HeyJaredAndrew Sanderson
Ilford master Printer, Author (three books), Photographer, teacher. Work in private collections all over the world, Published over 100 times in photography magazines. This Substack publication is my online photography magazine.
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Fun with half frame. (opens the original)
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In about 1988 I was loaned an Olympus Pen Ft half frame camera. I had never seen one before and was curious as to how useful it would be. As soon as I had put my first roll of HP5 through it I was converted and I loved it. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1
The end of film. (opens the original)
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In 2007, I got an invitation to work with Ilford and I did a lot of darkroom workshops, product testing, demonstrations, as well as providing images for their publicity. At that time they were worried about how much digital photography would damage their business, and they were keen to keep darkroom work alive. There was a real sense at the time that film could easily disappear if we didn’t inspire the next generation.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/ima
Serendipity (opens the original)
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I have written before about the gremlins of the darkroom who can randomly make one evenings printing a total disaster. Everything worked before, but on this occasion everything is going wrong. The same thing can happen on photography days: You arrange a day to meet up with a friend or two to take pictures at a particular location, and you have a grey sky, or worse-rain. The best skies for photography offer themselves when you are in a supermarket car park, or driving on the motorway, but never w
Peripheral vision and its role in composition. (opens the original)
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Learning how to see is obviously the most important part of creative photography, as I have probably mentioned in previous articles.However, this is difficult to teach through the medium of the written word. Creative visual thought is a right brain function, whereas logical thought resides in the left in most people, hence the difficulty in explaining it. Great pictures are not ‘worked out’ but felt. Photography requires us to use both sides of the brain, especially if we use film and manual cam
Caffenol. (opens the original)
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This week I am writing an article on a film developing process that has three common household constituents: Washing Soda, Vitamin C and Instant Coffee. Using these common ingredients might seem to suggest that this is nothing more than novelty process with crappy results, but I have found that it is capable of producing beautiful negatives with some film stocks.Caffenol has been around for quite a long time now. Many of you will have heard of this process before, some of you are using it alread
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