Silver Gelatin Prints make lovely gifts
I was thinking today about the satisfaction I’ve had recently in being able to produce silver gelatin prints in the
I was thinking today about the satisfaction I’ve had recently in being able to produce silver gelatin prints in the
Since the beginning of my journey into film photography last April, I knew at some point, if the passion didn’t
I love experimenting with out of the ordinary colour films so was keen to try out the recently released ‘Jelly’
read more Shooting the new Dubble Film Jelly 35mm film with my Pentax K1000 Camera
Through my blog I was recently contacted by International Film Swap Group and asked if I would like to join in taking
Last week I had the chance to try out a contrast filter for developing a photo during my black and
read more Contrast Filters – Black and White Dark Room Photography
Yesterday was my fourth lesson in learning about dark room black and white photography. I was quite excited because I knew this lesson would involve making an enlargement of one of my negatives. I had already decided on the negative I wanted to initially try which was a picture I had taken of one of my cats who is a Silver Tabby using my circular fisheye lens which was attached to a 28mm lens on my Pentax K1000. I liked the fact this picture had my shadow in it and the white walls and patterned tiles in my garden also made the picture more interesting. First of all I had to make a sample sheet once I had decided on the size of the enlargement. In this lesson I unfortunately picked an enlarger with a temperamental digital timer so if pressed slightly wrong, the image wouldn’t expose for the full second which was annoying. I set my first sample sheet
In previous posts I mentioned that my Zeiss-Ikon camera no longer worked and I needed to find a replacement. After much research I finally decided on the Pentax K1000 SLR camera. I know that I wanted an SLR 35mm camera and I also knew that I wanted it to be as manual as possible so I could learn the basics of photography on it. There is plenty of information on the internet regarding this camera and I heard from people I had spoken to that it was a good ‘student camera’ to learn on. I had also read that it is a good robust quality camera. This camera has a shutter speed of 1 /1000th to 1 second and a centre-needle metering in the viewfinder. There is a battery that is required for the centre-needle metering system. However, what is great about this camera is that it’s still fully functional if the battery runs out. This means you’d have to