New Photos, Old cameras

The photographs below have been taken using the old Fed3 rangemaster and a 1980 praktica EE2 both had fixed 50mm lenses on them. there is some light damage to some of the fed3 shots but i think it adds to it.

See the rest on my Flickr pages (see the link to the right).

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My new, err...old kit!

Recently decided it was time to go back to basics. so i am now the proud owner of a Fed3 35mm rangemaster. It looks almost identical to a Leica rangemaster but its a 10th of the price! It was made in Russia as a camera for use by the russian army. As its a fully mechanical device to get the best results from it you need a light meter, i thought as its a 1950's - 60's camera i'll get a similar age light meter as this would have been the sort of meter used to help set the camera when it was current.
I'm shooting with Kodak black and white @ ISO400 and as soon as i have something from it i'll post them up.

The psychic chair

The following photographs were taken at 5.30am in a wood near my home and are edited highlights from a college project.

The photo's in the photo's (!) we also taken by me during a recent studio session.

Recent studio work

The photographs below are of a friend of mine with a wicked sense of humour and great character.

i had no idea what i was going to ask him to do, so i sat him in a chair and we passed him stuff! these were the results.

Norfolk trip

During a 4 day break in Horning, Norfolk after the bank holiday i was able to get out and about with my camera.
whether it was 5am in Cromer on the beach or 1am in Horning at the marina.

Below are a few samples, theres more to see on my flickr gallery (link on the right).

Home is where the photography is...

Below are just a few images created from stuff around the house.

The above being a spice rack hanging in the kitchen.


The above was taken during a recent power cut! The wine glass is lit with candles.


"family", again lit with candles.

"conscience"

Ilkeston Town Centre

Today I was up early after not much sleep; I took a dawn trip in to Ilkeston to have a look about to see what it had to offer.

Well, not much as it turned out…maybe there was more but was tired so there! I had made a new pinhole for my canon body that was half the size of the other one I made previously. With it I wanted to capture an image of the great old frontage to the Scala cinema. The light was a little disappointing this morning I was hoping for a nice fresh bright looking day with plenty of contrast, but it seemed a bit flat and muggy.

I set up my kit to the right of the building whilst my over sized coffee cup stood precariously on top of a waste bin! I took a quick shot to check composition as you can’t see much through the pinhole. Disappointingly I was far too close and couldn’t get any further back due to a fenced off section behind me.
So I settled for a cropped composition instead.

I continued through the centre looking up and down trying my best to look away from the shop frontages at what might be the shopper’s eye view and attempted to peer more creatively at my surroundings.

To be honest it wasn’t happening today and the bad light and dodgy set up early didn’t help.
I plodded down the street , still not much inspiring me, I came across two guys who were setting up a little veg shop who said if I came back at 7.30 I could take some photos of his shop! It didn’t look great though so I passed.

All in all it wasn’t really a great success, I did get a couple of nice images of a door way to the old swimming baths which I was able to make in to a nice black and white and I also posterised another shot of the same door using Photoshop.

So below you will see two of the doorway one black and white and one posterised and a heavily graphic image of the Scala cinema taken with a pinhole camera.

I am extremely pleased with what I did get; just wish I felt more creative at the time.



Above: The pinhole shot of the Scala Cinema