Category Archives: Ilford DD-X Spent a sunny(ish) day with Lobster Boy walking round the Greenwich peninsular. An unusual amount of bizarrely placed chairs and even a sofa presented themselves, together with knee-deep quantities of rubbish on the shore. Used the Bessa with the Leitz Summitar 50/2. Could have done with a wider lens and the Summitar is prone to…  Sunny weather! So I went to the graveyard to try and catch the shadows with the wide angle and the Leica IIf. I’ve discovered the If has tiny light leaks in the shutter curtain so it is off to Malcolm Taylor in the new year for a CLA. These are contrasty, which I like. First…  Found a wet graveyard behind St Alfege Church in Greenwich. Didn’t even know it was there until I stumbled across it by accident on Sunday looking for a shortcut to somewhere else. Anyway, I went back there yesterday with the Leica If. It was very dank and overcast but good for graveyards. Also empty… Some…  Yesterday we had more sun and I went out and replicated the test shoot I did at the Southbank the day before, only this time with Tri-X instead of Fomapan 400. Conditions were very similar, very bright and sunny but with sudden shadows created by fast moving clouds. And almost to the minute the rain… |
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