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Very nice.

Here's a couple of mine.

I did some event photography the other day for my mum's charity. It was everything I feared about wedding photography. Blindingly sunny day that meant everything in the sun was completely blown out and everything in the shade was completely black. In and out of the marquee, which was white just for some extra blown-out goodness, was completely different lighting too. Then just as I thought I had everyone, I found that half of the guests had been hanging around the other side of the marquee, in the broken shade of the trees for maximum variation in lighting.

I spent a couple of hours that night sorting through the pics and turning the saturation up, to compensate for the flash making everyone look pale as death, and emailed some low-res copies to my mum. The downside of that is it makes teeth look yellow so now I'm going through all of them with the sponge tool desaturating everyone's gob.

Film stash in freezer



I buy expired film on ebay and if it's less than 10 years old it doesn't make much of a difference if it's properly stored.  As a rough guide over expose by 1 stop per 10 years.

I develop in a paterson tank which does 3x 120 films at once or 5x 35mm.  Xtol is my fave B&W developer.  I also do C41 and E6 colour with Tetenol kits, the kits state you get 12 uses out of them but actually you can get around 30 so they are pretty cost effective.

Developing medium format E6 positives is really something else, especially on a 6x9cm camera, the slides are massive and being able to just hold them up to the light and see the actual colours is amazing to me.  Slide film like Velvia or provia is just beautiful.

I scan film on an Epson V800 which is fantastic for the price, a world away from every other scanner in the £500 mark - https://www.epson.co.uk/gb/en/viewcon/corporatesite/products/mainunits/overview/13567

I was looking at one of those Voigtlanders and that Mamiya when I was shopping for MF. I ended up going for a Seagull TLR after being outbid on every other fucking thing in the world.

I was surprised about how much it upped by game. I don't press the shutter half as much any more and the quality of my pictures is higher.

Visit Scotland posted a photo of mine on their website.  I sent it to them 2 years ago and they put it up then as well.  So that was a bit odd.  Still, quite nice of them, though.

Wait is "82" not your real surname?!

Lovely photo! What o'clock was it taken at?

It's still pretty tasty tho. I've thought about using headlights for long exposures. I'll remember to take something to diffuse it if I do.

If any of you are in Glasgow towards the end of the month, our college course's end of year exhibition is at the Theatre Royal from Thursday the 26th to Monday the 30th. Free entry. We all have a couple of photos up, some of which are very cool.

I found out today that Matthew Modine is a photographer and spent time on the set of Full Metal Jacket, photographing the cast and set with his Rollieflex TLR. All with Kubrick's blessing.







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Matt_82 wrote:

Can't help but admire medium format cameras. But look at the size of those fuckers.

I had an RB67 for a while, slightly older than the RZ67. It was fantastic, the lenses are amazing and the workflow is very good, and they can be picked up for peanuts now. But it's really a studio camera, carrying it around was a bit of a pain.

I wouldn't ever consider the Pentax 67 due to the massive shutter slap, even with a heavy duty tripod the slap means you sometimes get a bit of a double exposure. I prefer medium format rangefinders for these reasons.

Recently took my Mamiya 6 and Bessa 2 on holiday, just developing the pics now, will post some up soon.

Nice one Matt! Get that printed and framed asap!

Stock photo sites just sell the image on your behalf. You might know who bought it but you'd have no idea what they intended to use it for.