Dipping a toe in to the world of processing

Pixie at Full Moon

A visit to Full Moon Studios with Miss Pixie A great day has been planned. A visit down to Lydney, Gloucestershire to visit Full Moon Studios and have a look around, and then a shoot with the fantastic Miss Pixie. She had a great outfit to wear that had she had not properly shot in before, and she also wanted to do some funky make up for her Make Up page - PixieFace. I was convinced the shoot had not...

I have just developed my first roll of film. I was dead nervous about doing it and getting the timings and chemical mixes right, but I reckon I managed to do quite well. I had a lot of trouble loading the reel for the developing tank, where I managed to scratch the film quite a lot and removed some of the coating here and there, but apart from that, they seem to have come out OK - they don't seem to be over or...

Artemis - The Rope Shoot

This was in theory my second shoot with Artemis, although on our first shoot, she was really a Creative Director. Artemis had arranged a studio day with 2 models that I attended and she stayed around to help me out during the shoot. Her vision was so in tune with what I wanted that I knew I had to shoot with her myself. This time in the studio, Artemis was modelling for me (as well as providing feedback on images...

Photographing Wolves

"Your next mini mission is to shoot (photograph!) a WOLF!!!" I had my scariest mission yet on Saturday. I had to wander out into the deep and darkest wilderness of Gloucestershire to search out and photograph a wolf. I knew this was going to be a dangerous task, but I psyched myself up and set out to complete my mission. It was early evening and not far from starting to get dark, so I was dealing with less light...

Dipping a toe in to the world of processing

I have just developed my first roll of film. I was dead nervous about doing it and getting the timings and chemical mixes right, but I reckon I managed to do quite well.

I had a lot of trouble loading the reel for the developing tank, where I managed to scratch the film quite a lot and removed some of the coating here and there, but apart from that, they seem to have come out OK – they don’t seem to be over or under developed.

I used a 1+3 mix of the Ilford ID-11 developer for 25 mins, then Ilford Ilfostop for 30 seconds and finally Ilford Fixer for 5 mins, though I used it for another 3 mins later on after some advice from John.

I am really happy with the results. The scratches I can deal with as I thought I had made much more of a mess of the negs than I actually did, and I am really please with the noise and contrast I managed to get. To me they look like they could have been taken 30 or 40 years ago. My first attempt at going old school and I have loved it. Now to get shooting some more rolls of film……