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New year
Fairly rubbish end of year…I took on a take pics of Santa with kids contract…it was hell; long hours, small pay etc.Never again!As a result, I’ve not managed to do much personal work and have a full week of client shoots this week.I did get out a couple of times…
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Marathon
Challenged myself again this year to capture some of Metz marathon on medium format.It’s fun with a manual focus Hasselblad and runners passing at 12-13mph.Missed a couple of shots, but quite pleased with the results. Might try it next year with the Fuji GX680
I’ve also used some Fuji Pro…
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Spring
Apparently it is! It’s been a bit chilly up until the beginning of this week though.A few things to share on the work front.I am still only shooting film for personal work and for some clients (sadly still quite rarely for the latter).Everyone still wants immediacy.Here are a few landscape…
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More January ll
Here’s the next set of images shot in January…as I said in my last post, there’s been a bit of a problem with flash syncing the hasselblad, all seems to be a bit hit and miss at the moment.Sometimes the images are perfect and other times, horribly underexposed. Maybe a…
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More January
Some more film work of Johanna, who first came to us as a client 3 years ago Unusually for me, I shot four rolls of film, three with the Fuji and one with the Hasselblad EL/MThe only photos I wasn’t happy with were with the ones with the Hassy.. First…
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Christmas and stuff…
Merry Christmas!So, it’s out of the way for another year…the season of over-eating and over-spending. Not that I dislike Christmas, but I find it a tad excessive. Nice to see happy people though. It’s been a relatively busy-ish month again. Not in the same league as October, but ticking along…
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Pushing Delta 3200
I decided to take a short walk and waste a roll of film last night! This was purely experimental I wnated to see how Delta 3200 would react to being pushed.Shot these pics with the Hasselbald 500C and Distagon 50mm…handheld 1/30th at f/4.With hindsight, it’s still better to shoot using…
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Autumn
So usually you see fabulous photos of Autumn colours shot in daylight.I thought I’d try a few at night…Shot with a Hasselblad 500C using a Distagon 50mm, Sonnar 150mm and a Planar 80mm.Kodak Portra 400
And a couple more that don’t involve Autumn colours…(same camera and film as before)
We…
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Metz Marathon
Challenging to photograph sports with a medium format camera…handheld.I was surprised to get any sort of result as it’s not something I’ve tried before. I only shot one roll of film, 8/12 is not so bad.The first three home were Kenyan athletes (there’s a surprise!). The winner came in in…
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This month
Has been busy.Hopital Schuman awards ceremony which I shot on both digital (colour) and film (Hasselblad 500C // Kodak Tri-X)
Some of the client portraits, a couple on film.
Then some personal portrait/ series work with Solene and Lucie, all shot on film with the Hasselblad 500C
Some general snaps…
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New Studio and Whattaroll magazine publication
Been a while since I wrote a blog post.Since my last one, we’ve moved: I have a new studio space.Space being the operative word!It’s been a hard month, fitting in clients and moving home at the same time isn’t easy, but we’re installed and running again…relatively smoothly.A couple of snaps…
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UK
Off to the UK tomorrow for a week. Sadly, not a holiday!Professional model client (Sara) this morning for some “polaroids” for her agency. Nice young lady
Hasselblad 500C travelling to UK with me along with my trusty Rolleicord V.Was tempted to take the GX 680, but it’s a bit hefty…
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Recent work
A portrait shoot for Helene with her beautiful (and totally disarming) daughter Sasha, in the studio.Digital, Nikon D700
I’ve also been shooting (yet) more film, both 35mm and 6x6 medium format whilst wandering around Metz.A few from the Jardin Botanique and a few from Canal de Jouy and environs.Films used:…
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Finding a different angle
When most of us wander around with a camera, we can be quite singular where we look and what we photograph.Our eyes face forward, anywhere between 1.5 and 2m off the ground (plus or minus!). Our field of view can sometimes be a bit narrow and limited: standing up, taking…
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35mm
Been a while since I’ve shot any 35mm film. It took me around a month to use the roll of FP4+ that’d been in my Nikkormat EL.If you shoot medium format and 35mm, like me), you’ll always (more than likely) be disappointed with the size of the negative- it’s tiny…
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Gîtes à Metz
A small shoot for a new client that owns gîtes à Metz.A close friend from the UK has stayed here in 2013 Nice places, wouldn’t mind living there tbh, better than our manky old apartment!Nothing particularly challenging about shooting interiors- it’s just a matter of lighting in the right places…
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Fomapan
I’ve just taken delivery of 15 rolls of Fomapan 100 from Fotoimpex in Germany An excellent emporium for all analog shooters. Darkroom supplies, film, the lot! In fact all they sell is analog based. Good to see a purely analog shop in our digital age. I shot a couple of…
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Fomapan
I’ve just taken delivery of 15 rolls of Fomapan 100 from Fotoimpex in Germany An excellent emporium for all analog shooters. Darkroom supplies, film, the lot! In fact all they sell is analog based. Good to see a purely analog shop in our digital age. I shot a couple of…
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Sheona, Emilie, Marine
I do keep meaning to do my blog more often, but things tend to get in the way! Here’s a catch up from the last couple of weeks… The tilt/ shift capabilities of the Fuji GX680 for portraiture: although not as flexible as a large format camera, the GX680 does…
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Metz at night
I have, recently, bought a couple of photography books, one in particular is filled with excellent work by a Hungarian photographer, Brassai.His work ‘Paris de nuit’ is sublime, especially when you consider that they were all taken in the late 1920s and early 1930s on very low ISO film/ plates…