Steel City Snapper photography
35mm, medium format and large format film photography (with the odd bit of digital every now and then…)
I wonder how many times that title has been used for similar posts?
An older shot, from a trip to York back in the summer. I think I might’ve already posted a similar shot, taken at the same location and time, but that one was in portrait format, so this is a new one.
Olympus OM-1, F.Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 & Ilford HP5+.
Taken on 10 June 2017
A quickie post today of one I made earlier. It’s actually not that far out into the countryside – just a few miles from Sheffield / Chesterfield.
Olympus OM-1, F Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 & Ilford FP4 Plus.
Taken in February 2017
I thought I’d break up the flow of recent colour shots with an, erm, older colour shot – the twist here being that it’s Portra 160 converted to B&W because it just looked better that way.
Olympus OM-1, F Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 & Kodak Portra 160.
Taken on 20 February 2017
I might not get the chance to post anything tomorrow, so here’s a quickie post to make up for it in advance.
This was taken in Gainsborough Old Hall (although I’m relatively sure it’s not a relic of the Tudor times in which the building was constructed 🙂 ).
Olympus OM-1, F.Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 & Rollei Superpan 200.
Taken on 31 July 2017.
This was taken at the Classics on The Moor classic car rally in Sheffield a few weeks ago. It’s another of the underexposed Rollei Superpan 200 shots, but another that I think works despite the dark tones.
Olympus OM-1, F.Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 & Rollei Superpan 200
Taken on 6 August 2017
After seeing some lovely low-key film shots on a forum I’m a member of, I decided to go ahead and produce one myself. I’ve done low-key before, but mostly digital, and I tend to chicken out from crushing the blacks too much and end up bringing the detail back up. In the shot below, I went all-in, and a large chunk of the image is pure black.
It was an underexposed shot to begin with – the entire roll, despite being shot at box speed on a camera with a correctly working meter, came out thin, and with lots of speckles of dust-like marks. In fact, this is the second roll of Rollei film that I’ve had this issue with (the first being Rollei Retro 400s), although a roll of Superpan 200 in 120 roll format came out just fine). I don’t have any more at present, but think I will shoot it at half-box speed in future.
Anyway, back to the picture. Despite the flecks of white scattered across the image (I cleaned most of them up, honestly!) I think it works quite well.
Olympus OM-1, F.Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 & Rollei Superpan 200.
Taken on 8 August 2017.
On a visit to Gainsborough Old Hall recently, I came across a small art exhibition running through some of the rooms. One of the objects was a vintage pocket watch with a small plastic doll squashed up inside it and entitled “Watch Case Infant”. Sadly, I can’t remember the meaning of the piece (and I’ve thoughtfully missed of the bit of the white card containing the text), but it makes for a pretty nice picture, I think.
Olympus OM-1, F. Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 & Rollei Superpan 200.
Taken on 8 August 2017.
Two shots today, both of the same subject, taken on the same day, but with different cameras and film. I’d gone for a day out to visit Gainsborough Old Hall, but stopped off at Retford for a ‘comfort break’ at a Morrison’s supermarket. The store sits beside the River Idle and the riverside foot path is accessible from the car-park (which is also adjacent to the road that is carried by the bridge in the photographs).
Olympus OM-1, F.Zuiko 50mm f/1.8, Rollei Superpan 200
Olympus Trip 35, Kodak Portra 160
(I’ve taken to adding ‘arty-farty’ white borders around my colour shots lately).
Both shots taken on Monday 31 July 2017.
Well, this morning’s issue with linked Flickr images seems to have magically resolved itself, so here’s a bonus post to make up for the disruption!
The front end of some vintage car or other (I neglected to take note of what it was and don’t have enough here to ID it). Taken at the Classics on The Moor car rally in Sheffield.
This outing was my first time shooting Ilford Delta 100 and I’m very happy with the results. Very clean and contrasty.
Olympus OM-1, F.Zuiko 50mm f/1.8, Ilford Delta 100
Date taken: 6 August 2017
Between Solly Street and Scotland Street, Sheffield.
This small UFO was sighted on a lamppost in an alley joining the two roads. I’m a bit of a sucker for shallow depth of field shots.
Olympus OM-1, F.Zuiko 50mm f/1.8, Ilford HP5+
Taken: 23 July 2017
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