It can be a bit of a gamble when buying non OEM bits and bobs for your camera. Will the lens focus, will the battery be ok, will the flash do the same job, will it be as good quality? With most 3rd party manufacturers like Hahnel, sigma, tamron etc making decent products you are generally not too scared to purchase items made by these companies. Read the rest of this entry »
Photobooks are a popular way to present photographs in your own book. In the past I’ve used photobox to make my books which I use as presents for family and fill them with pictures of my son over the past year. These are fairly cheap but I’ve never been happy with the paper that they use Read the rest of this entry »
Recently my mum gave me some old B&W photographs that she wanted scanned, fixed and copies printed. These where photos from her childhood mainly from the 1950’s so I wanted to be able to print them out on the best paper suitbale for the job. Read the rest of this entry »
Trying to fine where to buy your paper and ink can be a long and tirsome process. Since I’m quite a heavy user of both ink and various papers I have wittled down my list of suppliers for the best price incuding P+P Read the rest of this entry »
I paid a visit to my local studio today to shoot Claire. I only had a short period of time so only got a couple of shots as I tend to work slowly (or faff around too much lol). This is a simple one light set up although I should have used a reflector to put some light onto her hair. The information about how you set the lighting diagram can be found at the end of this entry Read the rest of this entry »
Harman Technologies ltd was formed in 2005 by 6 former managers of ILFORD Imaging UK Limited. The company trades as ILFORD PHOTO for the range of monochrome film, paper, and photo chemistry products and in 2007 announced a range of fine art professional inject papers.
February 2007 saw the launch of Harman MATT FB Mp, with the warm tone version arriving a month later in March. Read the rest of this entry »
Having worked for the Scottish modified car magaine Fast & modified last year I wanted to expand into the UK market but I’ve found it increasingly difficult to get a shoot with some of the mags such as PVW, Golf+, Total vauxhall etc. This all changed recently when through the recomendation of a ginger secret agent I was offered my first shoot with a UK wide magazine Golf+. Read the rest of this entry »
Epson man came this morning and I’m getting a replacement printer. No idea when it will come so harman paper review has been put off till atleast this saturday. pain in the ass but can’t complain - get an extended warrenty from epson
Still nothing from epson and thats been a week since the repair guy has been and no sign of a replacement
Update 18.04.08 - eventually got a replacement almost 5 weeks after the tech guy had been out :@
Appologises for those waiting to see my review of the Harman FB paper range. I’ve been on holiday and my R2400 has choosen not to recognise the LK cart. The engineer is coming out on tuesday so should have it published on Wednesday Night. I’ve also recived a sample pack of Fotospeed’s EG Fine art paper. This includes 2 sheets each of the highly rated platinum baryta paper in gloss, matt, warm tone gloss and lustre finish plus 3 cotton rag papers. Fotospeed also do free ICC profiling if you buy a pack of their paper (not the test pack).
I recently purchased a Carl Zeiss planar *T 50mm f1.4 and will be comparing it to an old Yashica 50mm f1.4 ML lens on my canon 40D using a contax/yashica adaptor.�
update 18.04.08 - review can be found here
Harman were nice enough to send me samples of their paper range for a recent presentation I did on fine art papers at ayr photographic society . At focus on imaging Harman released a warm tone verson of their very popular gloss FB AL paper and although this was too late for my paper review it is in time for my blog. Sadly my epson R2400 has contracted a problem with recognising one of the ink carts so I’m having to put back the review untill it gets sorted.