Steel City Snapper photography
35mm, medium format and large format film photography (with the odd bit of digital every now and then…)
There will be several more pictures of Blackpool’s famed tower to come over the next few days. You have been warned! 🙂
Yashicamat 124G & Kodak Ektar. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with negative lab pro.
Taken 1 July 2023.
Another Ekatar shot with slightly odd colours. There’s something off with the purples and greens in the shadows and midtones and, for some reason, the foreground road and pavement looks almost monochrome. It’s a shame as I like Ektar as a film and it normally scans just fine, but this roll has taken much more effort to get looking closer to normal.
Yashicamat 124G & Kodak Ektar. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with negative lab pro.
Taken 1 July 2023.
Blackpool North Pier marked the spot where my roll of black and white film ran out (pictures still to come!), and where I switched to a roll of Kodak Ektar. The three pictures here show stuff on the pier, plus one shot of the view north from the pier. I cropped the third shot as there was quite a lot of uninteresting sky in the image and I felt it looked better without.
The colours are still a little off in these frames, but not too bad, I don’t think.
Yashicamat 124G & Kodak Ektar. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with negative lab pro.
Taken 1 July 2023.
If you walk along Blackpool promenade in front of Blackpool Tower, you will come across the Comedy Carpet. This is a section of the floor covering 1880 square meters that is packed with jokes, routines, and catchphrases from 850 comedians and writers. You cand easily spend a good hour reading through it all, hopefully letting out a few good laughs while you do.
Yashicamat 124G & Kodak Ektar. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with negative lab pro.
Taken 1 July 2023.
I was going to move onto a different set of photos from today but I’ve had a strange day where I’ve been feeling tired, listless, and unable to focus on stuff, which is not a particularly nice sensation. So I’ll hopefully find time to post something more meaningful tomorrow.
But here are the last couple of pictures I’ll post from the Bridlington trip.
Olympus OM-1N, Zuiko Auto-Zoom 75-150mm f/4 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+9 15mins 45secs @ 20°
Taken 17 June 2023.
A selection of boats seen in Bridlington harbour. Most of the images were shot with with my Zuiko 75-150mm zoom and I notice a definite difference in quality when compared with the Zuiko 35mm f/2.8 lens I also used the same day. They’re not awful by any means, and it’s perhaps not fair to compare a telephoto zoom with a prime lens for visual fidelity, but there is a difference nonetheless.
Olympus OM-1N, Zuiko Auto-Zoom 75-150mm f/4 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+9 15mins 45secs @ 20°
Taken 17 June 2023.
I’ve been tearing my hair out (not that I have much) for the last couple of days trying to scan some Kodak Ektar which, for some reason, doesn’t look right despite me scanning it the same way as ever. I’ve now resorted to re-scanning some older Ektar negs that I know worked fine before to see it it’s just this new roll with a problem – and it appears it is.
In a way this is a relief as at least I know there’s not some issue with my scanner or my scanning configuration, but it does mean that something has gone awry somewhere else. My first thought is that I might have underexposed the film somehow – I did shoot a roll of 400asa film before this one, so it’s possible that I failed to change the ISO setting on the light meter before shifting to the 100asa Ektar, but I’m not sure if there’s two stops of difference to be seen. I’ll have to investigate further I guess…
Anyway, here’s a picture that has nothing to do with any of that stuff whatsoever.
Olympus OM-1N, G-Zuiko Auto-W 35mm f/2.8 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+9 15mins 45secs @ 20°
Taken 17 June 2023.
A quick post for Friday evening.
Olympus OM-1N, G-Zuiko Auto-W 35mm f/2.8 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+9 15mins 45secs @ 20°
Taken 17 June 2023.
A trio of photos of people enjoying the beach at Bridlington. There’s something intrinsically British about people reading a newspaper while sat on a chair on the sand. I’m only surprised they’re not wearing overcoats and hats!
I’m not sure if the people in this next picture wrote the words in the sand, or just sat there because they thought it was the best place to get some of Jesus’ love.
Windbreaks, umbrellas and tents. Everything you need for a day at the British seaside…
I do love the Brisish seaside, despite my tongue-in-cheek ribbing. 🙂
Olympus OM-1N, G-Zuiko Auto-W 35mm f/2.8 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+9 15mins 45secs @ 20°
Taken 17 June 2023.
This mop of seaweed across one of the wooden posts to which the groynes are afixed looked like it would make a good picture. So I photographed it.
It was certainly easier to photograph than the things I took pictures of today..
I’ve got a few days off work and, as I should have expected, the weather was not great – lots of thick cloud, although at least with plenty of structure to it, which is better than a grey slab of blank overcast nothingness. It was also pretty windy – something I didn’t realise until I got to the location I was visiting. The wind wasn’t heavy, and for most cameras, would have been no problem at all. But I was shooting 4×5 large format.
I only made four pictures at the planned location – it was just too frustrating trying to keep the dark cloth (an old t-shirt in my case) from flapping about like a sail on ship in a typhoon! In the end I retreated to a second location – one not as exposed to the elements – where I was able to shoot another five sheets of film. I haven’t had chance to develop any of them yet, but hopefully I’ll have something to show soon.
Olympus OM-1N, G-Zuiko Auto-W 35mm f/2.8 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+9 15mins 45secs @ 20°
Taken 17 June 2023.
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