PHOTONewsTV continues it’s exciting new series of videos presented by Crombie McNeill. This series is dedicated to the art of black and white film photography. Crombie will explore shooting, processing and some radical alternative techniques (maybe even with coffee).
Not only will Crombie bring you into his processing lab and darkroom, but he will entertain you with occasional stories related to his experiences as a freelancer/photojournalist for over 40 years. Crombie has met and photographed everyone from sitting Prime Ministers to The Rolling Stones, Elvis to great Canadian race car driver Gilles Villeneuve and worked with Ansel Adams and Yousf Karsh. His stories will touch on an amazing career where he was detained at gun point, caused a serious injury to the Soviet Union’s #1 diver at an international event, awarded an honorary “Purple Cross” in Vietnam for falling off an APC requiring a field dressing … a small bandage … to being walloped by a senior with her 8mm camera at an event where the Queen was going to appear and his very public experience with Prince Charles.
Crombie is a master storyteller and loves to share his knowledge of photography – especially film photography. This series will be a unique mix of entertaining storytelling with Crombie’s methods for using Ilford Photo film and chemicals and Paterson darkroom equipment.
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Grab yourself a coffee and spend a few minutes with Crombie. Subscribe to our channel https://www.youtube.com/@PHOTONewsTV to get notifications of new videos.
Playlist of Coffee with Crombie
I am embarrassed to tell this story. I bought my first SLR in 1974, a Konica T3. I went into a camera shop on Government street in Victoria and asked for an SLR that “any idiot could use,” the T3 is what he handed me.
So after shooting my very first roll of images in Beacon Hill Park I started to crank the film back into the cassette. BUT, I forgot you had to press the button under the camera. Because I didn’t know what I was doing, I was rather forceful in the rewind, the film ended up ripping apart. Of course after I opened the camera and freaked out over whether I had damaged it, I realized my mistake. Fortunately for me, the T3’s were built like tanks and no damage ensued.