Category Archives: Rodinal

Deptford Lamp Post

Stretching the point a bit (but there is a lampost in the background

I didn’t realise quite how ‘clinical’ the Fujinon lens can be. I’ll have to think a bit more carefully about the exposure with FP4+. However, it makes an interesting juxtaposition with the previous post.

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Hat Trick

Taken last year at the Gaza protests.
The photo makes me laugh though.

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Overgrown And Flared

It was sunny! So I broke out the FP4+ and felt an overwhelming desire to use the 1934 Voigtlander Bessa RF rangefinder with its to-die-for f/3.5 Heliar lens and gigantic 6×9 negatives. Set the light meter to ISO100 and trotted off to Ladywell Fields where the dogs roam unmolested and unmolesting.
The bad news is that...

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Hush, Quietly Now

Shhhh, is there an artist here?

Look carefully…
A red filter might have helped here with legibility. I’d like to say I don’t make a habit of photographing brick walls but that just wouldn’t be true. These days I’m a (little) more discerning though, there is usually a reason. Like the gateway to the fourth dimension.
I’ve been...

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Skem Bare Market

Long time Skelmersdale council housing tenant Hazel Scully is pleased that West Lancashire borough council is planning a facelift for run-down Skelmersdale town centre – there’ll be a new high street, shops, cinema, library, sports centre, swimming pool, housing, and a lovely landscaped park to replace the spooky weedfest along...

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Mass Photo Gathering In Defence Of Street Photography

Dear viewer, look away now if you don’t like grainy poorly exposed and focused B&W photos…
I pushed Tri-X to 1600 and in a fit of madness developed it in Rodinal. Since I was also guessing exposure and zone focusing the results are somewhat ‘interesting’. The images look slightly better resized when you click them.
It was...

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Footprints

Too much digital recently. Too much colour
Gizmo walked across this bridge and left his footprints.

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Skipping

I’ve always been wary of skip guys and scaffolders since I was attacked by a wrench-wielding scaffolder on Effra Road in Brixton about 20 years ago. The lorry had nearly run me down driving the wrong way up a one way street and I was stupid enough to point this out. Exit pursued by lorry,...

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