Playing with the Bronica after a Photoshoot today and I decided to do a ‘selfie’. Why not? Everyone else is doing it! So I propped the iPhone on a proper prop, and popped the camera thingy with a 10 second delay to allow me to pop back into position. 
Kinsale, Co. Cork, 1990 #Kodachrome
Chloe, our 5 year old granddaughter, came in from the garage clutching a little box, filled with interesting little flat plate-like things, asking Janette if it was ok to play with them. It wasn’t! It was a box of Kodachrome slide ‘positives’ shot in 1990. In those days I was still making photographs with the Nikon FM2, no autofocus, no programmes, no auto-exposure, just a classy camera that gave the photographer complete control over the image.
So I took the slides, scanned them with the Epson Perfection V500 photo-scanner, imported them to Photoshop, and of course, unsaturated them to make some nice black and white images. This selection of them is a panel of shots I made in Co. Cork, when we were on holiday there in 1990.
Some ‘sepia’ type effects applied in three of them, to create a ‘vintage’ look.
#Tembo meets #Bronica!
Everyone knows that elephants never forget, so when Tembo our baby elephant chum had a go at a more traditional way of making photographs, he declared that it was no problem at all – but he’s not as smart as he looks – he forgot to remove the film slide! Continue reading #Tembo meets #Bronica!
#Newcastle, Co. Down
More iPhone iMages
A visit to Newcastle on a wild, wet, windy Tuesday, and an opportunity to capture some images with the iPhone. I was fascinated with the tumult of the sea at the mouth of the Shimna River, so I opened the ‘Hueless App’ and quick iPhone snap or two later…
Go on, use your iPhone camera, and record life as it happens.
Depth of Field on an iPhone?
How to get a Depth of Field effect on your Smartphone.
With the increase in iPhone photography (and of course there are other similar brands of smartphone) and with photographers starting to take iPhone photography seriously as an image medium, new apps to help the photographer improve there images are appearing all the time.
One of the real bug-bears with the iPhone camera is its lack of depth of field capability. The small size of the lense and its proximity to the sensor makes optical depth of field impossible, (at least just now, who knows what lies ahead). So it was only a matter of time before an app appeared to produce a depth of field effect using digital manipulation in post-capture processing. The app is AfterFocus, and it’s available now in the App Store for 79p. Continue reading Depth of Field on an iPhone?
Waterwheel in Monochrome (#Nikon #BlackandWhite)
A visit to the cafe at Dundonald Old Mill is an opportunity to make an image of the historic mill waterwheel at the building. I photographed it from several angles, using the Nikon F100, and a role of Ilford Delta ISO100. Here’s one of the resulting images…
Developed in Fotospeed FD-10 for 7 minutes.
Saturday #Studio Work – #Nikon #BabyPhotography
Busy Studio Saturdays!
Saturdays are great fun at Dundonald. The studio was especially busy today, – people picking up photographs and families in for their photo-shoots. It’s always a relaxed (and relaxing!) experience, both for me, and I hope, for them.
In fact the more relaxed the better! For sometimes that means that we can capture those little interesting moments in between more ‘staged’ posing scenarios. It’s said that a favourite trick of Lord Patrick Lichfield when photographing groups (even the Royal Family) was to formally pose the group, make the formal image and then tell the that the shoot was over – and as soon as they dropped their guard – like half a second after his ‘final’ shot, he would hit the shutter again… and what was recorded was the relief, and the relaxation that come when the subjects realise that their photographic ordeal is over. Those were, arguably better, and more realistic images than the formal poses.
So, I try to copy him! And sometimes it even works for me, like today, when the camera caught this nice little tender moment, just after the the planned pose on a little Ikea table had ended.
At the other end of the scale, in a totally planned and photoshop-heavy image, twin baby girls Ellie and Megan had their turn on the Dreamcatcher…
More from today:
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Still Using #Film in the Studio? Oh yes! #Nikon
Baby Bailey, in the studio today for his Baby of the Month photo shoot. This image captured on traditional film, using the Nikon F100, f/5.6 @ 1/125th sec, on Ilford professional film, ISO100. Developed in Fotospeed FD10 for 7 mins.
Film rules OK!
I Wish I Was In #Carrickfergus…
I visited Carrickfergus on Saturday, 10th October, on a grey overcast, but warm morning, to wander around the castle with my Nikon F/100 camera and a roll of Ilford Delta ISO100 film.
The town was very quiet for a Saturday morning – I wonder is it like this all the time? There were very few people about. The seas were calm, and the harbour quiet. Here’s few monochrome images from the day (and a couple of colour intruders)…
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