110 — Crash course in black and white film photography

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #110 gives you a full on crash course in black and white film pho­tog­ra­phy in around 30 min­utes. Black and white film pho­tog­ra­phy is not at all dead. Many cre­ative pho­tog­ra­phers are get­ting their hands wet in a tra­di­tional dark­room.  If you’ve ever wanted to know what’s involved in black and white pho­tog­ra­phy, I take you through the entire process. We talk about film cam­eras, film, devel­op­ing film, print­ing con­tact sheets and print­ing a final print.
Thanks to John Vales from our photography.ca face­book group for sug­gest­ing this topic. Please feel free to “Like” that page. :)

Links /resources men­tioned in this podcast:

Apug.org — Ana­log Pho­tog­ra­phy Users Group
keh.com
Film pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast with John Mead­ows
Ilford Delta 3200
Kodak Tri-X film
Kodak T-Max film
The neg­a­tive by Ansel Adams
Photo tuto­r­ial on devel­op­ing film. Shows nor­mal, under, over­ex­posed negs
Load­ing film onto a reel

Cir­cles is our reg­u­lar forum assign­ment for Spetem­ber
– Self Por­traits in a Mir­ror is our level 2 assign­ment for September

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Thanks to Lucille B and Michael Van der Tol who posted  blog com­ments about our last pod­cast. Thanks as always to every­one that sent com­ments by email about our last pod­cast. Although ALL com­ments are appre­ci­ated, com­ment­ing directly in this blog is pre­ferred. Thanks as well to all the new mem­bers of the bul­letin board. Most of the links to actual the prod­ucts are affil­i­ate links that help sup­port this site. Thanks in advance if you pur­chase through those links.

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108 — Film Photography Rocks — Interview w/John Meadows

Pho­tog­ra­phy pod­cast #108 fea­tures an Inter­view with fine art pho­tog­ra­pher John Mead­ows where we talk about the advan­tages of shoot­ing on film. Although it’s true that film pho­tog­ra­phy is slowly being replaced by dig­i­tal, it con­tin­ues to remain VERY pop­u­lar with fine art pho­tog­ra­phers for a bunch of rea­sons. One of these rea­sons is the incred­i­ble qual­ity of the cam­eras and lenses avail­able to film pho­tog­ra­phers that can be pur­chased these days for peanuts.

In this pod­cast we talk about the advan­tages of shoot­ing on film, film char­ac­ter­is­tics, buy­ing film, devel­op­ing your own film, print­ing your own images in a dark­room, the hybrid approach of using both film and dig­i­tal and more.

Dur­ing this phone inter­view recorded by Skype, the qual­ity of my voice is mediocre and I apol­o­gize in advance for this —  Luck­ily John Meadows’s voice sounds great.

Bro­ken and Unbro­ken © John Meadows

 

Links /resources men­tioned in this podcast:

Royce Howland’s fol­low up com­ment on the photo-realistic HDR pod­cast
John Mead­ows web­site
John Mead­ows on Flickr
apug.org — Ana­log Pho­tog­ra­phy Users Group
Freestyle film pho­tog­ra­phy sup­plies
Pocket light meter
Mar­shal Oils at B&H
Film at B&H
Photo tours in Mon­treal — Pri­vate pho­tog­ra­phy instruc­tion in Montreal

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Please join the Photography.ca fan page on Facebook

My Face­book pro­file — Feel free to “friend” me — please just men­tion Photography.ca
My Twit­ter page — I will fol­low you if you fol­low me — Let’s con­nect — PLEASE email me and tell me who you are in case I don’t rec­i­p­ro­cate because I think you are a spammer.

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Thanks to John Starmer, Lucille B, chris f, Rob S, Royce How­land, Mike Lang­ford and Del­ben­son­pho­tog­ra­phy who posted  blog com­ments about our last pod­cast. Thanks as always to every­one that sent com­ments by email about our last pod­cast. Although ALL com­ments are appre­ci­ated, com­ment­ing directly in this blog is pre­ferred. Thanks as well to all the new mem­bers of the bul­letin board. Most of the links to actual the prod­ucts are affil­i­ate links that help sup­port this site. Thanks in advance if you pur­chase through those links.

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