Category Archives: Scanned Negative

A film negative that has been scanned to create a digital file.

Neofin Red – Examples

Posted on September 24, 2017 by Roy Hammans

Selection from a couple of rolls of Tri-X, exposed at 400 ISO, processed in Neofin Red for 11 mins at 20°C, agitation is 1 minute initial, then 10 seconds every minute. The first set are from the my Ensign Autorange … Continue reading →

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Archive Delve – Essex Cemetery, 1988

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Roy Hammans

I saw part of a programme last night which talked about how babies can recognise anything resembling a face almost from birth, but can’t visually recognise anything else until they get many months older. Seems like the ability to identify a face … Continue reading →

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Old Roses

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Roy Hammans

A contact print of an 8×10 film negative made a month or more ago but only processed this week – the wonders of the latent image! And it proves that my dark slide film holders are light-tight… The variation in tone … Continue reading →

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It happens… (updated)

Posted on February 12, 2015 by Real Photographs

You can never be quite sure what you are going to get with film. This negative, one a series of 8 exposures taken on 120 Kodak Tri-X film, has ‘mystery artefacts’ and I’m not sure what caused them.

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Spathiphyllum (‘Peace Lily’)

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Real Photographs

Lying on my bed, looking at this piece of exotica in my room and thinking ‘that could work’. It’s been done a thousand times or more, but not by me.

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Amaryllis 2015

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Real Photographs

Since 2007, I’ve tried to photograph one of the annual amaryllis flowers grown at Weeping Ash. Each year I’ve tried to take a different approach and this year it was the faded, wilted blooms that struck me as worthy of … Continue reading →

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Memoria Vitae – The Underwood

Posted on November 27, 2014 by Real Photographs

I originally started the Memoria Vitae series five years ago, with this image. The purpose being to record those things that have special meaning to me, though various connections, but which may seem insignificant to others.

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