2.8 at 8.9mm, 1/300s, f8, ISO 200
Surely there’s nowhere better to practise street photography than in a busy city, hardly anyone gives a photographer a second glance…
Category: Single frame
Single frame… World Wide Pinhole Photography Day
Scallop, Aldeburgh
Panasonic Lumix GF-1, Wanderlust Pinwide 22mm pinhole lens, 1/3s, f128, ISO 100
As it’s World Wide Pinhole Photography Day I thought I’d dig out one of the few attempts I’ve made at a pinhole image.
‘Scallop’ is a sculpture on Aldeburgh beach in Suffolk, dedicated to English composer, conductor and pianist Benjamin Britten. Created by Suffolk-based artist Maggi Hambling, the stainless steel piece is made up of two interlocking scallop shells, each broken, the upright shell being pierced with the words: “I hear those voices that will not be drowned”, which are taken from Britten’s opera Peter Grimes.
The image was made during a holiday to the Suffolk coast back in July 2011. Sadly the Wanderlust Pinwide lens doesn’t seem to be available at the moment and if memory serves it was only ever available for micro 4/3 cameras (which I no longer shoot) but I am rather tempted by one of the Skink Pinhole Pancake lenses for my Fujifilm X-T1…
Single frame… Hard Rock Cafe
Hard Rock Cafe, Manchester
Fujifilm X-T1, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 38mm, 1/80s, f5.6, ISO 1250
Single frame… Saint George’s Day
Saint George and the dragon (at The George, Cley next the Sea)
iPhone 5s, Hipstamatic app.
I don’t use the camera on my iPhone very often but when I do I tend to use the Hipstamatic app.
This shot of a stained-glass window in The George Hotel, Cley next the Sea in Norfolk was taken using the John S ‘lens’ and DreamCanvas ‘film’ settings.
Single frame… Sexy Mamma Love Spaghetti
Sexy Mamma Love Spaghetti, Nottingham, December 2017
Nikon FE2, Nikkor 45mm f/2.8P – 1/60s, f8, – Lomo Lady Grey 400 rated at ISO 320
Loving this low budget sign on a little restaurant in Hockley, Nottingham… I haven’t tried the food there yet but if the reviews are anything to go by I’m gonna!
Single frame… Photo Kodak Cine
Photo Kodak Cine, January 2016
Fuji Superia 400
I started my return to film photography in 2016 and was even worse at making notes then than I am now… as a result I’m not even sure which camera this image was shot on… I ‘think’ it was an Olympus XA that I’d received as part of the Emulsive ‘Secret Santa’ a few weeks previously but I’m not 100% sure!
This empty shop is in Donzy, a commune in the Nièvre department in central France, I don’t know how long it’s been vacant for but retail properties don’t seem to sell quickly in rural France so it may have been empty for years. I’d love to have seen it (and shopped there) when it was still in business…
Single frame… Café.Bar.
Café.Bar. Nottingham, December 2017
Nikon FE2, Nikkor 45mm f/2.8P – 1/1000s, f4, – Lomo Lady Grey 400 rated at ISO 320
A snapshot taken while passing the Nottingham Contemporary art centre in the Lace Market area of Nottingham. I must confess that I’ve never been inside the building but funnily enough have managed to enter the deconsecrated church next door that’s now the Pitcher & Piano pub!
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Single frame… Canal Cottage
Canal Cottage, February 2018
Canon Sure Shot Sleek, – Kentmere 400
This cottage stands beside the Cromford Canal in Derbyshire, at the point where the ‘Nightingale Arm’ meets the main canal. Built by Florence Nightingale’s uncle the arm served a lead smelter at the village of Lea Bridge. Known as ‘Aqueduct Cottage’ (due to the proximity of the Leawood Aqueduct over the River Derwent) it was originally home to the Nightingale Arm’s lengthsman (the worker responsible for the maintenance and repair of a section of canal).
Another shot from my first roll of Kentmere 400 film, one of three that was a Christmas present from my wife, the Canon Sure Shot Sleek was yet another charity shop find.
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Monochrome Monday… The Gallery Café, January 2018
The Gallery Café, January 2018
Pentax MZ-30 + SMC-A 28mm f/2.8 – 1/45s, f4, – Kodak T400CN
One of my projects for 2018 is to become more comfortable with street photography, a genre I’ve never had much success with (one of many if truth be told…)
This is one of my recent attempts, taken in the Millennium Gallery in Sheffield during a trip to view the exhibition of images from last year’s Photo Marathon Sheffield.
With hindsight a camera with a waist-level viewfinder might be a better bet for future attempts… less obvious than holding an SLR to the eye.
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Single frame… Kodak T-Max P3200
Eddy Morton, The Fishpond, 1999
Nikon F-801s or F90X, AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 or AF Nikkor 85mm f/1.8 – Kodak T-Max P3200
Following Kodak’s announcement yesterday that the much-missed black & white film T-Max P3200 is to make a return I thought I’d post another pic shot on that film… (for others see here and here).
This is what I mainly used it for, concert photography… In this case Eddy Morton performing with The Bushburys at The Fishpond in Matlock Bath back in 1999.
I’ve got no notes regarding development but do know that the film was rated at box speed and remember the negatives being surprisingly easy to print.
I’ll definitely be ordering a few rolls…
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