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Erik Winther Paisley (📷) @ewpaisley.bsky.social · Sep 21

I've been intending to shoot most of my serious work on slide film for a lot of different reasons; oddly enough projecting them wasn't on my radar!

Saw a medium format project on eBay for £30 and had to go for it. This is the way, forget scanning :).

#analogphotography #ektachrome #mediumformat

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Erik Winther Paisley (📷) @ewpaisley.bsky.social · Sep 17

Views from Culpeper Community Garden.
6x6 shots on my Yashica 635.
Delta 100, FP4+. Developed in XT3. #filmphotography

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Erik Winther Paisley (📷) @ewpaisley.bsky.social · Aug 20

Ektar 100 | Yashica 635

Erik Winther Paisley (📷) @ewpaisley.bsky.social · Jun 4

#analogphotography

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Erik Winther Paisley (📷) @ewpaisley.bsky.social · Apr 27

The agony of not nailing focus. #amateurphotographers

Erik Winther Paisley (📷) @ewpaisley.bsky.social · Apr 26

Wonderful creatures at the London Zoo.

Shot on my Fujifilm X-H1 + Viltrox 75mm f/1.2

#amateurphotography #primatology #animalphotography #london #fujifilm #viltrox

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Erik Winther Paisley (📷) @ewpaisley.bsky.social · Apr 23

I took a closeup shot of this tupilaq on 4x5. It's actually marginally taller on the negative than in real life!

Obviously needed to photograph the two together; it looks like it's being haunted, poetic really for a little monster carving. :)

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Erik Winther Paisley (📷) @ewpaisley.bsky.social · Apr 9

The Lady Chapel at St Bartholomew the Great.

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Erik Winther Paisley (📷) @ewpaisley.bsky.social · Apr 4

Highlights are in a terrible state though

Erik Winther Paisley (📷) @ewpaisley.bsky.social · Apr 4

A still-life that I took, processed and scanned myself!

Film: Rollei RPX 25, 6x7 (shot with Linhof roll-film back)
Developer: Foma Universal, Paterson tank, inversion agitation
Shot on a Sinar P with a Rodenstock 210mm f/5.6 @f11

#stilllife #dslrscanning #darkroom #rollei #fujifilm #mediumformat

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Erik Winther Paisley (📷) @ewpaisley.bsky.social · Mar 29

A still life study with daffodils. Shot with natural light this morning.

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#stilllife #stilllifephotography #flowerphotography #fujifilm #amateurphotographers #photographers #fujilove #traditional #chiaroscuro

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Erik Winther Paisley (📷) @ewpaisley.bsky.social · Mar 18

Started my large format journey by accidentally exposing a whole box of film.

Turns out they are very much -not- individually wrapped.

You'd think the black plastic wrapping inside would have been a giveaway but no

Erik Winther Paisley (📷) @ewpaisley.bsky.social · Mar 8

Jyderup, Denmark.

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#fujifilm #denmark #amateurphotography #travelphotography

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Erik Winther Paisley (📷) @ewpaisley.bsky.social · Feb 28

Played around with moderate lighting yesterday, neither blizzard white or my usual chiaroscuro.

Painted my own backdrop, too! In retrospect I should have put a fill card on the left side of the daffodils but overall nice for an ~hour of tinkering.

#stilllife #fujifilm #amateurphotography

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Erik Winther Paisley (📷) @ewpaisley.bsky.social · Feb 25

Industrial vibes. #fujifilm #urbanphotography #london #amateurphotographers

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Erik Winther Paisley (📷) @ewpaisley.bsky.social · Feb 22

Every camera has autofocus, you just have to want it enough.

#analog #vintagecamera #filmphotography #lifehack

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Erik Winther Paisley (📷) @ewpaisley.bsky.social · Feb 21

Detail of a still life I've been working on.

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Erik Winther Paisley (📷) @ewpaisley.bsky.social · Feb 15

Love slidefilm -so- much. Just something magical about them, like you can't believe it's a strip of film.

Erik Winther Paisley (📷) @ewpaisley.bsky.social · Feb 15

Film scanning at home - losing track of which iteration I'm at. But seeing progress!

This one uses a speedlight diffused through an AC attachment.

Strongly recommend using slide film when setting up your rig. So much easier to focus.

#dslrscanning #e100 #amateurphotography #filmisnotdead

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Erik Winther Paisley (📷) @ewpaisley.bsky.social · Feb 10

Sold as a slide copy stand, hence why it's so small. But I've grafted a macro rail on top!

Have two clamps to hold it steady but it will be a little top heavy. Think I will bolt it to a heavy base of some kind.

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Erik Winther Paisley (📷) @ewpaisley.bsky.social · Feb 9

Didn't expect but am fully savouring the dieselpunk aesthetic of my film scanning rig.

Reminded me of this 6x4.5 shot I took of a railway bridge in London

My scifi-Maurice Bloom-industrial sublime era.

#filmphotography #industrial #believeinfilm #dslrscanning #mediumformat #vintage

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Erik Winther Paisley (📷) @ewpaisley.bsky.social · Feb 8

The pros use focus stacking, macro rails and more careful composition/subject positioning to avoid all these hazy bokeh cloudes. As an amateur I get to dabble and play around :).

Erik Winther Paisley (📷) @ewpaisley.bsky.social · Feb 8

On the topic of macro-photography! With all this neewly acquired kit I feel fairly obliged to start taking some macro shots.

So strange how the same images can be so crisp and look like whispy watercolours all at once. Stark and dreamy.

#macro #macrophotography #flowers #abstractphotography

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Erik Winther Paisley (📷) @ewpaisley.bsky.social · Feb 8

4th iteration of my DIY film scanning setup!

Got an enlarger stand on eBay for a pittance and succeeded in adapting it to mount my camera.

Next up: A tiny lab jack to move the stacked negative and LED into frame in little increments, and hopefully into focus.

#filmphotography #35mm #macro

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Erik Winther Paisley (📷) @ewpaisley.bsky.social · Feb 8

So crisp

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