Tag Archives: Annalie Wilson

I wish I could focus faster

I always shoot manual focus but I wish I was quicker. I saw this moment happening as the music came to a crescendo, I thought I was sharp, but unfortunately I’d just missed it.

Serenading a plastic heron

18 May ’10

Shot during Annalie’s photo shoot, I went up to the first floor of her house and shot down on to her playing the keyboard to her plastic heron.

I developed the film using HC-110 dilution B. Which is 1/63 a really weak dilution. I was worried about the really bright sunshine we had that day blowing the highlights and losing the detail in the shadow, so a gentle development allowed me to find a really nice range between the dark pond, and a glowing Annalie.

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Serenading a Roland keyboard

14 May ’10

This is so cross processed it looks like a painting. It’s my favourite from the Annalie shoot.

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Plastic Lens facing: Annalie, Guitar and Sun

10 May ’10

I took this during the cross processing shoot. I changed cameras to the Vivitar Ultra thin and slim. It was a sunny day and I wanted to get a streaming sun into the film. It went with the dream like feeling of the other photos, except this feels more like a memory.

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Annalie asleep with piano

4 May ’10

Annalie was after some more photos and I thought it’d be fun to take some dream like photos. Annalie is quite other worldly and I wanted the photos to show that.

I used cross processing (developing slide film as colour film) to give really odd colours, and reduce the clarity of image. I shot it on Fuji Velvia, which I didn’t realise brings out the red tones when it’s incorrectly exposed, so shooting it on my Holga doesn’t create very flattering skin tones.

Something about that tranquility of this photo though makes it appealing. Like we’re joining in on what she’s dreaming.

If you want to try cross processing, West End Cameras in Tottenham Court road are doing a 12.99 CD and 6X6 print special on medium format film. Which is cheaper then most places traditional processing.

I was inspired to do cross processing by this post I read on Feeling Negative the film website.

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Annalie singing in darkness

16 Mar ’10

This is the first time I’d photographed someone singing. I wasn’t quite prepared for all the different expressions that come to the face and how quickly they come and go.

I shot it on Tri-X 400 pushed to 1600, I metered to get Annalie’s face but I wish I could of got some of the detail in the back ground. I was using a 2.8 lens and with out a tripod I just couldn’t keep the shutter open long enough. The film was developed in Ilford DD-X which has made it feel really crisp.

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Joking around

10 Feb ’10

I’m not sure why, but I was surprised how funny Annalie was at the gig. Here she is post joke. Continue reading →

Annalie playing the piano

2 Feb ’10

As soon as I got there, I realised I needed a wider lens. I’m glad I had my 135mm but I wished I’d brought another camera with a 28mm lens. If this was wider you’d be able to see Annalie playing the piano, I’m not sure the photo the photo’s that interesting without knowing that.

This shot is also from my first go at push processing iso 400 film to 1600 using Ilford DD-X.

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Annalie at the Troubadour

29 Jan ’10

A few nights ago Annalie Wilson let me come and take some photos of her and the band. I took a mixture of film and digital, this is my favorite of the night which I took on a 135mm lens using Kodak Tri-x film. The gig was really dark and I pushed the film to 1600, not totally happy with rolls development, but interesting to see what I could change. I used Ilford DD-X think I might try HC110 next time.

I haven’t taken photos at a gig before and there are lots of things I’d wish I’d done differently, taken a much wider backup lens, developed the film more gradually to bring out some of detail in the shadow, been brave enough to take some photos behind the audience.

Hopefully I’ll get to do it again in the future.

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