photography

Hardly believing it myself, it turns out that coffee can act as a film developer. This I had to try. Three different films (XP2 at 400, FP4+ at 125 and HP5+ at 400), all developed at the same time:

• five minutes soaking in water
• 16g Na2CO3 (anhydrous) added to water
• add 10g Vitamin C
• 1.5g KBr (anhydrous)
• 40g Red Label instant coffee
• make up to 1 litre of water
• 1 minute of agitation
• rest for 59 minutes (at 21°C)
• wash, stop, wash, fix, wash

I shot a fair amount of this "straight out of camera" on my 7D using Reala, EtoC and ZERO custom picture styles. Lenses used were mostly the 135mm f/2.8 and 50mm f/1.8, with my Sigma, and Jeff's 70-300mm and 18-135mm making an occasional appearance. Started to get "in the zone" with street photography. Great fun. And amazing architecture in York.

Cheap colour film which expired years ago. Shot and developed this week. Full set.

Testing the EOS-1 I bought to see whether it works properly. Shot on Ilford Delta 400, developed in Ilford Microphen 1+3 for 26 minutes at 19ºC.

The idea is simple: bring your face, bring a camera, bring a friend... we're here to make new profile pictures! Fans of photography — behind the lens or in front — are invited to come along and meet people, take pictures, and hopefully end up with some fantastic new portraits. Who cares if your Facebook profile picture is awesome already? This is your chance to get another! And you also get to practice taking photographs of people, become a bit less shy about having your picture taken, make new friends, and generally just have a laugh.

Punk, goth, cross-processing, lots of "straight out of camera" but using custom Canon Picture Styles.