Wednesday, 11 March 2009

Barry Island Baby
















I love out of season seaside towns - I grew up in one, although it was sometimes in season - and Barry Island met my need for that dirty realist charm very nicely. Seaside towns speak to me, whispering in my ear “I am what you could have been” along with the sea breeze.

2 comments:

earthfromtheground said...

Love it love it love it...Holga or Diana? how do you scan..I have terrible problems getting mine to look 'right' and end up having to tweak in LR which is not really the point??

Karl Chapman said...

Holga. Not so keen on the (new) Diana, it's too soft. I like some bite in my pictures. Film was Neopan 400 developed at home. Scan as BW negative at 600 or 800 dpi, 16 bit with no USM or other filters applied. Created as TIFF file. Can't remember which for these - 600dpi I think but I use DPI just to get a decent image size vs file size rather than use size settings which may sound odd but it works for me. These were manipulated in PS - USM, some local dodging and burning and quadtone applied.