Six Four Five

March 28, 2017 by Phil Kneen Photography

6×4.5cm – it’s the ‘middle child syndrome’ of the film world; stuck between 35mm and 6x7cm, it tends to get overlooked and somewhat neglected. I require the inherent image quality of medium format, but I also like the convenience and speed of 35mm, especially 35mm compacts, such as the Olympus MjuII. Basically, I’m lazy; so what I’ve always wanted/needed is a medium format point ‘n’ shoot camera – the GA645 is that camera. The GA645 was released in 1997, as […]

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: 35mm, 35mm film, 645cm, analogue, film, Fuji GA645, I shoot film, medium format, Olympus mju II

The Circle

March 20, 2017 by Phil Kneen Photography

  Last month, I had the pleasure of meeting and photographing Stephen Macartney, Peter McVeigh, Katie Richardson and Warren Attwell, four Irish musicians who form part of the Northern Irish Singer-Songwriters Circle. My good friend and music promoter, Jonno Gollow, brought the four over to my hometown of Peel, on the Isle of Man, to hold a songwriters workshop during the day and to a very well attended gig at the Peel Centenary Centre in the evening. Jonno is singlehandedly […]

Categories: Music, photojournalism • Tags: analogue, film, I shoot film, jonno gollow, jonno promotions, kodak ultramax, musicians, nikon f4

A little bit X-TRA

February 23, 2017 by Phil Kneen Photography

For the last couple of weeks I’ve been having a bit of a photography documentary feast; have a search around Amazon Prime and Netflix, and you’ll find loads. Last night I watched, ‘Time Zero: The Last Year of Polaroid Film’; the movie documents the…well, the clue’s in the title. I don’t want to give away the plot, but it’s a bit like any movie about the Titanic – it always hits an iceberg and sinks at the end. Polaroid sails […]

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: 35mm, colour, film, film camera, film photography, fuji film, fuji superia 400, personal project, portrait

While you were sleeping…

January 28, 2017 by Phil Kneen Photography

At the end of last year, I began shooting a photo-essay based around the fishing industry on the Isle of Man. The project so far has concentrated on the crew members of the Port St Mary based scallop dredger, Sara Lena – skipper, Tony ‘Toad’ Watterson, his brother Juan, and Chris Overs – three of the kindest, most genuine and helpful men I’ve ever met. There’s been quite a bit of controversy surrounding the Isle of Man scallop industry of […]

Categories: film photography, photojournalism • Tags: analogue, film, fishing, hasselblad, isle of man, nikon, Olympus mju II, scallops

5840 Days

January 2, 2017 by Phil Kneen Photography

I can’t believe our daughter is Sixteen! Jess can now join the armed forces, invest in a cash ISA, move out of the family home (but if under 17, social services may apply for a care order), give consent to medical, dental and surgical treatment, be detained in police custody and get married. Jess, fortunately, has inherited most of her good points off her Mum, Helen, so she’s already pretty well sorted for life, although she did inherit my poor […]

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: 35mm, analogue, film, fuji, fuji instax mini, isle of man, japan, kodak, Olympus mju II, pentax 67, portrait

That was 2016…

January 1, 2017 by Phil Kneen Photography

My yearly review got a bit delayed this year, I’ve had it ready to go for about three weeks, but the included images have changed on an almost daily basis. For the first time, all the images were shot on film – I’ve returned to using analogue, almost exclusively, for all of my personal work. I’m currently working on the final project for a Master’s degree in photojournalism and documentary photography, so I’ve shot very little in the way of […]

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: 6x6, 6x7, film, film camera, film photography, fine art, fuji pro 400H, isle of man, kodak portra 400, Olympus mju II, peel, personal project, phil kneen, portrait

Different Strokes

December 9, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

I had the pleasure of giving a talk to members of the Isle of Man Photographic Society last week, it’s the first time I’ve done something like this to other photographers, so I was slightly apprehensive. They were a friendly audience, but I’m not sure that some of them, notably the older members, ‘got’ my somewhat alternative brand of photography. Despite arriving totally unprepared, I managed to talk for over two hours; I deliberately kept away from the technical aspects […]

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: 35mm, analogue, film, fuji GW690III, holga gcfn, I shoot film, Olympus mju II

Hollie and Ollie

October 16, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

“I don’t do weddings.” – that’s what I tell most people, most of the time. I used to shoot a lot of weddings, all digitally, but I found the whole process extremely stressful, so now I limit my nuptial documentation to close friends and the occasional, powerfully persuasive, client. A couple of months ago I had the pleasure of photographing the wedding of my good friends, Ollie and Holly French; it was a great weekend…from what I can remember, but […]

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: 35mm, film, nikon f100, Olympus mju II, wedding

Bethany

October 15, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

Makeup by the very excellent Kimberley Berridge Nikon F100/50mm 1.4G , Fuji GW690II, Kodak disposable Various film – Kodak Portra 800, Fuji Superia 400 and 12 year expired Jessops 400

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: 35mm, analogue, film, nikon f100

Disposable Outcome.

October 9, 2016 by Phil Kneen Photography

People’s general perception of disposable cameras tends to be that they produce poor quality, grainy images – so in the digital age, they would appear to be somewhat useless. I disagree. I think the secret to using these throwaway compacts is to shoot either in bright sunlight or use the flash, otherwise, you are going to get poor quality and very grainy images. All the images here are from the same Kodak disposable camera and were shot in relatively bright […]

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: 35mm, analogue, disposable camera, film, grunge, kodak