Newspaper Movie: Citizenfour
Citizenfour is a 2014 documentary film directed by Laura Poitras, concerning Edward Snowden and the NSA spying scandal.
The film centres around Poitras and Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald. It shows the incredible bravery of, 29-year old, Snowden who leaves a long-term relationship, his family, his job and his country, knowing he can never return.
Dungeness: Testing Fomapan 400
By law, photographers in southeast England, with a few days holiday, have to make a pilgrimage to Dungeness, which is how I found myself in, probably, the most COVID-safe environment in this crowded corner of the country.
It gave me an excellent opportunity to test a new-to-me, black and white film, Fomapan 400.
Newspaper Movies: The Complete List*
As a newspaper obsessive, during the UK’s Covid-19 lockdown, I’ve been compiling and reviewing a list of films set in newspapers. This is the complete list of films I’ve discovered so far.
Making a Bespoke Journal (with Blurb)
One of the habits I’ve been trying to form during lockdown is to write more frequently in my Journal. My other lockdown preoccupation has been trying to print more of my work. So the opportunity to combine the two and make my own Journal was just too good to pass up.
Adventures in: renting camera equipment
For the first time, I decide to rent some gear for a shoot. In the past, I'd always managed to borrow what I needed or get by with what I had. But there's only so long you can live off of the generosity of others. Conventional wisdom says you don’t buy the gear you’re only going to use occasionally. It’s better to rent what you need.
Nikon D700 review: how does it hold up in 2014?
Camera reviews aren’t really my thing but a couple of people have asked what I think of my new (to me) Nikon D700, so I was tempted to give it a go. This is purely my subjective opinion of the D700 rather than a detailed technical analysis, the D700 has been around long enough for there to be quite a few of those.