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13 November, 2025

5 Frames with Kodak Portra 800 Pushed to 3200 at Thin Air Exhibition

By Kristian Smith

Portra 800 has always been a film stock reserved for “Special Occasions”. Frugal shooting doesn’t often lend to nearly £20 for a roll of 36 shots, so when I do decide to shoot a...

12 November, 2025

Made in Hong Kong

By Raymond Wong

I was made in Hong Kong. I was born in Hong Kong in 1994, when the Union Jack was still on the Hong Kong flag. My mum is from Taiwan and my dad is a native HongKonger. Three yea...

11 November, 2025

A Portrait on Velvia 50

By David Hume

I never shot Fujichrome Velvia for portraits, except, apparently, when I did. I have absolutely no recollection of making some frames I found in a box labelled “1998. Blue Banan...

11 November, 2025

Nikonos IV-a for Documentary Photography

By Simon King

Sometimes I need to work on a story or story-elements that don’t occur in optimal conditions, whether that means light or access or other conditions. Weather doesn’t...

6 November, 2025

Lockdown 2025

By Geoff Chaplin

We got back in the afternoon having spent several days in Osaka – for the centre of Hokkaido it was a reasonable temperature, around 9 degrees (48 in old money), but in the even...

5 November, 2025

Pushing Pan F Plus: first stop, Santa Monica, second stop, Manhattan

By Scott Ferguson

Part 1 — Pushing One Stop in Santa Monica I took a quick trip to Los Angeles in late September and it was the first time I’ve visited the West Coast since taking up ...

5 November, 2025

Original, Freewill, Artificial

By Raymond Wong

When you are reading this article on an electronic device, I am sure you are living in a society with some degree of modern civilisation. So let’s look at everything around you ...

2 November, 2025

My (Brief) Life as a Documentary Photographer

By Jeremy Rata

I have always been a documentary photographer, just not a paid one. That all changed in 2010, I was commissioned by a man called John Casson whom I had met at a dinner party I w...

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Bud Parr on Printing Digital Photographs Using the Traditional Silver Gelatin Darkroom Process
Cool, thanks - I’m going to give it a try!
Olivier Desmet on Printing Digital Photographs Using the Traditional Silver Gelatin Darkroom Process
Hi Bud, Thanks for reading! I only dodge and burn if I find that my computer edits were not sufficient/adequate,…
Bud Parr on Printing Digital Photographs Using the Traditional Silver Gelatin Darkroom Process
This is great, and thanks for sharing. I’ve done the same process for platinum/palladium printing, but I really should try…

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