When I wrote the previous post I was just beginning to think about what film cameras to take on my forthcoming trip to Romania. I was then thinking of an SLR, the OM2n,… Continue reading
I wasn’t prepared at all for the solar eclipse today, I had no no solar filters, but I decided to have a go at photographing phases of it for Menston where I live… Continue reading
I’ve not been able to post anything for the past two of Cee’s B&W challenges but thought I’d use a determined effort to get back into photography on film, including developing the films,… Continue reading
My photography, and therefore posting on this blog, being severely limited over the past year by health problems, I’ve been thinking seriously about reducing my ‘user’ camera collection and concentrating on just a… Continue reading
Above: Yashica 24mm, f/2.8 legacy lens on Olympus Pen E-PL3. Colour image desaturated, inverted and curves adjusted in Photoshop. One Victorian mahogany chair and one modern bar stool. Below: Same seats, same lens… Continue reading
Yashica 55mm (110mm equivalent on 4/3), f/2.8 macro legacy lens on Olympus E-PL3 with VF-4 viewfinder. Focus set at 0.255m, f/22, ISO 200, about 1.5sec. Contra jour natural sunlight. Colour image desaturated and… Continue reading
Rain An experiment: Olympus E-PL3 with manual Contax Zeiss Planar 50mm at f/1.4, 1/125 sec. Raw file desaturated and contrast manipulated using ‘curves’, etc in Gimp. I recently came across Cee’s challenges through… Continue reading
I’m not too bothered about whether my posts on this blog get a ‘like’ or persuade people to follow; what is exciting and rewarding for me is when the ‘liker’ has been so… Continue reading
I’m back, hopefully for a while, after a long absence. I owe my many friends and followers here an explanation so I’ll just pick up a para from grumpytyke, on which I began to… Continue reading
