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Black & White, Contrast !

Posted in Vintage Cameras, tagged , , on July 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Cool thing about shooting in B&W it allows you to be creative with lighting leading to wonderful contrast !
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Camera: Minolta XG-1, Film: Ilford Delta 400

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Lenses are important…

Posted in Camera Techniques, Vintage Cameras, tagged , , , , on July 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »

The most important thing on a camera without a doubt is the lens, without it, taking photos, unless it’s a pinhole camera, is futile !  So then why not spend $$$’s on a very good lens ?  But what’s the definition of a good lens ? Hmmm,  for me… it’s a lens that is capable of capturing [...]

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Why we walk away…

Posted in Vintage Cameras, tagged , on May 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »

The thing I love most about photography is the freedom to tell a story without words…

 
Camera:  Minolta XG-1, Film: Ilford Delta 400.

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Dodge. Burn. Angle.

Posted in Camera Techniques, Post Processing Techniques, Vintage Cameras, tagged on May 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’m no landscape photographer, don’t really have the patience for it (and seeing some landscape photags in action tells me you need a lot of it).  Although having said this I do like to experiment and add my own take on landscape photography, sometimes a scene a just too nice to let go !
So.  What do [...]

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Positive & Negative Film, Together.

Posted in Film Manipulation, Vintage Cameras, tagged , , , , on January 26, 2009 | 9 Comments »

Today I was going over my negatives and I thought I should scan two together at once, but I thought I’d do something a bit different.  One negative was a normal negative B&W and the other was a colour positive C41 (cross processing C41 with E-6 chems turns them into positives).  OK, so I joined them two together [...]

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Mitten Motion Blur Layer.

Posted in Layers & Textures, Post Processing Techniques, Vintage Cameras, tagged , , , on January 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Aside from taking photos and trying to shoot them right I do love to take them only to completely destroy them too !  So this evening I’m sitting back, chilling out, doing not much really when I spot my mittens nearby (don’t know why they’re nearby as it is middle of summer where i am !).  Anyway, I grabbed [...]

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