Brinkburn Priory is located on what3words at roughly ///trying.dentistry.gold

It is a site we’ve been to many a time now, and as ever it packs a punch for being really picturesque for it’s size, pretty yet tiny. It is a stone’s throw from a couple of other locations that are also good to visit, can be paired up with somewhere like the Rothbury Riverwalk of Cragside to make more of a day of it.

I normally go through a three tier rating system on these entries, but this time I feel like I was on fine form, and don’t have anything from my lowest tier. I don’t know whether it’s my love for this site, the number of previous visits, or the shooting of what is fast becoming my favourite film for handholding my Bronica, Lomography Colour Negative 800.

Worst Things First

Nothing today, Whoop!

OK images

It’s a good thing I only get 12 images per roll of the groupings may have resulted in too much text together, for example if it was 35mm roll of 36 frames…

The first three are exterior images showcasing the Priory building. My 45 has more distortion than I expect still, these already have a lot of correction for that, but this is due to it’s 24ish full frame equivalence. It seems to have more perspective distortion than my digital equivalents at that focal length, but I know it will be worth persevering with trying to adjust to it, because the detail it captures is stunning, hopefully not just demonstrated here but also in my Cawfield post last week.

The first of the trio of portraits underneath is (I think) the first image I have taken using my telephoto prime. At 135mm it is approximately an 85mm equivalent. I love the subject separation here, even though the background wasn’t necessarily ideal for giving bokehlicious balls of goodness. This was at about f5.6 or f8ish, if I recall, so the lens has more bokeh to give, which I think will potentially make for some fab portraits in future. Whilst I like the other two portraits, I think the best is yet to come from the Manor House interior.

The final photo in this section is of the alter in the Priory. I am astounded this came out, though that is probably largely due to the 800 iso the Lomography brings. Honestly, I am going to stockpile this to the point it will be falling out of the fridge. If they did a CN1600 I’d do the same with that as well given my preferences with a tenebrism shooting style…

My Favourites

Tenebrism Window

This for me is my photo of the day. There is only one thing I don’t really like about it, and I hadn’t noticed it until the wife pointed it out no pun intended and thats the lack of pointed toes. I suppose that’s one of the things about film. If you don’t notice when you press the button you don’t get to just take the image again like with digital. I’m shooting it to slow myself down. Mental note for next time though - feet and toes.

Manor House

I have taken a straight on image of this building before. It’s safe. It’s probably a bit cliche. But I always love the fall of of light you get from the bay windows, as the left soaks up the sun and the right it cast into shadow. The above picture was taken from the other set of bay windows you can see just poking out from the left of the house as we look at it below…

Window Portraits

The below pair are two that I think sit well with the first portrait from this section. Whilst I like the two below, they don’t grab me quite as much as that first one does, I still like them as a set. No doubt by the time you read this they will already have been posted together on Instagram as a triptych.

That’s one massive organ…

This is another image, like that of the alter, that I am surprised has come out. Leaning against a lectern I took this at about 1/8 on my fastest lens and it was still massively underexposed. I am impressed that something which is considered a cheaper and less professional film stock could still recover as much detail, especially as it was the only shot on the roll underexposed so wasn’t push processed.

I love the colour of the pipes, the bluey-grey tones that fall off in light from top to bottom. I also like the halation on the light to the left, not something I expected to see so strongly on a none ‘cine’ type film. I guess you learn something new everyday. Now I’m going to be trying to force it next time I use this stock with lights!

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