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I was reading Lafcadio Hearn and was recollecting back to one late night’s walk this past winter. The air was cold and dry and the sky cloudless and moonless with bright stars piercing the sky like bright shiny nail heads. Above me were the familiar shapes of Orion, The
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This is a series of prints made from my 'Lower Sand Creek in Winter' project that I worked on last winter. The images were taken on my Fuji GFX 50s ii digital camera using a Fuji Acros film simulation. I also restricted the cropping to Xpan (65:24)
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On my pursuit of negative space images, I find these are hard to plan for and one must try and be alive to the idea when they happen. This one I captured on my regular winter walks through town. I was shooting in a black and white mindset with my
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I received another set of negatives from Gammatech the other day. This time, I had the negatives made on 6x7 medium format film. I was partially following my reasoning from another post on the subject where I concluded that medium format would probably yield good images at a more reasonable
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In this update I attempt to print a couple of the images from the composite negative I made with Gammatech. I will discuss the pitfalls and potential issues with this approach. In the original post I made a composite 4x5 negative from 8 different 65:24 aspect ratio digital images
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This is a continuation of a series of posts on making film negatives from digital files. (The previous post is here... ) The purpose is to allow me to print the images in my darkroom. In summary, so far, the experience has been quite good. My next print from film made
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I am getting a lot of use out adapted Mamiya 645 lenses on my Fuji GFX 50s ii. I have considered getting into DSLR scanning for my film work. It is supposed to be better than a flatbed scanner and faster but I find that hard to believe. My understanding
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This is a continuation of a series of posts on this subject, Part 1 and Part 2 links. I am back in the UK now and have started to look again at my 'film from digital' project. I have also received the negatives from Bayeaux in London. Bayeaux
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Introduction Last summer I spent a wonderful evening photographing on Lake Pend Oreille looking back at Sandpoint during a thunderstorm that was blowing over the town. I wrote about framing another print from that evening here... As I was using my Fuji GFX digital camera then I had a large
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A couple of weeks ago I began to re-explore getting film negatives from a digital file. The motivation was to take some of my newer digital images and print them in black and white in the darkroom. I explored two different vendors Bayeux in London UK and Gammatech in Albuquerque,
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The next phase of any lith printing I do has a tendency to be toning. I never feel in control of my toning, but I manage to stumble into some interesting images as a result. Today I played with some sepia and gold toning but didn't really get
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After much upheaval in my personal life living a semi-nomadic existence in the USA and UK I have not been in the darkroom for some time. My last effort was at the very end of May just before my move to the USA. I am back in the UK for