Category Archives: Photography

Landscape photos with Brownie

My previous experience with the Brownie Box Camera taught me that keeping the shutter open for more than a snap shot will inevitably give blurry photos. I decided to try it out in stead with snapshots of landscape images and where better to do this than an archaeological park in Italy. Most of the photos [...]
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The Brownie works

As I wrote in a previous post I have a No. 2 Brownie. I got an Ilford HP5 Plus film put in it and tried taking pictures with it this weekend. There where 8 photos on this 120mm medium format film and I used them all on portraits of hubby’s family. As you can maybe [...]
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First Film in the Darkroom

Contact sheet from my first film (A), an Ilford ISO400, HP5 Plus (24 pics) I have just been to the Media Workshop’s Darkroom course and have developed my first picture in more than 8 years. I went to the course mainly to refresh my memory before I begin going to the workshop on my own. [...]
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My new old camera

When I came back from the conference in the US my husband had been to the car-boot sale with his mate and surprised me with a 1930s No. 2 Brownie model F. He was motivated but he fact that I have decided to take up black/white photography and development again. I used to do this [...]
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