{"id":10272,"date":"2025-09-24T17:19:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10272"},"modified":"2025-09-24T17:31:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:31:16","slug":"trying-enlarger-lenses-in-the-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10272","title":{"rendered":"Trying enlarger lenses in the woods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Following on from my previous posts on using vintage enlarger lenses in the garden, I thought I would try them out ‘in the field’ or, more precisely, woods and should show a lo-fi Lomography effect. These were taken as the autumn colours are just starting to show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first lens I tried was the Paterson 50mm f3.5 lens at Downs Bank. This is a small National Trust woodland (no country house or estate!):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This view of a path into the woods shows the Lomography effect but lacks detail in the centre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The following image of the horse rider would have made a nice photo with a decent lens and zooming in a bit. This photo wasn’t set up – it was pure luck (or serendipity) that the horse rider rode through at that point when the sun shone through the clouds:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Horse rider in the sun at the edge of the woods. This does show the Lomography effect but, as before, lacks detail in the centre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A view of the stream through the woods. Again the Lomography effect with poor resolution at the centre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I need to try again with this lens stopped down but this is difficult as the lens is mounted inside the bellows…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next lens I tried was a vintage (probably 1930s-40s) 3.25inch Wray enlarger lens. This I tried in the woods at Cannock Chase:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cannock Chase: Bracken on a hillside in the woods back illuminated by the sun. I was hoping for better ‘Bokeh’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cannock Chase: A different part of the woods showing bracken on a hillside in the woods. Again, I was hoping for better ‘Bokeh’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cannock Chase: Another part of the woods showing bracken on a hillside in the woods. Again, This still doesn’t show the better ‘Bokeh’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This lens, for the most part, was no different to most reasonable quality lenses. The Bokeh I was hoping for didn’t show. The only difference to my normal lenses was the tonality – I do like the colours this lens gives. I may take the lens again on a woodland walk…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More trials are needed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following on from my previous posts on using vintage enlarger lenses in the garden, I thought I would try them out ‘in the field’ or, more precisely, woods and should show a lo-fi Lomography effect. These were taken as the autumn colours are just starting to show. The first lens I tried was the Paterson … Continue reading “Trying enlarger lenses in the woods”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,96,24,3,87,94,131,32,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autumn-fall","category-national-trust","category-nature","category-photography","category-rural","category-staffordshire","category-tests-and-trials","category-trees","category-woodland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10272"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10283,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10272\/revisions\/10283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}