New project: The Eden — by Bruce Robbins on October 11, 2023

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I've been feeling for a while now that I needed something to give me some extra motivation and get me heading out the door with a camera...

Final defects — by Bruce Robbins on October 09, 2023

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  No more HP5 mottling after this post - promise. I thought I’d use it to answer a reader who asked why I kept on using the defective 120 ro...

More HP5 woes — by Bruce Robbins on October 08, 2023

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Following on from my previous post about mottled HP5, here’s another example of the fault. The question is, can I use it to my advantage? Th...

Thumbs up for Ilford — by Bruce Robbins on October 04, 2023

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Credit where credit’s due. I bought ten rolls of 120 HP5 a few years back but found quite a bit of mottling (see below) in many smooth toned...

Glamis Dam — by Bruce Robbins on September 22, 2023

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Just half a mile from the famous Glamis Castle in Angus where the Queen Mother spent her childhood is a small dam that was built to provide ...

Why 35mm is Film Photography — by Bruce Robbins on August 28, 2023

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A squall over the North Sea. There's a little bit of dramatic licence in the print but not too much. All of the images in this post, exc...

Return to Port Allen — by Bruce Robbins on July 29, 2023

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Readers who stop by both this blog and that of my pal, Phil Rogers, must be wondering why Phil has written about a few photo days out we...

A Question of Balance — by Bruce Robbins on July 21, 2023

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Shelter, Monifieth I suspect we're all guilty from time to time of obsessing about grain and sharpness in a print but how much attention...

There's a hole in the sky... — by Bruce Robbins on July 08, 2023

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  ...where the rain gets in but it's ever so small that's why the rain is thin.                                                     ...