Down the Level

Over the christmas holidays I took a trip "down the level" (the level being a country lane near where I live) accompanied by my diana, a roll of slide film and a very cold mum and now, after a 2 month wait, I finally have the results!  I wanted the film cross-processed in C-41 chemicals but my local jessops refused to do so meaning the film had to be sent to Edinburgh to be processed then returned to Dundee before being sent to Germany to get prints made.  Thankfully I was in no hurry to get the photo's back and the colours in these were definately worth the wait.

Kinghorn

People?!

These are some of the first successful photographs of people I've taken and I'm very chuffed with how they've turned out.  Thanks to my beautiful subjects Sally Hackett and Ben Bainbridge, you wonderful things you!

I'd also like to suggest that you head over to cults.bandcamp.com and download the wonderful FREE album thats on offer.  It's rather good, I'm especially fond of "Go Outside".  I just can't resist a good bit of glockenspiel.

Growing Obsession

I seem to have a growing obsession with vintage cameras and my Diana.  We have a personal project just now so I've spent the last couple of weeks drawings cameras then taking photos of them.  I've been using black and white film then processing it myself but sadly it's been going a bit wonky.  My negatives have been coming out foggy and generally a bit dodgy but I might pop in on Monday and print some anyway and see what I can do with them.

Here are some scanned drawings from my sketchbook.  Wonky lines ahoy.

 

  

  

Diana

I finally got my last batch of Diana photos back from Jessops on Sunday after 4 weeks of waiting!  I took them over the christmas break when it was snowing and I'm rather happy with the way they turned out.  Unfortunately a few of them havent scanned properly but here are some of the ones that did.

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

 

We got given an introduction on how to use the dark room today at uni which was very, very exciting.  I've ordered some black and white film so hopefully the next lot of photos I upload will be ones I've processed and printed myself!

Plastic heart, analog soul

My first batch of Diana photos.