I was always looking for a way to earn money on the side with something I love and escape the suffering of nursing. When Corona pushed things to the limit in 2020, I started tak...
2 May, 2023
Spectral Sensitivity of B&W Film – A Deep Dive into Orthochromatic, Panchromatic and All the Rest
Even if you're new to film photography, you've probably heard about the various types of B&W emulsions which are out there: orthochromatic, panchromatic, infrared and so on. If ...
1 April, 2023
Economies of Film
After seeing some online discussions about the price of film rising I thought I'd revisit and follow up on a piece of writing I previously wrote about darkroom prints, and how I...
12 February, 2023
The Role of Film Photography in an AI World – By Joseph
The position of film photography has never been stronger. Against the intangibility of our virtual reality, the medium of photography and its process gives viewers the craved ta...
20 December, 2022
Scan and Destroy – My blasphemous quest to be free of my negatives – By Max Cooper
The issue of SHOTS magazine current at the time of this writing contains images central to my thesis: Recovered slides from my grandfather’s collection. On the off-chance...
Street photography is what I love to do the most. If I could, I would go out there every single day of my life and take pictures of the world around me. But there is still one t...
17 June, 2022
The Game Called ISO – Taking Advantage of the EV System for Better Results – By Vlad Serebryany
For as long as I was shooting film, I have had the same nagging problem: I wanted to shoot in the dark. My Dad - who gave me my first and his only camera Zorkiy with 3.5/50 mm I...
I might say, pushing the boundaries of film in this case is more like returning to its roots.
When rock ‘n roll and hard bop burst through the famed and now widely regarded as ...