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A morning of photography walking the streets under the West Gate Bridge. Here the Yarra River meets Port Phillip, and petrol terminals line the shore. Port Operations Control Tower. Melbourne city skyline in the background. Petrol terminal road. Cold air & sunrise. Yarraville Terminal. Walking around the edge of the terminal. West Gate Bridge. Silo. Terminal. West Gate looking west. A…
Analog Photography Assistant (APA) is a free, ad-free, privacy-first android app for film photographers. I have just released v1.3.0 with a bunch of new features and updates. The greatest hits are listed below, otherwise read the changelog for more detailed notes. Link to this section Light Meter Aperture Sets and Exposure Compensation have been added to the Light Meter. Aperture Sets allow you to…
I’ve made some changes to a couple of photo albums on the website. southern-mountains features the same grainy black and white photographs from the South island taken in 2024, but I’ve re-edited them to add more punch. Along Hall Arm. The photographs are shot on Ilford HP5+ film, which gave me a film negative with a wide exposure range but fairly flat look. My original editing…
Sutton. Sutton Railhut. Up the Rock and Pillar. Loganburn. Lammermoor. Waipiata. Hamiltons I. Hamiltons II. Hamiltons III. Kyeburn. Danseys Pass I. Danseys Pass II. Hawkduns I. Hawkduns II. Hawkduns III. Moa Creek I. Moa Creek II. St Bathans Downs I. St Bathans Downs II. St Bathans Downs III.
The Sutton landscape summons me to Rohan in The Lord of the Rings. Golden grasses and jagged schist cover the landscape. These seemingly go on forever, until they hit the Rock and Pillar Range in the northwest which always stands in shadow at this time of the day. Sutton. I wanted to be at Pukerangi to shoot the railway shelter illuminated by the last rays of the setting sun. Pukerangi (then…
The Taieri River diverted through the tunnel. The Taieri River starts in the Lammerlaw Range, flows north through the Maniototo Plain, before taking a sharp turn south down the Strath Taieri and Taieri Plain into the Pacific Ocean. The 1860s brought a gold rush to Otago, and while sites along the Taieri River didn’t pay as much as those along the Manuherikia or Clutha rivers, gold was still…
If I told you I was trying to focus on the central leaf you may not believe me. Two rolls of black and white film and two ideas: shooting a lens wide open at f/1.4, and double exposures. Shooting the Voigtlander 58mm lens at f/1.4 gives images a unique look. The images lack contrast, transitions between in and out of focus areas of the frame melt together, and the bright and high contrast areas…
Home Screen Light Meter Analog Photography Assistant (APA) is a free, ad-free, privacy-first android app for film photographers. I have just released v1.2.0 which introduces a Depth of Field Calculator . With this you can calculate: DoF from the film plane — The nearest and farthest points that will be acceptably sharp, measured from the film plane. DoF from the subject — How far the zone of…
By the Ofantino channel (1866) Crossing the Apenninesm - Memories (1867) Along the Ofanto River (1870) The Road from Naples to Brindisi (1872) From the top of the diligence (1872) The Arc de Triomphe, Paris (1875) La place des Pyramides (1875) Field of Wheat Shocks (1875) The Train Passes (1878) Westminster (1878) Landscape (?). Winter Landscape (1880).
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