Archive for May, 2011
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
Shooting film on a regular basis means you have to find some way to develop it. Either you do it yourself (which honestly, I’m exploring the setup for that, including my own digital backend), or sending your film off mail order. I’ve been using Richard Photo Lab, and they are great, but I need a second lab that’s a little more cost effective for sending off tests, or just fun personal work that I maybe doing. I’ve been seeing ads for The Darkroom pop up on my facebook page every so often, and I decided that I would give them a try….and I’m so glad that I did. These guys have been in business in California for 35 years, and I’m all for supporting labs that have been around that long with as much business as I possibly can! The more that everyone shoots and develops film, the more that the big film companies (you know who you are), will realize “This film thing isn’t going away like we hoped it would, there’s still some business to be done with film”
A couple of months ago after I attended the FlashBus seminar in Dallas, I took to the streets, just me, my Holga and a roll of Fuji 800z:
Tags: Dallas Tx, Film, Fuji, Fuji NPZ, golden hour, GOYA!, Holga
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
I missed posting last week, this week’s not as big as some of my other Tuesday Black and Whites; so I added some random color images to fatten this post up! And I dragged out one of my favorite cameras; My Olympus 35SP! I forget sometimes how fun it is to shoot with, as well as how sharp the lens on it is….
Still Loving the Ilford Xp-2…I need to buy and shoot some of it in 120 pretty soon…and buy some more in 35mm, I only bought three rolls to test it out! (lesson, always buy tons of film, even when you’re trying a new stock out, because either you’ll like it, or you’ll learn to like it the more that you shoot it…)
Tags: 50 1.4, Black and White, Dallas Tx, Film, Fuji NPH, Ilford Xp2, Nikon, Olympus SP35
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Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
This is a special Tuesday black and white for me, because sometimes when you want to move forward you have to look to your past. Since my return to film, I’ve been searching for different stocks that I’d like to use on a regular basis, and I decided to buy some film that I’ve come in contact with once before, when I was 15 years old and didn’t know any better.
It was 1992, I was taking my first ever photography class. Our teacher was starting us out on the basics: black and white. He told everyone to go out and buy some black and white film for our first assignment. Me, not knowing anything, went down to Wolf Camera and purchased a roll of Ilford Xp2 (not knowing that it wasn’t traditional black and white film). I was so disappointed when some of my more knowledgable classmates told me that I couldn’t develop the film in class because it used color chemicals. I threw the roll in a drawer at home, bought some Tmax, and went on my way. I don’t know what ever happened to that roll, but I never touched Xp2 again….that is until now.
I purchased 3 rolls of XP2 so that I could test it out, because I’m looking for some black and white film in 120, and a current favorite of mine right now, Kodak BWC400cn, is sadly no longer available in 120 (I did manage to get my hands on a fresh pro-pack with an expiration date of this year!)
However Ilford Xp-2 is readly available in 120!
I think that I’ll be shooting more of this film in the future!
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