The Curve

June 3, 2018 by Phil Kneen Photography

Just when I thought I’d learned all I needed to know about the technical side of photography, along comes my desire to shoot underwater. The mechanics of photography, above water, despite how complicated it may look, is actually very simple. Essentially, to get the ‘correct’ image, you have about eight aperture sizes and twelve(ish) shutter speeds – all you need to do is combine one of each to get the right amount of light onto your film, you point your […]

Categories: film photography, Photography, woman • Tags: Fuji Venus 800, nikonos, Nikonos III

Calypso

June 1, 2018 by Phil Kneen Photography

All images here were made using Nikonos III camera underwater camera and 35mm lens. Filmstock is Ilford HP5 400, pushed to 800, for black and white and Fuji Venus 800 (Superia 800) for colour.

Categories: film photography, model, woman • Tags: canon sureshot A1, Ilford HP5, Nikonos III, nude, underwater

Courtney

June 13, 2017 by Phil Kneen Photography

All images were made using various film cameras – Nikon F100/50mm 1.4G, Fuji GA645 and Pentax 67/105mm 2.4. Film stock is Portra 400 at box speed in the medium formats, and a roll of 15 year expired Kodak Kodacolor Gold 200 in the Nikon.

Categories: film photography, Photography, woman • Tags: Fuji GA645, I shoot film, natural light, nikon 50mm 1.4G, nikon f100, pentax 67, woman

The things I saw #5

October 27, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

More random visual meanderings and scribbles with the pen and the camera. All images made using an Olympus MjuII 35mm compact and Kodak Portra 160 film. Something I do know – free internet is very common in Spain. Rare in the UK. ‘Monday 19th October, Morecambe, Lancashire – I went to the Steam Packet ferry office at Heysham to see if I could get on an earlier sailing home. I told myself that if it was going to cost less […]

Categories: film photography, Photography, photojournalism, travel, woman • Tags: 35mm, amsterdam, b&b, compact, england, flag, france, grass, holland, I shoot film, kodak portra 160, lancs, morecambe, motor home, naked, Olympus mju II, road trip, spain, wifi, woman

The things I saw #1

October 24, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

Today is the last day of British summertime, tomorrow morning the clocks will be set an hour backward and the Isle of Man will be plunged in to six months of perpetual darkness, cold and damp… okay, it’s not quite that bad, but that’s how it always feels – goodbye, greens and blues. Hello, grey. As my good friend pointed-out a couple of days ago – “This is never a good time of year for you…”. She’s right, as usual. […]

Categories: film photography, Photography, photojournalism, travel, woman • Tags: colour, film, film photography, france, I shoot film, kodak portra 160, kodak portra 400, negative, nude, Olympus mju II, personal project, phil kneen, portrait, road, spain, UK Film Lab, ukfl

Look into my eyes…

July 10, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

Categories: eyes, fashion, Photography, woman • Tags: 6x6, 6x7, black and white, camera, colour, digital, film, film camera, film photography, fuji film, fuji instax 200, fuji pro 400H, fuji X-pro1, I shoot film, isle of man, kodak, kodak portra 400, mamiya 645 pro tl, mamiya 7II, negative, nikkor 35mm 1.4, nikon D800E, Olympus mju II, Peak imaging, peel, personal project, phil kneen, portra 160, portrait, Simon Campbell, VSCO, VSCO FILM