Banned

May 24, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’ve been banned from Facebook for 7 days for posting the above image, which is deemed to be ‘inappropriate’ for displaying nudity, which is odd, because I can quite clearly see that Gianni is wearing jeans. If you do need to get hold of me for business reasons (I do 90% of my work via Facebook), please contact me through mail@philkneen.com. Thank you. 

Categories: Photography, photojournalism • Tags: 50mm 1.8, 6x9cm, art, banned, camera, canon AE1, colour, Epson v700, facebook, fuji film, fuji GW690III, I shoot film, inventive, kodak portra 400, Peak imaging, personal project, phil kneen, portrait

Needs must…

April 10, 2015 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’ve been shooting more film than usual this week, mostly film actually, due to the fact that someone stole my entire Nikon digital outfit, £8000 worth of uninsured kit (uninsured because of the circumstances in which it was stolen), over the Easter weekend. I am, needless to say, completely devastated, but worse things have happened in the world. All the images here were made using a Canon AE1, 50mm 1.8 lens and either Fuji Pro 400H or 1o year out […]

Categories: Photography, photojournalism • Tags: 35mm, 50mm, 50mm 1.4, 50mm 1.8, fuji pro 400H, HP5, ilford, mono, stolen

1986

December 17, 2014 by Phil Kneen Photography

Summer 1986, I was 16, my Dad returned from Saudi Arabia where he’d been teaching. I hadn’t asked him for anything, but along with the counterfeit Nike and Adidas t-shirts and bootlegged cassettes, he brought me a camera. This camera. An Olympus OM10. The photo above was the first picture I ever took, thus proving that nobody is born with the natural ability to use a camera. I had NO idea whatsoever how to use it, all I knew is […]

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Standard Issue.

July 7, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

The humble, and often under-utilised, standard lens – the 50mm (or 35mm, 80mm or 150mm, depending on what format you’re shooting…). Every camera used to come with one, normally a 50mm 1.8, it was the first thing eager snappers wanted to replace, for some reason? A lot of people are very surprised to learn that 90% of my images are made using the standard lens. I love them. I used to shoot a lot of stuff on a 17-40mm, but […]

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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, […]

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

The £1000 film look.

March 22, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

I get asked, at least once a week “What camera should I buy? I’ve got about a grand to spend” Well, you could go and buy a nice Canon EOS 600D and add a perfectly usable lens, maybe you’ll have enough left over for a little bag too. In a year, one of two things will have happened – you’ll have got bored/disillusioned with digital because it doesn’t quite give you that ‘look’ you keep seeing OR you’ll have got […]

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