Film and stuff.
2022 LoFi Calendar (PDF 1.5MB)
All the dates for next years LoFi meetings and events in a handy printable format!
With contributions from Alan Borthwick, Sheila Borthwick, Dan Clipsom, Olive Dean, Graeme Lyall, Greg Mc Neill, Ali Millar, Graeme Pow, Elaine Robson, Judith Rowan and John Sumpter.
All the best for 2022!
What we’ve been chatting about this month:
NGS The Worlds Edge – on until January 2022
Celebrating 5 years of LoFi participating in Worldwide Cyanotype day! See the instagram gallery for images made by the group.
Cyanotype Toning book – Out on the 30th including work by Brittonie Fletcher .
Summer Sunday at South Queensferry – beautiful weather for our last summer photowalk of the year. Vintage cameras and ice cream!
Our upcoming October meetings :
This month we have been discussing :
Book – The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn
Favorite films featuring photography/photographers (leave yours in the comments?) and on the BBC Development of photography by Daguerre and Fox Talbot.
Exhibition – SSA Instant including work from LoFi members – Olive Dean, Judith Rowan, and Nettie Edwards.
Exhibition – Valerié Belin at the V&A (website -> Valerié Belin)
Exhibition – The Botanical Photography of Levon Biss ( website -> Levon Biss)
Exhibition – The Glasgow Girls and Boys at the Kirkcudbright Galleries
Custom cases and boxes for equipment and props.
Resources for alternative processes on Mike Ware’s Website.
And of course meeting people and seeing people’s actual physical photographic prints at the Botanics made for a great end to the month!
Our July meetings are as follows:
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Hope to see you in July.
This month we have been discussing:
The elegance of cabinet cards.
High ISO, high silver content? Delta 3200
The joy of escaping Edinburgh! aka the beauty of Scotland and some outdoor inspiration. Plus some helpful camping tips 😉
Getting a Gum Dichromate printing process set up.
Blackest black, whitest white – new pigment developments and some confusion over NFTs and what they are doing to fine art economics. Plus Restoring Faith in Photojournalism?
New content in the members area (feel free to email any other additions for site or blog) and discussion of adding a shop to the website and what the mechanics of that should be.
June’s meetings will be online from 6:30pm (BST) Tuesday the 8th and in person outdoors at the Botanical Gardens Edinburgh (restrictions permitting) on Wednesday the 30th from 10:30am (BST). Send us an email or DM on Social Media to get added to our virtual calls, more information on summer in person meetings and photowalks will be finalised soon.
This month we have been discussing :
Pinhole Day 2021 (Snowdrops by Ali Millar)
UV lamps for Cyanotypes and other alternative processes.
Possible dates for the next Collodion Club at Darkbox Images when restrictions permit.
Tilt Shift attachments for 35mm (just in case your View Camera isn’t handy!) and other lens adaptors.
Adapting modern film to 127 cameras.
Historical processes – Lithophane and Woodbury type – and modern practitioners.
How to get the most out of Hahnemuehle Platinum Rag.
Lunchtime talk Tokens of Affection online via the John Rylands Research Institute and Library.
And HOW MUCH?!?
Our next online meetings are Tuesday May 11th from 6:30pm and Wedneday May 26th from 10:30am. Send us an email or DM on Social Media to get added to our virtual world.
Our second pinhole day with Covid restrictions!
Members Competition 2021.
Entries by midnight 24th April. Anonymous independent judging, prize £50 photo materials voucher. Any pinhole process (sieve, zone plate, solargraph, camera obscura photo etc.) made between January 2021 and 24th April. Submit one entry per person by email. (Digital file 1800px max side preferred ). Winner announced on pinhole day. In the event that any of the organisers photos are selected – the prize will go to runner up.
On Sunday the 25th we will celebrate the simplicity of camera vision with a hybrid day of virtual chats and a socially distant photowalks. Join in online, outdoors or go your own way!
10am Coffee Chat – online.
11am Socially Safe Sakura Search – outdoor photowalk in the Meadows, Bruntsfield.
6pm Wrap Up – online. Competition winners will be announced.
Submit any pinhole photos taken on the 25th to the Edinburgh Lofi gallery group by June 30th 2021.
This month we have been discussing :
The Hexham Photography Group have Doug Chinnery giving an online talk this month.
Stereo camera conversations continue – the Sputnik and two hacked Lubitels on trial. Reminiscing over old Stereo Realist cameras and Viewmaster reels.
110 cameras with some lovely examples on Chris Osborne’s site https://cjo.info/classic-cameras/pentax-auto-110/
Some surreal moments on flash bulbs!
1890’s spy camera and early street photography article.
Cyanotyping on maps and speed formulas for in camera cyanotype processes.
How minature can collodion plates go?
Chromatography.
Our next online meetings are April 13th from 6:30pm, April 25th for pinhole day activities (10am virtual coffee, 11am socially distanced sakura photowalk and 6pm virtual wrap up and competition results) and April 28th from 10:30am. Send us an email or DM on Social Media to get added to our virtual world.
This month we have been discussing :
Graham Vasey’s photography talk. https://hexhamphotographygroup.org.uk/graham-vasey-19th-february-2021
A Celebration of Stereoscopic 3D – Part the Second
20 – 21 FEBRUARY 2021
https://stereoscopy.blog/celebration-of-stereoscopic-3d/
Book – Photography Beyond Technique
Historic photo studios – preserved and recently discovered – https://eu.mpnnow.com/story/lifestyle/2021/02/01/rare-susan-b-anthony-portrait-historical-photos-found-geneva-ny-attic-during-renovation-project/6562923002/
https://www.petworthpenthouse.com/surviving-victorian-photographic-studios.html?fbclid=IwAR0ocPu50EUtvIo6DMIqw724zIvjiUHix34ZahUbMpobMo2NrcDCXw9nwaw
Firsts and fakes –
https://hyperallergic.com/83097/20-of-the-first-photographs-of-things-from-people-to-hoaxes-to-the-moon/
Gordon Parks – books and exhibitions – https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210203-gordon-parks-beautiful-photos-of-an-ugly-history
620 spools and respooling 120 –
https://filmphotographystore.com/search?type=product&q=620
Direct positive paper – how best to use and develop. https://www.ag-photographic.co.uk/harman-direct-positive-255-c.asp
Where to get digital negs done – at home printing tips and companies that produce them? – https://deadlydigital.com/services/#photographicprinting
Who has the right to your image? –
https://www.thecut.com/article/emily-ratajkowski-owning-my-image-essay.html
Extreme camera design – when the camera comunicates more than the images produced –
https://todayinart.com/untouchable-hiv-camera-by-wayne-martin-belger/
Pinhole cameras – new Stereo pinhole on Kickstarter – https://minutastereo.eu/
Our next online meetings are March 9th from 6:30pm and March 31st from 10:30am. Send us an email or DM on Social Media to get added to the call.
Happy New Year!
Here is a quick summary of some of January’s discussions:
BRNO Dry Caps and other ways to alleiviate the horrors of lens mould!
Bellows, brass, black paint! DIY view cameras.
Women Photojournalist’s (Library of Congress)
The Calotype Society and the other The Calotype Society
The calendar everyone has been waiting for! LoFi 2021!
A5 duplex (PDF ~120MB) and A4 (PDF ~120MB)
Our February meetings are Tuesday the 9th from 6:30pm and Wednesday the 24th from 10:30am – DM on social media or drop us an email if you would like to join in – all welcome.
As LoFi moves into the HiFi phase of existence , we hope to bring you some more online content.
Our first virtual meeting was held last Wednesday and the main topic of conversation was Tinting.
Johnsons of Hendon Limited manufactured photographic eqipment after WWII (1948 – 1972) although the company had been opperating since 1743 in various guises.
The tinting set was kindly donated to Edinburgh LoFi by Madeline Shepherd
These dye tints require dilute layers to be built up gradually to build up the stain. (See Hand Colouring Photographs)
Further discussion of oil based tints rounded off with the use of Marlene Oil both to remove mistakes and to draw in fine highlights.
All we need now are some lantern slides!
Thanks to everyone who participated in the meeting – all our regular meetings will still take place virtually – LoFi goes HiFi – email or DM on social media to be sent the meeting link and invite. Everyone welcome. Next meet on April 14th.
