The Ironbridge

Here is a selection of images from a recent trip to Ironbridge. We only stayed for a very brief couple of rain filled days but it was nice to appreciate the slower pace of life and also have our first experience camping in a yurt. A little bit of luxury doesn’t hurt now and again, especially when the weather conspires against you.

One of the highlights was hiking back to the campsite past a bunch of wild garlic, it was nice to smell when we were close to home as opposed to relying on visual clues. After packing up camping we decided to swing by Dovedale on the way home and test our balance on the fairy stepping stones. Making time to see all the gems on the walk is imperative as is making time to talk to the locals.

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Andy

Cali ’10

I have not had chance to do anything constructive new photography-wise recently due to ‘real life’. Luckily I had a good friend of mine come visit me at the weekend who brought along a hard-drive I have been dying to get my hands on. The drive was packed full of videos and stills from a West Coast trip of USA in 2010.

The idea was to edit all the video footage into some coherent story that hits the highlights. With having very little experience putting the video together I decide to shirk that and edit some photos instead. I have no idea who took any of the photos I’m uploading, I think we all had a helping hand in them.

This set of photos are from our visit to an old silver mining town of Calico via Joshua Tree. The place was the hottest and driest place I have ever been too. Everything you touched was scalding hot, even the iPhones had closed themselves down due to the excessive heat. I have no idea how people use to be able to work in that heat.

 

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Andy

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Mamiya Slide

This is from my first roll of slide film through my Mamiya 645. This camera is slowly working its way up my favourite cameras to take on trips with me. I wish I could afford the 645 AFDII but that is a bit of a pipe dream right now. The images are just scanned and some have had exposure changes but they are presented as is. This is the same for all my film images (the odd B&W conversions snakes in). The film I used was Fuji Provia 100f RDPIII and I have plenty more to shoot (maybe some 35mm too?), so keep your eyes peeled!

As always, these images are low res. If you want to see a high res version, just drop me a message.

I think this one is my favourite of the set.

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Andy

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Stereograph #4

Hopefully you’re not to bored of this. If you want prints of these let me know and I can sort that out.

Stereograph #3

Still continuing with the Stereograph-hype. This one is of a rapeseed field.

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Andy

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Stereograph #2

Another recent Stereograph taken at Rufford Park

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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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