Category: Techniques


  • I Do Believe It Worked!

    I Do Believe It Worked!

    Just a quick update – the photos from the big pano BEAST came out wonderfully – all 4 frames were great (one was a duplicate to make sure I had it, but it wasn’t actually necessary). The Fuji is still not right, but I have replaced a couple more light seals I found and am…

  • I Think I Cracked It!

    I Think I Cracked It!

    Today I had a wee job in Inverness, just on the edge of town… so I decided afterwards to go and check out a location I have been wanting a look at for a while. There is a small, dilapidated, boathouse sitting on a loch not far from the city which someone posted on a…

  • Repairs Ahoy

    Repairs Ahoy

    All the parts arrived to repair the Fuji yesterday, so I spent an hour or so carefully cutting and sticking lightseals into the camera. This is not something I have done before, and the internet was telling me it was hard and complicated…. It wasn’t… as with so many thing on line I think people…

  • A Little Disappointed.

    A Little Disappointed.

    The rolls of Kodak Gold came back today and were… entirely underwhelming. Actually… worse than that… it was pretty bad. 3 rolls in, one was entirely blank, another had the one shot I really wanted on, but that one was blank. The other version of it was double exposed, then an actual proper exposure (which…

  • Further Analogue Adventures

    Today my first rangefinder camera arrived… there is another coming too… both were cheap, but this is the one I am most excited about. A Fuji GSW690! It all seems to work okay, the shutter and aperture particularly, and the rangefinder itself is seemingly okay too. I suspect the light seals are shot (there had…

  • Lomography

    Lomography

    I will do a proper review of this entirely silly camera soon, but I just wanted to share this one from the Sprocket Rocket which is oozing with that lo-fi charm!

  • September Beckons!

    September Beckons!

    I can feel autumn approaching now, the world is starting to wind down, slow down and prepare for the darkness. I love this time of year, the colours as the leaves shift from greens to reds and golds. The chill in the air and the misty mornings. It is a time when the otherworld feels…

  • Why… Oh Why…

    Why… Oh Why…

    You may be asking yourself… Rob, mate, why on God’s Green Earth do you shoot analogue. And that is a fair question. I don’t only shoot analogue for starters – I use a LOT of digital equipment too. I shoot on Nikon Z series cameras commercially, and until recently, all my landscape photography was also…

  • Meikle Ferry

    Meikle Ferry

    Today I found myself working at the very mysterious Meikle Ferry – or as it was once known – The Ness of Portnaculter. The Ness was formed by glacial deposits that jut out into the Dornoch Firth near Tain, which formed a narrow stretch ideal for operating a short ferry from Sutherland to Easter Ross.…

  • Even the Best Laid Plans….

    Fail. Yes, tonight was an absolute disaster! I decided to head to a spot I had found to shoot the sunset with the big pano camera whilst the heather is at it’s peak. I got there, and had forgotten to take my midge repellent top. No problem, I would be quick… camera out, framed, focussed,…