Category: review
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Newspaper Movie: Kill the Messenger
Kill the Messenger is the true story of Gary Webb, an investigative journalist working for the San Jose Mercury News. Webb was passed court papers implicating the CIA in supplying arms to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. What is true, however, is it makes a great movie. I rode the highs and lows. Watch it…
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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.
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AG23
‘What is AG23?’ I hear you ask. AG23 is a collaboration between Dan Milnor of Blurb Books and Rick Elder of Beyond Clothing. They describe it as a project “to promote understanding through dialogue and art”. In a world that feels more divided than at any time that I can remember anything that promotes understanding…
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Magcloud Digest: a review
I wrote, in what seems like a previous life, about having become disillusioned with Instagram as a platform for sharing long-form work and how I’d started to look for alternatives.
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How to show your work – a review
Today is day five, I think (I’ve already lost track), of our social distancing here in the UK. When we emerge from under the shadow of this lockdown, it will be a massive challenge for some creatives to restart their careers. It probably doesn’t take me to tell you to make the most of this…
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Fujifilm x-series JPEG files
Having read recently read Kevin Mullins’ article detailing how he set the custom film profiles on his Fujifilm X-series cameras I was keen to give it a go on my new Fuji XT1. Although I’ve been shooting with my X100s for some time it’s mainly been in RAW.
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Testing Orwo N74+
I posted before a sample of Orwo N74+ developed using Kodak HC-110, the sample below was developed using Rodinal diluted at 1+50.
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Testing a new film: Orwo N74+
This is a shot of Robin Hood Gardens in East London, it’s a test from my first roll of Orwo N74+. Orwo film manufactured by FilmoTec GmbH based in the former East Germany. The company in various forms has been making the film, mainly for the motion picture industry, since 1910.
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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…
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New (to me) camera: Nikon D700
As you can see I didn’t buy a D610 as I suggested I might in a previous post. I went to look at one and for some reason, it just didn’t excite me. I appreciate that’s a rather an amorphous thing to quantify, but if you’re not using a camera as a professional tool where…
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Crop sensors and the psychology of full frame
If you ever look at any photographic forum (which I wouldn’t necessarily recommend) there’s generally a thread with about 14,000 posts on the never-ending debate regarding the pros and cons of full-frame (35mm) sensors vs APS-C. As it happens for some time I’ve been thinking about trading in my Nikon D7000 (APS-C) camera for a…
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instruction and inspiration
Two years ago I attended a Portrait Photography short course at Central St. Martins, part of the University of the Arts London. Just walking through the doors of St. Martins is an inspiring experience. With alumni as varied as John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Brian Duffy it’s difficult not to be inspired and,…
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