Scott Ferguson, Author at 35mmc

10 October, 2025

One By Four – A One Shot Story told by four photographers

By Scott Ferguson

First, I’d like to thank my fellow 35mmc contributors David Pauley, David Hume and Dean Lawrence for having the temerity to quadruple down on the idea of a dialogue-driven post ...

28 September, 2025

Hitting the “Zone” – Shot-by-Shot street shooting with a Hasselblad 500CM

By Scott Ferguson

Going out to shoot still photos can be a bit of a ‘hit or miss’ experience for me. While always starting with high hopes to shoot beautiful and/or memorable photos,...

18 September, 2025

Pushing Color – A Survey of Popular Color Films Pushed By Two Stops

By Scott Ferguson

This post came as something of an outgrowth of my big spring/summer 2025 Black & White Survey which featured in five installments here on 35mmc. As I was moving through the...

26 August, 2025

In Search of Darkness and Light: Black & White Film Stocks, Part 5 – The Conclusion

By Scott Ferguson

This all started as a friendly conversation about looking for a ‘go to’ black & white film choice, partly because I wanted to stock up before the US tariffs kick...

13 August, 2025

In Search of Darkness and Light, B&W Film Stocks, Part 4

By Scott Ferguson

If you are still reading this deep in my informal and unscientific survey of black and white film stocks, I salute your endurance in following what has evolved from a mild curio...

4 August, 2025

Five by Two: Two Photographers Look at Five Frames

By Scott Ferguson

By way of introduction, fellow contributor David Pauley and I are doing a variation on the “Five Frames” post where I will be leading a conversation about five frames of David’s...

19 July, 2025

Meeting Jamel Shabazz – in which a chance encounter turns into a Master Class in street portraiture

By Scott Ferguson

Photographing people is easy in an urban setting like New York because they are everywhere. Getting good shots of people, maybe not so easy. In my early days of trying to shoot...

16 July, 2025

A Journey into Darkness and Light, B&W Film Stocks, Part 3

By Scott Ferguson

In Part 1 of this series, I was exploring the different black & white stocks I had in my Lightroom Library, looking at things I had already shot to try to see the impact tha...

Scott Gitlin on Sunday morning with the Industar 61 in a Fuji XT-1
Love the compositions you have created . . . along with the color palette.
John Bennett on Purple Rain on 47-year old expired film – The Whole Roll
Great photos! Normally, I am at a bit of a loss re: the attraction many people feel for expired film,…
Tim Hancock on Nikon F3 at the British Iron Works
Good read thanks - fellow Nikon F and monochrome shooter !

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