Analog Photog Blog

I had a nice message in my Flickr inbox this afternoon from juanchi003 (who has some great portrait work on his stream BTW, check-it-out) politely asking about how I have achieved a "film burn effect" in my recent uploads.
The short answer is "I guess I burned the film" but with a writer's instinct for recycling, I thought I'd share part of my longer answer and a couple of examples on this blog for wider consumption. So here goes:...

Thrift stores, car boot sales, auctions, junk shops and flea markets are often good places to pick up vintage gear.
In my experience the seller usually has no idea about what is on the table and this either means the asking price is way over value (because the thing looks really old and collectible) or way under (because no-one uses these film cameras any more, it...

It was a challenge in Black and White Photography Magazine that recently inspired me to spend a couple of months shooting exclusively in Black and White and only using a 50ml lens.
The challenge appealed to me because (as I have said before) I am very fond of 50ml and wanted to get a better feel for B+W photography. Reflecting on this, I realised that I have strong feelings about “art” in general and one of the things...

Of all the places I have lived, and that includes Africa, I have never seen skies like we get here in County Durham. It must be a combination of the broadness of the landscape and the atmospheric conditions between the Pennines and the sea that keeps...