Brett Rogers

Tasmanian Brett Rogers is a nationally published photographer who makes traditional film images in and around his home town of Hobart.
Brett uses a range of equipment from his extensive collection of cameras. Many were acquired in non-functioning condition, and were lovingly stripped and repaired by him. Brett has not owned a digital camera for a couple of years—most recent images are captured on film.

The superior image quality possible means that Brett often prefers to work in the medium format. His favourite camera is a Rolleiflex 2.8C twin lens reflex with an 80 millimetre Schneider Xenotar lens, but he also uses a Hasselblad SLR for much of his image capture because of its sheer versatility. There is still a place for 35mm in his workflow, and one of his Zeiss Ikon Contaflex SLRs and its Zeiss Tessar lens is always close to hand.

Brett prefers Fujichrome colour transparencies, particularly Velvia 50 and Provia 100F. Black and white images are mostly captured on medium or slow films. These include: Fuji Neopan Acros 100; ILFORD Pan F Plus (ISO 50); and Kodak TMAX 100. They are chosen as a result of their outstanding sharpness, extremely fine grain, and superior tonality in comparison to most digital images. Brett develops his own black and white films.

Brett also offers film processing services for Tasmanian film photographers, and can provide tuition in film photograph—with 35mm or medium format equipment—for anyone interested in learning traditional photographic techniques.

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Abigail Crone

Abigail Crone’s obsession with film photography began with her first black and white film class in college. She soon found herself taking every possible opportunity to work in the darkroom. Digital photography quickly lost its appeal as she felt disconnected from the pixelated images on her computer screen. 

After college fully equipped darkrooms weren’t so easy to come by, but her film obsession was still there, and she found herself turning to instant film partly out of necessity. The format however melded so well with her style that it became much more of a creative choice than merely necessity. 

She shoots any instant film she can get her hands on, and has worked with FP-100C, FP-3000B, Impossible Project film, and Instax film.  What draws Abigail to instant film is the way it forces her to embrace imperfections in her work, and what those imperfections can add to her otherwise carefully planned photos. She also loves the simplicity of instant film, and how it allows her to focus on the subject and purpose of her photos. 

Abigail does not put limitations on what she chooses to shoot, any people, places, or objects she finds interesting or beautiful will end up on her film. She hopes to include much more experimentation in future work, and has been using double exposures and emulsion lifts more frequently. 

http://acrone09.wix.com/abigailnightingale

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Tim Scott

In my "day job" I work in advertising as an art director and creative director. I have spent the past 25 years working with and leading some of the biggest agencies and clients in the world in their marketing efforts–and I love it. But, what truly feeds my creative soul is photography. 

I make photographs because it is what keeps me up at night, it’s what inspires me creatively and it’s what allows me to share the world as I see it.

There is beauty and inspiration everywhere. I find the most inspiration in people. Faces are incredible. Stories written in every line, shadow and shape. But I also very much find beauty in “imperfect”. To me, nothing “real” is perfect and so much beauty is found in what makes everything unique. This is what I see and love.

I shoot using film, 35mm, medium and large format cameras, with lenses from as early as the 1800’s as well as a few “modern” lenses (60’s era). Film to me is physical, it is challenging and full of surprises. But, through craft or happenstance, it also allows the creation of some of the most incredible art I have ever seen. This inspires me every day. Ultimately, it is not the medium, tools or process that dictates a “successful” image but the strength of the image itself. This is what I will always strive for, experiment with and continue to be challenged by. This is my passion.

Tim Scott – Los Angeles, CA
www.ScottPhoto.co

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Robert Rogers

I am a retired forester living in Custer, Wisconsin.  As a forester I consulted with private landowners, taught at the University, and conducted forest research for the US Forest Service.  I used primarily slide film to document my work until digital cameras became available and then I used them for my work.  I continue to shoot digital, but about four years ago I returned to shooting film using my old 35mm cameras, a Nikkorex F and a Minolta X-700.  A year and a half ago I purchased a Nikon F5 and then could use my collection of Nikon lenses that I purchased for my Nikon digital cameras. It was at that time that I no longer could get film processed locally, which usually cost between $2.50 and $3.00 per roll. Quite reasonable.  Now film has to be sent away and costs a minimum of $17.  Out of self defense I tried developing b&w film and discovered I could do that successfully and I very much enjoyed doing it.  As a teenager I developed some contact prints.  But that was the extent of my experience until recently.  Scanning negatives into digital format worked well for me.  About two months ago I bought a medium format camera, a Mamiya 645 Pro TL with an 80mm lens, and subsequently purchased a 45mm lens. I ran one roll of color film, which I sent out for processing and one roll of b&w, which I processed myself.  Although I was pleased with 35mm, I marvelled at the increased image quality of medium format in comparison to both 35mm film and digital images (in my opinion).  It really pushed me over the edge for film.  So much so, that I decided I would try processing my own color film (c-41) so my new found addiction to film would not bankrupt me.  I have all the supplies ready but need to finish shooting a color roll before I begin.

So far I have restricted my film shooting to landscapes, plants, and inanimate objects like trains, buildings, cars.  I have not done any portrait (people) or street photography.

Photography is one of my hobbies.  I maintain a website for a charitable organization and take pictures for news reports, church activities, and local school sports.  I have been paid to do senior portraits (mainly done out-of-doors in natural settings).  However this is not a business venture for me.

My film website is http://whsfilm.vrforesters.com, which I have just begun adding photographs to.  My photography work goes by the name of WyndeHill Studio.

Todd Connaghan

Hello, my name is Todd Connaghan. I am an artist based in Lloydminster, Alberta / Saskatchewan Canada.

"As I look through the ground glass I see the key to yesterday, today and tomorrow. I look to the past, the lands that surround us, the old homesteads left behind. I capture that moment. I am here in the present, the people and the diversity that brings a world together. I capture that moment. The future, the unknown, I dream of what is to come. I will capture that moment."

Along with shooting rural landscapes and beautiful people, I am an outdoor enthusiast; in the summer I can be found kayaking and fishing the local lakes. In the winter I will have my snowshoes strapped on and hiking around our rural property.

Feel free to check out my work at www.connaghan.ca or follow my adventures on twitter @ToddConnaghan

Jesús Joglar

Jesús Joglar is a scientist working in the field of organic chemistry and biocatalysis. He started to make photographs in the “analog era” using his father Contax II camera and, since then, he has been faithfull to this way of making photographs.

He discovered pinhole photography by chance. Pinhole photography makes you think before making a picture and that's the most rewarding way of making photographs.

In 2009, on the Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day, he attended to a workshop, in which he discovered a different way of doing pinhole long exposure shots. Everything since then has changed his way of looking at photography.

His main body of work lies in the field of film photography (lens and pinhole) and a sizable portion of Jesús Joglar's photographic practice is devoted to solargraphy, a specialized form of lensless photography that records the sun as it moves in continually shifting arches across the sky, resulting in thrilling images and new insights about the world around us.

See more of his photographs on Flickr and his pinhole devoted blog.

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Marc Nagainis

Marc Nagainis.  Yup, that's me.  Marc Nagainis.  Born and raised in a small steel town (Sault Ste. Marie Ontario) I moved on in my early 20's, worked myself across Canada before settling in Ottawa Ontario Canada.

I'm  a parent, a husband, an ex chef and a computer geek (not a nerd). I've been a lot of things, I will be lots of other things but what I've always been is a photographer.  I'm not a pro, I'm strictly amateur and I wouldn't have it any other way, photography is my passion and my reward.  I can shoot anything I want to, when I want.  Being an amateur allows me this freedom.

I got my start in photography much like I think most of us did, from a parent and my siblings.  My brothers had a darkroom in the basement while they were in high school and while they were out partying (it was the early 70's after all) I would sneak down there first as a pre-teen, and teach myself to print their negs. I loved the smell of the darkroom.  When i was 12 my father, an an avid photographer himself as well as a Nikon man, bought me my first camera, an all black Ricoh KR-5. I shot the crap out of that camera till it quite literally froze up and fell apart in the late 90's. Since then I've documented the world around me to the tune of thousands of sleeves of negatives and 25,000 + digital files.  I own both digital and analogue cameras, but I have shot mainly film for the last 3 years.  I develop B&W and colour at home, and print B&W in my darkroom.  I hope you enjoy my work.

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Robert Law

Robert Law had a darkroom as a teenager in the 1980’s and has come back again to film photography. Shooting 35mm and medium format he is a passionate advocate of film because of the honesty and integrity it brings to an otherwise digitally manipulated world. Based in North Wales, he often looks for an alternative to the popular land and seascapes and seeks the more minimal or unusual. He is at his most creative when traveling, where the unfamiliar provides a creative rush.

www.wtgphoto.com (With The Grain)
Instagram: @roblawphotography