Category Archives: opinion

Damo’s Rules of Bar Photography

Posted on November 11, 2009 by Andrew Cosgriff

Damian Young has helpfully donated some words of wisdom on taking photos of people in bars, in case you’re looking to get a bit more variety in your portrait photography: I was at a flickr meet yesterday, at a pub … Continue reading →

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an irony of two photos

Posted on June 18, 2009 by Andrew Cosgriff

An article from Mike Le Fevre on the irony of two photos, with some musing in-between: It’s funny how things change, a few years ago I generally had a low impression of artists- through the nature of them being embedded … Continue reading →

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Films that they never should have stopped making #1.

Posted on June 9, 2009 by Matthew Joseph

Films come and go, unfortunately more films have been going than coming lately, some films even come back, though often, they are not quite the same as they used to be. These articles are about films that they never should have stopped making, though two of them only stopped because the company that made them folded.

The first film I want to talk about is Agfa Ultra 50, because, it was my favourite. Ultra 50 was possibly the best colour negative film ever produced, ever! It did for colour negative film what MSG did for Chinese food, it made it pop, but, it didn’t leave you wanting more 30 min later. Continue reading →

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Kodak Ektar 100

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Andrew Cosgriff

Ross Holmberg has a few first impressions about Kodak’s new Ektar 100 film (released in 35mm in late 2008, with 120 following a month or two ago) : “Ghost” by rosscova. Kodak recently released its new Ektar 100 colour negative … Continue reading →

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Creative Processes

Posted on May 26, 2009 by Andrew Cosgriff

Barbara Fischer has written a few words for us about two photos by Lucian Chaffey, arguing that “perfection” in photography isn’t always a good idea: People who photograph not with art or a commercial purpose in mind do so in … Continue reading →

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