Don Goodman-Wilson

News

New Zine! Tokyo from Above

“Tokyo from Above”, my latest zine, takes you on a visual journey through the view from a Tokyo rooftop.

Film

Ilford FP4 Plus @ 500

Ilford FP4 plus is a great lower speed film that pushes nicely to 500 in a tight pinch.

Stations

Stations: Antwerpen

A random email from Thalys leads to an afternoon of photography in a totally different country. I'm still not sure why.

News

Exhibition: Japan In and Out

Will you be in Lisbon in the month of April? Then drop by Vintage Dream Cameras and Gallery to view a selection of my street photography, on joint exhibit with the talented Helio Suzuki.

Film

A New (and Experimental) Method for Evaluating Film

I explore a new method to evaluate film using equipment you may already own, with the goal of improving our digital darkroom workflows.

Film

First Impressions: AgfaPhoto APX400 (Pt. 2)

Giving AgfaPhoto APX400 a second try, this time rating it at ISO 800—without pushing in development. The results are surprisingly good.

Crown + Flint

Crown + Flint R4 🏜️ “The Voice”

Crown + Flint R4 is out today for iPhone and Android, bringing a huge increase in stability and speed, and some welcome new functionality.

Crown + Flint

Crown + Flint Update Week 13 2024

A new release is coming soon…with improved auto-suggest and more.

Photo Essays

Isometrica I

We are drowning in computer-rendered and AI-generated imagery. It is comforting to think that there remains a distinction between the “artificial” and the “authentic”, but what does that distinction even mean?

Film

First Impressions: AgfaPhoto APX400

What if there was a film whose true speed was actually _faster_ than what’s printed on the box? Do miracles like that even happen? Maybe so…

Stations

Stations: Amsterdam

You hardly need a car in the Netherlands—trains will get you just about anywhere, so most people deal with Dutch stations daily, rain or shine. The system feels like it is calling out to the sun, often missing in the dark cloudy days off the North Sea: Everything is

Analog Basics

Analog Basics: Film Speed, Box Speed, and Exposure Index

Do you wonder what box speed is? Confused by rating film? What even is an exposure index? Let’s get a grip on these concepts and get the most from our film.

Crown + Flint

Crown + Flint Update Week 11 2024

The latest news from Crown + Flint, the app for analog photography.

Experiments

Relieving the Tedium of Scanning Color Film

I find scanning color film to be tedious and error-prone work—but can turnkey solutions turn in better results?

Stations

Stations: Tokyo

The Tokyo transit system needs no introduction—it’s among the world’s largest and most complex. But its stations are functional, bare, devoid of grandeur or even decoration. Each corridor is an unadorned, square concrete tube, with little to differentiate it from any other corridor in any other station.

Film

Film Review: FOMA Ortho 400

An emulsion with a unique look that really pops outdoors…but it’s prone to overexposure.

Stations

Stations: Lisboa

Lisboa is probably not a place that comes to mind when you think of transit, although Olaias Station regularly makes lists of most unique metro stations in the world. But in truth, the stations of the Lisboa metro are each miniature art galleries, decorated in azuelos—tiles inspired by Moorish

Analog

Extreme Film Pushing: Ilford HP5 Plus @ 6400 (Pt. 2)

Trying once again to push Ilford HP5 plus to 6400, I find more agreeable results. But is it good enough? Spoiler alert: It depends.

Analog

Extreme Film Pushing: Ilford HP5 Plus @ 6400 (Pt. 1)

What happens if we push Ilford HP5 plus to 6400? Let's fuck around and find out. Spoiler alert: It doesn't go as well as I hoped.

Photo Essays

10 Views of Tokyo

Join me to view an entertainment district in Tokyo from above—an ad-hoc collage of the streets of Tokyo reveals the daily life of passersby.

News

Unable to sign in or create an account? It’s fixed.

Bad SMTP configurations. Less than stellar documents. Low attention span. These are all factors that recently led to your frustration when you tried to login or create an account. Those issues should now all be fixed. I would say let me know in the comments if they continue to be

Analog

Extreme Film Pushing: Ilford HP5 Plus @ 3200

I like fast film and I cannot lie. So let's push it, push it real good. And see what we get. Today: Ilford HP5 pushed to 3200.

Photo Essays

Training for Semana Santa in Seville

Holy week is fast approaching, and in Sevilla the devout are training hard for a demanding test of faith—carrying massive floats on their shoulders for the annual parade.

Essays

On “Real Photos” (All Photographs are Lies)

There is no such thing as a ”real picture”, and any attempt to delineate such represents illiberal and unnecessary gatekeeping in the photographic community.

Photo Essays

Getting Lost in the Wholesale Markets of Seoul

Let's get lost in the back alleys and byways of the markets of Seoul, and lose ourselves among the industrial quantities of goods for sale.