Photography - A Flash Of Darkness

The Leica Q – A Game Changing Camera

Inspiration When a friend of mine purchased a Sony RX1 in 2016 I thought it was way to much to spend on a compact camera. At £2,700 this was no trivial purchase and so I looked closely at cheaper options:...

Back to Film with the Nikon F3

It's been a while... Before I went back to film with a Nikon F3 in 2016, my previous film camera was a compact APS film point and shoot Canon IXUS, from the late '90s . My photos from that time...

The Timeless Quality of Black & White Photographs

Why Timeless? A black white image with that timeless quality Black and white images often possess a timeless quality that is more difficult to achieve with colour images. This is largely because colour provides more visual clues as to when...

film, Kodak, portraits

All About Tone

Enough to Convert a Pianist When a photograph is converted to mono and the colour removed, what remains is tone. Tone is in fact one of the reasons black and white photography has continued to be popular after the advent...

Ansel Adams, Rome, tone

The Importance of Form

We have had colour photography since the 1930s and the invention of Kodachrome, though it took until the 1970s for it become the norm. So why has black and white photography persisted? Perhaps the most obvious difference between colour and...

The Beauty of the Long Exposure

I have seen some astonishing black and white photography that uses very strong neutral density (ND) filters such as the B+W ND 110 to blur cloud movement using a long exposure. I wanted to get some shots with the same effect into...