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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
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
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, December 7th, 2022
Here are a couple of pictures made with my Graflex Speed Graphic 5×4 camera and Kodak Aero Ektar lens. It’s been a very long time since I last used this set-up so I decided to test it out in Jericho, Oxford. I always envisioned this camera/lens combo for making portraits and was very fortunate to have a friendly couple that were willing to stand very still for me. The camera movements are very limited but I used some front swing to try to bring both faces into focus without stopping the lens down too much (I think I was at f4). The maximum aperture is f2.5 which gives a razor thin depth of field on 5×4 film.
[Tech info:] Graflex Speed Graphic 5×4, Kodak Aero Ektar lens, Fomapan 100 film (expired), developed in HC110 1+63 for 10 mins.
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Tags: 5x4, aero ektar, film, fomapan, hc110, jericho, oxford, speed graphic
Tuesday, October 18th, 2022
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Tags: 30mm, 6x6, black&white, film, fish-eye, kiev 60, matriculation, oxford, people, students
Saturday, September 17th, 2022
The last few portraits I made at the Oxford Beard Festival 2022. Thank you to everyone that stood very still for me. I’m pleased with how the portraits turned out.
[Tech info:] Sinar P 10×8, Dallmeyer 3A lens, f8 3D printed Waterhouse stop. Fomapan 100 (expired 2017) ISO 50, Kodak HC110 1+63 10mins.
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Tags: 10x8, beard, black&white, dallmeyer, film, fomapan, hc110, oxford, people, portraits, sinar
Monday, September 12th, 2022
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Tags: 10x8, black&white, dallmeyer, film, fomapan, hc110, oxford, people, portraits