forfey video

a quick edit of a few clips from last weekend at forfey festival 2010.

Forfey 2010 from Adam Currie on Vimeo.

A.

ps. sorry about the shaky camera work

a weekend project

I decided to restore my fathers old road bike which has been lying in our stables over the past few years.  The main use for this bike will be getting me from one side of the River Tay to the other on my daily commute to university.

And here it is!

It's fair to say that it needed a decent amount of attention.  So to begin with a total strip down was required along with a good wash and any removal of rust which was beginning to build up.

Each individual part was washed and rubbed down with various chemicals to get them looking like new again.  The frame of the bike was again washed and then polished to bring back that lovely dark red.  The decals I decided to retain, as I'm not sure how many bikes today have both 'cobra' and free spirit' written on them!

The next part involved a trip to the local bike shop and handing over some cash for various parts.  Back to the workshop i returned with:

• brake pads
• brake cables
• shift cables
• inner tubes
• tyres
• saddle
• handle bar tape
• bike chain
• bike lubricant

Thankfully with the expertise of my very knowledgeable father we managed to put it back together to something which resembles a road bike and what a beauty she is!

Tweaking will begin once I get a decent chance to get out onto the open road and begin to acclimatize my body to cycling over 10 miles a day.

I hope you all had as much fun as I did this weekend!

Adam.

medium format photography gallery

First images posted up, follow the link & enjoy.

http://www.adamcurrie.co.uk/still-images/medium-format-photography/

Here are a few teaser's...

medium format photography

I recently purchased on a certain auction website a mint condition Yashica 635 twin reflex camera for a very reasonable amount, mainly out of pure curiosity to try some true film photography and to see if the quality of 120 film is all it's cracked up to be.

All I can say is that after receiving my first set of transparencies, negatives and prints I am absolutely blown away by the quality, texture and colours that this medium can produce.  Not only that but the entire process has been so much fun and I have loved every minute of it!

Having spent the good part of two days out and about London taking various shots with a mixture of films and also making an educated guess at aperture and shutter settings thanks to my trusty 350d I handed over my 5 exposed sets of film to the professionals to get processed.  Having to wait two days to see if what you have invested a decent amount of time and money (this is a downside to the medium) in and whether any of the shots would even be useable was torture.  I know I'm sad but when the delivery day came it felt like christmas morning, I even made it into work by 9am to see if they had arrived!

Well come lunchtime this is what land on my desk.

Two decently packaged envelopes with what was inside them as I can only describe as pure gold through my eyes anyway.

The fact that this form of photography has a timeline which is rather long and at the end of it you have a physical item which you can hold in your hand up to the sun and see a moment in time which been captured in its purest form is extremely infectious.

So far I have just managed to scan in the 5" x 5" prints at a reasonable level of 600dpi however to take full advantage of the transparencies and negatives I shall have to invest in a consumer film scanner to achieve a fair representation of the sharpness, colour and texture which is held within these photographs.

For my first attempt I am over the moon with the results and only with experimentation and practice shall I get the best out of this medium.  A trip to one of my favourite spots in london yesterday the Barbican should hopefully produce some nice shots and once I receive the transparencies you all will be the first to know!

I shall leave you with a parting shot of any true photographers fridge...

A.