John Tuffen
First T-shirts...
I’ve been playing with T-shirt designs – initially working on the ‘inspirational graffiti’ I’ve already photographed… I think the graphical version works much better…
An…
Equipment...
Because I’m a bloke, and obviously the equipment I use defines me as a person ;-D
Cameras
Yashica FX-D 35mm SLR;
Yashica FX-3 35mm SLR;
Yashica Electro-35 35mm Rangefinder;
Carl Zeiss Werra 3 35mm Rangefinder;
Lubitel 166B Medium format TLR (£);
Rolleicord 1 model 2 medium format TLR (£);
Canon Powershot A40 (£);
Darkroom
Fujimoto VR70 colour enlarger
Jessop…
What Works for Me
(this was originally going to be entitled “Doing It Yourself” but I kind of went off on a tangent!)
Many people perceive film as being an expensive way of creating images. To a certain extent that is true – when your mobile phone contains a camera, it is mind-blowingly cheap to capture an image (approaching free even).
So, why shoot film? Well for me, it changes the way in which I take pi…
Cyanotypes...
Today I’ve been experimenting with the cyanotype process, and it’s quite fun/funky – one of the simplest, and oldest, ‘real’ photographic processes. (See Alternative Photography for an overview).
Anyway, I’m wondering whether anyone else has used this process, and if so how do you judge the ‘correct’ exposure?! At the moment I’m using that rarest of UK commodities – the sun – as my UV ligh…
A little more information
Ok, how about a little more information?
I am not a full time photographer – I pay the mortgage etc. with my day job as a software engineer. I suppose that my film-based photography is a bit of a reaction against that; spending an evening sloshing thin strips of plastic around in chemicals is slightly different from sitting in front of a computer 9-5.
So, although I do have a digital ca…
Finally...
So, having read about the redbubble photo competition a few weeks ago, I have finally got around to opening frames and scanning prints which will be entered into various bits of the competition. Thing is, they’re all black and white, but I can only enter one picture into each category, and I don’t know which is the best ;-)
We’ll see…
Anyway – Hi!