Five by Four

I spent a couple of days with Tim Hunkin last week, playing with a 5×4 camera for the first time. We shot Ilfochrome paper positives and some c-41, like this one. Obviously you can’t see the resolution of 5″x4″ negatives in a 650 pixel wide web image.

Heatwave

Blinking has returned and my face is almost completely back under control. I did take a homeopathic remedy but the effects of Bell’s Palsy were fading then. Yes, it’s hot here so this is a picture from a couple of months back in case we forget what it’s usually like in London.

Open Wide

I do get excited sometimes. While my kids have annoyed me by buying themselves 15GB iPods, I have been lifted by the arrival of a piece of 40 year-old technology. I’d like an iPod but a Brooks-Plaubel Veriwide 100 has a lens which is equivalent to 18mm on a 35mm camera and makes 92×56mm negatives. This is one of the first pictures from it and I’ll post a gallery with more soon but overall, yes, I’m excited.

Dependency on a Currency

No waffling about technology today just a picture from this morning.

Stretching Exercises

In the process of putting the cyclops back together the spring broke. I’m leaving it until I’ve got the energy to tackle it again. In the meantime I’ve been learning how to use PTMac / Panotools and joining up 2 or 3 shots from the digital. I bought a 2-way hot-shoe spirit level to assist, which may have the side effect of straigtening up my hip shooting. Obviously I forgot to use it on this picture.

Sculpture Comes Down

Maybe it doesn’t look as significant as other sculptures coming down in Baghdad but here’s Anish Kapoor’s Marsyas in the process of being removed from the Tate Modern at the same time. Another view.

If you didn’t see it while it was up, here are some 3D versions that you can fly through. [Update: not any more]

The Final Test

I hope that this will be a substitute for the Photo a Week project. Something less constrained that gives me an incentive to post pictures regularly.