mframes

Edinburgh bikes

by matt

BronicaSQA

Ilford HP5 Plus 400

grace

by matt

This photo and the previous two were taken around two years ago. I’ve been concentrating so much on my analogue stuff that I’ve totally forgotten about some other images sitting in my Lightroom queue that I shot with my phone or my x100 (yes – the very first x100 series camera that Fuji made with the sensor that was so well renown!). It’s no secret that I’m somewhat of an analogue geek, but that’s not to say I don’t experiment with digital manipulation of some of my images. Once scanned and digitised, my ‘analogue images’ usually only receive a small level adjustment before I perform some second-stage dust correction followed by sharpening. I feel okay about performing a bit more manipulation to images I’ve shot with a digital camera, but I don’t feel that way about my analogue images. I can’t really explain that because once in the digital domain, surely they are both equivalent in the sense that I could, if I wanted, manipulate the analogue scans just as much (or more) than the digital images. I guess in my mind I like to separate the two. It’s ironic really because when printing in the darkroom, I’m quite happy to boost contrast in the print or dodge and burn areas of the print which is manipulation of the analogue image. I guess all that really matters is to make images and enjoy the result.