Unexpected Development

Again, more images of my cat than of my son, but with manual focusing I have to use all the tricks I can, and this includes photographing static objects...as opposed to running after Johnny and getting a bunch of blurred, badly composed shots.  This is what I love about film - it's slow.

I am kind of in love with the Portra.  It performs so well in low-light setting and it has very little noise.

I got a new roll, this time an 800, and a Fujifilm too, so stay tuned!

Zenit E, Kodak Portra 400

It's Hip To Be Square

There - my second roll of medium format film, and my first successful one.  Sort of... I nailed the focus but I am not entirely happy with the exposure.  Also, there's an odd red tint to most of these, and I am sure it's not the film but my poor judgement of the settings.  I will figure it out one day, surely.  And I will find some spectacular bokeh to shoot by then, too!

Mamiya C220, Kodak Portra 400

P.S. Yes, I am aware that there are more photos of Shelby than of Johnny.  Get over it.

35 mm of Happiness

I'm experimenting this weekend because I'm sick of waiting to win the lottery (for which I would need to play the lottery), or to find the free time to get me a lucrative enough photo gig that would cover my needs for new digital equipment. Two rolls of Kodak Ektachrome have been sitting in my camera drawer forever so I decided to give them a shot. Both are very expired - we're talking 1981 expired - which is incidentally the year I was born. I don't even care that this particular film is designed specially for controlled indoor/studio lighting. It's 64 ISO but I'm pushing it to 100. 

I have a ready roll of 120 mm film from my Mamiya, and another 35 mm (Portra 400) to finish shooting with the Zenit, so I thought it would also be nice to try out a 50 mm Nikkor lens of - get this - f/1.2 with my Nikon FM2 before I go down to Palo Alto to develop them all. EXCITING STUFF!!!

Of course, this might not work at all, which would suck. But I'm bored, and I want to challenge myself. So let's go.