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Demi Half Frame Print

Finally got round to printing a shot from my old Canon Demi S (deceased)

With the 6×6 enlarger mask I made I can only print 3 frames at a time so I might have to experiment with a slightly larger mask and hope the enlarger handles it. Hopefully I can get up to 5 frames printed…

Half Frame Cemetary

Canon Demi S, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner


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Darkroom Action

I have been teaching a spot of darkroom lately. Its nice to be back and playing with prints again.

Here go a few print that I used for example for the students…

Tissue

Tissue Paper

Tissue Border

Tissue paper border

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Cellophane

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Cellophane and Tissue paper.


Fire Dragons

No Photoshop involved. Straight form the camera

Dragon-2 Dragon-1

 

Nikon D90, 50mm f1.8 Lens, 3200 ISO. (No Photoshop)


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Enlarger Mask Building

After looking round for a 6 x 6 enlarger mask to be able to print shots from my Rolleiflex I have finally just decided to make one out of matte board.

With less parts being available all the time (especially in little old New Zealand) it seems more and more I have to make this kind of stuff myself. I have even gone as far as buying a couple of enlargers (super cheap) but they were all missing a part or two. At least I will have lots of spare parts or things to build random stuff out of 🙂

I think I may have made a small mistake by using a section of foam core in the middle to make the whole thing thicker and may have to tape up the sides since it seems to let light out…

Its all glued up and will take it into the darkroom for a test on Monday next week…

Fingers crossed…

Its for a LPL 7700 Enlarger if anyone has a spare mask 🙂

Enlarger Mask


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Research

New book came in the post today and had to be saved from the letter box due to heavy rain.

This is my first step into researching Wet Plate Collodion photography 🙂

Book


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The One That Got Away…

Shot of a Kereru (New Zealand native wood pigeon) just taking off… Just missed the end of his beak… Gutted

Such is life

Kereru

 

Nikon D90, Nikon 80- 200 f2.8 Lens.


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Jam

Colour shot from Horizon

Jam

Horizon 202, Fuji Superia 200 Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner


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More From the Horizon 202

Another shot from the Horizon 202

Waterfall

 

Horizon 202 Camera, Ilford Delta 100 (expired), CanoScan 9000F Scanner.


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Horizon 202

Been playing with a Russian Horizon 202 lately… I really like how it distorts straight things making them look curved 🙂

Horizon-202

Horizon 202, Ilford Delta 100 (Expired), CanoScan 9000F Scanner.


Doubles

A few more double exposures from my Fuji Instax Neo Classic 🙂

ManofSteel

Grassman

Rolleiman

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Fuji Instax Neo Classic


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Self

Testing out the Olympus OM10, Self portrait styles… Turns out that the camera has a fault 😦

Self

Olympus OM10, 50mm f1.8 Lens, Ilford Delta 100 ISO Film (very Expired), CanoScan 9000F Scanner.


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Tree

I went camping the other week and we camped at the base of this tree, possibly because I wanted to shoot star trails through it, unfortunately it clouded over and there were no stars to be seen.

There also seemed to be a bumble bee nest quite close by…

Tree

Nikon D90,Sigma 12-24mm Lens, ISO 50