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28 October, 2024

TLR Challenge: 2 – The Spirit in the Sky (A One Shot Story)

By Geoff Chaplin

This is a bit of an aside from the general theme of the challenge – equipment, method and composition. Something that just appeared and deserves its own entry. We arrived ...

4 October, 2024

From Negative to Positive in Colour – My Experience & Workflow

By Tony Warren

A method for inverting colour negatives in software.

2 October, 2024

TLR Challenge: 1 – User Errors

By Geoff Chaplin

There are no mistakes, only learning experiences. After about 8 weeks from the start of my challenge I’ve had plenty of learning experiences so I thought it would be worthwhile ...

1 October, 2024

Just like riding a bike

By Gary Smith

This article will sort of be all over the place however the main gist of it will be the fact that after 52 years I haven’t forgotten how to develop film. I realize that th...

24 July, 2024

Learning to Shoot Fashion Shows on Film

By Ananthan Nambiar

I recently started spending more time with the portrait photography community at university, which heavily intersected with the sustainable fashion community. As a result, I had...

21 July, 2024

The Cost of the Mamiya 7

By Andrew

In the early days of the pandemic I purchased a Mamiya 7 kit from an old timer at a reasonable price. This had long been a dream camera of mine and I had been searching for one ...

Close up of Canon AE-1 35mm camera on desk

19 June, 2024

My First Five Rolls of Film (Ever)

By William Ryan

I didn’t mean to get into shooting film. It was never my plan, never something I set out to do. I certainly had no idea that the format was becoming popular again, or more popul...

27 April, 2024

Going Analog on Okinawa – Part IV – DSLR Scanning

By David Tan

Part four of four – the previous post can be found here I think this is the final part. I believe having crossed the point in which I have a functional film shooting/produ...

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Scott Ferguson on Human Photography – My Definition and my Work
Hey Alexandre, Great response! I love that your first response is to ask me to think about how I would…
David Smith on My five rules for taking street portraits
Thanks for taking the time to comment, Giacomo. I hope it all goes well in Zurich. Happy shooting. ~david
Adrien Grelet on A third of a roll with a Pentax Spotmatic F and Kentmere Pan 200
Nice pictures ! I really like the diagonal compositions you've made with towers and chimeys.

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