Regrets, I’ve had a few…

December 29, 2011 by Phil Kneen Photography

Yes, I have a few regrets, but I tend not to dwell on them,I do have two though that I simply can’t shake… The first one is leaving my camera bag in a hire car in an unsecured car park by the Dordogne River while I went kayaking. The bag contained a Nikon F100 with 50mm lens and a Leica M6 ttl with 35mm lens. By the time I’d returned, two hours later, the door lock had been forced and £4000 […]

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Sad times in Amsterdam

December 26, 2011 by Phil Kneen Photography

At the end of October 2010 I went the Amsterdam to photograph Davy Knowles playing in front of 6,000 people in the Heineken Arena. It was a very difficult time for me as my brother had died two weeks before and I was leaving Holland 48 hours after the gig to attend his funeral in Birmingham. The day after the gig, me, Davy and the tour manager, Lenny, travelled by train to The Hague to stay with Lenny’s sister and family. […]

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North Country Boy, third time lucky

December 13, 2011 by Phil Kneen Photography

This was my third attempt at photographing The Charlatans frontman, Tim Burgess. Personally, I think it was worth the wait, because I got exactly what I wanted.  I took the shot outside Euston Station in London, the entire shoot took about 10 minutes and then Tim went off to buy a charger for his mobile phone. Shot on a Mamiya 7II, 150mm and Kodak Tri-X film.  

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Straight-up

December 10, 2011 by Phil Kneen Photography

The portraits that I’m doing at the moment are simply a recording of that person, I don’t pretend they are anything else. When I talk to someone I don’t do it from on top of a step ladder, or sitting on the ground looking up at them and I don’t stand 50 feet away and converse using a pair of binoculars and a megaphone. When I talk to someone I stand face to face and look them in the eyes. And […]

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Delete…

December 6, 2011 by Phil Kneen Photography

Sometimes you have to admit that the masterpiece you saw in your viewfinder just hasn’t worked. With digital it’s easy, you just send the offending image to the trash and all is forgotten. Not so easy with film though. That shot is there, nestled in with all the other shots on that sheet of negatives, reminding you of your folly… Mamiya 7II, 80mm, Kodak Portra 400, poor decision.

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But it’s just…?

December 4, 2011 by Phil Kneen Photography

I hear it a lot, about my work and other people’s  – “But it’s just a picture of a person…anyone could do that”. Yes, anyone could, but not everyone does. The picture below is just a photo of a bundle of cables. Hundreds of people have walked past it, but I’ve never seen it photographed. Mamiya 7II/80mm/Kodak Portra 400 film

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Six by Seven

December 3, 2011 by Phil Kneen Photography

All images taken on a Mamiya 7II, 80mm lens and Kodak Portra 400 film. I got my first batch of film back from www.peak-imaging.com today, 5 rolls of Kodak Portra 400. For a 400 ISO film, the sharpness and low grain is fantastic. Peak have done an amazing job with the developing and scanning too, and at £15 a roll to develop and scan to disc (25mb files) it’s pretty good value. I certainly won’t be bothering to scan my own negs […]

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