Walking in the evening with the dog gives me the excuse to photograph in interesting light.
I was using a medium red filter on the Summicron to photograph some dramatic sunset clouds from Point Hill but took this of Kate facing the sunset. It looks like she is the spectator at a nearby nuclear explosion, or at least sitting there with a red-top shining in her face. Interesting effect, almost Trente Parke esque and no post-processing was necessary. Flattering it isn’t though.
More Dickensian and creepy is this lamp-post against the wall of the tennis courts in Greenwich Park. No illumination from the lamp-post although it does remind me of a stage or film set. Unreal.
Inside the park things are more picturesque
Earlier during the day I was photographing St Paul’s Church in Deptford. I’m stretching the definitions here but these two doors have a light and dark aspect, the dark doorway even has a light above it.
Hey, one of them is even bricked up! Score double.
It was an exceptionally bright day though with strong shadows cast by the afternoon sun. This window is surrounded by dappled brickwork
There are some serious steps in this church
In complete contrast (hehe) later on in the evening I got this shot of the walkways on an estate I can never remember the name of
The shots were taken on the Leica M6 with the Summicron 35/2 IV souped in T-Max Dev for 6 minutes. I had to develop four films so used a four reel tank for the first time. The most obvious problem was the real estate in my changing bag was a bit tight.
I’m lying actually, I only had three films exposed… when I came to rewind the fourth I realised I hadn’t loaded it into the M6 properly so nothing was exposed. Naturally I only found this out when I came to ‘rewind’ the film after 36 carefully framed shots of a lifetime and hey ho f*ck f*ck f*ck!
I initially thought the film had jammed and then broken (my first thought is to blame the film, never my cack-handed loading of it). I’m usually obsessive about making sure the rewind is moving counter to its direction as the film is advanced too.
We live and learn. Film mistakes can be very harsh
by skinnyvoice
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