TECHNICAL INFORMATION
The majority of the images featured on this blog spot were taken on Canon analog 35mm SLR cameras including the following models: Canon A1, Canon AE1 (non-programme) and Canon T90. As such I presently have three T90s and an assortment of Canon FD lens.
The Canon A1 was rendered useless after prolonged exposure to salt spray residue, and the AE1 was never the same after some idiot drove over my camera bag.
Canon FD lenses used include: 28 and 35mm wide angle, 50mm standard, 35-105mm short telephoto zoom and a 70-210mm large telephoto zoom lenses. Also used was a Mamiya 645 with 50 and 80mm lenses. The favourite combination for me is a T90 fitted with the 35-105mm lens with an orange filter.
Hoya orange, red, neutral density, and skylight filters. Hoya and Canon lens hoods. A set of three Hoya Close-up filters (+ 1, 2 and 4). Canon remote cable.
I also have a lovely old Metz 45CT flashgun (you just cannot beat this make and model of flashgun if you ask me). I might have used this for the bounced flash for some of the documentary and portraiture work.
Studio flash used was Courtenay brolly flash (usually just two heads) at Hull Community Artworks studio. Billingham and Oyster camera bags (the Billingham is a old model that I have had for years - lovely bags. The Oyster one is a backpack type bag).
Slik Black Diamond 88 and 500 DX Pro tripods. A Cullmann touring set.
Film used was 35mm with some 120mm. Ilford Delta monochrome negative print film, 100 asa (a few rolls of 400 asa as well). Ilford HP5 and FP4 (400 and 125 asa respectively). Fuji Neopan 400 asa.
Various Fuji colour film. Photographic chemicals: Ilford ID-11 and Microphen film developers. Agfa Rodinal fine grain film developer, and Ilford Hypam fixer.
Photographic paper: Ilford Multigrade IV VC paper, Fibre based VC paper including warm and cool tone. Kentmere Velvet Stipple and Art Document papers. Kodak selenium toner. Barclay and Fotospeed sepia toners, and Colorvir blue toner. Durst M60 and Meopta 5 enlargers fitted with 50 and 80mm Schneider lenses. Kenro negative sheets and Jessops negative folders.
Most of my photography involves the use of the camera being securely mounted to the tripod, with the shutter set to the 10 second delay. I also tend to bracket my exposures (relying on the excellent Canon in-camera meter). My aperture settings are usually between F8 and F22. In the vast majority of cases the very first exposure or shot I take is usually the correctly exposed one.
Finished photographic prints (spotted if needed) and usually at the 10 x 8 inch size are then scanned on an Epsom 1660 photo perfection scanner in Adope Photoshop CS2 at the 5.5 x 3.5 inch size at 150 dpi and 750 x 550 pixels size and saved as for the web. The only thing that is manipulated is the brightness balance and contrast levels.
Normandy Veteran and former WWII RAF Regiment Soldier Ben Bainbridge poses for the camera, holding his sister's 1939 evacuee issue suitcase.
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2 comments:
Two things strike me immediately in this photograph - the way his left hand is lit and the straightness of his shadow. Both these things are very striking. Has this man seen the photograph? I bet he would be very pleased with it.
Thank you for your comments.
Yes Ben saw this photograph, and I gave him a copy of this, along with many other images that I had take. Also if any of the Ceterans where featured in a photography magazine article (I purchased a copy and gave it to them also).
Sadly like a lot of this generation Ben is now no longer with us. So this image is a lasting legacy to him and many others like him, that I came to know during these four short years.
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