Tag: Kodak Portra 160

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Riverside industry

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This is the view south where the River Trent flows through the town of Gainsborough, looking onto the Kerry food manufacturing plant and then, a few miles further upstream, West Burton power station.

While I wasn’t satisfied with the colours I achieved with the Lomography Color Negative 800, the film has quite a fine grain structure – at least in this 120 format – and it’s produced some quite nice B7W conversions.

This frame is not only converted to black and white, but also cropped.

Trent-side industry

Bronica ETRSi, Zenzanon 150mm f/3.5 MC / Zenzanon 150mm f/3.5 MC & Lomography Color Negative 800. Lab developed, home scanned & converted with Negative Lab Pro. Converted to B&W in Lightroom.

Taken 30 November 2025.

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Circus Circus

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Back to a run of photos I took in Gainsborough towards the end of last year. These were shot on a roll of Lomography Color Negative 800 – the first time I’ve shot this stock.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t all that pleased with the results. Part of this is down to me, or rather to my light meter, which I had inadvertently switched to it’s cine mode somehow, resulting in poorly exposed photographs. But I’m also not that happy with the colours I got.

Again, this might be down to the exposures in some cases,but I don’t think all frames were affected. It’s also hands down the worst film I’ve ever had to scan. The base is quite thin and it had a very pronounced curve to it that made it extremely frustrating to scan with my flatbed. This fact, more than any of the others, has put me off shooting it again (and I still have a couple of rolls in the freezer!).

The picture below is the only that I’ve left as a colour scan – I like the warm morning light on this closed up shop window. All the rest of usable frames I’ve converted to black and white, and I’ll post some of those in the next few days.

Circus circus

Bronica ETRSi, Zenzanon 150mm f/3.5 MC / Zenzanon 150mm f/3.5 MC & Lomography Color Negative 800. Lab developed, home scanned & converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 30 November 2025.

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Red Yellow Blue

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These are the final two colour pictures that I’m publishing from the steam rally this year (that I shot with my Yashica Mat 124G).

While the subjects differ considerably, I did notice that there is a nice Red / Yellow / Blue thing going on in both pictures, so I think they work together in that regard.

Hoses
Chunky Churros

Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Portra 160 & Kodak Ektar. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken on 29 June 2025

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Cars and bikes at the steam rally

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A bit of an image dump today, gathering up all the pictures of cars and bikes that I photographed at this year’s Sheffield Steam Rally. Again, the shots are a mixture of Kodak Portra 160 and Kodak Ektar images.

I still have some more pictures from the event yet to come – perhaps a couple more medium format colour shots, and then a bunch of B&W 35mmj pictures.

Austin Seven
In need of a clean
Through two windows
Noddy Bike
Ford Escort Mk I
Austin Seven rear
Through simple application of pedals and knobs
Chevy wrecking
Return of the Invacar
Land Rovers
Ford Popular

Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Portra 160 / Kodak Ektar. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken on 29 June 2025

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’48 Studebaker pickup

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Three shots of the same Studebaker pickup truck, each taken at different times and in changing light as I wandered around the vehicles on display at the steam rally. The first two on Kodak Portra 160, the last on Kodak Ektar.

Studebaker pickup
Studebaker
Studebaker stars'n'stripes

Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Portra 160 / Kodak Ektar. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken on 29 June 2025

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Fairground attractions

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The Sheffield Steam Rally usually has a selection of vintage fairground rides and stalls present. It’s not a huge full size funfair and it’s usually the same attractions every year (presumably because it’s the same owners who attend each time) – the biggest of which is a carousel, but it’s mostly smaller rides and stalls.

I’ve photographed most of them before, but I’m usually drawn back to them each time I go. Here are three shots from this year’s visit.

Swingboats
Hook a Duck
Sea on Land

Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Portra 160. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken on 29 June 2025

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Traction engines

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It wouldn’t have been the summer without my annual visit to the Sheffield Steam Rally, where I increasingly seem to be photographing the same things every year.

I took a whole bunch of pictures as usual and, as I still have quite a backlog of photos to catch up with, will post them in batches rather than individually. Starting with some traction engines…

The final shot is interesting because, while the main subject isn’t a traction engine, there is a tiny one perched atop it (and a full size one in the background too).

Sheffield Steam Rally 2025-3
Sheffield Steam Rally 2025-4
Sheffield Steam Rally 2025-5
Sheffield Steam Rally 2025-8
Sheffield Steam Rally 2025-7
Sheffield Steam Rally 2025-6
Smaller and smaller

Yashica Mat 124G & Kodak Portra 160. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken on 29 June 2025