Shimmering Grains

From the blue hour, just after sunset…

Here comes some more images from my trip to Scotland, and these are all from around sunset, or just after in the blue hour.

The massive colours are actually true, my filmstrips looks just about the same, I have only cropped and worked a little bit with levels. And the gorgeous LEE filters of course, who prolongs the exposure times and gives this fabulous colours on Velvia 50.
My gallery page is also updated, welcome to have a look.

Life is good, huh?

Enjoy! 🙂

Hasselblad 503CX
LEE filters ND and Big stopper
Fuji Velvia 50
Developed at home in Tetenal Colortec E6

Tags: 120film, analog photography, analogue photography, art, Coastal, film photography, Fuji Velvia 50, Hasselblad 503CX, Isle of Arran, Medium Format photography, nature, photography, Scotland

A little journal from my best trip ever…

A couple of weeks ago I was on a photographic workshop, in Scotland, at the stunning Isle of Arran, with the great landscape photographer Bruce Percy and five other participants. It was a truly fantastic trip!

I have been photographically kind of stuck for a while, with quite a few constraints that I’ve put on myself. This trip took those away, so relieving! Bruce showed me how to edit and still be true to the image and the analogue film photography process. He do nothing to his images that Ansel Adams couldn’t do in his darkroom. As using nothing but ND filters, and the editing in Photoshop is just cropping, dodging and burning, increase or decrease contrast and dust removing.

And he also gave me a completely “new” light to use! A light that I earlier didn’t use at all, it felt so grey and kind of dead. Was I wrong, or what!! 🙂

Thanks Bruce, I feel so full of new inspiration!

In this post I show you two images, but please also visit my new gallery page, Isle of Arran, where I show you more images.

Enjoy! 🙂

Hasselblad 503CX + LEE ND filter
Fuji Velvia 50
Tetenal Colortec E6 dev at home

Hasselblad 503CX + LEE ND filter
Kodak T-max 100
Tmax dev 1:4

Tags: 120film, art, film photography, Fuji Velvia 50, Hasselblad 503CX, Isle of Arran, LEE filters, Medium Format photography, nature, Photographic workshop, photography, Scotland, travel photography

Four different copies from one negative

I while ago I made some portraits for a friend of mine, of two of her beautiful Shetland Sheepdog ladies. These two beauties are 12 and 13 years old, isn’t that fantastic? The elder one, Lillan, (first image) is a bit grey in her face, but on Gabbie (second image) there is no way you can see that she is 12 years old.

Since I didn’t know what my friend would prefer, I made four different type of copies for her. One black and white on warm tone paper, one black and white on the new Cooltone paper from Ilford (absolutely gorgeous!!!), one regular lith copy, and one black and white on Cooltone that I bleached back and redeveloped in Lith developer.

And since they are so different, I want to show them all to you.

It’s so good to have an analogue darkroom!

Enjoy 🙂