Ben Fredericson Blog

Photography and all the other nerdy stuff.

Overview

  • The Weekly Challenge – Week 2

    Last week, I told you about the new blog initiative from some of my friends. It would only be fair to link them here because these guys have more interesting lives and blogs than I do. And they write better and they make better photos. Check them out please: Marc Martin Teymur Dominik So, why Read more

  • The New New Blog – I am more photog than you

    Lets face it: nobody reads this. Hell, the blog was broken for over a year and nobody cared since nobody visits this. Why should they? Why are you here, reading this? Anyway. I actually like to see some of my own photos from the past. Who takes the time to dig through millions of meaningless Read more

  • Music of 2022

    Oh. You thought I was dead? Not yet my friends, not yet. Lets use this platform (me writing to myself) to reflect a bit on the musical highlights of 2022. No particular order or priority. Just a bunch of videos from records I really liked in 2022. Lets start with Brutus from Belgium! Next up, Read more

  • Getting deeper into 120 film

    About 2000 Youtube videos around film photography later, I finally found the kind of film which I really like. The Kodak Portra 400. I could link roughly 200 videos just about this film alone. If you are familiar with film photography, you know the fame around it. The Portra 400 is a very common and Read more

  • My first film experience

    Somewhere around 2008 I got my hands on an old Pentax K1000. A fully mechanical SLR camera which can be used with a light meter. I shot two films with it, developed them in a lab, got the prints and was done with this topic. They were not bad but the process of analog film Read more

  • Photo filters and profiles for Fujifilm cameras

    The beauty of the current Fujifilm cameras is not only the retro design and usability (manual aperture, time and ISO dials) but also the very nice JPG and colour quality of the out-of-the-cam JPGs. You can go further and make the real good looking camera presets look more retro (or shitty in my case) with Read more

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