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

Goodbye, 2012

December 23, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

…and goodbye, digital. Of all the shots I took in 2012, these are my favourites. Only the first two are digital, the rest are all taken on film – 35mm, medium format and Fuji Instax instant.

Categories: Photography • Tags: 160nc, 50mm 1.4, 6x6, 6x7, 80mm, black and white, camera, canada, canon eos 5d mark 2, colour, digital, film camera, film photography, fine art, france, fuji film, fuji instax 200, fuji pro 400H, holga, I shoot film, instant film, inventive, irish sea, kodak portra 400, mamiya 645 pro tl, mamiya 7II, music, negative, Peak imaging, peel, personal project, phil kneen, Simon Campbell, yellowknife

Back to the future

November 11, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

For the first time in over ten years, I don’t own a digital camera (apart from the one on my iPhone). I sold the last of my Canon 5D mk2/7D based kit about three weeks ago, and thus far, I haven’t missed it. I’m not anti-digital, I will eventually buy into a digital medium format system, probably Mamiya or Hasselblad, but I don’t need to for the time being. A few months ago I took the conscious decision to not […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: digital, film, fuji, kodak, mamiya 7II

Hipstamatique.

June 17, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

Most of the shots below were taken out of the window of my van whilst driving up through France and around Paris. I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with iPhone photography and the thousands of apps that have sprung up – I’m a film snob, so I want to hate this type of photography, but I do like the results! I made these shots with the very popular Hipstamatic app, I do the ‘shake to randomise’ thing which […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: app, cell, digital, film photography, fine art, france, hipstamatic, I shoot film, iphone, iphone 4s, paris, personal project, phil kneen

This week…

February 4, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

This week I’ve been photographing musicians, mostly. Last Monday I had the band ‘3 Million‘ in the studio, they didn’t bat an eyelid when I told them I was going to bind them all together with cling-film for half an hour. I’ve seen these chaps play a couple of times, I recommend you do the same. On Wednesday I had a second session with the yet unnamed duo, Adam Jones and Geoff Tinkler. This pair are VERY photogenic! We started […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 3 million, adam jones, beach, black and white, camera, canon eos 5d mk2, clingfilm, colour, digital, fine art, gansey, geoff tinkler, isle of man, mono, music, phil kneen, Simon Campbell

Froggy went a courtin’…

January 5, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’m off to France tonight, land of cheese and wine, I’m meeting with a photo agency in Bordeaux, South West France, to put a couple of project ideas forward. They’re buying lunch, so I assume they’re interested. After the meeting I’m going to sleep for a week, when I’m not sleeping, I’m going to be taking photos. On the road from Bergerac to Perigueux there’s a chap who stands in his garden all day, half naked, I’d like to photograph him. […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 160nc, 6x6, 6x7, 80mm, camera, colour, digital, domke, film, film camera, film photography, fine art, france, fuji pro 400H, holga, kodak, kodak portra 400, mamiya 7II, negative, phil kneen, portrait