by Michael Baister | Aug 15, 2023 | analogue photography, commercial photography, commercial photography newcastle, film making, industrial photography, instagram, large format film photography, location film making, location photography, long exposure photography, michael baister photography, newcastle commercial photography, northeast commercial photography, story telling, sunderland commercial photography
Why do I do this for a living? Don’t worry, this isn’t a This is Your Life (Google it) detailed history of how/why I got to this point in my professional career – I save that for art school/college lectures – just so I can look at the faces of the students...
by Michael Baister | Nov 3, 2022 | adobe lightroom, adobe photoshop, analogue photography, architectural exterior, commercial photography, commercial photography newcastle, industrial photography, instagram, landscape, large format film photography, lee filters, location photography, long exposure photography, manfrotto, michael baister photography, newcastle commercial photography, sony cameras, street photography, sunderland commercial photography, urban landscape
Yes still creating images the old fashioned way and why not, I had some film left to use and this ended up in a marathon developing session of 5/120, 4/135 and 9/5×4 sheets. Below is a bit of BTS with a Walker Titan field camera, with a 90mm lens and bag bellows...
by Michael Baister | Jul 20, 2021 | adobe photoshop, analogue photography, architectural exterior, commercial photography, commercial photography newcastle, industrial photography, instagram, landscape, large format film photography, lee filters, location photography, manfrotto, medium format, michael baister photography, newcastle commercial photography, northeast commercial photography, sony cameras, sony lenses, story telling, sunderland commercial photography, urban landscape
It’s another analogue trip out, this time with the Hasselblad and 4×5 Walker Titan field camera. I decided on a portrait of the Gas Monitors at Hendon in Sunderland (I also like the one in South Shields, haven’t managed a image of that one yet) these...
by Michael Baister | Feb 23, 2021 | adobe lightroom, adobe photoshop, analogue photography, architectural exterior, commercial photography, commercial photography newcastle, instagram, landscape, large format film photography, location photography, location portrait, long exposure photography, manfrotto, michael baister photography, newcastle commercial photography, northeast commercial photography, sony cameras, sony lenses, story telling, street photography, sunderland commercial photography, urban landscape
Here we go again with another trip out with a large format camera. This time urban landscapes with murals which depict local history. If these were shot in colour they would have a different feel to the images. I prefer the use of black and white film for a subject...
by Michael Baister | Nov 19, 2020 | adobe lightroom, adobe photoshop, analogue photography, architectural exterior, commercial photography, commercial photography newcastle, industrial photography, instagram, landscape, large format film photography, location photography, long exposure photography, manfrotto, medium format, michael baister photography, newcastle commercial photography, northeast commercial photography, story telling, street photography, sunderland commercial photography, urban landscape
Here’s a film about a book, inspired by all of my Instagram uploads. There’s a funny story, about the first version of this book. Around the late 1990s I decided to create a book of my photographic work at that time. I lovingly scanned the negs (purposefully at the...
by Michael Baister | Oct 20, 2020 | adobe lightroom, adobe photoshop, analogue photography, architectural exterior, commercial photography, commercial photography newcastle, instagram, landscape, large format film photography, lee filters, location photography, location portrait, long exposure photography, manfrotto, medium format, michael baister photography, newcastle commercial photography, northeast commercial photography, sony cameras, sony lenses, story telling, street photography, sunderland commercial photography, urban landscape
As promised, and if you can remember that far back, here’s the Hasselblad in all its glory. This one is a 2000FCW and was introduced around 1977. I bought this one for the lens in the late 1990s, a Zeiss Planar F110 f2. The camera had a focal plane shutter (quite...
