Week 50 – Kodak Portra 800 in the mist ….

Slightly out of order again as I shot this roll last weekend and wanted to see how Portra 800 looked as I have never shot it in 120 format before. The weather was cold and pretty drab with quite a lot of mist up on the mountains here so I thought that it was appropriate…

Week 30 … New lens for my Mamiya 645

I love shooting my Mamiya 645 it’s a lovely handling camera and I find it easier to compose my images in the 6×4.5 format but I seem to be shooting more and more landscape stuff and find the 80mm lens not wide enough. I happened to mention to a fellow photographer while in a twitter…

Week 20 – Playing with flash

I have a pair of studio strobes ( cheapy interfit 150 watt) and to be honest they very rarely see the light of day as if I need flash I use my Nikon speedlights. Just as a bit of a challenge last week I decided to dig them out and shoot a roll of expired…

Week 17 – Day off walk with the Mamiya 645

I managed to get a day off work on Friday to make a long weekend as it is a Bank Holiday here on Monday. The weather forecast was supposed to be sunny so I decided to go for a walk up the Carn mountain here in the Garw valley which  is a fair old trek…