Film and stuff.
Thanks to everyone who entered! The judges have picked the winner…
Congratulations to Graeme Lyall who will have a photo materials voucher winging it’s way to him very soon.
“The street scene most captures the pinhole aesthetic and Scottish lockdown atmosphere.”
The Pentland Judging Committee
Honourable mention to Elaine Robson.
” An insect eye view of spring.”
The Pentland Judging Committee
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.
Day 17 – Back in 2011/12 when LoFi was just getting started we did a group project called Time Place Light based in Dunbar using various lens-less photographic techniques including pinhole and solargraphs. The results can still be seen on the project blog.
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To end the bank holiday weekend we have David with #1 Candy Issey What .
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Day 12 and Dan Clipsom records the seasonal change On a smallholding, near York
The slow, methodical, procedural nature of pinhole photography as an art, mirrors the process and cycles inherent in the production of food crops and other productive flora.
D Clipsom
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Adventures with Pinhole Cameras by Graeme Pow brings us to day 11.
Through the gardens, rivers and scenic places of Edinburgh the unique viewpoint of the pinhole camera sees vistas afresh.
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Brittonie Fletcher looks through her collection of throwbacks to bring us day 10.
Do you remember your first pinhole photograph? Where were you on pinhole day? As a group Lofi has formed some wonderful memories of shared experiences. Brittonie Fletcher reminds us of this with today’s gallery of work.
Brittonie Fletchers work may also be seen at the 2020 RSA Annual Exhibition.
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Slow photographer and poet, Roddy Shippin’s project Up Above the Streets and Houses uses DIY beer can solargraphs to produced images exposed between 6 months and a year – Southfacing towards Bruntsfield, Edinburgh.
He has recently coined the phrase “Coronagram” – a chemigram made with expired cupbard contents. More information on an upcoming workshop with Brittonie Fletcher soon.
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A Summer Meander from Elaine Robson brings us to day 7 of our online exhibition. 3 pinholes, 3 coloured Quality Street wrappers and an idle through the Scottish countryside last year.
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