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Woodland Gold by Leon Van Kemenade Via Flickr: Another from my misty morning walk on Headley Heath.

#Headley Heath #National Trust #fog #mist #gold #woodland #glorious light #Olympus OMD-EM1 MK2 #Olympus PRO 12-100mm f/4.0 #flickr #leon van kemenade #photographer #nature

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Looking up at Blackfriars Station by Leon Van Kemenade Via Flickr: An unusual view of the south end of Blackfriars station which spans the River Thames, taken looking up from the river shore at low tide. Medium format photography Rolleiflex 2.8E TLR Carl Zeiss Planar 2.8 Kodak Ektar 100 (converted to B&W)

#Leon Van Kemenade #Rolleiflex 2.8E TLR #Carl Zeiss Planar f/2.8 80mm #Kodak Ektar 100 #medium format photography #6x6 #120 film #film is not dead #analogue photography #Blackfriars Station #London #looking up from the river shore #flickr

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What the Taking Lens Took by Leon Van Kemenade Via Flickr: A few weeks back I posted a picture of the "Taking Lens" on my old Yashica C TLR camera which dates back to the late 50s. I mentioned that I was planning on going into London and shooting a roll or two with a friend of mine who owns a slightly more desirable Mamiya TLR. My first roll of film with the Yash TLR, which I shot earlier this summer, was not a great success so I was determined to get something marginally more interesting on this outing. At least from that first roll I knew the camera worked. This is a shot, or should i say two shots for it is actually a double exposure, from my fourth roll of film through that camera, my third roll of the day and the first time I put a colour film through it. It proves two things I think, one, the camera is capable of taking pleasing pictures, and second, that I still haven't mastered the technique. You see with a TLR you have to stay focussed on what you are doing or else you WILL screw up. There is a disconnect between cocking the shutter and winding the film on - i.e. if you forget to wind the film on you are still able to cock the shutter and shoot another shot. And if you haven't wound the film on you will be shooting on top of the last image you took. Sounds like it should be an easy thing to remember but trust me if you aren't used to it it is incredibly easy to screw up as the camera gives you no clues as to whether you've wound the film on or not. So anyway, happy accidents as they say. Sometimes those screw ups can actually produce something quite interesting IMHO.

#film photography #Yashica C TLR #Kodak Portra 400 (expired 2013!) #analogue #film #what the taking lens took #colour #London #More London #street photography #film is not dead (yet) #go ahead #give it a try #happy accidents #double exposure #screwing it up #flickr

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Breaking Through by Leon Van Kemenade Via Flickr: OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

#phonebox #field #leon van kemenade #photographer

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No Swimming by Leon Van Kemenade Via Flickr: Newhaven Harbour

#Newhaven Harbour #Olympus OMD EM1 Mk2 #Olympus PRO 12-100mm f/4.0 #waves #Water #Fence #breakwater #Surrey #seascape #2023_10_29 #flickr

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Morning through a misty window by Leon Van Kemenade Via Flickr: Some days I just have to take a picture, just need to scratch that itch. So knowing I had a couple of shots left on the roll of film in my Rollei camera this misty window presented the perfect opportunity. This was actually shot on colour film (original in the second comment box) but I converted the scan to B&W because I think it resonates more strongly in B&W. Medium format photography Rolleiflex 3.5E (type 2) Shneider-Kreuznach Xenotar 75mm f3.5 Kodak Portra 400 (expired 2013)

#6x6 #Kodak Portra 400 (expired 2013) #Rolleiflex 3.5 E (type 2) #Schneider-Kreuznach Xenotar 75mm f3.5 #analogue #film photography #square format #medium format photography #flickr

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The Sky's the Limit by Leon Van Kemenade Via Flickr: Odd title I know but in this case it's apt, but not in the usual way. This is another Rolleiflex film image that I took about a month ago. It was shot on B&W film that expired back in 2012. Usually with B&W film, if its been stored properly, it will give reasonably good results even if it is expired. I don't know how this roll was stored but it did produce some results that I really liked even if the sky is a bit patchy. So when I say the sky's the limit, I mean that the way this film rendered the sky was probably at the limit of its capabilities after all these years. One things for sure, there's no mistaking this for anything else than film. Rolleiflex 2.8E tlr Carl Zeiss Planar 80/2.8 Ilford Pan F Plus 50 (expired 2012)

#Rolleiflex 2.8E tlr #Carl Zeiss Planar 80/2.8 #Canary Wharf #view over water #black and white #B&W #analogue photography #film photography #6x6 #square format #medium format photography #Ilford Pan F Plus 50 (expired 2012) #flickr

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Reflecting on the Other by Leon Van Kemenade Via Flickr: Coffee time is always welcome and even though the cost of a cup of coffee is north of outrageous these days it's still always nice to sit down with a nice flat white that someone with "Barista" on their T-shirt has made for you. Anyway, I'm trying to post more pictures with some emotional impact (charhedman and GAPHIKER - good-good? 😄) and while I know that for the non-coffee drinkers out there this will have zero impact I also know that for those of us that enjoy the smell and the taste of a cup of well made java, well, what could be better! 35mm photography Leica R6.2 SLR Leitz Vario-Elmar-R 80-200 f/4.5 Kodak Color 800 (scanned image converted to B&W) For you film photographers out there, you may be thinking - 800 ISO Kodak Color film, is there such a thing? In fact yes, I bought about 7 or 8 rolls of this film which is used in disposable cameras but that you don't often see sold commercially. My guess is that the seller must have bought a job lot of these disposable cameras, probably after the film in them had expired, and pulled them apart for the film and then sold them separately. In fact I've had some very good results with the stuff. It shows a lot of grain in this but for a super fast film it actually handles the grain exceedingly well.

#Leica R6.2 #Leitz Vario-Elmar-R 80-200 f/4.5 #Kodak Color 800 film #35mm film photography #coffee #mmmmmm... #spoon and cup reflecting each other #barista made #B&W #Black and White #grain #flickr

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Scaling the Heights by Leon Van Kemenade Via Flickr: Not a job that I'd ever want but somebody's got to do it. Battersea Power Station tower in the background. No pigs in sight. 35mm photography Leica R6.2 SLR Leitz Vario-Elmar-R 80-200 f/4.5 Kodak Color 800 (scanned image converted to B&W)

#Leica R6.2 #Leitz Vario-Elmar-R 80-200 f/4.5 #Kodak Color 800 #Battersea Power Station #Window cleaner #B&W #Black and White #film photography #film is not dead #analogue photography #flickr

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Scaling the Heights by Leon Van Kemenade Via Flickr: Not a job that I'd ever want but somebody's got to do it. Battersea Power Station tower in the background. No pigs in sight. 35mm photography Leica R6.2 SLR Leitz Vario-Elmar-R 80-200 f/4.5 Kodak Color 800 (scanned image converted to B&W)

#Leica R6.2 #Leitz Vario-Elmar-R 80-200 f/4.5 #Kodak Color 800 #Battersea Power Station #Window cleaner #B&W #Black and White #film photography #film is not dead #analogue photography #flickr

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Not Far to Go (but too late!) by Leon Van Kemenade Via Flickr: Taken about a week ago on a walk I did near the south coast in Sussex. This was about 10 minutes after I got absolutely soaked by a heavy shower in the middle of an area where there was no shelter (open fields). You could see the showers moving through all around where I was, with that tell tale dark veil that extends from cloud to ground level. I was hoping I'd get back to my car without getting wet but that didn't happen! Love how the Portra film has rendered those clouds with that purple-pink quality. Taken on a plastic late 90s Nikon AF SLR with a 24-50mm zoom lens that leaves a lot to be desired in terms of sharpness but here it did a pretty good job (perhaps it's not the lens but the photographer!). 😄 It's a camera that can be purchased for 15 or 20 quid on eBay but I absolutely love it for being so incredibly light that you can take it with you anywhere and you never feel like you are being weighed down. For anyone thinking of starting out in film photography it's a camera I'd highly recommend. Simple to use, a little pop up flash for indoor portraits, auto focus, it gives you the look of film without having to worry about manual metering and manual focussing. Sometimes, like when you're just out for a walk in a rainy field, it's nice to have that convenience. 35mm film photography Nikon F65 SLR Nikkor 24-50mm f/3.3-4.5 AF Kodak Portra 160

#Newhaven #Nikkor 24-50mm zoom lens #Nikon F65 SLR #Sussex #analog #analogue #film #film is not dead #film photography #rural walk #Kodak Portra 160 #flickr

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Patterns by Leon Van Kemenade Via Flickr: I don't know the name of this building which is situated in the Nine Elms/Vauxhall area of London despite doing a bit of Google Maps research. It may be a student housing facility but I'm not entirely sure. There are days when I'm out with a camera and I yearn for some interesting clouds in the sky but sometimes a clear blue sky can actually work quite well when the colours work as well together as I think they do here. This was shot on one of my Rolleiflex TLR film cameras and it is straight out of camera, I take a lot of bad pictures on film but when one comes off as well as this it just makes my day. Medium format film photography Rolleiflex 3.5F TLR Schneider Kreuznach Xenotar 75mm f3.5 Ektar 100 (*Update - I'm reliably informed that this building is located at Exchange Gardens and it is an apartment complex in a larger development called Keybridge.)

#Kodak Ektar 100 #Nine Elms #London #Architecture #film photography #Medium format film #6x6 #balconies #patterns #Rolleiflex #3.5F #TLR #Schneider-Kreuznach Xenotar 75mm f/3.5 #Exchange Gardens #Keybridge #flickr

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That Vintage Feel by Leon Van Kemenade Via Flickr: I belong to a lot of vintage photography groups on Facebook covering cameras, lenses, vintage lenses used on modern cameras etc and one often hears the phrase “vintage feel” when describing a picture that harkens back to the atmosphere of film images taken many years ago. This particular shot was taken this autumn using an old Minolta film camera, a frankly abysmal 35-80mm Minolta zoom lens, and a roll of very expired Agfa colour film (expired 2013). Most of the shots on this roll were very washed out, I’m assuming the expired film was the culprit for that (it couldn’t have been the photographer could it???). But there was just something about this shot that brought to mind that “vintage feel”. See the first comment box for a picture of the camera setup.

#MINOLTA AF 7000 #Minolta AF 35-80mm f/4.0 #Agfa 200 colour #Nymans #Autumn colour #that vintage feel #35mm film photography #Analogue #film #film is not dead #flickr

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The redeveloped Battersea Power Station by Leon Van Kemenade Via Flickr: At one time the Battersea Power Station provided west London with most of it's power from it's coal burning turbines, belching out smoke and adding to London's already abysmal air quality. The building itself is an art deco masterpiece and with it's 4 huge chimney stacks a real landmark in this part of south west London. In the past 10 years the decommisioned power station has been completely refurbished and it's now a retail shopping complex, albeit one that still owes a lot to it's original design. It now provides punters with a bit of retail therapy with lots of small shops and boutiques to wander around in. This is shot from the top level gangway looking down the length of the structure. Medium format film photography Rolleiflex 2.8E Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm f/2.8 Kodak Portra 400

#Battersea Power Station #Carl Zeis Planar 80mm f/2.8 #I shoot film #Kodak Portra 400 #Rolleiflex 2.8E #analog #analogue #film photography #medium format photography #wet film #flickr

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Croydon Architecture (revisited) by Leon Van Kemenade Via Flickr: After putting up a picture of some newer high rise Croydon apartments in my last post it got me thinking about my many other expeditions into Croydon to shoot the architecture and so I started to look back on some of those pictures. I came across this one of an older block near the train station which I originally didn't post because there was a tram cable at the bottom of the shot. No idea why it didn't occur to me when I first edited the shot but I simply cropped off the cable and hey-ho, here it is. Easy Hotel, Addiscombe Road, Croydon

#Olympus OMD EM1 Mk2 #Olympus PRO 12-100mm f/4.0 #Croydon Architecture #Croydon #Architecture #London #Darkitecture #flickr

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The Photographer sees the Photographer by Leon Van Kemenade Via Flickr: A month or two back I travelled into London on a Saturday to try and photograph a pro-Palestinian demonstration that was taking place around the Vauxhall area. I took along my old Rolleiflex film camera, possibly not the best choice as I know that shooting digital would have yielded infinitely better results but to be perfectly honest I just fancied a day out with the Rollei. So off I went. The day was not a disaster as I managed to shoot some architecture that I really liked but to shoot a fast moving march with a 60-year-old TLR camera with a fixed length manual focus lens while using a waist level viewfinder, well let's just say the results were predictable. Predictably terrible that is. To top it off I was using very slow film (ISO 50 - what was I thinking!). But after getting the rolls developed and scanned one shot did catch my attention. Not for it's quality but because of a brief moment when the bemused photographer walking on the march noticed the photographer holding the ancient camera that was pointing straight at her. I liked the semi-smile that she had on her face which kind of makes it special for me. But here I have to come clean. I did not actually focus on her in my viewfinder. Neither did I actually notice her at the time. It was only when I got the scans back did I notice her, her camera, and her gaze. For me a happy accident.

#6x6 #B&W #Black and White #I shoot film #Ilford PanF Plus 50 #London #Pro-Palestine protest march #Rolleiflex 3.5F #Schneider Kreuznach Xenotar 75mm f3.5 #Vauxhall #Vauxhall bridge. #analogue #film #medium format photography #protest #street #flickr