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My Favourite Images
Here are my favourite images from past few weeks – some digital – some paper negatives, x-ray film etc.. It’s good to take time and look...
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Apr 26, 20201 min read
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Glass dry plate – poured emulsion
Self portrait- These are my first attempts at pouring liquid silver gelatine emulsion (Foma from Silverprint) onto a glass plate to make...
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Apr 25, 20201 min read
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My new book – Old Parson’s Fruit ‘n’ Veg
Old Parson’s Fruit ‘n’ Veg is the title, Fruit-‘n’-Veg through old glass – is the content of my new Blurb book. created at the suggestion...
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Apr 25, 20201 min read
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Looking to the stars with an old eye
I love making star-trail images with my DSLR, but wanted to see what I could achieve with my 100 year old camera (Thornton Pickard...
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Apr 24, 20201 min read
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A perfect marriage?
Pleased to have successfully “married” my Dallmeyer 8″ (f2.9-11) to a, recently acquired, Thornton Pickard Imperial (Full Plate). I have...
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Apr 23, 20201 min read
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Exploring old cameras
Having started with the Victorian bellows cameras I thought I’d explore some other old cameras and see if I could use them with paper...
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Apr 23, 20201 min read
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So busy trying new things ……
I was surprised to see my last post was over 3 months ago. But I haven’t been idle – far from it, especially now we are “locked down” at...
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Apr 23, 20202 min read
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Lovely images from aged Kodabrome
Tempted by the low price I have some 10-year-old Kodabrome photographic paper to try as paper negative in my large format 10×8 1900s...
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Dec 13, 20191 min read
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10×8 Paper negative success in Bristol
With the arrival of a sturdy period tripod (Gandolfi) I had much more success photographing in Bristol around the Cumberland Basin today....
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Dec 1, 20191 min read
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Light leaks overcome
From my previous post it will be clear there was a serious light leak problem with my 10×8 1909 bellows field camera. Investigations in a...
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Nov 25, 20191 min read
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Frustrating couple of days – light leaks
Saturday – A trip to Lacock Abbey and the Fox Talbot museum with the 10×8 and 4 negatives to shoot – sadly 3 big shadows on the images. I...
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Nov 17, 20191 min read
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DIY large format enlarger
Successful experiment to to use 100 yr old field camera as the enlarger for the 5×7 negatives taken with it. Key breakthrough was using a...
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Nov 8, 20191 min read
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Some Success with Waterfalls
Today I took the 100 year old large format (10×8) camera to Wales – waterfall country. Recent heavy rains meant a good flow of water over...
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Nov 3, 20191 min read
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Still life successes
Using my antique (1900s) large format (10×8) bellows field camera I have been making some successful still life images. I decided to move...
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Oct 18, 20192 min read
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Lens problems with The New Countess
Today was time to take the New Countess full plate camera to Clevedon and try some images of the wonderful Victorian Pier. Shame it was...
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Oct 9, 20191 min read
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Large Format Portrait – Artificial Light
With its custom replacement glass screen fitted (https://www.ebay.com/usr/virgisst ) I have made some further tests of the recently...
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Oct 8, 20191 min read
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Progress with the New Countess
A windless, bright day meant I could take the Countess into the garden and learn more about how it performs. Successful experiments with...
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Oct 7, 20191 min read
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Progress with The New Countess – 10×8 Camera
With some decent weather I have been able to take the “New Countess” into the garden and make some more trial images, testing out the...
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Oct 5, 20191 min read
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Going “large”
Having tried 10×8 photography using my cardboard cameras and being satisfied with the results I decided that it was time to “go large”....
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Oct 2, 20192 min read
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DIY Cardboard Camera Mk2
After some success with the first cardboard box camera, and wanting to produce some large format (10×8 inch) images, I set about...
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Aug 26, 20192 min read
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