William Klein and The Zero Degree of Street Photography

William Klein and The Zero Degree of Street Photography

Dance in Brooklyn 1955 © William Klein I came across the work of William Klein when browsing though photography books in a book shop.  It didn't take many turns of the pages for me to decide to buy the book...
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Wet Plate Photography – Alcohol, Ether and Gun Cotton

Wet Plate Photography – Alcohol, Ether and Gun Cotton

Wet plate aka gun cotton photography Wet plate photography was not easy.  The wet-plate collodion process used between the 1850s and 1880s uses a solution of gun-cotton in ether and alcohol and requires the entire photographic process including coating the...
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Fox Talbot and Early Photography

Fox Talbot and Early Photography

Fox Talbot at dawn The recent exhibition Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph at the Science Museum in London which ended on September 11th 2016 was described as ‘magical to behold’ by  Time Out  and ‘ground-breaking’ by The Times.  I found it extremely...
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The Leica Q – A Game Changing Camera

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:...
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Back to Film with the Nikon F3

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 Canon IXUS, from the late '90s - a point and shoot compact which took APS film. My photos...
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The Timeless Quality of Black & White Photographs

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...
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All About Tone

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...
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The Importance of Form

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...
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The Beauty of the Long Exposure

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...
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