Framedlight

 I recently took some pictures locally, using the Diana Camera armed with Tri-X. As usual the camera underexposed, although I am trying to adjust the settings and development time for this.I quite like the effect of double exposure with this camera. I am scanning the negatives and taking them through Lightroom.

When in Whitby, go to the Abbey. And this is what we did on a cold bright January morning when everything was high contrast. I ended up taking it every which way. Straight, with a Lensbaby and using Tri-X film on the Mamiya 645. First, on the Nikon D800e, straight shots, in colour and then converted to monochrome. The building with the statue in front of it is Cholmley Mansion, built after Henry Vlll dissolved the monasteries in 1539. It now houses the visitor centre. Next, using the lens baby lens, at 35mm. Now, with the Mamiya  645 film camera.

After Christmas, at the beginning of the year we visited the north east and stayed on a very nice, small campsite outside Whitby. On our first day we went to the honeypot locations (at least for photographers) of Saltwick Bay and Saltburn. There was no nice sunrise, the tide was far out at Saltwick bay which meant it was at least accessible,Salt and the weather was drab. I decided to dust off my Mamiya 645 film camera and loaded it with Tri-X. I have two lenses, a 24mm and a 50mm, 35mm equivalent. I used the 24mm equivalent most of the time. When I got home a processed the negatives myself and scanned them using an Epson V750 scanner. The rest of the processing was done digitally. The first pictures are from Saltwick bay and the latter ones from Saltburn. I had problems in Saltburn as it was raining and the tripod legs kept sinking into the sand. A shame because a really nice one of the pier was slightly blurred because of unintentional camera movement. Still, it has been done before...