smssms
ANTI-PERFECTION
Why follow 99% of other photographers trying to get perfectly composed, exposed, shots with x mega-pixels and the latest lens blah blah - dull and generic! I want to make pictures that are unique, spontaneous and as free from my 'photographer's brain' (with all its constraints, cliches and stereotypes) as possible - its really difficult to let go and I don't manage it very often yet.
Also, I just love mechanical cameras!
To keep the cost of my habit down, I:
# Buy (& sell) old film cameras on eBay, charity, junk shops.
# Seek out cheap expired film and look for good deals on any B&W film. Also been experimenting with oddball films like ISO 0.8 microfiche (no sprocket holes) or expired Russian film that comes in 36 exp lengths, but just rolled in foil, no cassette.
# Put 35 mm film in very old 120 and 127 cameras.
# Stand develop film at home in 1:100 Adox Adonal or RO9 One Shot. Then scan the negs on a crappy Reflecta x4plusScan.
# Cross process the expired colour films in B&W chemistry as above. End up with more grain than Windy Miller, but I'm quite liking it.
# Commit large scale bank fraud.
United Kingdom
My Photos My Albums My Notes My Likes
My Albums
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Album: Abstraction
shared by smssms on 2019-02-07 · 101 Photos 2 327 -
Album: Ye Olde
shared by smssms on 2019-02-03 · 24 Photos 2 134 -
Album: Colour and digital
shared by smssms on 2019-01-06 · 12 Photos 6 68
My Metas
- Tags:
- Covid-19
- abstract
- b&w
- beach
- blur
- brick
- bridge
- car
- church
- closed
- cloud
- clouds
- coast
- coronavirus
- cross process
- derelict
- deserted
- door
- double
- double exposure
- driving
- empty
- expired
- fogged
- grain
- machine
- microfilm
- night
- pier
- portrait
- railway
- river
- road
- sea
- seaside
- self portrait
- shop
- shut
- sign
- sky
- snow
- street
- sun
- town
- train
- tree
- trees
- window
- workshop
- x-process
- Cameras:
- Canon EOS 10
- Contax G1
- Ensign Ranger
- Jessops Once Disposable Camera
- Konica Pop
- Minolta XG-M
- Minox 35 GT
- Pentax ME Super
- Pentax MV
- Pentax MX
- Sony phone
- Yashica Electro 35 GSN
- Zeiss Baby Ikonta 127, 1930's
- sony xperia
- Films:
- 200asa
- Adox Silvermax 100
- Agfa APX 100
- Agfa Vista Plus 200
- Foma Fomapan 100
- Fomapan 100
- Fomapan 200
- Fomapan profiline creative 200
- Fuji Superia 200 (35mm)
- Fujicolor Superia X-Tra 400 (expired)
- Ilford FP4+ ISO 125
- Kentmere 100 B&W
- Kodak 2468 (direct positive microfilm)
- Kodak Kodacolor 200 Expired
- Perutz SC 100 (expired)
- Silberra PAN160
- Tasma Mikrat-900 (expired 1980's)
- kodak 400 tmax expired
- mikrat
- tasma 64 (expired)