3 January, 2020
5 Frames With FujiFilm Venus 800 – By Simon King
Frequent readers may remember my struggle around the discontinued FujiFilm Neopan 400, and the compromises I had to make. I now have reason again to be frustrated with FujiFilm ...
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7 December, 2019
Reflecting on Some Film Photography Failures – by Simon King
As we approach the end of the year, and nights draw in closer, and colder, I'm taking the opportunity to go through my archive of photographs, in order to start curating them in...
23 November, 2019
5 Frames by Candlelight: 0.5-4s Exposures on Ilford HP5+ at EI 800 – by Simon King
We've reached the season of pushing film; early nights begin to encroach, and rain clouds diffuse the day. This time last year I started to play with Delta 3200 for everyday use...
23 November, 2019
5 Frames With FPP Retrochrome 400 – by Simon King
Slide film is a very difficult concept for me, as my experience of it so far has been the options currently in production - quite a bit more expensive than negative film, and fe...
I recently wrote a 5 Frames With Fomapan 400 where I described the results shot at EI1600 with a 2 stop push. Although these weren't excessively bad I think I'll be sticking to ...
2 November, 2019
5 Frames with Fomapan 400 “Action” (@ EI1600) – by Simon King
Fomapan is one of those films that I tried early on when I first started shooting film - a gateway option which allowed me to explore the process of a mechanical camera without ...
6 October, 2019
5 Frames with Kodak T-Max 400 – by Simon King
T-Max 400 has an odd place in my film workflow, as although I rate what it offers aesthetically very highly, I find myself choosing not to shoot it that often, opting instead fo...
4 October, 2019
Rangefinder vs. SLR – Protest Photography – by Simon King
One of my favourite environments to photograph is a protest. Over the last few years I've had plenty of opportunities to document all kinds of demonstrations and protests; peace...