BoxBrownie
02-05-2010, 04:09 AM
Hi there all,
Thought it was about time to introduce myself -
I've been reading the posts at APUG for a while now, since I switched from digital to mostly film photography. I have learnt so much and now dev my own films and mix my own chemistry from raw. I use 35mm & 120 and am messing with a (pretty much bargain basement) collection of classic cameras, about 30 at the last count - I CANNOT pass a £5 bargain in a charity shop.
I do have a couple of slightly posher cameras: a Bronica EtrSi and a Nikon F90x which are my workhorses though the ones I use most are probably an Olympus Mju 1 and a Voigtlander Vito B as I've always got one of them on me. Prints are inkjet at the moment with plans to start contact printing at some point and if I ever get enough room I'd like to set up a darkroom.
Hopefully I've learned enough to be able to contribute and give something back to the community which has given me so much (even though you didn't know I was lurking).
Favourite photographers at the moment:
Barry Thornton (I have tracked down both Edge of Darkness and Elements - love everything about these books).
Saul Leiter: though I only have Early Colour.
Cartier-Bresson (the first photographer I found and I'm still not over it), Walker Evans, Atget, Gordon Parks, Henry Wessel and on and on...
And John Szarkovski's 'Photographs' - I really do like his own photos, one of my favourite books as the reproduction is so good.
Also Roger Hicks' & Francis Schultz's Quality In Photography which I have read again and again. Hopefully some of it has sunk in.
It's a fantastic time to do photography - the info is out there on the net and so much equipment is available at such low prices - I am loving it!
Any way there you have it. I'm off today so going out to shoot 2 rolls of Pan F 120 to then develop one in Rodinal (which I don't make from raw as it's so cheap) and another in home made microdol/perceptol-ish to see for myself the differences.
Unfinished (1 image and an empty blog - oh dear, must try harder) website at www.boxbrownie.net
Cheers,
Steve B
Thought it was about time to introduce myself -
I've been reading the posts at APUG for a while now, since I switched from digital to mostly film photography. I have learnt so much and now dev my own films and mix my own chemistry from raw. I use 35mm & 120 and am messing with a (pretty much bargain basement) collection of classic cameras, about 30 at the last count - I CANNOT pass a £5 bargain in a charity shop.
I do have a couple of slightly posher cameras: a Bronica EtrSi and a Nikon F90x which are my workhorses though the ones I use most are probably an Olympus Mju 1 and a Voigtlander Vito B as I've always got one of them on me. Prints are inkjet at the moment with plans to start contact printing at some point and if I ever get enough room I'd like to set up a darkroom.
Hopefully I've learned enough to be able to contribute and give something back to the community which has given me so much (even though you didn't know I was lurking).
Favourite photographers at the moment:
Barry Thornton (I have tracked down both Edge of Darkness and Elements - love everything about these books).
Saul Leiter: though I only have Early Colour.
Cartier-Bresson (the first photographer I found and I'm still not over it), Walker Evans, Atget, Gordon Parks, Henry Wessel and on and on...
And John Szarkovski's 'Photographs' - I really do like his own photos, one of my favourite books as the reproduction is so good.
Also Roger Hicks' & Francis Schultz's Quality In Photography which I have read again and again. Hopefully some of it has sunk in.
It's a fantastic time to do photography - the info is out there on the net and so much equipment is available at such low prices - I am loving it!
Any way there you have it. I'm off today so going out to shoot 2 rolls of Pan F 120 to then develop one in Rodinal (which I don't make from raw as it's so cheap) and another in home made microdol/perceptol-ish to see for myself the differences.
Unfinished (1 image and an empty blog - oh dear, must try harder) website at www.boxbrownie.net
Cheers,
Steve B