My Instagram

roystephan_h

Having just rewatched the entire Godfather trilogy

Having just rewatched the entire Godfather trilogy, this seemed particularly apt. Plus it’s a great day for otters eh?
@brian_bilston #humour #poetry

In 1633, the herbalist John Gerard wrote that bora

In 1633, the herbalist John Gerard wrote that borage was "used everywhere for the comfort of the heart, for the driving away of sorrow, and increasing the joy of the mind. The leaves and flowers of Borage put into wine make men and women glad and merry and drive away all sadness, dullness, and melancholy...”
#borage

Finding a way out of lockdown. Today’s walk… #

Finding a way out of lockdown. Today’s walk…
#digital #monochrome #blackandwhite

Variations in the space/time continuum. So yesterd

Variations in the space/time continuum.
So yesterday you saw this through 2020 technology (iPhone 11). Today you see it through a lens and camera made in 1900 on a glass plate made pre-1950.

Some tech observations for those interested: the photographic plate is an orthochromatic Ilford Selochrome, which is highly sensitive to blue light, so the blue glass appears much lighter and shows the background window glass, almost like an x-ray.
The many black dots on the image are where the silver halide grains in the ancient emulsion have ‘died’, losing their ability to be triggered by photons hitting them.
Who knew photography was so cosmic?
.
8 second exposure, f16, Ross XPress 6” lens on the Gandolfi. Developed in D163 print developer.
.
#ishootfilm #ag #agmag @ag.magazine
#filmisnotdead #gandolfi #silverphotography
#blackandwhitephotography #vintagecamera #vintagefilm #glassplate #glassplatenegative #glassplatephotographs
#quarterplate

Poison and plate. #cobaltblue

Poison and plate.
#cobaltblue

This helps place yesterday’s image in context. #

This helps place yesterday’s image in context.
#digital #abstract #skyandclouds

Difficult to interpret view. #digital #abstract #p

Difficult to interpret view.
#digital #abstract #puzzle

‘Empress Wu’, possibly the largest of all the

‘Empress Wu’, possibly the largest of all the Hostas, the leaves can reach 45cm (18”) in width and length. I kind of hope it doesn’t, as it will totally cover my balcony.
#hosta #monochrome #digitalimage

The view through the Gandolfi camera whilst settin

The view through the Gandolfi camera whilst setting up the previous post.
#vintagecamera #gandolfi

Window view. I guess it could be seen as reflectiv

Window view.
I guess it could be seen as reflective of lockdown, such an inspiring outlook.
When this window was put in (sometime in the 19th century) it would have looked out onto open space. Now it’s halfway up my stairs and inaccessible without a ladder.

Really badly deteriorated 6x9 Ilford Selochrome glass plate made in the 1930s, but still produced an image.
5 minute exposure, f22, in the Gandolfi.

#ishootfilm #ag #agmag @ag.magazine
#filmisnotdead #gandolfi #silverphotography
#blackandwhitephotography #vintagecamera #vintagefilm #glassplate #glassplatenegative #glassplatephotographs

Fatsia leaves, arrangement. I collected more leave

Fatsia leaves, arrangement.
I collected more leaves and had three attempts at arranging them, this is the last attempt.

Photographed on a 70+ yr-old Ilford Selochrome orthochromatic glass quarter plate. 1 minute exposure, f32, Ross XPress 6” lens on the Gandolfi. Developed in D163 print developer.
.
#ishootfilm #ag #agmag @ag.magazine
#filmisnotdead #gandolfi #silverphotography
#blackandwhitephotography #vintagecamera #vintagefilm #glassplate #glassplatenegative #glassplatephotographs

Second attempt at presenting the shell. Both image

Second attempt at presenting the shell.
Both images on ancient Ilford Selochrome Orthochromatic quarter plates (3¼ x 4¼ inches). Gandolfi camera, 6” Ross XPress. 30 seconds, f32.

Presenting them side by side gives a lyrical feel; shell we dance…
.

#ishootfilm #ag #agmag @ag.magazine
#filmisnotdead #gandolfi #silverphotography
#blackandwhitephotography #vintagecamera #vintagefilm #glassplate #glassplatenegative #glassplatephotographs #composite

Dried Fatsia leaf. The vase is one I made. . Photo

Dried Fatsia leaf.
The vase is one I made.
.
Photographed on a 70+ yr-old Ilford Selochrome orthochromatic glass quarter plate. 5 minute exposure, f22, Ross XPress 6” lens on the Gandolfi. Developed in D163 print developer.
The artefacts on the aged plate somehow add to the vintage feel.
.
#ishootfilm #ag #agmag @ag.magazine
#filmisnotdead #gandolfi #silverphotography
#blackandwhitephotography #vintagecamera #vintagefilm #glassplate #glassplatenegative #glassplatephotographs

Back street geometry. High Baxter Street #burysted

Back street geometry.
High Baxter Street #burystedmunds
#blackandwhite #digital #monochromephotography

Ate out for the first time in many weeks, only to

Ate out for the first time in many weeks, only to discover the problems of eating a cheese & onion toasty whilst wearing a face mask.
Photo courtesy a #sociallydistant Paula at @skyeporcelainbuttons, toasty from @wrights_2018.
It was of course delicious, eventually.
#lockdown #alfrescodining

Spathiphyllum, Peace Lily. 8x10 negative on Foma 4

Spathiphyllum, Peace Lily.
8x10 negative on Foma 400, using a c.1900 14cm Protar lens on a Sinar P, and contact printed on Adox paper.

#filmisnotdead #silverphotography
#blackandwhitephotography #sinar #8x10 #fomapan400 #largeformat #ishootfilm #vintagelens

First really clean negative from the box of 70+ yr

First really clean negative from the box of 70+ yr-old Ilford Selochrome 6x9cm glass plates.
Like the shell, but not happy with the image, slightly unsharp and the background too fussy. Will try again.
2 minutes exposure, f22, Gandolfi, Ross 6” lens.
.

#filmisnotdead #gandolfi #silverphotography
#blackandwhitephotography #vintagecamera #vintagefilm #glassplate #glassplatenegative #glassplatephotographs

These pictures were made with a Kodak Brownie Juni

These pictures were made with a Kodak Brownie Junior No.2, from around 1930, shown in the third image.
I used it to take photos at a 1940s wartime re-enactment weekend three years ago, wishing to remain true to the period.

#vintagecamera #boxbrownie #kodaktrix #filmisnotdead #ishootfilm #blackandwhite #sepiaphotography

Unashamedly inspired to post this by @selcannurd ‘s ‘Beasts of the Field’ pictures, which sit very nicely with this.
Nacton Shore, 2019

Kodak Tri-X, Fuji GW690lll, printed on Adox fibre paper.

#filmisnotdead #trix400 #fuji6x9
#blackandwhitephotography
#ishootfilm

When I first visited Bury, some 30 years ago, I to

When I first visited Bury, some 30 years ago, I took a photo of the overgrown graveyard next to St Mary’s church. Here it is today, looking much the same.
#burystedmunds #infrared #stmarys #cemetery

Load More… Follow on Instagram

Last reviewed/updated: Monday, May 4, 2020

%d bloggers like this: