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Week 20 – Playing with flash

I have a pair of studio strobes ( cheapy interfit 150 watt) and to be honest they very rarely see the light of day as if I need flash I use my Nikon speedlights. Just as a bit of a challenge last w…

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Week 19 – Trees, Fences & Hills

A little late with this weeks post as it was also shot as a bit of a test for another challenge that I am taking part in … #NOGEARNOFEAR. The challenge consists of shooting an ilford disposab…

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Week 18 – Castles

Here in Wales we have loads of old castles knocking about, there are 4 within 20 miles of my home. This castle featured here is Coity Castle situated in Coity just outside Bridgend . Here is a wiki…

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Week 17 – Day off walk with the Mamiya 645

I managed to get a day off work on Friday to make a long weekend as it is a Bank Holiday here on Monday. The weather forecast was supposed to be sunny so I decided to go for a walk up the Carn moun…

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The Jury is still out on shooting Fomapan 100 …..

My favorite film is ilford HP5 but I am not adverse to shooting any film really and I have a varied collection stored in my film fridge.

This is the 3rd roll of Fomapan 100 that I have shot and I am still not sure what I make of it.

I think from my experience that portraits are most probably the best for this film as it gives a lovely glow that looks great on people but tends to soften landscapes. It definitely has a very original look and does bring something different to a landscape I may get one of these printed large and see what I think.

All the images were shot using the Olympus OM2s with the Zuiko 35mm f2.8 and processed in ilfotec HC 1+22 dilution for 7 minutes.

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Week 16 – Aberystwyth ……… The Garw Valley & lens test

Week 16 is a roll that has been in my OM2S for over 3 weeks actually and is a mixture of our visit to Amy in Aberystwyth Uni then home here in the sunny Garw valley and the last shot was a test of …

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Mountain walk with the 645 & some Fuji Reala …..

I have been using my Mamiya 645 a lot recently, its such a lovely camera.

The handling is great and the images it produces make me want to shoot it all the time.

I find it easier to compose images in the 6 x4.5 format it seems much more natural to me that 6 x 6.With the metered prism finder portrait images are easy too unlike using the waist level finder.

These images were shot using the 80mm f2.8 on what is becoming my favorite film at the moment Fuji Reala 100 which is obviously expired so I rated it at 50 iso and in some of the frames I over exposed another stop too.

The light was pretty difficult with the sun going in and out all the time and I didn’t take a tripod which was a pain but I only messed up 3 frames with camera shake which I was pleased with to be honest.As usual the film was processed and scanned by FilmDev who did a great job and I cannot recommend them more highly for the quality and especially the price.

I can’t imagine ever developing & scanning my own C-41 ever again.I still have 4 boxes of Reala in the fridge and I am checking eBay to try and get more I love the colours it produces especially over exposed and in good light.