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Film Photos From delft

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If you haven't already read my blog about shooing in delft head over to and read it: Here.

So after a few weeks wait to get the films developed and get myself a scanner to scan the photos, I finally get to share them! I shot three film types and here are a few from each roll I shot.  Of all the films I shot during my time in Delft, I love the look and feel of the Ilford Delta more then any of the others and even preferred it over my digital shots. 

Ilford Delta 100ASA

Fuji Reala 120ASA

Lomography Colour  100ASA

Travelling to Delf and some Medium Format Film

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Delft

Recently I was lucky to get the chance to travel to Delft, a city in the Netherlands.  The city is a quite architecturally beautiful, with many of the building being centuries old and of typical Dutch styling.  The Small streets, the many canals and bridges along with the churches really do make Delft what it is. 

We spent a few days wondering around, sampling all that Delft has to offer, the food, the sights and the atmosphere.  We Explored both the Old and New churches, which have significant links back to Kells, Kilkenny through William of Orange. Below are a few shots of Delft and the final shot is of a walk way in Amsterdam on the way home 

While there I came across one of the coolest vintage camera shops I have seen, they had a wide selection of vintage film cameras, from the Nikon F to Hasselblad 500C's and everything in between. I was looking for a Medium format camera, although lusting after a Hasselblad, I knew they were out of my range starting at €700 just for the body with no lens. Looking around I seen some Bronica's, Lubitel's, Roleiflex to name a few.  After taking to the shop assistant, I finally decided on a Mamiya M645 camera.

Shooting with the Mamiya was a challenge in its self, with no metering and no hand held light meter I had to first test expose with my digital camera and then take the shoot with film,  The view from the waist level finder and ground glass was very similar to the experience I had shooting a Hasselblad 503C, Which is in a previous blog head over and check it out Here. I also found myself using the Sunny 16 rule and making an educated guess at what what the photos would come out like. Taking photos with this camera was a thrill, even more as I couldn't wait to find out what I had captured. 

Scanning the film presents another challenge as at the moment I havant got a backlight scanner, so I have to take a photo of them using my digital camera and my computer screen as a light source. It isn't the best quality so I haven't scanned many. but here is a small low quality sample of whats to come when I get a scanner. The films used are Fuji Reala 100 and Lomography Colour 100, 120 Rolls. and C41 processed. I do have some Ilford Delta 100 but that will take a while as it has been sent off to be hand processed.  Below The top picture is Kells, Kilkenny where I was using the end of the rolls, below that is Up a windmill in Delft with my Folks. 

Berlin 2014

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Berlin the capital city of Germany, the location of DCU FotoSoc's trip for 2014. Being to Germany many times before i expected a smililar expreancy to what Munich and Nürburg had given me. But what I got was far different, and the only way in which i can describe it would be alternative. Berlin is famous for its street art scene, its modern architecture and night life. On the first day we took an alternative tour of berlin, seeing some of the local street art, along with heading off to a street art work shop where were created our own stencils.

That night we headed out on a pub crawl getting to see bars that we wouldn't get to see anywhere else, sadly I don't have any photos other then iPhone shots that real don't do any of the places justice that we visited.

Day 2 and myself and another photographer got up early grabbed  a quick breakfast and hit the streets for some good streets shooting, trying to get no so touristy shots a tourists. The fun of jumping into tramlines to get shots and focusing on angles that aren't normally seen.

later that Day we all met up and head on a city tour of berlin, getting to see the berlin wall, checkpoint charlie and the jewish memorial and the brandenburg gate.  For this part I'm going to let the photos do the talking as really its best i show you what we seen.

As a portrait photographer, naturally i snook in time to capture some portraits during the day. The crisp cold, fantastic blue sky and historic setting really lent themselves to some spectacular shots not only on this day but later ib the week when we visited another part of the berlin wall.

The highlight of trip happened the second night, with a crazy idea to go out shooting during the night at around 2am, what happened that night really made the trip. Myself and two other decided to walk from our hostel to the brandenburg gate in -3 deg. C which took nearly an hour due to the constant stopping and starting to take photos. The brandenburg gate is rarely deserted enough to capture a shot that shows the whole gate and down the street on the other side of it. Taking the perfect opportunity to grab the shot I snapped off about 5 frames hoping that that would be enough as we had to move quick in the cold. I then decided to snap a portrait using a composite method taking around 10 photos for one portrait, Here are the results which really blew me away when i seen them.