Box Cameras, ghosts and zines

So it a month since I posted and I said I was going to post more often, well that hasn't worked.

I wouldn't mind if I haven't been up to anything but I have, I've been out near enough weekend shooting something, two weekends shooting ghost signs and one on a photowalk with londoncamerproject.

I think the biggest issue, is actually shooting film.  I presently have 3 cameras all with various degrees of film partly used in them and as that mean I have nothing to show, and with this being a photography blog images are a big part of it.

I managed to finish one roll from the box camera and again instead of 8 shots I only got 7 and from the 7 only 2 were any good, as again I keep forgetting to adjust the lens distance scale but as its a year long project I might remember to change it by the end of the year.

Alley, Coronet Super Flash, Fomapan 200

Portrait

As you can see from the second image I forget to change the focus, which is annoying as I think this would of been a good image.

The ghost signs project is coming along really well and so far I have around 35 images, which is more than enough for a zine but every time, I go out I find new favourites and want to add them to it, at this rate the zine could end up being over 100 pages. I will need to trim this down, as I was only think of about 28 pages or maybe I will have to produce a volume II.

I haven't posted any thing from the ghost signs (other than the one image in the previous post) as I want to keep them fresh and hopefully if the zine works out, people will only see them for the first time there.

New year, new projects

So we are already into the new year and I have been thinking about the possibly of starting a new project and resurrecting an old one.

The old one is one I started last year but never really got to grips with how to go about it.  The idea was to photograph London streets after dark, this idea isn't new I have seen it done before but just wanted to have a go for myself.

So I have made start on it again and see how far I get this time.

London, After Dark

The Second project has to do with Ghost Signs, these are hand painted signs that have been preserved on the side of buildings for an extended period of time and have begun to fade.  Its strange how these signs seem to be all over the place but I've hardly noticed.

Ghost Sign, Old Vs New

With both these projects I would ideally like to turn them into a limited zine run.