The things I saw #6

February 17, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

This is the last of the snapshots from my visual meanderings, all taken in Spain during January, in no particular order. All shots were made using an Olympus MjuII 35mm compact and Agfa Vista 200 film. I hope people have enjoyed these photos as much as I enjoyed taking and sharing them. Possibly not. I need to start working on the project I was actually in Spain to shoot now, sorting out and editing portraits and contacting all the people to sign […]

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The things I saw #2

February 12, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

So, here’s a few more snapshots from my visual notebook, all taken in Spain during January, in no particular order. All shots were made using an Olympus MjuII 35mm compact and Agfa Vista 200 film. The only slight downside with shooting film is that there’s no metadata built-in to a negative to show where and when the image was taken or what settings were used, not that that’s important, but I’m not one for taking shot notes, so these images […]

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The things I saw #1

February 11, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

I spent the whole of January in Spain shooting a project about British expatriates, all of which I photographed using a single Pentax 35mm film camera and standard 50mm 1.2 lens. In the almost 5 weeks that I was away I kept with me, at all times, an Olympus MjuII 35mm ‘ultra compact’ camera, I even took it into the bathroom with me and when I slept it sat only a few inches away on a bedside table. I shot […]

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1984

October 22, 2014 by Phil Kneen Photography

I was 13/14 years old in 1984, my interest in photography hadn’t surfaced and wouldn’t do for another couple of years, but it was the year the Minolta Hi-Matic GF was released. Two years later it was still being produced and had probably sold in its hundreds of thousands, but it wouldn’t have caught my eye, I was in that first stage of photography when I honestly believed that the more expensive the camera, the better your photos would be, […]

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Sea Legs

September 6, 2014 by Phil Kneen Photography

I started shooting a long-term project this week documenting the Isle of Man fishing industry, I hope to be out with various trawlers over the next 8 to 12 months. I started the project by going out on the MFV Serpico, a small scallop dredger based in Douglas, skippered by Juan Canipa, it was an amazing experience, although I did suffer badly with sea-sickness (as you can see from the photo below, I spent a fair amount of time trying […]

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Trente-cinq millimètre

August 4, 2014 by Phil Kneen Photography

I get asked, at least once a week, “How do I make my images look as though they were shot on film? What’s the best film look software?”. Well, the answer to that question is always the same – “Buy a film camera, buy some film, and shoot film” To be honest, I haven’t shot film for a while, so I took my Olympus Mju-II and a few rolls of Agfa Vista+ 200 film on holiday to France with me. […]

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People aren’t always happy…

March 25, 2014 by Phil Kneen Photography

Portrait photography has got very little to do with pointing a camera at a person and pressing the shutter, it’s about who you are as a photographer and how you make that person feel about themselves, both during the shoot and at the moment they see the final image. I have no interest in making portraits that make people feel bad about themselves, that would be pointless. So why don’t people smile much in my photos? It’s a criticism that’s […]

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Helen Morrison

March 16, 2014 by Phil Kneen Photography

I was in Liverpool this week to photograph musician, Helen Morrison, a shoot that I’ve been meaning to do for months, a shoot that I thought wasn’t going to happen as we sat on the runway of Ronaldsway Airport for an hour, fog-bound. The fog had lifted by the time my taxi dropped me at Helen’s flat in Cornhill and the light was perfect for location shooting – bright but overcast. I had a particular image in mind, using the […]

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Slip Slidin’ Away…

October 8, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

I used to shoot a lot of slide film, I have boxes of plastic trays filled with mounted 35mm slides, hundreds of trays, thousands of slides. But nobody really shoots it anymore, most photographers don’t see the point…I don’t see the point, to be honest. 10 years ago you could buy dozens of different slide emulations, in 35mm, 120 and large format, but most manufacturers have cut production back to only a handful of films, or like Kodak, stopped production […]

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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, […]

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