Dot-to-Dot Festival

So this weekend Nottingham had the best Dot-to-Dot Festival ever! Plenty of top quality bands. The highlight had to be Arse Full of Chips at BrewDog Nottingham. I didn’t get any photos of them as I was having too much of a good time to get the camera out.

Here are a selection of my favourite ones from the day.

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Andy

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NTU Music Society Gig

On Thursday 9th May Nottingham Trent University Music Society descended on BrewDog Notts in a maelstrom of acoustic guitars and belting vocals.

The atmosphere was immense and the quality of the acts equalled it.

The lighting was very low so I decided to do my usual grainy look as previously done with the WAITT Unsigned photos.

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Andy

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Square Portrait #2

Again sticking to the current theme of portraits and square format shooting. Compared to the last image I posted on my blog, I feel that this image is much better composed and exposed evenly. This is mainly due to my first ever lighting kit I recently purchased and some light fill in flash work.

It’s fun working with the same subject just to help highlight the difference.

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Andy

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Square Portrait #1

Again I’ve been playing about with square format and decided to do a portrait to see what happens. The 1×1 crop makes it very hard as to what parts to still include in the image when working within a small place. I also used a few brushes that I’ve never used before such as Iris Enhance which is still great in black & white as it creates a focusing point for the viewer

I had minimal lighting for this as it was just a test shot in my living room to play around with some new post editing features but the fill in flash did a pretty decent job of highlighting the image.

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Andy

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Square Format

Shooting with my Mamiya brings a great joy that can easily be forgotten, square format negatives. Composing images when shooting square format is a whole new challenge in itself, you have to fight the urge of the normal ‘rules’ of composition.

I unfortunately  don’t have a way of scanning in my negatives properly as of yet but the top 2 are very crude snaps of recent negatives from a WAITT Unsigned session. The bottom 2 are recent digital photos but cropped to 1×1 and edited to produce similar effects of my Mamiya (without the amazingly high contrast that the Mamiya offers)

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Andy

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Depth of Film

Most people my age (25ish) are blessed with the benefit of growing up in an age of digital revolution with instant gratification. My passion for photography actually ended up coming from my first film camera, Holga 120CFN. A camera as basic as can be but it allowed a lot of experimentation. In the last year or so this has been lost on me, due to expensive film processing and fewer local locations, my film photography has been dormant.

I’m also a collector of film cameras so I’ve recently purchased a few but the one standout has to be the Canon EOS5. Everyone in the digital world knows all about the EOS5D and its successors the MkII and MkIII. The legacy of these modern digital cameras was based on the quality and performance of the original EOS5 SLR. I wanted to share with you why this camera is still held in high regard by many film photographers

So after all that waffle here are the best of the first ever roll of film I’ve put throughmy Canon EOS5. The film was a cheap AGFA200 from Poundland and processed and scanned by Boots. I’m working on getting a scanner so I don’t have to rely on their terrible developing and scanning quality.

I took a mixture of indoor and outdoor shots but have yet had chance for any night shots just yet. Obviously the B&W photos have been post processed but it still shows what film does best, the contrast range of an image. Very little else has been edited on these photos to try and best represent the quality of film.

I hope you enjoy the photos and if you’ve never shot film I suggest to grab yourself a decent film SLR off of eBay and load in some film and get shooting.

Thanks again,

Andy Johnny Young

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