John Sheldon's photos

Lower light level than the picture suggests - ISO1600 needed for exposure 1/125 sec at f/10. Best in the light box, please press the Z key.

Please press the Z key to see in the light box! Picture taken in 1989 by my son (then aged 11) using his Olympus OM10. He has recently passed that camera on to me, and I use it for my film work. Kodak Gold 100 Colour film, scanned in CanoScan 8800F.

Test picture taken for my first home developed film in 1978. It is Ilford HP5 film processed in ID-11. I find the grain structure less prominent, and the tones smoother, than the HP5 Plus film I have recently had developed commercially. This gives me a clue about what to do next ...

Test picture taken for my first home developed film in 1978. It is Ilford HP5 film processed in ID-11. I find the grain structure less prominent, and the tones smoother, than the HP5 Plus film I have recently had developed commercially. This gives me a clue about what to do next ...

Best in the light box - please press the Z key.

Aquilegias in the rain.

Sepia effect created using split toning function in Lightroom.

Hwæt! is the first word of the 8th century epic poem Beowulf, in the original Anglo Saxon tongue. The word is translated So! in Seamus Heaney's modern English version.

A photo-manipulation made using layers. The coloured image layer has been manipulated to suggest the curvature of the lenses.