Little trophy shop

August 3, 2020 fishyfisharcadeLeave a comment

This small trophy and key-cutting shop was bathed in some nice light on the same evening I made the scarecrow photos I posted yesterday.

While I’m having more success scanning E6 film when using Vuescan instead of EpsonScan, I still find I have to tweak the colours somewhat. I think a purple / magenta cast is a factor of the film emulsion when shooting Provia and Velvia, but it still seems to be somewhat overbearing still in my scans, so I tweak the colours to try and get them as close to the original transparencies as I can. I’m mostly successful I think, but I’ve not quite nailed the reds yet.

Yashica Mat 124G & Fujifilm Provia 100F.

Taken on 12 July 2020

Film photography · Medium Format · Photography

Harthill scarecrows

August 2, 2020 fishyfisharcadeLeave a comment

A few weeks ago we drove through the village of Harthill (the same day I made the photos of the person magnet fishing, the house with the pointed roof, and Shireoaks station) and noticed a whole series of “scarecrows” dotted about the place. I call them scarecrows as it seems a reasonable term, although that wasn’t their purpose. They had been installed as part of the village carnival – held virtually for this year – in celebration of key workers during the Covid-19 pandemic.

I didn’t have any film left in the camera or on me when we encountered them, so I drove back out to the village later that afternoon to photograph some of them before they were removed.