Erik Winther Paisley (📷)
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Erik Winther Paisley (📷)
@ewpaisley.bsky.social
Photography page (Fuji + film, 4x5 - 120 - 35mm)
London based, Danish American. Mostly work in advertising.
@ewpaisley elsewhere, including ewpaisley.com
I've been intending to shoot most of my serious work on slide film for a lot of different reasons; oddly enough projecting them wasn't on my radar!

Saw a medium format project on eBay for £30 and had to go for it. This is the way, forget scanning :).

#analogphotography #ektachrome #mediumformat
September 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Views from Culpeper Community Garden.
6x6 shots on my Yashica 635.
Delta 100, FP4+. Developed in XT3. #filmphotography
September 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Ektar 100 | Yashica 635
August 20, 2025 at 7:55 AM
June 4, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The agony of not nailing focus. #amateurphotographers
April 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Wonderful creatures at the London Zoo.

Shot on my Fujifilm X-H1 + Viltrox 75mm f/1.2

#amateurphotography #primatology #animalphotography #london #fujifilm #viltrox
April 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I took a closeup shot of this tupilaq on 4x5. It's actually marginally taller on the negative than in real life!

Obviously needed to photograph the two together; it looks like it's being haunted, poetic really for a little monster carving. :)
April 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The Lady Chapel at St Bartholomew the Great.
April 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A still-life that I took, processed and scanned myself!

Film: Rollei RPX 25, 6x7 (shot with Linhof roll-film back)
Developer: Foma Universal, Paterson tank, inversion agitation
Shot on a Sinar P with a Rodenstock 210mm f/5.6 @f11

#stilllife #dslrscanning #darkroom #rollei #fujifilm #mediumformat
April 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
March 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Started my large format journey by accidentally exposing a whole box of film.

Turns out they are very much -not- individually wrapped.

You'd think the black plastic wrapping inside would have been a giveaway but no
March 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
March 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Played around with moderate lighting yesterday, neither blizzard white or my usual chiaroscuro.

Painted my own backdrop, too! In retrospect I should have put a fill card on the left side of the daffodils but overall nice for an ~hour of tinkering.

#stilllife #fujifilm #amateurphotography
February 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
February 25, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Every camera has autofocus, you just have to want it enough.

#analog #vintagecamera #filmphotography #lifehack
February 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Detail of a still life I've been working on.
February 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Love slidefilm -so- much. Just something magical about them, like you can't believe it's a strip of film.
February 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Film scanning at home - losing track of which iteration I'm at. But seeing progress!

This one uses a speedlight diffused through an AC attachment.

Strongly recommend using slide film when setting up your rig. So much easier to focus.

#dslrscanning #e100 #amateurphotography #filmisnotdead
February 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Sold as a slide copy stand, hence why it's so small. But I've grafted a macro rail on top!

Have two clamps to hold it steady but it will be a little top heavy. Think I will bolt it to a heavy base of some kind.
February 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Didn't expect but am fully savouring the dieselpunk aesthetic of my film scanning rig.

Reminded me of this 6x4.5 shot I took of a railway bridge in London

My scifi-Maurice Bloom-industrial sublime era.

#filmphotography #industrial #believeinfilm #dslrscanning #mediumformat #vintage
February 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
On the topic of macro-photography! With all this neewly acquired kit I feel fairly obliged to start taking some macro shots.

So strange how the same images can be so crisp and look like whispy watercolours all at once. Stark and dreamy.

#macro #macrophotography #flowers #abstractphotography
February 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
4th iteration of my DIY film scanning setup!

Got an enlarger stand on eBay for a pittance and succeeded in adapting it to mount my camera.

Next up: A tiny lab jack to move the stacked negative and LED into frame in little increments, and hopefully into focus.

#filmphotography #35mm #macro
February 8, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Would love to see your setup!

Found this enlarger stand on eBay for £18, I'm not quite sure how to integrate it though. Seems like it would be a good next step.
February 7, 2025 at 10:12 PM
London, South Bank, November last year.

Kodak Gold 200
Canon AE1-P
FD 28mm f2.8 lens

Accidentally underexposed by a stop since I didn't account for a polarising filter. Still like it though.

#filmisnotdead #canonFD #kodakgold #london #photographers #amateurphotography
February 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Great, thank you! I found it helped a lot when I used the computer to tether. It was either that or get a loupe.

Also this just arrived, an old enlarger stand. Haven't figured out exactly how I will incorporate it but it's got to come in handy.
February 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM