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How do I tell if I loaded film in my camera? Digital cameras never make you wonder. A little screen tells you everything, all the time. Film cameras tell you nothing. No screen, no beep, no gentle warning. Just a small mechanical silence that you’re meant to trust…
What happens when you shoot Ilford HP5 that’s been sitting in a box for 35 years? Expired film is an experiment, not a gamble. I recently got lucky; a box full of old 35mm and 120 film landed in my hands, and it was loaded with Ilford HP5…
Video: Shoot it like film Shoot it like film is a photo challenge we speak of often. The concept is reasonably simple: limit your session to a maximum of 36 frames. No deleting, 1 version of each scene, and no checking the screen to see if you got…
I’ve been thinking a lot about why I love to shoot Ilford FP4+ film, and it usually comes back to days like this – days that begin with rain on the flatlands and a quiet hunch that the hills are holding something better. In Olinda, that hunch often…
Melbourne Photo Exhibition: XYZ Gallery Loop Member, Jude, alerted us to the Melbourne photo exhibition with all hand-made darkroom prints over at XYZ.Gallery. It’s in its final days and it looks really good so if you’re not coming back to the Loop Dev Party after the photo walk…
How’d you make that? Every so often, someone at Loop asks me about “that waterfall shot” pinned up in the space. They think I must have been lucky, stumbling onto the scene, clicking once, and walking away. Truth is, that single frame took me the better part of…
I really enjoy watching people shooting film & experimenting with expired film. The creativity of the photographers I look up to is astounding. I’m often left in awe at the way their ideas come to life, especially when the chemistry misbehaves in unexpected ways. So, when I received…
Torrance Brady shoots film. Because of course he does. It’s not for nostalgia or the aesthetic, though both may tag along for the ride. It’s for something else entirely, a way of slowing down, paying attention, letting things take their time. This is Melbourne film photography. We spoke…
Learn darkroom printing in Melbourne and something strange happens. The photo you thought you knew – seen it on your phone, maybe even scanned from a lab – becomes something else entirely. It turns up in a tray of strange smelling chemical, under a red light, and suddenly,…
