HOME | DD | Gallery | Favourites | RSS
| JamesR-Photography
JamesR-Photography
♂️
[7593497]
[2008-06-16 23:06:00 +0000 UTC]
"James"
(United Kingdom)
# Statistics
Favourites: 336; Deviations: 305; Watchers: 30
Watching: 27; Pageviews: 10533; Comments Made: 588; Friends: 27
# Interests
Favorite gaming platform: SNES, GameBoy, PC, N64, PS1/2Tools of the Trade: Mamiya RB67 SD Pro, Pentax K1000, Canon EX EE, lubitel 166, Bell & Howell Super8, Ps CS4,
Other Interests: Photography, art, music, video games, reading, nature, people, architecture, movies, walking.
# About me
18/Photographer
Current Residence: Oxfordshire UK
Favourite photographer: Sally Mann
Favourite style of art: Abstract, Experimental, Line drawings, Graffiti, Fine art, Black and White, Comic, pixel art.
Operating System: WindowsXP/Vista/Mac OS
MP3 player of choice: iPod Touch
Favourite cartoon character: Calvin and Hobbes. They count as one right?
# Comments
Comments: 197
Have just discovered a group on deviantart called alt-process-printing - they requsted one of my pics to be included, looks good
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Are you aware that Sally Mann has an exhibition at the Photographers Gallery, London at the mo?
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
I am indeed! I am planning to go see it in the coming weeks hopefully! Can't wait.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Whereabouts is Longfords Mill? It looks like an interesting place to visit, or do you need permission?
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Longfords Mills is up in Stroud,
Gloucestershire. Sadly you can not enter it but I am very lucky because my dad is an architect who drew up some of the building plans for the new houses around the area, so I had access to a key for a day! I really want to go back there to try some night time shots with flashes and lights, but I don't know if I will be able to get my hands on the key again.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thanks for your reply - I'll have to find my own dilapidated building!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
There are loads around, you just have to hunt them out! I really want to check out this cement works I pass everyday on the way to Banbury [link] Looks pretty amazing, I would love to shoot some 5x4 transparencies down there
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Every time I get the train going north I think the same thing! It certainly looks as if it has amazing potential for a photo project. Unfortunately I've had to sell my Nikon DSLR owing to unemployment. However, I still have my 1/4 plate wood & brass, and the various pinholes.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Aw thats a shame about the Nikon! Although, I really do love the photographs that come out of your plate camera and pinholes! I bet you could do some amazing long exposures over there.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
I ought to do some waterscape pinholes to make the water look like snow!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Hell yeah! I love those types of shots.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Very much liking your new work - I find ruined buildings inspiring also
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thanks. I love exploring these old buildings.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
I am indeed! I really want to try this out [link]
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
I haven't tried any negative processes yet, just prints i.e. Fox Talbot's salted paper print, van dyke brown (similar-ish to Kallitypes), cyanotypes, and gum bichromates. I've often thought about giving Talbot's calotype neg a try but it sounds quite complicated, although I'm sure there are teaching workshops available.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Gotta love salt prints! I want to try van dyke prints and gum bichromates too. I got a book about making calotypes for Christmas and it does look very complicated, but the outcome is amazing, hopefully one day I will master it! :]
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
I'm very much liking your latest batch of photos. The abandoned house reminds me of the Dr Who episode "Blink", the solarised pinholes are sort-of ethereal, and of course I like it that you are using vintage cameras.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
No problem :]
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
No problem man, really like some of the polaroid style stuffBenx
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
You have some of the coolest stuff I've ever seen on da here.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
You have a cool gallery 
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thank you. I am liking your gallery too, some very nice pictures. Yeah I really enjoy using old cameras and processes and just film in general, I really want to start shooting 5x4 soon so that should be a fun challenge.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thanks for the nice comments - I've made a pinhole camera for a 5x4" plate holder. Otherwise I use a cardboard box pinhole and 5x7" paper negs. The print "Lizzie, Mum, & Dad" is a VanDyke Brown print from a quarter plate film neg. You mix silver nitrate with Ferric Amonium Citrate, and then coat a sheet of paper and dry in the dark. Contact print the neg in sunlight, wash & then fix. If you want more info then you're welcome to phone 07817365804. Michael
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
thanks for the faves! i love all the film work in your gallery
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
| Next =>