Nirvana

February 25, 2017 by Phil Kneen Photography

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about my struggles with a recently purchased Hasselblad; I think a few people saw it as, “A bad workman blaming his tools”. It wasn’t; I was merely stating that I was finding the transition after years of shooting in a rectangular ratio to then seeing and shooting images as a square, demanding. The square thing isn’t new to me; I used and shot several successful projects and individual images a few years ago […]

Categories: film photography, model, Photography • Tags: 501cm, 6x6cm, black and white, delta 3200, hasselblad, ilford, kodak portra 400, square

Two and a quarter square.

February 13, 2017 by Phil Kneen Photography

I have to confess; I came close to selling my Hasselblad last week. I got another batch of films back, and there were a lot of disappointingly mediocre shots, in my opinion. But then I looked again – I think to go from years of shooting in the rectangular ratio back to square has confused my compositional mind, and I’m just not used to seeing my images that way. So I’m going to persevere – I’ve set myself a challenge; […]

Categories: film photography, Photography • Tags: 501cm, film camera, hasselblad, I shoot film, isle of man, kodak, kodak portra 400, negative, personal project, portrait, square

Instant Success

January 21, 2014 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’m a naturally impatient person, so from the outset I always imagined that digital photography would be my ideal medium, but that hasn’t really been the case. For the last few years digital photography has been an itch that I’ve never quite been able to scratch, there’s always lacked the sense of total satisfaction that I only ever get when I shoot film. At the moment I’m very itchy, and there’s only one thing that can get up the back […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 1970's, 70's, camera, Epson v700, fashion, film, film camera, film photography, fine art, fuji instax 200, I shoot film, Impossible Project, instant film, instant gratification, polaroid, Polaroid 600AF, portrait, square, teens

Made in China

March 7, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

Whenever I’m getting a bit bored or disillusioned with photography, which I sometimes do, I just load-up a Holga and harmony is restored. THese £25 plastic Chinese cameras are as basic as photography gets these days, and I love them! There are 4 focus zones to choose – close, a bit further away, far away and REALLY far away. Exposure control is even more basic – Sunny and not sunny…and that’s it, load your film and off you go. You […]

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More Holga luvin’

July 29, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

  I thought my latest Holga phase was going to wear-off this week, they normally only last a few days, but I’m into week 3 now… I’m getting a very pleasing look, or pleasing to me anyway, with Fuji Acros 100 black and white film. I’ve used the built-in flash for most of these as we haven’t seen the sun on the Isle of Man for quite some time now. I’m scanning all my own stuff now on the Epson V700, […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 6x6, 6x6 cm, art, black and white, camera, film, film camera, film photography, fine art, holga, holga gcfn, isle of man, negative, Peak imaging, square, toy camera

Man in the mirror

January 1, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

Something happened to me last year that has never happened in all the 25 years I’ve been taking photos, and it didn’t just happen once. In 2011 I was asked, three times, to remove portraits that I’d taken from public view. The first two photos were of two different people, but taken on the same day, in the same place, striking almost exactly the same pose. One was of my very close friend, Simon Campbell, it was pretty unflattering, to […]

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