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1962 Open Mic Night Posters
This year's Holmfirth Film Festival is running a string of events based upon it being 50 years since 1962. One of the events being run is a 1962 themed open mic night, and I've just produced a couple of posters for it....
Photoshoot for Dr. Sketchy’s & Blacklight Gallery Huddersfield Launch
On Friday night I was invited along to the Blacklight Gallery, in the Byram Arcade, Huddersfield, for their relaunch event. The gallery is run by a friend of mine and I wanted to go along and see what it was all about and show a bit of support. The night was coupled with a launch event for Dr. Sketchy's Huddersfield, who provided a fantastic evening of entertainment and made it a genuinely memorable night. I ended up doing a photoshoot with several performing artists from Dr. Sketchy's, using several old cameras I'd brought along. Thanks are due to Penny Sweets, Tahlullah Manhattan ...
The Nook Brewhouse – New Web Build
The Nook pub is something of an institution in Holmfirth. It's a real-ale-swilling, slightly rough-around-the-edges proper locals' local, where you can get a couple of pints of good ale and more food than you can eat and barely break out of a tenner. The pub is officially called The Rose And Crown, but only the front window seems to remember the fact. Every time you darken its doors you meet someone you know, and even if you don't know anyone to talk to then you soon will. The pub has been in the Roberts family for over 40 years now, and ...
New Website for the Holme Valley Mountain Rescue Team
I've just finished a new website for the Holme Valley Mountain Rescue Team. The existing site was bingeing to look shabby, and being static meant keeping things updated was an arduous process. The new, Wordpress based site carries a much more contemporary image and allows content to be changed and updated easily. The site also allows user accounts, giving registered members of the team access to online resources and discussion forums to facilitate better transfer of information amongst team members. It also integrates better with the team's social media accounts - keeping content up to date and driving traffic to the site ...
Holmfirth Festival of Folk 2012 programme cover
A few weeks ago I was asked to come up with a design for the 2012 Holmfirth Festival of Folk programme cover. I've produced most of their other artwork the last couple of years (you may notice some familiar photographs sneaking in here and there), but for some reason on the morning when I sat down to produce this year's cover I decided to completely abandon the "brand" we had and just go for something spectacular. Yup, adherence to a brand is important, but it's not totally necessary. Why should everything look the same? Uniformity doesn't always reinforce your perception of ...
Retro it up…
In the market for a photoshoot? Something a bit different? I have the kit to do a unique shoot for your business that will deliver high quality and utterly unique vintage results. No pseudo-retro Instagram plugins or effects, this is the real thing. Vintage cameras, film and home development. I've already done a shoot for Emma's Tea Parlour, and captured the grittiness of the Nook Beer Festival. I have another booking this week. If you're interested, check out the selection of vintage cameras I can use to do your shoot, and give me a call! Read about the cameras here...
Experiments with a 90 year old camera…
I picked up a Kodak No1 Autographic Jr in an antique shop the other day. It hails from about 1920, and for the time i suppose it was pretty advanced. It has a 4" focal length, and focusses by moving the bellows in and out. Shutter has 1/20 and 1/50 speeds as well as a bulb mode and timed exposure mode. There are 5 aperture stops, using the old US system rather than f-stops, so I have to carry a little conversion table around to make use of a modern light meter. The lens somewhere in the region of f-8. Anyway, ...
Retro Photoshoot at Emma’s Tea Parlour
Emma's is my second office. If I fancy a change of surroundings I nip round the corner and drink too much coffee whilst working in the Cafe. I did a shoot for her last week to provide some pictures for promoting the business online, the results were appreciated, but after seeing the old-style shots of the Nook Beer Festival, she asked if I could do something a little more vintage. The following shots were taken on a Yashica Mat 124, medium format TLR. I used Fuji Superia Xtra 400 colour film, and developed the negatives at home, cross processing the film in ...
