Eek! The last week for printing this term! Yet another evening spent getting on with churning out as many prints as possible. After a slow start (one acceptable print and two contact sheets in the first hour) it started coming together and I managed to get some acceptable stuff.
I’d hoped to arrive at this point…
Printed a couple of pics, found out the paper that Jessops had dug up from their store room was completely buggered, all in all nothing fascinating.
Hadn’t managed to get any decent pictures this week, all I’d done was shove a test roll through my new (to me) Olympus Trip 35 that I got on eBay for a couple of quid. It’s become an almost permanent companion now, I love its simplicity and its build quality. It needs no batteries, everything…
Three hours, no films to process – let’s get printing. And so it was that I walked out with 18 10×8″ prints in my file (admittedly quite a few of them I prented twice – one for the workbook, one for the wall…)
I started off with some prints of some steel rope from the dockyard,…
After a couple of weeks in the photographic doldrums, this week rocked. Rather, I rocked. Yeah!
This week I’d been intending to get tonality better sorted: Just do one print which was good. As it turned out I ended up with two, maybe three.
I’d racked off a new film down at the coast and although at…
Finally I managed to arm myself with some more negatives – two whole films’ worth in fact. Sadly, few of them were particularly interesting. Just over a whole film was given over to some macro shots in a makeshift ’studio’ rigged up in the back room. After a promising test run in digital form, I…
Something of a belated write-up…
So, week 5 passed slightly frustratingly. I still hadn’t managed to finish another roll of film so I was stuck with my underexposed and largely uninteresting photos from the previous week. Frankly my heart wasn’t really in printing these and it showed. I did manage to squeeze in a quick reprint…
So, now for the fun bit. Turning negs into prints!
I had an extra hurdle of sorts in my film being underexposed by two stops, so experimentation was the order of the day. Nothing was really going to go entirely to plan: the underexposure meant that even at the enlarger’s smallest aperture, f16, the exposure times…
This week we were to bring in an exposed roll of film for processing, so I got started on the coursework (titled “New Vision,” the broad aim being to view stuff in terms of texture or geometry rather than in its entireity). We went down to Arundel for the day on Sunday, and visited the…
Yes, week 2, you read that correctly. Turns out I missed the first week, as did a couple of others – the published course dates and times seem to vary somewhat from source to source. Anyway, no great loss it would seem – today’s lesson covered the basics of shining light through holes and we…
On something of a whim, after seeing that Julian – who I’ve not even met – had signed himself up for an AS-Level in photography, I decided to jump on his bandwagon. And so tomorrow I shall be going back to school (Guildford College to be exact), camera in hand, attempting to learn stuff again….
I’ve had enough. Today we have no toilet roll. None.
Well, I say none. Some kind soul has left a few feet of it draped across the floor in one of the cubicles. Meanwhile one of the other pans has been streaked brown, one of the two hand drying rolls has also run out (the other…
Today I found myself in the Guildford branch of Marks and Spencer, who have – unusually – for some years been manufacturing trousers in 35 inch lengths. After spending a few seconds flicking through the rails I decided it would be better to get someone to do the hunting for me, so I found someone…
Well here we are then, now running under Wordpress 2.0.4 after what would appear to be a seamless upgrade. If only everything ran so smoothly.
In addition, the site template has acquired a missing slash which now makes is reportedly fully standards compliant and accessible for disabled users, who can now throng here in their thousands,…
Once again, Morzine supplied more than its fair share of rain and mud. Ah, the joys of spending three days in the same sodden, stinking clothes!
Still, who cares? It was ace. The Inbred still rocks, as do rigid forks. Bags of fun on the descents, though somewhat punishing. I tested my “full-sus bikes are just…
Was mucking around testing some visual search engines just now. One of the searches was for myself (as any egotistical tosser would do) and it came up with my old (and only) entry into a Terragen contest.
Despite the obvious tragedy of spending what was probably a few hours of my life creating a digital picture…
If you liked Samorost (and if you didn’t you must be some sort of weirdo) then you’ll probably like (wait for it – oh, I’ve given it away with the title) Samorost 2.
Yeah, it’s probably been around for ages. I don’t care.
Oh, good grief. Look what happens when you mix Nigel Havers with erstwhile fanzine of middle-English bigotry, The Daily Mail. You’ve guessed it, Havers is on a roll this week clocking up as many column inches as he can, devoting each one to the usual blinkered crap about cyclists.
Continuing the hypocrisy set by his earlier…
Apparently Nigel Havers has been attracting the ire of some of the cycling community by saying in the Independent, “cyclists who jump red lights and ride on pavements … they’re all bastards,” which, whilst a little over the top in terms of vitriol, is fair enough really.
His manner of defence seems to be a little…
This week the BBC invites you to test your happiness. All you have to do is say whether you agree or disagree with the following statements, proposed as a scientific test by “psychologist Professor Ed Diener from the University of Illinois,” and from that it is possible to determine via the magic of science how…
Apparently, “scientists have discovered why some people just can’t resist food.” Right then – I’ll believe this when I see it. According to some “expert in obesity,”
This research shows that it’s not simply explained by a loss of will power or greed. It’s much more complicated. An involuntary exaggerated neurophysiological response to pictures of desirable…
This is ace and I want one now.
Well that’s that then: We’re now married. We’ve already discussed getting divorced as quickly as possible so we can do it all again next year. Here’s the best of the few photos we’ve seen so far – once we get them all in I’ll make a proper gallery of them.
It’s the day before The Big Day and we’ve just got back from setting stuff up at the barn. Had a quick chance to grab a couple of snaps with the phone before we left… it’s looking a bit less bare than it was when we arrived!
Better finish my speech sometime today I guess.
The journal “Psychosomatics” has published a report on a man who took 40,000 ecstasy pills over a nine-year period. They say, “at the height of his use, the man – known as ‘Mr A’ – was taking 25 tablets a day.”
So why isn’t he known as “Mr E?”
According to Bill Thompson, the BBC’s technohippy-in-residence, Apple has changed the world more than punk. Eh? Whilst I for one wouldn’t want to pretend that punk was a substantial social revolution, can someone tell me how Apple specifically have changed the world? Thompson certainly can’t, other than to suggest that “Apple, uniquely among computer companies,…
Is there a campaign to encourage eating squirrels? If so I’d like to join. It seems a thoroughly sensible thing to do, seeing as we’re overrun with the buggers, and I suspect they’d be rather tasty, probably wrapped in bacon with a bit of chestnut stuffing.
When can I get squirrel at the local butcher’s, that’s…
Much as I hate stickers in car windows, and much as I’m sceptical of things like this actually having any real benefit, I feel compelled to advertise the Give Cyclists Room website. I might even buy a few.
As noted by Mr. Barnes, it’s a bad day for local beers. And so I feel it’s best to advertise our local brewery, Ballard’s, who brew some fine ales. Buy some today because beer is ace.
And for anyone coming to the wedding, you’ll be pleased to know that we’re hoping to have a supply of…
I had a look today for a ‘rating’ plugin for Wordpress, which would effectively allow posts to become reviews, and found Rate My Stuff. It kind of does the job but there were a couple of things crying out to be fixed, so I scrubbed it and rolled my own.
I’m still a little hung over…
Last Saturday I placed an online order for a new phone. Judging by the trail of information, O2 did a decent job of their part of the deal, as the phone was handed over to DHL at 3am the following Monday – impressive stuff. Unfortunately, that’s where it all went downhill.
The phone was dispatched for…
It’s getting ridiculous. Pretty much all the Western cross-channel ports are now operated by Brittany Ferries, the sole exception being le Havre – the furthest East of the ports and fairly useless if you fancy visiting Brittany.
The mind-boggling thing, though, is how this ever came to be. Specifically, how do they get away with charging…
Electromagnetic catflaps: £33 well spent.
Not so much for keeping the neighbourhood cats from stealing ours’ food, more for the entertainment value of watching a bewildered moggy trying to part company with the 10mm spanner that’s attached itself to the magnet round its neck.
First one to steal anything useful from someone else’s garage wins a catnip…
Yesterday I spent a few minutes flipping CDs in the HMV sale and decided to blow a few quid on a bunch of stuff I’ve never heard of before (always a good way to move your own musical goalposts a bit). The first thing I do when I get a new CD is rip it,…