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  • 110 Pocket Film Format
  • All About Fashion Photography
  • All About Film Soup
  • All About Instant Photography
  • All About Landscape Photography
  • All About Photojournalism
  • All About Pictorialism
  • All About Portrait Photography
  • All About Straight Photography (Modern Photography)
  • All About Street Photography
  • All About Studio Photography
  • Alternative Analogue Processes
  • Analogue Photography Basics
  • Basic Photographic Principles
  • Cinematography & Cine Lenses
  • Darkroom Techniques
  • Expired Film
  • Film Camera Maintenance
  • Film Photography in Low Light
  • Film Scanning
  • Flash Photography
  • How Photographic Film Is Made
  • Introduction to Film Types
  • Introduction to Photography History
  • Lens Filters
  • Light Painting and Long Exposures
  • Motion Picture & Cine film
  • Multiple Exposures
  • Pinhole Photography
  • Self-Developing Film
  • Shooting Low ISO
  • What is Lomography?

• For how long is expired film still ok to use?

  

  There’s no hard rule about how long a film will still be usable for past its expiry date. It all depends how the film has been stored before you shoot it. Film that has been kept in high temperatures, sunlight, or humidity will have degraded much faster than film that has been kept in cool, dark and dry conditions.

• Should you push film in low light?

  

  Pushing the film in low light conditions depends on a few variables including how dark the environment is, and if you think it will be necessary to let in more light to achieve the image you’re going for.

• How should film be stored?

  

  Photographic film should be stored in a cool, dry and dark place. Keeping film in these conditions is the best way to slow down its gradual degradation.

• What are the different types of film cameras?

  From a SLR, to TLR, to rangefinder or point & shoot cameras – find out how these different types of cameras operate.

• How to make my own pinhole camera

  

  There are many ways to make pinhole cameras, from cardboard boxes to beer cans! Here’s a quick and basic guide for you.

• What is the sunny16 rule?

  

  The Sunny 16 Rule is a way to meter for correct exposure during daylight without using the camera’s meter. It is great for photographers who don’t want to get slowed down by metering for every shot or rely too much on their camera’s in-built light meter.

• How long should I expose the frame for pinhole photography?

  

  The answer, simply, is that it depends on many factors, including the image you want to create, the type of light-sensitive material you will be using, and the amount of light. Because of the small size of pinhole cameras' opening, these cameras take in less light so exposure usually takes longer.

• What is light painting?

  

  Light Painting (sometimes known as Light Graffiti) is a technique where you can alter the photo by creating movements of light within the image.

• How to scan my film negatives at home

  Depending on the method you’re going for, you will be needing some of the following to scan your film negatives: digital camera with macro lens or your smartphone, a tripod, a scanning mask or film holder, a flatbed scanner or dedicated film scanner, a light table/LED panel or scanning kits.

• What is a Lomographic picture?

  

  A Lomographic picture usually mixes the golden rules of Lomography and a few of the defining characteristic styles. However, nowadays a Lomographic picture is entirely up to your own creativity.

• What does it mean to overexpose vs underexpose a photo?

  

  Put simply, an overexposed image is one that is brighter than the reality of the scene you’re trying to photograph, while an underexposed image is darker than reality. Overexposure generally means you are giving your film too much light, and with underexposure you have the opposite problem of not enough light.

• What are the best techniques for taking multiple exposure photos?

  

  Multiple exposures are one of the best ways to push your creativity with film photography. Here are a few techniques to help you take your photos to the next level.

• What is a multiple exposure?

  

  Multiple exposures (or MX) are photographs in which two or more images are superimposed in a single frame, and they’re super easy to create using your analogue camera. Set an image of a train against a field of flowers, or prop your friend’s face against an image of a city skyline to create enchanting and surreal images.

• What are the different photographic film formats?

  

  The three main types of film format are 35 mm, medium format and large format. More unusual formats also exist such as 110 and 127.

• Who was Joseph Maximilian Petzval?

  

  Joseph Maximilian Petzval was a 19th-century mathematician and optical pioneer who designed the world’s first scientifically calculated photographic portrait lens.

• Who was André Breton?

  

  André Breton was a French writer and poet, as well as the leading theorist of Surrealism. His photographs served to inform, in what Breton called an "anti-literary" mystery.

• How did the artistic movements of Dada and Surrealism influence modern photography?

  

  The Dada and Surrealist artistic movements challenged the status quo of photography. It encouraged photographers to think outside the box, to create images that were experimental and to explore the fantastical parts of life.

• What is gumoil printing?

  

  Gumoil printing is an alternative photographic process in which gum bichromate and oil painting techniques are combined to create an image.

• What is solarization in instant photography?

  

  Solarization is a strange phenomenon where the tones of an image are reversed due to extreme overexposure, with bright areas becoming dark and dark becoming light.

• What makes a portrait ‘great’?

  Every portrait is different, and reveals a different personality of its subject. Those portraits that we consider 'great,' are an image that is memorable, and engageable on many different levels.

• What was the surrealist movement in photography?

  

  Surrealist photography was a movement inspired by dreamlike realities, and used photographic techniques such as photomontage to produce images with an eerie-like quality.

• What is modern photography, or straight photography?

  Modern, or straight photography, places an emphasis on the camera as a tool! It celebrates the aesthetic qualities of a photograph, rather than an imitation of painting.

• What was Group f/6.4?

  Group f/6.4 was founded in 1932 by a group of San Francisco Bay Area-based photographers who championed the straight photography style.

• Who was Alfred Stieglitz?

  

  Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer who is widely considered as the father of modern photography.

• What is pictorialism?

  

  Pictorialism was a photographic movement in the late 19th and early 20th-centuries, which prioritized beauty and composition, or those aesthetic qualities that many paintings had at the time.

• Why choose film photography over digital?

  Almost everyone has access to a phone with a decent camera, however, there is nothing like producing a roll of film with its unmatched richness and an emphasis on preserving the integrity of both highlights and shadows.

• What is a negative?

  A negative is an image that is an inversion of the original. The colors are reversed and areas of the photograph that were light now appear dark, and vice versa.

• What was the historical significance of tintypes?

  Tintypes were one of the main mediums for documenting the American Civil War and the American Political Tintype Badge was a popular medium in political campaigns.

• What are tintypes?

  

  A tintype, also known as a melanotype or ferrotype, is made by creating a positive on a thin sheet of metal, rather than glass, with a dark lacquer or enamel used for photographic emulsion.

• How has photography played a role in environmental awareness and education?

  Just like other forms of photography, landscape and environmental photography have an emotive capacity to showcase the beauty as well as ecological plights of the natural world.