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Friday, March 1st, 2024
Here is my first portrait on dry glass plate. I found a box of old Ilford FP4 glass dry plates at home and have no idea when I bought them. The box doesn’t have an expiry date on it. As luck would have it they’re the correct size (2.5 x 3.5 inches) to fit the Mamiya Press plate holders I’ve got but so far have been unable to make use of. This portrait of another fellow photographer during his visit to Oxford was made last weekend in Radcliffe Square. I don’t know him but I enjoyed chatting about photography with him as I set up the shot. I’m very pleased with this result (it has a vintage feel to it) and look forward to making more portraits with the remaining glass plates. The emulsion is very fragile when wet and you can see it lifted along the right hand side.
[Tech info:] Mamiya Press Super 23, 100/2.8 lens (at f4), FP4 glass dry plate exposed at ISO 10, developed in Rodinal 1+25. (Thanks to Nicholas Middleton for his inspiration and blog posts full of info about using old glass plates).
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Tags: 1+25, 2024, fp4, glass plates, mamiya universal, oxford, portrait, rodinal
Wednesday, December 27th, 2023
Some shots from yesterday when I was testing a Schneider Xenotar lens I recently picked up. Very overcast flat light but the results are OK.
[Tech info:] Chamonix 45F2, 135/3.5 Xenotar lens (yellow filter apart from the portrait), Fomapan 100 @ ISO 64, developed in ID-11 1+1 for 10m 30s.
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Tags: 5x4, black&white, Chamonix, film, fomapan 100, ID11, oxford, xenotar
Tuesday, October 10th, 2023
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Tags: 65mm, 6x6, black&white, c330, film, fp4, ilford, oxford, people, portraits, students, xt-3
Wednesday, October 4th, 2023
A few portraits made by the river to test a lens I’ve had for a while. Aperture used for these was f8-f8.5.
[Tech info:] Chamonix 45F2, 10 inch f6.3 Kodak Commercial Ektar lens, yellow filter, Fomapan 200 film @ ISO 100, developed in Adox XT-3 stock for 6 mins.
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Tags: 5x4, black&white, Chamonix, ektar lens, film, fomapan 200, oxford, people, portraits, xt-3
Wednesday, September 20th, 2023
There was some flooding in Hinksey back in January and here are a few pictures from that time which I made during my lunch break. I had spotted the gravel mounds the previous week and was waiting for appropriate light and a dramatic sky to photograph them in.
[Tech info:] Pentax 645NII, 45-85mm lens, Ilford HP5 developed in Kodak HC110 1+31.
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Tags: 45-85, 645, black&white, film, flood, hc110, hinksey, HP5, ilford, oxford
Tuesday, September 19th, 2023
Some misty morning shots from April this year. I have photographed this location with various different cameras but this was the first time with a wider format. I feel 6×12 worked perfectly for these shots.
[Tech info]: Wista 5×4, 90mm Schneider lens, Ilford FP4+ developed in Adox XT-3 stock.
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Tags: 5x4, adox, black&white, film, fp4, ilford, mist, oxford, wista, xt-3
Monday, September 18th, 2023
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Tags: 125mm, 6x6, adox, black&white, film, fp4, HP5, ilford, leitz, oxford, rolleiflex, SL66, xt-3
Sunday, September 17th, 2023
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Tags: 10x8, black&white, film, gp3, hc110, oxford, people, portraits, shanghai
Sunday, March 5th, 2023
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Tags: 6x6, black&white, endeavour, film, filming, oxford, rolleiflex, s7e3, tmax400
Friday, March 3rd, 2023
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Tags: 2.8f, 6x6, black&white, endeavour, film, filming, hc110, kodak, new college, oxford, people, portraits, rolleiflex, s9e1
Thursday, March 2nd, 2023
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Tags: 35mm, black&white, endeavour, film, filming, fp4, hc110, leica, m6, new college, oxford, pakon, people, s9e1, sx70, voigtlander
Wednesday, March 1st, 2023
Behind the scenes photography during filming of Endeavour 9 | FILM 1 in Oxford, May 2022. This was in the fellows garden of New College, a location previously used when Endeavour chases a pickpocket out onto New College Lane in series 7. I was excited to see a Polaroid SX70 camera being used in this scene and it was fully functioning. The props guy was too young to have seen one of these cameras before so I explained how to operate it and loaded a fresh pack of film for him.
[Tech info:] Rolleiflex 2.8F, Fuji Pro 400H film, Fuji Frontier scans.
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Tags: 400H, 6x6, c41, endeavour, film, filming, new college, oxford, rolleiflex, s9e1, sx70