B&W film photography is gaining a new generation of sophisticated photographers who want the personal experience of making fine art B&W images. The drawback has been processing of B&W film relying on commercial labs. These labs are scarce and expensive and deny photographers the enjoyment of this magical process. Ansel […]
Amplis Foto is proud to be a continued supporter of the Fanshawe Photography Student Image Competition. We would like to extend congratulations to Graham Case, this year’s winner of the Ilford Photo / Hahnemühle Prize for “High Score B&W Image”. His image, shown above, is titled “Here again”. The Fanshawe […]
When asked to review the HARMAN EZ35 Camera I expected the quirky results similar to a Lomo or Holga camera with associated strong vignetting and an overall lack of snap… NOT SO! This camera is truly a marvellous image maker! These photos are worth a thousand words and speak to […]
IN-STORE WORKSHOPS – THE GREAT RETURN OF ARGENTIC In recent years, silver halide photography has made a comeback. Kodak, Fujifilm and ILFORD are starting to produce film again, and several companies are joining them: Lomography, Flic, Cinestill, Vibe, to name but a few. Gosselin had a workshops in store (Quebec) […]
The ‘Silver Photo Collective’ is a group of experienced shooters whose primary interest is celebrating all aspects of B&W film photography including processing and printing. Apart from shooting, we have a monthly get together for a 3 hour chat session while indulging in finger foods. On our chat agenda for […]
Making a Connection is the latest video in our ILFORD Inspires series and features Sheffield born fashion and portrait photographer Craig Fleming. Armed with his Mamiya RZ67, his go-to medium format camera, we joined Craig to shoot some black and white film studio portraits in Manchester’s Northern Quarter. Known for […]
While setting up my 4×5 Linhof I was musing about ILFORD MULTIGRADE RC enlarging paper. Why, you ask, would I be thinking about enlarging paper? Great question, because my Lisco 4×5 negative holders were loaded with this enlarging paper!!! This was a 4×5 paper negative shoot* organized by ‘The Silver […]
Thank you, ILFORD Film and Edmonton’s Downtown Spark Festival, for this wonderful opportunity to photograph the whimsical art installations around our city’s downtown core. Few mediums capture that whimsy quite so organically as film. There’s no shortage of talent and vibrancy in the world, but we could certainly use more […]
We’re excited to see the prints submitted for this year’s student photographic competition theme of ‘HOME’. This competition is open to any student, from anywhere around the world. They must shoot their image on either ILFORD or Kentmere film and it must be printed by them in the darkroom on ILFORD or Kentmere […]
What does ULF stand for? ULF stands for ULTRA LARGE FORMAT – ILFORD have been running this program for 18 years now! What is it? Our annual ULF campaign gives photographers the opportunity to order non-standard sizes of ILFORD sheet film and other specialist products without the constraints of the […]
