Summer, Shooting LARP, The Irish Times: A lot of my photography focusses on LARP- As a hobby of mine, it exposes you to a lot of people in odd costumes in pretty natural environments, so it dovetails nicely with taking photos (both analogue and digital). I went out to an event in May, camera in hand, with the intention of just documenting …

Breaking out Portra 800 in Crap Light, March 2024: I had the pleasure of shooting some folks at a social event for the UK-based Empire LRP that happened over here in Dublin. I got plenty of shots of people using my DSLR but also had a chance to use Portra 800 to capitalise on the admittedly crap lighting. The pub had maybe one or two spots wherein …

Jan 24 - Dublin and the Halina Paulette Electric: Yet more snaps using the Halina Paulette Electric with an inconsistent shutter. This time I was still using Ilford HP5 Plus 400 ISO film, but I tried to get a bit more ambitious with that Feet-measured focus ring instead of just going for deep focus, far away shots, and messed around with shutter …

Jan 2024 - Howth: Shot on a Halina Paulette Electric, damaged, with Ilford HP5 Plus 400 ISO film. These are some of the better shots from the roll- The shutter speed was inconsistent at lower speeds (at least, based on the sounds the shutter made) so it’s fortunate that anything came out looking decent.