Film, it’s overrated…

January 14, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

The day Kodak stop making Tri-X will be a very sad day indeed, there’s no other film like it. Fuji Neopan 1600 came close, and I did use it quite a bit, but it was discontinued a couple of years back and not replaced with anything even slightly similar. The thing I love about Tri-X is it’s ‘push-ability’, its box speed is 400iso, but I regularly shoot it at 800, 1600 and have gone as high as 3200 and still […]

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Black & White Strypes

December 4, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’d planned to get more shots of The Strypes, but on the day I was in the grips of a most hideous bout of the ‘flu, by the time they’d got into their second song at 9.45pm, I was on my way home to die. All of the shots below were made using a Nikon FM3a, 35mm f2 lens. I hung-around during sound-check, but only managed to shoot one roll of film, a single roll of Kodak Tri-X 400, pushed […]

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Beltane Portraits.

May 20, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

In keeping with the natural style of this event, I shot all the portraits on 6×4.5cm film (also because I hate digital at the moment) I used a Mamiya 645 Pro tl. Colour – Kodak Portra 400 and Fuji Pro 400H. Black and white – Kodak Tri-X 400 Helen, my wife, was very clear, very precise with her instructions – “Drive the camper up first thing Friday, get us a good spot, save the Campbell’s a good spot and then […]

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Mamiya 7II Portraits

April 7, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’m having a love/hate relationship with my Mamiya 7II at the moment. I love the quality, but its under-generous minimum focus distance is causing me problems. I’m also finding the rangefinder to be a bit of a pain in low light, in fact, I tried using the M7II with a flash attached in very low light, but found it impossible to focus. I’d use a Hasselblad, with its lovely bright focus screen and close-up capability, but I had a 503cx […]

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