I have been curious to try out other black and white darkroom papers, and so I did, and gave it a test run. One of the main reasons I’ve temporarily abandoned Ilford Paper is that I’ve been curious whether there is a paper that is more forgiving in terms of its level of contrast. I spent $39.98 CAD for a box of 100 sheets of 5×7 paper, which is not bad at all. These photographs were taken […]
Categories: Film Photography
Being a guest on Episode 50 of the Gen-X-Photography Podcast is such an honour! The hosts, Mario (@mariopiper) and Julienne (@jpshoeboxwalk) are such wonderful people, and it was so much fun! In this episode, Julienne and I chat with Nicole Small, a fantastic photographer from Montreal. We chatted about many things, including pinhole, large format, larger format, and still larger format! We also chatted alternative processes, and about doing photography one’s own way and being happy within oneself for one’s […]
Categories: Film Photography, Journal Entries, Pinhole Photography • Tags: Film Photography, gen-x photography podcast, Montreal, Nicole Small, one on one, Photography
I’ve finally figured out a much easier and more enjoyable way to resume darkroom printing! Darkroom printing has always been a technique that I have wanted to explore deeper than I have in the past, and finally I can do just that. The key to successfully returning to the darkroom is Ilford’s pop-up darkroom. I am presently in the middle of creating my own shop, (not on Etsy, Redbubble, or another type of site similar), in which my […]
Categories: Journal Entries
Here are few of the results from the 8×10 box camera. This was the first image taken, and as expected, vignetting is very visible. I did not add any sharpness to the image; in fact, I did not add sharpness to any of them. The only thing I did was crop the image. The vignetting in this photograph does not look too bad, at least to me; in fact, I think it works well with the subject matter, however, depending […]
Categories: Film Photography • Tags: 8x10 camera, Film Photography, Montreal, Nicole Small, one on one, Photography
So here is the 8×10 camera build, (it is not a pinhole camera), in full view. I made a few changes to the camera before settling on the current version. Originally, I had built it pretty simply, with a fixed focal length, which proved not to be the best idea. After looking into the ground glass, I realized that I would be forced to work at a distance from the subject, which would be quite restricted and not ideal […]
Categories: Film Photography
I have been working on an idea for a while now and it is finally starting to come together. My plan in 2019 was to travel to different places and photograph people. It was a plan that was somewhat up in the air at that time because I was not sure how I really wanted to do it. As for many, things got in the way of it and so the idea and plan got pushed to the side. For […]
Categories: Film Photography, Journal Entries • Tags: Film Photography, Montreal, Nicole Small, one on one, Photography
Two weeks ago, I decided to head on out to Parc Marguerite-D’Youville, a park that I had been to before, which is a rare thing as I like to hike to different places each time I get the chance to get out. This is the same park that I went to for World Wide Pinhole Day 2022. In fact, I had gone there a few years earlier, and at that time most of the trails were closed due to flooding. […]
Categories: Film Photography • Tags: Film Photography, minolta x-700, Montreal, Nicole Small, one on one, Photography, yashica d
Yesterday, I decided to head out to the same park that I had gone to in April for World Wide Pinhole Day 2022. I did not use a pinhole camera this time; I brought along the Minotla-X700 ( and as usual, my Yashica-D was in my backpack). As I walked along some of the familiar areas, I was once again exposed to some of the same scenes that I photographed with my pinhole camera. It is very rare that I […]
Categories: Journal Entries • Tags: Film Photography, Montreal, Nicole Small, one on one, Photography
I am a little late in mentioning this, but I bought Ilfords Pop-Up Darkroom in June and I have got some plans with it!
Categories: Film Photography, Journal Entries • Tags: Film Photography, ilford pop-up darkroom, Montreal, Nicole Small, one on one, Photography
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