I am very pleased to be able to share these images with you. From time to time I'm asked to process and print for an artist friend. This is my first exclusive you will not find any photographs by this artist anywhere else on the net.
Technical Data:
Camera lomograph Fisheye 2, hand held, Film Fomapan 400, box speed, developed in RO9, Printed on Kentmere VC RC gloss 9x12, developed in Tentenal Eukobrom AC.
All the images I print are chosen by the artist from a contact print of the whole film. I'm instructed not to dodge or burn unless it is really necessary.
Showing posts with label lomography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lomography. Show all posts
Saturday, 19 November 2016
Picture Post Fisheye.
Labels:
black and white,
Eukobrom ac,
film,
fisheye 2,
fomapan 400,
Kentmere,
lomography,
monochrome,
paper,
picture post,
ro9
Saturday, 22 March 2014
Dogs Dinner.
Well
not quite, a dogs water bowl!
There is no chance of it falling in his dinner because his head is in
the bowl before it hits the floor. The film was more likely to
become a chew.
I
noticed that two film containers were sitting on the kitchen
table. Thinking they were empty I picked them up to throw away, to
discover that they were not. I opened one and out dropped a roll of
exposed colour film. Butter fingers here managed to drop the roll of
film! The consequence of these finger fumbling, was splash! straight
into the dogs water bowl. My wife said that she had not seen me move
that fast since my superman days. I need reminding, what superman
days?
After
a bit of dancing around to shake the water out, it was off to the
local supermarket for development. An outlet we had not tried before.
The film was also long out of date - nearly a decade. If it had not
been for the fact I was on my way out I would have blacked out the
darkroom and removed the film for drying. These things always happen
when you're short of time.
As
it turns out the water had destroyed nearly half the frames on a film
of twenty four. The up shot of this was we only had to pay half the
normal fee. There was also colour shift on some of the prints. This
I put down to the water damage.
Labels:
colour,
dog,
film,
fisheye 2,
fun,
funny story,
lomography,
mistake,
out of date,
photography,
shift
Sunday, 6 October 2013
A bit of a surprise.
There was
a new kid on the block, a brash whipper snapper that goes by the name of Fisheye 2.
This little fellow punches above his weight with the quality of pictures he
produces. I'm not sure why I am surprised at this. I can only think that my
view of the toy camera market has been tainted by the snobbery of professionalism!
It is a brilliant piece of kit that allows a further string to the creative
bow.
Let's be
honest it is not my camera. My wife purchased it because she loves the fish
bowl effect it produces when printed. She also thinks that the double, triple
and many more exposures on a single frame are awesome. But the main thing is
ease of use.
This can lead to a bit of a dispute over who took what, especially when both of us are using it at the same venue! The only rule, once a film is finished we agree that colour or monochrome film is loaded. My wife prefers colour but more black and white film has been exposed.
This can lead to a bit of a dispute over who took what, especially when both of us are using it at the same venue! The only rule, once a film is finished we agree that colour or monochrome film is loaded. My wife prefers colour but more black and white film has been exposed.
Basically it
is a point and shoot camera with a 170 degree field of view. With a couple of
important buttons the most important as far as my wife in concerned is the
little one on the back that allows the shutter to be re-primed for multi
exposures and the other on the top right front by the shutter release ( which i
think is the most important), this controls exposure the; L position locks the
shutter so it is not tripped accidentally; N is the standard setting of 1/100
sec @ F8 and B a bulb setting that allows long exposures.
I must admit
it's good to get away from all those decisions an SLR brings to the picture
taking process. Just concentrating on the composition is unexpectedly liberating knowing that if it
all go's wrong it is a minds eye fault and not a technical one! when it comes
to multiple exposures where serendipity influences the mix, some are far better
than others. Nevertheless always interesting. I felt that I had been
taken back in time to the excitement and wonder I experienced with my first
camera.
It was a
surprise when Elizabeth Roberts editor of
Black and White photography magazine got in touch asking if it would be
OK to publish some of these pictures in the portfolio section. An unexpected
boost to what has been a bad news year.
These
pictures were taken in and around Baton upon Humber area, over a number of
visits. They are a mix of pictures all made playfully exploiting the advantages
of the lens. I had not intended to create a series. It just so happens to be an
interesting part of the river Humber with its nature reserves, the bridge and
foot path that extends to the estuary.
Three makes
of film were used Agfa APX @100 ISO, out of date HP5 @400 ISO and out of date
Fomapan 200 @200 ISO all developed in ID11. The pictures have been printed on a
number of different photographic papers. The ones that appear in the magazine
are printed on silverproof matt. Developed in a mix of Moersch SE6 blue and
Ilford warmtone.
Labels:
black and white,
editor,
film,
fish bowl,
fisheye 2,
lomography,
magazine,
moersch,
photography,
silverproof
Friday, 13 September 2013
Same picture different camera.
The
recent airing of a documentary on Vivian Maier sparked a debate between my wife
and myself not on the wonderful pictures taken but about her camera equipment
and what it has added to her pictures.
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Vivian used
a twin lens reflex camera (TLR). As the name implies it has a viewing lens of
the same focal length placed above the lens in front of the negative. They are
coupled together so when the viewing image is sharp it is the same at the focal
plane. There are several things to note when using this type of camera. One of
the oddities is the image; it is reversed, left is right and vice versa. So if
someone or object is moving towards the left of the screen the camera will need
to be moved to the right. It is
something that is a bit disconcerting when using the camera, more so for the
first few times. The view screen gives no indication of depth of field until
the negative is printed as there is no aperture settings. This lens design also
exhibits the parallax effect this is
where the juxtapositions between far and near objects are seen differently between the two lenses. This can
be compensated for by moving the picture taking lens up to where the viewing
lens is positioned.
Fg 2 |
With the
idiosyncrasy of the TLR explained, it makes the street pictures she took even
more wonderful. But I digress, this post is really about - 'does the camera add
something of it's self to the picture?' In other words would you have taken
that picture no matter what camera you were using?
I have
canvassed opinions from other photographers and it has been suggested that the
different working methods needed for different camera types and formats would
indicate that the camera adds something of it's self to the picture. Or is it
just perception? I will admit that certain cameras like the Lomo fisheye 2
undoubtedly adds to the composition in a particular way with its fish bowl
negatives and distorted edges, this is also true of the pinhole camera with
it's long exposures and blurred movement. These camera are chosen because of
these attributes but the same could be said for the main stream digital, 35mm,
medium, large format multi lensed system cameras. Maybe the premise is wrong
and it is the lens that leaves its mark so to speak.
Fg2 |
Lets be
honest there are a multitude of factors that come into play when making a
picture. With the camera lens combination playing the leading roll. I have not
until the above question arose, made the same picture with different cameras
and formats from the identical place. In my case it just does not happen.
Figure 1
Lomo fisheye 2 and figure 2 Nikon F5 with 28mm lens both 35mm Agfa APX 100 film
@ ISO 100 are a couple of examples where I have made the same picture with a
different camera in about the same place.
In
conclusion the camera and lens you choose to use has an effect on the pictures
you take therefore imparting something of is self on the end result.
Fg1 |
Labels:
camera,
documentary,
lomography,
monochrome,
photography,
traditional,
twin lens reflex,
Vivian Maier
Thursday, 8 November 2012
Out of date HP5+ develpoed in ID11
Lomo Fisheye two |
As
far as I can remember (going by recent events that’s a bit dubious)
this film is about seven years out of date. With this in mind you
would of thought I should have picked a camera that allowed ISO
adjustments. I didn't! Lomo's fisheye 2 was the camera chosen meaning
that the HP5+ would have to be exposed at box speed (400 iso) Unlike
a lot of people I don't have a problem with box speed and anyway it
is in the best tradition of the toy camera cult along with Light leaking
cameras, plastic lens, unpredictable focus and a lot of fun.
After
all these years I still get the little bit of apprehension as I do a
quick check of the film just before the wash stage. I need not have
worried as I remove the reel from the developing tank I can just make
out a line of rectangles along the film. The proof of the pudding
will be when I print them.
I am very pleased with the way these negatives have printed. There is no sign of grain even though they have been enlarged to fit 9.5”x12” paper. I have used Silverproof matt paper at grade three and processed in Moersch 6 blue tone developer. Which produces a rich blue black that does not translate very well from scanned pictures.
Labels:
darkroom,
developer,
hp5+,
id11,
lomography,
paper,
process,
silverproof,
toy camera
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