[UPDATE 9/5/2010] I’ve added CC attributions below each set of photos and I swapped out one of the images in the viewfinder category. A few months ago I posted The Pros and Cons of Each Camera Type and Tom posted a video sho [...]

It’s been a few months since we started up the Film Developing Labs and Supplies maps, so I wanted to bring it up again for the new readers (and I’ll continue to do so every few months). You can read the original post [...]

Remember by neverbe on flickr Image selected from the group pool I love high contrast photos. Well, I love good deep blacks and not an abundance of mid tones. And so I quite like the way the dress and the bench help pull the subje [...]

Hey there, strangers! I’ve been away from it all for a few weeks now, but I should be easing back into my online routine soon enough. Long story short: I bought a house and moved back home to north Idaho. If you want the lon [...]

Recently, I posted an article that introduced the basics of the optical enlarger. This video is a follow-up to that article, and I use my Beseler 67 as a visual prop for pointing out the different parts and how they work. The vide [...]

Memories in the Making by penseroso on flickr. Image selected from the group pool. Over here in Australia, I just wasted a weekend. I didn’t take any photos and spent the majority of time working when I could have been spend [...]

If you asked me to categorise my style, in an instant I’d tell you that my preference is soft, emotive portraits. Yet I often find myself shooting various landscapes since willing models are thin on the ground. Living in a s [...]

photo credit: Marcus Ramberg Shooting film and shooting digital are a bit different in more than one way. Obviously the medium is different, the cameras are different, and the gear is different. But the mental preparation is also [...]

photo credit: alf sigaro Last time I briefly touched on 127 film, but mainly focused on cameras that took 120 film and produced a 4×4 negative. Specifically, it came down to the Agaf Isoly and the Diana (or original clone). I [...]

Film photographers are an interesting group of people when it comes to equipment. For whatever reason, we seem to collect large numbers of cameras over years of shooting. Perhaps it’s due to the low price of old gear, or may [...]