Theory & Reflections Archives

1 January, 2025

TLR under Grey Skies – A response to Geoff’s TLR challenge

By Paul Quellin

For months after I got a Mamiya C220, I struggled with focusing. There were all sorts of possible explanations and I even visited an optician to discuss the issue in detail. Fin...

29 December, 2024

A Complicated Relationship With Colour Film

By David Smith

“Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.” — Rainer Maria Rilke I just ...

21 December, 2024

When The Burn Out Hits

By Larissa Almeida

When I finished university, I didn’t think burnout would hit me… how very wrong I was indeed. I was fortunate enough to attend a fantastic university, especially for the a...

16 December, 2024

Why You Should Only Shoot in Your Backyard (or ‘The Art of Belonging’)

By Andrea Monti

What do these pictures have in common (apart from having been taken in various places in Japan)? No, they don’t have the same look and feel, composition or use of light, n...

13 December, 2024

Working Undercover – A one (or two) shot story

By Paul Quellin

There were two remaining 5×4 sheets of Ilford Delta 100 left in a dark slide. The sun had finally emerged after weeks with heavily overcast skies. Working from the home off...

3 December, 2024

Can You Get Mojo From TLR Cameras?

By Jeffery Luhn

Tony Warren’s recent post entitled, “My TLRs Over the Years”, got me thinking about the who, what, where, and how my experiences with TLR’s made photography so intriguing… and w...

3 December, 2024

New Horizons and Moving Back in Time

By Philip

Having shot purely digital for well over a decade, I find myself more and more drawn to the analog process and aesthetic of the film medium. This hankering for a more organic an...

1 December, 2024

DSLR Scanning on a Budget: Unlock Stunning Results with an Affordable Enlarger Lens

By Markus Hofstätter

You can fall in quite a huge rabbit hole if you read about scanning negatives with your mirrorless or DSLR camera, lots of people recommend different lenses. You easily can spen...

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