1705 Photography

06/05/2023

Our 1705 Photography blog has a new home on our main Attitude Creative website!

1705 Photography is the personal blog of Dominic Righini-Brand, exploring photography’s technological and anthropological history and its role in the modern world History, Camera Technology, Reflections Dominic Righini-Brand 03/08/2022 History, Camera Technology, Reflections Dominic Righini-Brand ...

10/10/2017

28/12/2016

10/03/2016

Have been having some fun with our pinhole cameras! Really love the surreal quality these cameras produce. 📷

26/02/2016

Introducing our latest creation, the all new Brand P2 pinhole camera. It has a 40mm focal length and an aperture of f/160. It uses photographic paper and can produce 9x9 cm images. Unlike its predecessor, the Brand P1 which was used as a teaching aid at the British Higher School of Art & Design, the Brand P2 can be mass produced!

23/02/2016

Just put the finishing touches on my latest photographic collection, this time about boats! Enjoy! 🌊⛵️⛴
https://www.behance.net/gallery/34320217/Boats

Collection of photographs inspired by ships and the sea

21/02/2016

Photographs processed, dried and scanned!

The other day I found an old FED 3 rangefinder camera which my father bought recently in an antiques shop in Boston for five pounds. Curiosity got the better of me and I decided to put a film through the camera to see if it still works and to check my old Weston Euro Master light meter which I have not used in years!

First impressions of the camera have given me a new found respect for photographers working in the 1930s and 1940s (the FED 3 was made in the 1960s, but is essentially 1930s tech). The technology is basic, mechanical and slow by todays standards. You really have to know what you are doing and how to use an old Weston light meter to get the best from this camera.

It is a rangefinder camera, and like many rangefinders from this era it is dark and often difficult to properly gauge what is in the photograph and the inevitable parallax error which occurs. Likewise the focus you have to estimate (in metres) and set manually on the front of the lens. Shutter speeds range from 1 second to 1/500s, but 1/250s of a second cannot be selected for some reason.

All in all it’s quite a lot of fun to still be able to use these cameras and successfully (with a little effort) get an image from them. Now off to dig out my fathers old Exacta!

21/02/2016

Behind the scenes of taking FED 3 for a walk today.

15/02/2016

New photos of The River Slea and Cogglesford Mill http://1705photography.com/189988/8526629/portfolio/midlands

15/02/2016

A new project reminiscing Pfälzerwald...

I’ve spent a little over a year living in Germany, and when I had time to explore I spent my time getting lost in the Pfälzerwald riding my mountain bike. I fell in love with this magic forest and then… it was time to leave. My last month in Germany I spe…

14/02/2016

Just finished scanning and retouching a small collection of photographs from Southwold, Covehithe and Walberswick from September 2003. Enjoy!

Film photographs from Southward, Walberswick and Covehithe

14/02/2016

Got a few photographs from our Midlands project onto : http://bit.ly/1ozL5NC—looking good, check it out!