All due respect

Posted on January 27, 2022 Posted in Lith Prints, toy camerasTagged Agfa Brovira, Diana, lith print, Philadelphia, photo walkLeave a comment

Thinking of new directions.

Much wiser since my goodbye

Posted on October 1, 2021 Posted in Lith Prints, toy camerasTagged Diana, Expired Paper, flowers, ilfordhp5+, lith print, Slavich, Slavich BromportraitLeave a comment

The last 3 pieces of Soviet bromportrait paper 😦

Things I’d like

Posted on May 20, 2021May 23, 2021 Posted in Lith Prints, toy camerasTagged Agfa Brovira, Darkroom, Diana, Expired Paper, lith printLeave a comment

The first hurdle

Posted on May 6, 2021 Posted in Lith Prints, photo walk, toy camerasTagged Agfa Brovira, Crown Graphic, Diana, Grain, lith print, Philadelphia, photo walkLeave a comment

Prints from shots taken at FDR Park.

Long time passing

Posted on July 27, 2020 Posted in toy camerasTagged Diana, flowers, ilfordhp5+Leave a comment

The garden is in bloom!

RIP Diana

Posted on June 15, 2020June 15, 2020 Posted in toy camerasTagged Diana, Ilford fp4, Philadelphia1 Comment

I dropped the Diana maybe one too many times and it seems it’s gone to meet its maker.

Here are some of the last salvageable images from it. They feel melancholy and reflect my muddy view of the past few weeks.

First try with Ortho Plus in medium format

Posted on January 3, 2020January 3, 2020 Posted in toy camerasTagged friends and family, holiday, Jim Thorpe, still life4 Comments

I was super excited when Ilford announced that they would be releasing Ortho Plus in 35 and medium format. I’ve been looking for an orthochromatic film I could shoot in the Diana and this seemed like the perfect option.

Between Christmas and New Year, we took a trip up to Jim Thorpe, PA so I brought along some Ortho Plus and the Diana as well as my Rolleiflex to compare.

The low ISO for the Ortho Plus, 80 in daylight, limited how I could use it on this trip. Jim Thorpe is in a valley and the sun never really got far above the surrounding mountains. Then we had a couple of days of rain. Most of the shots I took came out underexposed. I did get a few passable ones though.

The Rolleiflex was much better. I even got Nora to sit for a portrait. The skin tones with this film are nice, though not for everyone.

Mermaids second pass

Posted on October 5, 2019 Posted in Lith Prints, toy camerasTagged Diana, lith printLeave a comment

I tried some more second pass lith processing. These are all done on Ilford MG Warmtone paper. I developed them normally then bleached them back and redeveloped them in Arista lith.