Recent content by Tim Bradshaw

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Oh, I'm sorry! They are indeed very saturated and you would absolutely be forgiven for thinking that I'd hyped the colour! I 'm still surprised that, given how much over-saturated digital stuff we see, a straight film workflow can do this. (To be fair, I don't know what the scanner does, but...

There are two albums on flickr: Lower than the angels is the final selection for the show, and Lower than the angels: first drafts and outtakes is pretty much everything that came out of the scanner, mostly unedited. (I've added the links to the post now.) Something interesting, I think, is...

Thank you. The final selection for the exhibition is here. Too late to say I picked the wrong ones as they've gone to the printer now!

Thank you. In fact when I took this first lot of pictures in 2020 it was because it was pretty obvious something nasty was coming. There was an absurd thing where people were avoiding Chinatown because people's parents or grandparents had come from China. So I went to use up the film I had...

Pentax MX, lensbaby wide open, Ektachrome, about 19:00. From Lower than the angels. First drafts and outtakes here.

The second shot is just clearly a still from some unmade horror film. All those things move towards you when you're not looking. It's great.

These have now sold

I have a pair of the voltage-reducing MR-9 adaptors which can be used for cameras which expect mercuric oxide cells such as PX625. These are the ones sold by the Small Battery Company, so they're the proper voltage-reducing ones with a diode, not the cheap shims you can find elsewhere which do...

Here's a fairly mad method. Don't do this with developer (you don't want to mix dev with boiling water), but make a water bath. First make lots of ice, and dump this in a bucket. Fill it with water and leave for long enough for a fair amount of the ice to melt (better to put a lid on the...

Please let me know (I don't know if DMs are suported here?) if you do this. Although I have enough enlargers (2), I made all my best prints on DeVeres and might be tempted to dispose of the 5x4-capable enlarger I have. I probably wouldn't need the processing stuff though, so it might be better...

[Being serous now.] Enlarger lenses are a different thing slightly I think. At NLD there were just huge numbers of them (I used to keep my favourite one stashed in a special drawer), because I think when all the art-school & other darkrooms closed in the early 2000s these things got thrown out...

It's like bankruptcy: slow at first and then very sudden. And I mustn't talk about my M-mount 50mm collection (hands begin to tremble, scratches arms & shuffles off muttering 'it's not that bad, it's all under control, now where's my medicine, I just need to see my man, where is he, he'll sort...

In my case I am addicted to 50mm lenses of which I have more than I can easily count, including three Pentax 50mm 1.4s. On the advice of my councillor I am slowly weaning myself onto 40mm. More seriously, I made an account here as a result of the 35mmc post. I'm a mostly-film photographer and...