Philosophy & Reflections Archives

8 November, 2017

Stop bloody moaning and support the Film Photography industry!

By Hamish Gill

The last few weeks I’ve seen a great deal of moaning about two new film photography products that have been launched on the crowdfunding platforms. Those product being Si...

21 October, 2017

Second City – Making My First Zine – by Richard PJ Lambert

By Richard PJ Lambert

I’m a very unprofessional, self-taught film photographer from Birmingham. There is always a camera in my pocket and I like to experiment with different techniques to capture the...

17 September, 2017

Finding my way in photography Part 2 – My first steps shooting film – Guest Post by Nick Holt

By Nick

In my first post I took a look back at a couple of years snapping away with my Ricoh GR digital camera. I submitted that post to 35mmc as it was around the time I had decided to...

23 July, 2017

Film Photography; a to road rediscovery – Guest post by Richard Williams

By Richard Williams

...I must have had a latent desire to shoot film again because a few follows later on Instagram and I was hooked! Then not long after that, my wife, ever the avid charity-shopp...

11 June, 2017

Finding my way in photography – part 1 – by Nick Holt

By Nick

I defected from digital three days ago with the purchase of my first film camera; a Hasselblad Xpan. My decision to move to film was arrived at slowly, although reading some of ...

26 February, 2017

The story behind a photo of a plastic bottle or: A (slightly defensive) response to a comment posted on my Sony A7rii review

By Hamish Gill

The above is a photo of a bottle that me and Janine (my studio photographer at F8) recently took for a client. Quite boring isn't it? Though, technically it's quite a good phot...

7 October, 2016

My Thoughts After One Year Of Shooting Film – by Aukje

By Aukje

A year ago I posted my first guest post on this website, and I thought that this one-year anniversary called for a recap, a moment of contemplation to investigate where I stand ...

18 May, 2016

Six by Four – my experience of creating a Photo Book – By Frank Lehnen

By Frank Lehnen

I just did something I intended to do for some time now…. I made a Photo Book, or rather a Photo Booklet. I’d like to submit it to your critical eyes, but also ...

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