Jessi & Camera

This is what happens when 500px gives me upload limits

[fastnormalprime]

Views around the South Stack lighthouse just off Ynys Gybi [Holyhead]

[fastnormalprime]

Big Boat

Is this my triumphant return to tumblr? Who knows. But I went to visit TSS Duke of Lancaster yesterday and I wanted to share the photos :)

[fastnormalprime]

Last macro post (for now) – a snail shell and some ants on a flower bud.

[fastnormalprime]

Macro cobwebs! I love how much detail is in these shots.

[fastnormalprime]

Bees!

[fastnormalprime]

experimenting with a new-to-me 105mm macro lens

I guess I do macro photography now.

[fastnormalprime]

Spring is here; flowers are blooming; polarising filters are showing their worth...

[fastnormalprime]

was out taking photos the other day – mostly on film – when I stumbled into what appears to be someone’s LARP site :)

[fastnormalprime]

From a roll of KONO Rotwild redscale film I shot back in January and just got processed. Wouldn’t want to use it all the time, but the colour shifts are amazing

[fastnormalprime]

First results from my new-to-me ‘60s-vintage Cosmic 35 (Смена 8) camera, using expired (2004) Fujifilm Superia.

Looks like the camera’s working, with good light sealing and sufficiently accurate shutter speeds; and it looks like it has a lovely lens for punchy colour contrast! :D

Still to come: a B&W roll I shot the same day...

[fastnormalprime]

Made 6 identical prints, then sepia toned them to different degrees. (Top-left is an un-toned print for comparison. Please excuse the crummy job I did masking off the top-middle.)

[fastnormalprime]

Ran a roll of film through my LomoKino, developed, printed it (all 144 frames, over 6 sheets of 10x8 paper), cut it all up, and clipped it together into flipbooks.

Then used a DSLR to make a video of me flipping through them.

[fastnormalprime]

contact sheets! :D

I know, I’ve not done a good job of uploading things lately, but I’m still playing around with cameras and chemicals and a darkroom, and I’m still enjoying all those things :)

[fastnormalprime]

set I put together for a zine on the theme of urban storytelling / neglected spaces / nooks and crannies

[fastnormalprime]

there’s something really fun about shooting slow B&W film with an ultra-wide lens [contact prints probably uploaded whenever I develop this roll] [in the meantime, these posts have some slow-film wide shots]

[fastnormalprime]

contact sheets!

Yeah, I’ve really fallen behind on keeping this blog up to date. I guess it’s just gonna be sporadic posting from now on, at least for a while. Good archives though :)

[fastnormalprime]

I love textures in B&W