The Hamilton Diary #1

May 6, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

At the beginning of April, on my way up to Yellowknife, I stopped off in Ontario, Canada, to see Ned. Since my own brother caught the slightly earlier train two and a half years ago, Ned is the closest I have to a sibling. This was the first time I’d actually seen Ned, in the flesh, for five years, but I climbed into his van at Lester B Pearson airport and we picked-up like we’d seen each other a couple […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 6x7, canada, colour, Epson v700, film, film camera, film photography, fine art, hamilton, I shoot film, mamiya 7II, negative, ontario, Peak imaging, personal project, phil kneen, portra 160, portrait, yellowknife

Shine a light.

May 5, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’m having a love/hate relationship with a Fuji X-Pro1 digital camera & 35mm 1.4 lens. Most of the hates are minor – the exposure compensation dial is very easy the knock out, but I solved that the way I do with a lot other other loose dials – gaffer tape. All the other hates are so minor I can’t even remember what they are…?…anyway, the BIG negative – the focusing. I did the 2.03 firmware update yesterday, the one that, […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 35mm, 50mm 1.8, black and white, camera, colour, digital, fuji X-pro1, nik, peel, personal project, portrait, siver efex pro

Film is dead, long live film.

May 1, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’ve been playing with the Fuji X-Pro1 digital camera and 35mm f1.4 lens for the last couple of days, staunch film users may want to look away, because I’m rather impressed with it… The X-Pro1 looks good, even if the picture quality was poor I’d want to keep it as a paper-weight, just to sit and look at it. But the picture quality is superb, and that unsettled me. There are hundreds of places on the internet where you can […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: digital, DxO film pack, film, fuji X-pro1

Cars and Girls…

April 30, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

Sorry, there are no girls, just cars, I needed a catchy title and ‘cars and girls’ sounded good. You were tricked, I’m afraid…but hey, while you’re here, you may as well have a look at some cars. Canada, not just Yellowknife, turns me into some kind of abandoned car enthusiast, it’s bizarre. When I’m at home I never really feel the urge to document cars of any kind, let alone ones that have been left to rot in driveways, but […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: phil kneen, kodak, portra 160, film, mamiya 7II, portrait, inventive, kodak portra 400, I shoot film, film photography, Peak imaging, camera, fine art, colour, film camera, personal project, negative, yellowknife, canada, Epson v700, old car, cars, x-ray machine, x-ray

Canadorama

April 29, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

All Images made with a Holga 120 Pano 6x12cm camera and Fuji Acros 100 film in the Hamilton (Ontario) and Yellowknife (NWT) areas of Canada. I wasn’t going to take this camera with me, but I’m so glad I did now. The scenery, the weather, everything lent itself to grungy monochromatic images like these. It’s got me thinking about experimenting with a bit of pinhole photography… I’m starting the long process of scanning and cataloguing 70+ sheets of negatives from my […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: black and white, camera, canada, Epson v700, film, film camera, film photography, fine art, Fuji Acros 100, fuji film, holga, Holga panoramic 6x12cm, I shoot film, inventive, isle of man, negative, nwt, Peak imaging, personal project, phil kneen, yellowknife

Road-trippin’ with Holga

April 28, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

My two favourite pastimes – photography and road-trips, they go hand in hand. Road tripping in the Northwest Territories of Canada is fairly simple, because there really aren’t that many roads, but they are VERY long roads. I didn’t actually drive that far, just Yellowknife to Rae/Edzo, I was in a truck that my most excellent friend, and fellow photographer, Pat Kane had lent me, so I didn’t want to take the piss. Had I have been in a hire […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: camera, canada, colour, Epson v700, film, film camera, film photography, fine art, fuji film, fuji pro 400H, holga, Holga panoramic 6x12cm, I shoot film, inventive, kodak, negative, Peak imaging, personal project, phil kneen, portra 160, road trip, yellowknife

Canadian Wide-Boy

April 27, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

A big package arrived this morning, just as I was tucking into a bowl of corn flakes, it was my Canada project films back from the processors. I was too excited to wait and while I held each sheet of negatives up to the living-room window my corn flakes went soggy. I’m not going to start scanning the actual ‘serious’ images, the ones shot on 6x7cm film, until Monday, but here a few shots I made on the Holga 120 Pano 6x12cm camera. Film […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 6x12, canada, diary, film photography, Fuji Acros 100, holga, Holga panoramic 6x12cm, kodak portra 160, nwt, wide, yellowknife

Who knew?

April 25, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

I recently read an article in The British Journal of Photography that Sebastião Salgado, arguably the worlds finest photojournalist, now shoots all of his work on digital, the article amazed me, not the fact that Seb has finally caught-up with technology, but his working process – he shoots his images on digital cameras, then edits the files using DxO film pack, a £75 software, to put a Kodak Tri-X black and white ‘look’ on the images. Most photographers would leave […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 6x7, 80mm, art, black and white, camera, canada, canon G15, Epson v700, film, film camera, film photography, fine art, fuji film, I shoot film, inventive, isle of man, kodak, mamiya 7II, negative, Peak imaging, personal project, phil kneen, yellowknife

Home again.

April 18, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

All the images here were shot on a Canon G15 digital compact camera (which I picked-up in Toronto for CAN$399. The cheapest UK price I can find is £429, so I’m thinking I got a bit of a bargain) I’m actually quite liking this little camera… So, that’s another shoot over. Two and a half weeks and 79 rolls of film later, I’m back home, the films have been sent off to be developed at Peak Imaging and I’m recovering […]

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Buffalo Joe and an Eagle.

April 16, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

All the images in this article were shot using an iPhone 4S or a Canon G15 compact camera. I’m shooting a project in Canada at the moment, on film… Too cold for film. So, I’ve been shooting a lot on my iPhone and a Canon G15 compact. This weekend I flew down to Hay River on a Buffalo Airways DC3, it’s my second time on this plane, but always an amazing experience. Hay River is a small town about 45 minutes […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 6x7, 80mm, buffalo airways, canada, canon G15, colour, Epson v700, film, film photography, fine art, hay river, iphone 4s, mamiya 7II, yellowknife