Analogue & Experimental Photography
If I’m honest, all my work is experimental, anybody who tells you they have nothing else to learn is a liar, or in the least rather naïve 😁
My latest experimental stage seems to be (purely by fortuitous happenstance … underwater photography 💚
I grew up when there was only film and I learnt photography in a darkroom mostly with cheap, cheerful equipment.
I still use old film camera lenses today and although my equipment might be a little more expensive than previously, it’s still not even close to top end.
Photography is both art and science, but without the art the science is rather reductant.
You can create works of beauty with a £75 camera and a £22 CCTV lens 😍
I also still shoot and develop my own black and white 35mm film and 4x5 Large Format images and print them in my makeshift darkroom.
Hex Bokeh - with a 75mm TV Lens
Wistmans Wood - Cosmicar 25mm TV Lens
Enlarger Lens
Analogue Reflection - Home Developed Black & White Film
I'm Late!
Merrivale Stone Row on Colour Film
Gorse on Dartmoor - Shot with a Helios 44-2 with reversed front element
Badly home developed Black and White Film!
Web - Homemade Lens
I still shoot and develop my own film and I love finding new lenses to try on my camera … I’ve even been known to hot glue a lens to an adapter 😁
Being creative doesn’t mean having to have the perfect tools, it means having the initiative to be innovative 😍
Colour Film - Push Processed and Developed in Black & White Chemistry 😜
Homemade Tilt-Shift Lens
Pinhole Camera Experiment
Helios 44-2 With Reversed Front Element
More TV Lens Fun
Black and White Film - Push processed and home developed
Open Minded and willing to learn