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Heading West Last September my family and I headed west. It had been a few years since we’d visited the West Country, we had come to love it when our family was young, and now that they were grown we decided to return to see if it still has a special place in our hearts. While my teenagers packed their essentials - clothes and iPhones, and my other half packed enough books to keep a large reading group going, I set about doing the important task of packing my camera equipment. My focus was on which...

There was this one scene I wanted to capture.  I stumbled upon it walking up Old Man Coniston in the Lake District just before reaching the peak.  Out of nowhere (unless you’ve studied an OS map) a body of water appears when approaching from the east. As we reached the water’s edge, the sun was bursting through the clouds for the first time in days. The light was fantastic, catching 2 large boulders protruding from the perfectly flat, reflective water with the hill layers mirrored on the surface. ...

My love for film is strong, but it wasn’t my first photography love. When I first started out as a landscape photographer my focus was on digital infrared. I was drawn to the unique view that it captures. Last month my two photography loves came together when I was given some SFX200 Extended Red film by ILFORD. When I shoot film I use a different set of skills to when I shoot infrared.  One of the most important elements of shooting infrared digital is the quality of the light - the distribution and o...

Thank you In 2018, we invited the global analogue film photography community to take part in our latest film users survey. The survey, which attracted 2100 participants when it was last conducted in 2014, grew to over 6,800 participants from 100 countries this time around.  This was largely due to the help received from the fantastic film community in sharing it far and wide on social media, blogs and forums, so thank you. While many of the results are in line with the growth seen since the re-emergenc...

On April 15th in London, and many other locations around the world, a series of protests and demonstrations took place as an act of rebellion against systems of pollution and excess, which are causing rapid changes in the climate of our planet. I was aware that this rebellion would be taking place having attended a march a few days previous. I was excited to continue shooting in this environment and did not yet realise the scope of their action to unfold, or how rewarding it would end up being photographica...

Turning your negatives into positives Reversal processing enables black and white transparencies to be produced directly from high quality films such as PAN F Plus, FP4 Plus and DELTA 100 PROFESSIONAL How it works It starts with the development of the negative image. This leaves the unused silver halide untouched, but it is not fixed, as it will be used later to form the positive image. After the negative image has been developed, it is totally bleached away using an acid bleach. This leaves the remainin...

In the summer of 2017 my friends, novice climbers, asked me to climb Elbrus with them. This is the highest mountain peak in Russia and Europe. The idea sounded great, especially because I have loved mountains since my childhood. But my campaign plan immediately included a large-format camera, with which I have been travelling for many years (mostly, of course, by car with a camera in the trunk). For a while I wondered if I should take a big camera with me too. Would it be better to take a Hasselblad? But...

It's been a while since we had a new #ilfordphoto #fridayfavourites as we've been on holiday. We hope that you all had a great summer too and managed to shoot plenty of film.  For this week we asked you to share your shots on #ilfordxp2 film and these are our favourites. analogue_reverend Shoot testing out a garage sale camera find (Canon FT) and some expired film (Ilford XP2). They both held up well! #canonft #ilfordxp2 #ilfordphoto #bwportrait #expiredfilm #filmcamera #analoguephotography #analoguevi...

Image title:Echos Technical info: Film used: ILFORD FP4+ 125 Format: 35mm Camera: Contax 167mt Lens: Zeiss 50mm 1.7 Exposure time: 1/500 Location: Ekbatan-Tehran-Iran   Firstly, tell us the story behind this image. What inspired you to shoot it? As a photographer my eye is constantly searching  for a specific composition,moment and emotion. It was a cloudy day and the music was playing in the air. In that very second I felt a sudden hint of inspiration that lead me to capture...

A belated happy new year to you all.  We let you settle back in to the year and gave you some time to get out and about with your cameras before setting our first #ilfordphoto #fridayfavourites them of the year which was #shotin2020. Thank you to everybody that shared with us., both for this them and in general on our social channels. We really do enjoy seeing what you create with our products. @TimGander Salisbury Plain - Jan 2020. #IlfordDelta400, Ilfotec DD-X #ilfordphoto #fridayfavourites #shoti...