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31 December, 2025

The Technical Side of My Photography – A Reflection on How I Shoot

By Alexandre Kreisman

This post will be a mix of reflections on my technical approach, things I have observed while shooting. Let’s start at the beginning: Me! I tend to be a perfectionist. I s...

30 December, 2025

The Discipline of One Lens

By Ken Davis

Life is too easy for photographers these days! We have wide-ranging, versatile zoom lenses. Those folk using phones also have a choice of focal lengths on many models. Now I usu...

28 December, 2025

A Potted History of the Last Two Years of my Return to Film Photography

By Thomas Eland

During my pre digital life I was mostly a Pentax fan, using their SL, SP, ES, ME, MX, LX, 67 and 645…all long gone. The last three I bought whilst I was in Hong Kong for a...

22 December, 2025

The Immediate, the Medium, the Media & the Median.

By Peter Ots

In 2013, Impossible Project first teased — and then actually delivered — a miracle device: the Instant Lab, which printed onto Polaroid film. Reviews and press coverage savored ...

15 December, 2025

A New Take on “Take”

By Tom Warland

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the vocabulary we use in photography—specifically the words we reach for without even realising. Words like take, capture, and shoot. They’...

A Zeiss-Ikon Tenax I, a box of Kodak ColorPlus film, and a Zeiss-Ikon Taxona in its leather case.

7 December, 2025

5 frames of pulling color film two stops for no good reason

By Christopher Pye

I read plenty about pushing film when I dived into film photography a few years ago: you willingly underexpose your pictures and later compensate in development, leaving the fil...

5 December, 2025

Reflecting on a few of my failures

By Alexandre Kreisman

I’ve seen some very nice posts on this site over the last couple of weeks, Scott Ferguson, Ibraar Hussain and myself even got to start critique about some posts, which I f...

29 November, 2025

A Journey Through 26 Cameras and Expired Film

By Ricardo Andrade

I started shooting analog in 2011, using expired film from the abandoned darkroom at the Microscopy Facility where I work, at the University of the Basque Country. You can read ...

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Bob Palmieri on 5 Frames with the Zeiss Ikon Contaflex II and Kodak Portra 400
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Ibraar Hussain on Konica Infrared 750nm – Experimenting with Expired Infrared Film
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Eagle Omomuro on Pussy Riot live from the Police State!
Amazing, Scott, simply amazing!! This feels like textbook-level work. The use of a single beam of stage light, the composition,…

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