Experiment with colour

I was given some expired film, Truprint ISO 400, by my girlfriends dad a while back. I have no idea how out of date it was, there was not expiry date printed on it, but my best guess would be sometime around 2004 as it had been stored with a load of APS film with expiry dates ranging from October 2003 to October 2004. It hadn’t been stored in a fridge or anything like that, just a drawer for at least ten years so I was in two minds about using it, I’d always wanted to shoot with really old, expired film, but always assumed if it hadn’t been stored correctly it would be far too degraded to give any images that weren’t just a oddly coloured mess. How wrong I was. Below are a selection of images I took using the Nikon FM with 28mm lens, some have beautiful grain and some have a wonderful warm, sepia glow, in my opinion all are a resounding success.

Penarth Pier Sundown

It’s been a month since I started this blog, woohoo go me for actually sticking something out for once, and as that’s the case I thought I’d do something a little different.

Walk on the Pier 2

So the other week I posted a photo of a pretty similar scene to this taken with a 50mm lens on Canon AE-1, this one was taken with a 28mm lens with Nikon FM. Thought it might be interesting to post this as well, bit of a comparison to the other shot which can be found here.

Getting Ready

A candid shot of my girlfriend doing her make up while getting ready to go out for the day taken on a Canon AE-1 Program with 50mm and on Ilford XP2 ISO 400 film.

Jo in Field

I love how this image is full of empty space, wonderful natural empty space, with the only thing in perfect focus being the subject, my girlfriend, herself hooking off into the distance out of shot.

Abandoned Rail Line

I have a particular fondness for abandoned places, whether that be areas, buildings, vehicles, or in this particular case railways.

Dancers

An ornament of two dancers in my mum’s house, specifically in the conservatory.

Window Gareth

Taken in a Barcelona Hostel while waiting around, probably for someone to get ready/get their arse in gear.

Fields

Sometimes it’s the simplest of things that make me happy, this shot for example.

A walk on the pier

I have two very similar shots of this scene, this one was taken on the Canon AE-1 Program with a 50mm lens and Ilford FP4 125 film, the other was a much wider crop on my Nikon FM of 28mm.