Film Photography

I started out with still film in high school in the late 1960s buying a Mamiya Sekor 35mm camera. I have been mostly digital for all of this century. I started getting back into film in 2007 by buying a Mamiya RZ67, named for the predominate film back on the camera giving a 6×7 cm image on the film. Later I bought a Horseman 4×5 inch camera and have been making pinhole cameras because of the influence of family friend and workmate on the Sea Tac rental car facility, Jen Dalley, partner at Parallel Lines Studio in Ely, Nevada. The nuances of developing film and enlarging and developing prints have expanded my knowledge of photography while taking the Certificate for Photography program at University of Washington during the 2012-2013 school year.

There are a couple of images of sewn photographic paper composites using partial development of the print by pouring developer on the print paper that has just had a new image exposed onto the sensitized surface. ….better living through chemicals…See the blog for more information.

The sewn development flow pieces were accepted in:

Blue Sky’s Pacific Northwest Photography Viewing Drawers, Portland, Oregon , juried selection 2013.

More examples can be seen in the blog entry “Sewn silver based photographs”.

120 Negatives

All shot from Mamiya RZ67, mostly Ilford film

Film and Holders

These are all 4x5 film holders with boxes of film. Fuji is used for color and Ilford for black and white. I am trying out some Ilford positive negative film with limited initial success.

Film Holders

Here is the difference in scale between 4x5 film holders that are sitting on 8x10 film holders. I am just starting to design a simple box camera for the an 8x10 pinhole camera

SketchUp Drawing

Here is a drawing that was the start of the 4x5 camera build. See the blog for more images and explanation of the process.

Initial Box Fitting

Rubber bands are holding glass viewing screen and film holder back into rabbet in back of camera box. See blog for further images and explanation of the process.

4x5 Pinhole Camera In Action

The testing is being done with a 3x4 instant film back and a timer on the Iphone.

FountainFLow2

Sewn silver based photographic paper composites. These images have three or four stages of development : including original contact sheets cut and sewn over unexposed photographic paper, poured development process and post-development sewing

StripHoles

Polaroid Holes

BreweryFlow

5BayFactory