Holga (again!)
With the weather being nice, I took a walk round Viewpark Nursery. I only had the Holga and decided to use the new Portra 400 film. My Holga is setup to do 6×6 frames, so I get 12 shots on a roll.
There are only 10 images here, 2 were dups as I felt I had caused a bit of camera shake when taking them.
These are all direct scans – no PS manipulation at all. I love how the Holga produces very retro images without any manipulation.
Glasgow Burrell Collection
I was out at an archery “Show and try” and decided to pop into the Burrell Collection – I haven’t been here since I was little.
These were all taken with Portra 400with a bit of exposure compensation on my EOS1V
I have to admit, I like the colour in these images better than the wedding one – it does seem that using a bit of +exposure makes this film pop. I am sure that another test will follow soon. (At least 3 more – that’s how many rolls I have in stock 
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Film or Digital?
There is a growing trend in the States for wedding photographers switching to film. Indeed, Kodak have just launched a new emulsion – quite an investment in a time of digital SLRs when only one new medium format film camera was released.
So, as a test, I recently purchased a pro-pack of the new Kodak Porta 400 and took my EOS 1v with me to a wedding, the wedding of Elaine and Christoper to be exact – to see how this new emulsion would fair. The plan was to take just a single roll during the day – no pushing or pulling, just straight shooting the way that the film has been rated.
Below you will find a fairly high resolution image, one is digital and one is film. I know which is which. I am pretty sure anyone else can see the difference. Same lens, same ISO, just slightly different framing. Now the digital image has been processed and colour corrected – the film hasn’t had anything. This isn’t meant to sway the results against the film, just one selling point of switching back to film is the lack of post-processing which digital images require.
In case you couldn’t figure it out – the left image is the film one.
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Recent bad weather
During the Christmas and New Year break we got hit with some pretty poor weather in Scotland.
When the weather had calmed down a bit I took out the cameras, quite a few of them film and shot a few rolls.
This collection were taken with a Holga and 120 film, Velvia 50 on a 35mm camera, my IR camera and one at the end with a PinHole camera.
