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Meet Darren Greaves from FilmDev.org
"Before I knew it I had bought a small collection of old 35mm cameras and I was totally hooked" Tell us about yourself. Hello. My name is Darren Greaves, I'm 46 years old and I live in London. For my day job I'm a Computer Programmer. Some info on FilmDev FilmDev is a website that I created for sharing and comparing film developing “recipes” (combinations of film and developer). I created FilmDev in 2008 when I was looking to get into developing my own film. It occurred to me that
Thoughts and feelings by Bogusz Szulc
"Photography can be something more than simply "catching reality", that it can be conceptual and (like poems or songs) carry some thoughts and feelings" Tell us about yourself. My name is Bogusz Szulc, I'm 22 years old, I live in Poznań (Poland) where I'm studying photography at University Of Fine Arts. When and how did the film journey begin for you? It was 3 years ago. I met a girl, who was film photographer, I felt in love, and found my father's Minolta SR-1 with 35mm 2.8 lens - jus
Electric Colours, by Andrej Russkovskij
This photos look like Alice in Wonderland! Tell us about yourself. Andrej Russkovskij. 28 years old vet from the North of Italy, currently settled in London. When and how did the film journey begin for you? New York, December 2010 with a Diana Mini F+ What type of film do you usually shoot and what made you choose it? Many different slide films developed in C-41, depending on the weather, the light, my mood and the results that I want to achieve. What camera makes you click?
Do you want to go to the seaside? with funshootr (Temily Leith)
"receiving back the freshly developed prints is next to picking up online orders from the postman or carving that 5 hour roast" Tell us about yourself. I'm 23 years old, from Perth and am in the life limbo state between uni life and adult life. When and how did you start using disposable cameras? My grandfather is a photographer and nearly every second birthday or Christmas my sisters and I would get a new film camera. So summer holidays growing up were nearly always spent taking happy
What comes out of a Minolta and a roll of film, by Adrian Popescu
" I carry 2 cameras: one loaded with a b&w film, one loaded with a colour film (you never know)." Tell us about yourself. I’m 32 years old, I’m from Romania and I’m a design engineer. I was born in Ramnicu Valcea, a relatively small town in the centre of Romania, after graduating high school I lived for 12 years in Bucharest – university and my first job as a hydro power design engineer, now for about 1 year I’m working in Constanta for the Modernization of the Locks on The Danube – Black S
Girls Under Water by Nick Perry
"if I can score 10 rolls of velvia 50 I’ll scoop it right up!" Girls Under Water These images were shot in my parent’s pool with a poorly designed 35mm underwater camera when I was eighteen around the month of August 2008. Although they may appear prurient, that was not my original intention when shooting. Actually the images here are the frames in-between the intended shots of my friends swimming through tubes, snorkeling around in the pool and having imaginary tea parties under water.
Girls in black and white, by Jarmo Hämäläinen
"I usually shoot medium format black & white film because I enjoy the look it gives the most" Tell us about yourself. I am 37 years old, from Helsinki, Finland. I work for the mail company and I'm also a photographer. Ida Maria Lens: 150mm Film: Kodak T-Max 100 When and how did the film journey begin for you? Well, it began many years ago, actually in 2002, when I got my first 35mm film camera. I was taking this class where I learned black & white photography, film developing and d
Analog emotions, by Raffael Stiborek
"The most important thing for me is to get some emotions out of my images" Tell us about yourself. My name is Raffael Stiborek, I´m 27 years old, from Vienna / Austria and I´m a professional portrait photographer. When and how did the film journey begin for you? My film journey began about 4 years ago when i bought my Hasselblad 500CM. What type of film do you usually shoot and what made you choose it? Most of the time i shoot portra and tri-x, because they are both really versati
This amazing world on film, by Andrea Lastri
"I realized that working with film was much more congenial with my personality." Tell us about yourself. I was born in 1965 in Italy and I work in an Internet Service Provider. Hence, I shoot in my free time and most of my pictures belong to the geographical area of Trentino, South Tyrol and the surrounding regions. When and how did the film journey begin for you? I began shooting by sheer serendipity when someone gave me a pocket digital camera before departing for a vacation trip. I
Happy world photography day!
Today we're celebrating world photography day. So we thought a retrospective post from the onfilm.photo members would be quite nice. Here's who helped us build this platform. Thank you all for being a part of this. Keep shooting, and keep them coming to us, so people can see and appreciate your work! Long story, long: Dewa Louis Dazy Stelios Papiemidoglou Muhammad Yunansha HélHorn Simon Tsai Max Kondratov Martin Gomez Nicolás Athens Corey Deshon three
Take a ride with Brian Bell
"Whether it's a crispness of detail, or a dreamy blur I just think so much more of a mood can be conveyed and implied in monochrome" Tell us about yourself. I am a self employed photographer working throughout Kent on the South East Coast of England. I shoot commercial and event commissions as well to supplement sales of my portfolio of more artistic personal work. When and how did the film journey begin for you? I have had a keen love of photography from a young age but only took it u
Retro 'selfies' with Crista Oiegas
Crista takes "selfies" to mark the camera used First of all: how did you get the idea of taking one selfie per film and why I don't usually take selfies with my phone or my digital camera, but I had this thing when i first saw my reflection in a mirror with my camera on my neck. So I took the first shot. Must say that i didn't do this with my first two films. I think it all started when I was on my 37th position of the roll and I took the first selfie with my Zenit 12 XP. People said afterw