More Holga luvin’

July 29, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

  I thought my latest Holga phase was going to wear-off this week, they normally only last a few days, but I’m into week 3 now… I’m getting a very pleasing look, or pleasing to me anyway, with Fuji Acros 100 black and white film. I’ve used the built-in flash for most of these as we haven’t seen the sun on the Isle of Man for quite some time now. I’m scanning all my own stuff now on the Epson V700, […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 6x6, 6x6 cm, art, black and white, camera, film, film camera, film photography, fine art, holga, holga gcfn, isle of man, negative, Peak imaging, square, toy camera

Last minute experimenting…

July 28, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

I shot these images while experimenting with different exposure techniques, exposing for the shadows, highlights and rating the film at lower box speeds (over exposing the film, but developing as normal). Results are varied, to see the least… All images made on a Mamiya 645 Pro TL, 55mm lens and Fuji Pro 400H film. All images are straight scans on an Epson V700. I’d appreciate any feedback from other Pro 400H users. I have 100 rolls of the 400H waiting for […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: colour, Epson v700, film, film camera, film photography, fine art, fuji film, fuji pro 400H, I shoot film, isle of man, negative, Peak imaging, phil kneen

Twenty Five year old 4×5

July 19, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

I took the images above almost 25 years ago, when I was 18. I borrowed a 4×5 inch camera off a man who I worked with at the time, I forget his name, but he was in his 60′s then, so he’s probably no longer with us. He loaded 10 double dark slides for me and gave me a quick crash-course in large format photography and off I went for the weekend. I remember sending the films off to be […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 25 years, 4x5, cibachrome, colour, isle of man, large format, scanner, v700

Multiple Holga

July 17, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

I made the shot above by exposing 3 6x6cm frames over one section of Fuji NP400 120 film. This is a process that is very easy with a £20 Chinese Holga, impossible with a £5000 Canon digital. I scanned the image at a relatively low 800 dpi, but this is fine for web use. I did a few small adjustments in Aperture 3 – increased the contrast slightly, darkened the blacks and added a green tint. These are all things […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 120, black and white, camera, film, film camera, film photography, fine art, fuji, fuji film, fuji neopan 400, holga, I shoot film, inventive, isle of man, negative, Peak imaging, personal project, phil kneen

I little bit of Holga does you good…

July 16, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

Holga cameras were introduced in China in 1982 to make photography ‘available to the masses’. There are now various forms of the camera – 120, 35mm, panoramic, twin lens…every single one an absolute piece of shit, but as I’m always preaching “It’s not the camera that makes a good photo…” I have the Holga 120 GCFN, it has a glass lens, rather than the ‘classic’ plastic version. It has two f stops, f8 and f11(?) and one shutter speed, 1/80th […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 6x6, chinese, Epson v700, film, fine art, holga, holga gcfn, I shoot film, kodak portra 400, negative, Peak imaging, toy camera

Scan

July 13, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’ve had a bit of a love/hate relationship with scanning lately – I hate scanning and I love going to the pub to drink beer. I just don’t have the time or patience to scan negatives. I was using an Epson V500, but I wasn’t happy with the results, not even when using it with Vuescan software. I even bought ‘The Vuescan Bible’, apparently all you need to know about this super-dooper scanning program. I may as well have bought […]

Categories: Photography, Uncategorized • Tags: 6x7, 80mm, camera, colour, Epson v700, film, film camera, film photography, fuji film, I shoot film, isle of man, kodak, kodak portra 400, mamiya 7II, negative, portrait, scanning, tim burgess

Four forgotten photos on film

July 2, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

Once you’ve taken a shot on film, that’s it, you get what you get. You could tamper with things in Photo Shop, but what’s the point? You may as well have just shot the image on digital. I love getting films back and discovering photos that I’d forgotten I’d taken, for various reasons, usually alcohol related. These images are often at the end of the contact sheet, shots I take to use-up a roll of film. All these shots, of […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: camera, film, film camera, film photography, fine art, fuji film, fuji pro 400H, I shoot film, negative, Peak imaging, personal project, phil kneen