I must say, I’m delighted with the results from my first attempt at developing my own film.
This is the uninspiring view from my balcony that I’ve shot time and time again, mainly as a tester…
A slow-shutter view across Clifton Triangle, Bristol.
Some mushrooms in Royal Fort Garden.
A couple of shots of Hereford cathedral.
And a couple of shots of the new centenary sculpture in Royal Fort garden.
This week’s challenge from Stu was Limitations.
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to come up with the most fantastic idea. What would you shoot if time, money and skills were no issue? Then work within your limitations to realise your dream. See what unique surprises occur.
I’ve always fancied taking some proper portraits, so I decided to have a go.
If time, money and skills were no issue, I’d be using a spacious studio with fantastic equipment, a willing model and, err, the experience to pull it all together. As it happens, I’m taking pictures in a tiny flat in Bristol with some tat I got off eBay, and my model would rather be watching Emmerdale. Oh, and only I looked up how to light portraits on the web this morning. But here’s what I came up with.
After a few shots, Hana decided she didn’t like the flashes very much…
… so we decided to change places.
And just to prove that it was rather cramped, here’s how I did it.
This is me, sitting on the edge of my bath, looking dead chuffed because my first attempt at developing film seems to have come out perfectly!
I will, of course, scan and upload the best ones as soon as I can. (They’re still drying at the moment).
Update: the best photos from the roll are now online here
Autumn this year seems to have brought with it some fantastic sunsets looking south from Kingswood, Bristol.
I would like to point out that the colours of these photos have not been enhanced on the computer. What you see is exactly what I downloaded from the camera.
Hannah and I went to Hereford this weekend. The weather was nice, and we had a really nice time relaxing. I managed a few photos too. The golden Autumn sunlight cast a lovely glow over the city.
First we visited the cathedral. It seemed rude to take photos inside, but I managed this photo of various roof decorations from outside.
Walking in Castle Green, I spotted this dandelion.
Victoria Bridge leads out of Castle Green, across the River Wye.
Hereford’s famous Wye Bridge.
Some more distants shot of the cathedral, seen from across the Wye.
I love the odd colours and coarse film grain in this shot of Cossham hospital. I think it looks rather retro.
I took these photos with a 35-70mm lens, using an additional macro lens.
A pink lily
Cotton reels
A crystal of aragonite
Unfortunately the developing lab treated my negatives pretty badly, as I wrote about on my blog earlier today. Here’s a close-up of some of the scratches on the second aragonite photo, which I think are really distracting.
Nothing like a hot cup of coffee as you watch the sun rise on an Autumn morning.
