Nick from Kent
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 9:39 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00
Hi...
My name is Nick and I live in Rainham Kent, I have been into photography for many years manly just pictures of the family as they grew but these day if I was to point the camera at them I would just go away dad.... But no bother, so now I take pictures for me and do I take a lot... Some I share on my flickr stream flickr.com/nick_coombs and some I sell through a stock site.
My interest of LF photography peaked a few weeks back but has been building over a lone time and first started with a look at MF as a means to slow my self down and stop and think more on why and what I am taking pictures of it so easy with modern DSLR to rattle of loads of shots "not that I think that a bad thing in general" and I am not going to get rid of my 5d I just what to improve on what I already do, I want to be able look into a photo and marvel at the details the depth of the tones and I hope that by taking up LF photography I will get this....
So the other day I managed to get hold of a MPP camera and 150 lens and 5 dark slides "just waiting for it to be delivered" and already I am think of the processing stage, I think I will shot with Slide film I don't intend at this stage on printing for these but instead scan them and edit using PS and then print.
I want to own the process and so I will process the film my self, all of this kit I now need to source from Dev Tank to chemicals, maybe a Jobo processing system, but none of these I have as of yet...
Any advice on things to get or avoid are grateful received....
Right off out out again with the 5d.... but soon i hope my LF camera...
Nick
My name is Nick and I live in Rainham Kent, I have been into photography for many years manly just pictures of the family as they grew but these day if I was to point the camera at them I would just go away dad.... But no bother, so now I take pictures for me and do I take a lot... Some I share on my flickr stream flickr.com/nick_coombs and some I sell through a stock site.
My interest of LF photography peaked a few weeks back but has been building over a lone time and first started with a look at MF as a means to slow my self down and stop and think more on why and what I am taking pictures of it so easy with modern DSLR to rattle of loads of shots "not that I think that a bad thing in general" and I am not going to get rid of my 5d I just what to improve on what I already do, I want to be able look into a photo and marvel at the details the depth of the tones and I hope that by taking up LF photography I will get this....
So the other day I managed to get hold of a MPP camera and 150 lens and 5 dark slides "just waiting for it to be delivered" and already I am think of the processing stage, I think I will shot with Slide film I don't intend at this stage on printing for these but instead scan them and edit using PS and then print.
I want to own the process and so I will process the film my self, all of this kit I now need to source from Dev Tank to chemicals, maybe a Jobo processing system, but none of these I have as of yet...
Any advice on things to get or avoid are grateful received....
Right off out out again with the 5d.... but soon i hope my LF camera...
Nick