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Brad Hurley

Brad Hurley

@bradhurley.bsky.social

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Brad Hurley @bradhurley.bsky.social · 3h

Last sun of October
📷Ricoh FF-1
🎞️Fomapan 400
#filmphotography

The sun, breaking through dark clouds, hits the leaves of a cottonwood tree on the edge of the Rivière des Prairies in northern Montréal.

Brad Hurley @bradhurley.bsky.social · 23h

November is coming
📷Ricoh FF-1
🎞️Fomapan 400 (at 400 for a change)
#filmphotography

Dark, brooding clouds fill the sky, with a lone gull barely visible at the very top right-hand corner.

Brad Hurley @bradhurley.bsky.social · 1d

Down the spruce path, multiple exposure
📷Vredeborch Felica
🎞️Ferrania Orto 50
#filmphotography

Brightly lit spruce trunks line the right side of a path, with other spruces in the shadows at left. This image was made by taking one photo, walking down the path a few steps and taking another (without advancing the film), and walking down the path again and taking more the same way.

Brad Hurley @bradhurley.bsky.social · 1d

Umbels
📷Vredeborch Felica
🎞️Ferrania Orto 50
#filmphotography

A cluster of dry flowers fills the foreground, followed by grasses and distant trees under a mostly cloudy sky.

Brad Hurley @bradhurley.bsky.social · 1d

Another wonderful image from Jim Rohan

Jim Rohan @jimrohanjr.bsky.social · 2d

An image from my series of images (and handmade book) titled "Silver Lake in Winter". #holga #photobook

Black and white square photo made with a Holga plastic camera. I am on the shore looking down at the surface of a frozen lake. Branches that resemble bare trees are on the right side of the image. On the surfacce of the frozen water is a crack in the ice that resembles another bare tree.

Brad Hurley @bradhurley.bsky.social · 3d

Cloudy morning
📷Leica M2-R
🎞️Rollei RPX 25
#filmphotography

On the left, a small, tree-covered rocky peninsula juts out into a river, with a low dam and trees visible on the opposite shore, topped by a cloudy sky.

Brad Hurley @bradhurley.bsky.social · 3d

Someone wants a hug
📷Fuji Work Record
🎞️Tri-X
#filmphotography

A very large skeleton rises up to the second floor of an apartment building, its arms spread wide.

Brad Hurley @bradhurley.bsky.social · 4d

Interesting...I do keep the red window covered with tape except when I am winding on. Anyway, I'll keep it as-is; one of the things I like about film photography is that I'm never fully in control: the camera and the film have their say and I treat them as creative partners.

Brad Hurley @bradhurley.bsky.social · 4d

It's possible, but definitely a strange one: I have loads of photos where I'm shooting into the sun and it doesn't appear; it mainly appears when the sun is to the side, but sometimes even appears in full overcast conditions so maybe it's just a rarely triggered leak.

Brad Hurley @bradhurley.bsky.social · 4d

I'm pretty sure it's not a leak; it never appears when I use a red filter on the lens, for example, and it only appears in 5-10% of my photos with this camera. I like it most of the time so don't really want to "fix" the issue.

Brad Hurley @bradhurley.bsky.social · 4d

This little sprite shows up unpredictably in a lot of my photos with this particular Holga; I love it (most of the time...sometimes it is disruptive in an unwelcome way).

Brad Hurley @bradhurley.bsky.social · 4d

Yes! I don't know what causes them; at first I thought it was a light leak but I am pretty sure it's a flare. It only appears in some of my photos, and often the sun is not in the frame or even out of it, so the origin is mysterious (which is okay with me).

Brad Hurley @bradhurley.bsky.social · 4d

Morning path
📷Holga 120N
🎞️Ilford Delta 400
#filmphotography

Fallen leaves cover a tree-lined path that leads past a park bench, with a cloudy sky visible in the distance. A sprite-like flare appears like a patch of mist near the vanishing point.

Brad Hurley @bradhurley.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks, and thanks for the repost! :-)

Brad Hurley @bradhurley.bsky.social · 5d

Cattails
📷Holga 120N
🎞️Ilford Delta 400
#filmphotography

Cattails and a variety of low plants sway in the wind at the edge of a river, with houses visible on the opposite shore.

Brad Hurley @bradhurley.bsky.social · 6d

When film is underexposed, my scanner often can't detect individual frames and merges adjacent ones to form a "scanorama." It's easy to fix, but sometimes the effect can be interesting.
📷Vredeborch Felica
🎞️Ilford Delta 3200
#filmphotography

Two rows of dim lights occupy the left side of this wide image, with a late-night singing session (only a standing singer is clearly visible) occupying the right.

Brad Hurley @bradhurley.bsky.social · 6d

Nice simple solution for adding a filter to that camera; I hadn't thought of that!

Brad Hurley @bradhurley.bsky.social · 6d

The light patterns are amazing, and so is the grain.

Brad Hurley @bradhurley.bsky.social · 7d

Parc Frédéric-Back, Montréal
📷Ondu 6x6 pinhole camera
🎞️Fomapan 100
#filmphotography

Heavy clouds hang over a snow-dusted hill topped with an alien-looking landfill methane capture pod and a few parasols. A dog's footprints are visible in the snow, in the immediate foreground.

Brad Hurley @bradhurley.bsky.social · 8d

I think most of my photos with this film are already slightly underexposed; I often have to pull up the shadows, which results in a green shift in those areas. I usually meter it at EI 320 but for my next roll I'll try 250. I think I'd start blowing highlights at 200.

Brad Hurley @bradhurley.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks, Maureen!

Brad Hurley @bradhurley.bsky.social · 8d

I have a small stash of this film in my fridge and I think it'll just keep getting more interesting as it gets older. It shifts a lot with long exposures; I'm overexposing a little to account for it being expired but think I need to overexpose a bit more now.

Brad Hurley @bradhurley.bsky.social · 8d

Baie-Comeau, Québec
📷Ondu 6x6 pinhole camera
🎞️Fujifilm Pro 400H (lightly expired)
#filmphotography

High clouds tower over the shoreline of the St. Lawrence river in Baie-Comeau, with buildings visible on a distant headland and breakwater boulders occupying the foreground.

Brad Hurley @bradhurley.bsky.social · 9d

I've shot a few rolls of Foma Ortho 400 lately. The 120 version is extremely curly and hard to scan; the 35mm dries flat with no curl at all. It's the fastest orthochromatic film on the market. Here's a portrait of two friends.
📷Nikon FM3a
🎞️Foma Ortho 400
#filmphotography

Two men smile at the camera, with trees in the background.

Brad Hurley @bradhurley.bsky.social · 9d

It is frustrating for sure (I also am a musician and have seen how lack of online engagement can lead one to believe that nobody's interested in their music). Maybe social media is just not the right platform for it.