Wedding pics

Last weekend I was asked to take a 1st dance pic at a local wedding . Congratulations to the happy couple who are honeymooning in Toronto ( I may post a pic later after they have seen the pictures )

After the initial dance the lasers and lights come into full . I got this streaming effect by having a fairly long shutter speed and zooming in to out , ( Would have come out better with a tripod but really who carries one of them about !

Film SLR 1st colour film

Double exposure River Dee at Llangollen hand in water

Talacre Beach cliche mirror shot

My Retro BK Knights

Scott wearing girls sunnies

The Battered Fish with a friendly customer greeting .... oh wait a minute

Talacre beach car park nice and quiet

Ok so  the blogger template has just underlined Talacre as being spelled wrong so I right click for an alternative spelling suggestion but the only word it gave was "rectal," what genius wrote that dictionary !

Anyway after complaining about having to send off my process paid film  I was surprised when it came through the post today as film slides ! They look really smart as they are not in negative but positive ... Might have to create a back-lit box to display them


This is the first colour film that I have put through my £5 film SLR.
The film was exposed quite well so I now know I can rely on the on-board metering of the camera . I do however need to be a bit more specific on manual / auto focusing to make images more sharp ( Also I need to have a bit more of a play with the scanning as I'm not sure if the focus point is correct )

US Army Jeep HDR Tonemapped

Bird of Prey

Taken at recent event

Greenfield Heritage Valley

Shopping trolley seen in its natural environment

Great oaks from little acorns grow

 

Having bought a film SLR from E Bay I have been itching to use it ( I bought a Canon Eos 300 as my digital Eos lenses will fit straight on . Not sure if the person selling it was too happy though as I was the only bidder and got it for the bargain price of £5 with £3.50 p&p ..... I gave excellent feedback so everyone's happy...)


I have put a colour film through it but taking it to be processed in Boots today I was met with the response     " Process paid , I haven't seen that in years , we charge you to process it here you have to send it off," not the greatest of starts really and did seem a little daft I bought it from them , they had the equipment to process it behind them ...... but I had to send it through the post ..... Ah well you live and learn !!!!


Anyway I had a few B&W pics from the other day and  decided to visit Greenfield heritage valley near Holywell to finish off the reel

The heritage area is a great place to get pics with old mills, a ruined abbey and ponds

TECH INFO :
 
I used Canon 300d with a Canon 70-40 lens ( Bit daft a £500 lens on a £5 camera I do admit )

Kentmere 100 iso film 24 exp from Nova Darkroom website ( Amazing place I ordered in the morning , the next day I had it  delivered you can find the website here :NOVA DARKROOM SUPPLIES


It was developed in a Pattison 4 tank for 10.5 mins and in a fixer for 5 mins . ( This gave the high contrast feel to the pics)

I'm fairly happy with the results but right now it's more about learning for me that's important. The images still to me appear a little muddy and there is strobing  on some of the shots (probably due to the Fairy liquid not being washed off properly )

Spider's web at the mill pond

 

Denbigh Flower show 2011

The great thing about shooting inside a marquee is the diffused light . I have purposely over exposed to burn out the background

Photos are of blooms at this years Denbigh Flower show . I have left them as high  res at they make interesting desktop backgrounds

Fun with Fisheye ....... And home developing

All the above images were taken with my Lomography fisheye camera , developed using a Paterson Super System 4 developing tank , then scanned in as I do not as yet have the time / space or knowledge to make actual prints ...... But that is to come I hope when I get more of the above

It seems sometimes that people are finding hobby photography less accessible as they feel that they need to spend £1000's on equipment to get the right image ( Usually fueled by the countless photo interest magazines that claim the new camera as featured will change everything .)  That is totally untrue and if you are obsessed by equipment maybe Photography should not be your thing. The above images were very inexpensive to obtain and develop and they may not be the best quality but I had a lot of fun making them

My philosophy is as long as you are having fun doing what you are doing then if you have no money to spend or £1000's then it doesn't matter . I personally enjoy the challenge of getting interesting images from old / cheap equipment ( When I get time I hope to experiment with some pinhole cameras )

Ah well. I've left the images as fairly large files . As usual click to enlarge

Baby Wabbit

Baby Rabbit

Baby Rabbit focus

Met this little fluffy friend today hopping down a small back road on the edges of Clocaenog Forrest . To be honest if the breaks on the car weren't up to scratch he may well have become just another rabbit roadkill  statistic 

Both of the bottom images were taken from the same distance but the first image is only a few mil out but what a difference in quality

Developing Black And White Film 2nd attempt

My Nephew

Talacre Beach Lighthouse

Black and White neg scanned as colour neg

Fisheye Lomography image using remote flash for alternative light source

I think I'm getting to like waking up on Sunday mornings and hitting the car boot sales ! Not very cool really but I don't care . Got myself an Epson 3490 scanner for £5 today so now I don't have to go in early to work to scan my negs ( well 35mm negs anyway )


This is the 2nd time I have ever developed my own film . Cue sweating worse than a sauna under 3 layers of duvet because the sun was shining through the blinds when I was trying to transfer the film to the developing tank  ( 2 of them with a winter rating tog )


I would like the images to be sharper and less muddy but this is definitely a steep learning curve and I am very much enjoying it ( Trying to forget about feeding the film onto the reel in the dark, it probably shouldn't take half an hour and quite so much cursing and swearing ), I'll try and cut that down next time ....... Well I suppose the quicker I get the film on the reel the less swearing will be needed


Rather than just develop for developing sake I have tried to capture some certainly not award winning but  I hope semi interesting images