Took this picture in January last year, it is quite tricky trying to co-ordinate the tides in the UK. The difference between low and high tide are so big, that you can get to a beach and there is no water for a few hundred metres, versus not being able to get on the beach because its completely covered the sand in some places. On this night I had…Read More

Darkroom print using the Lith printing process.
Printed on Foam 313 Resin Coated paper.
6×6 negative using a very old Bessa 6×6 “point and shoot” camera.
Shot on a misty morning in Ermelo.

What is Lith printing?
Lith printing is a simple but ‘different’ Black & White printing technique, using ‘ordinary’ B&W or colour negatives, a suitable black &…Read More

Beaunard Grobler. They are coming for me….
Canon 5D Mark II, EF50mm F1.4 USM at 1/22 sec at f/1,6 with natural light. Attempted to create a Film Noir atmosphere.
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Long exposure on Ilford FP4 to create this 6×6 negative using a Mamiya C220 TLR camera.

Film suffers from Reciprocity failure. Reciprocity failure is what happens when, at longer exposures (generally shutter speeds of 1 second or more), the law of reciprocity (you guessed it!) fails!

A film’s emulsion is made up of a layer of silver halide c…Read More

8×10 Tintype portrait of Klara using the Wet Plate process from 1851.
5″ exposure at f3.6 on a 140 year old lens. Camera is a Kodak 2D 8×10 (±100 years old).

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