Posts Tagged ‘GOYA!’
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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Monday, April 25th, 2011
One thing about shooting so much film that I have yet to grasp….is getting organized on when I’m shooting what. I shoot a roll and it might sit a couple of days, and then I send it off to RPL, and when I get the scans back…I have no idea when I shot what! That’s one thing you take for granted with digital, you know when you shot what. I know that these are two different days and two different films!
Dallas (NPH)
I love that old Hotel sign…I’m just sorry I didn’t get over to shoot the rest of the hotel before it was torn down…the sign is all that’s left and probably won’t be up for too much longer.
And then on another day, I found myself at the Arlington Farmer’s Market building, with a roll of Fuji NPZ…
Tags: arlington tx, Bronica Gs-1, Dallas Tx, Film, Fuji NPH, golden hour, GOYA!, Laidric Stevenson photography
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Sunday, July 25th, 2010
Just got some images back from ScanCafe….shooting film these days takes some dedication; either you breakdown and get a scanner (and if you’re really serious, learn to hand process your own film, that way you don’t have to send it to a lab and wait almost 2 weeks to get it back…), or you subject yourself to the time it takes to get a couple of rolls developed and then paying the cost to have someone locally scan it (or send it off for scanning).
These are from the first time that me and Grant Meeks, met and we went for a small photowalk through the streets of downtown Dallas, he shot digital, so he had his post up on this within a week or so of us shooting it….me well it’s almost August and I’m just getting the images up, I got the disc from Scancafe back about a week ago. I still want to shoot more film, I just need to make the investment so that I don’t have to have such a long turnaround time on the images.
Tags: Dallas Tx, GOYA!, Grant Meeks, GrantMeeksphotography, Laidric Stevenson, personal, Steven Sow, Steven Sow Photo, Stevensowphoto
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Monday, May 31st, 2010
Here’s the rest of the recent GOYA shoot with Grant Meeks.
Oh, and for those that are wondering what GOYA means….Get Off Your A** (From Zack Arias)
Tags: 35 F2D, Dallas Tx, Deep Ellum, golden hour, GOYA!, Laidric Stevenson, Laidric Stevenson music photographer, Laidric Stevenson photography, Nikon, Nikon D700, Steven Sow Photo, Stevensowphoto
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Just having some fun in Downtown Dallas with Grant Meeks….getting off our butts and shooting something. We did one of these not too long ago, Grant shot digital and I shot film…which should be reaching Scan Cafe’s scanning center right about now. This time we switched roles; he shot film and I shot digital. Next time we’re both shooting film, or we’re both shooting digital. Also with shooting with my philosophy of one shot no chimping…I shot this like I had a roll of 24 exp film, I ended up with 25 shots, with about 12 finals, here’s six of those:
Tags: 35 F2D, Dallas Tx, Deep Ellum, golden hour, GOYA!, Laidric Stevenson, Laidric Stevenson photography, Nikon D700, personal, Steven Sow Photo, Stevensowphoto
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Monday, May 17th, 2010
Due to a miscommunication, a shoot that I had scheduled for Sunday didn’t go through, so I decided to go shoot some random images, something that I don’t do often enough, and something that I’ve forgotten how fun it could be.
I didn’t want to wade through a full card of images, so I took very few, only about 8 or so, and I liked these five: Also, I tried slowing down: I walked up, framed the image in the viewfinder, metered, then shot ONE shot. Chimped a little, but honestly, if you’re only taking one shot, what’s the point of chimping? I plan to shoot like this more often!
Tags: 24 2.8, Fort Worth Tx, golden hour, GOYA!, Laidric Stevenson, Laidric Stevenson photography, Nikon D700, personal
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
I know that it’s been a while since I posted anything – and I don’t want to let this blog just sit here with nothing for the new year posted. I’m prematurely excited for 2010; I’ve had this feeling for the last couple of months that I’m sitting at a crossroads. Both personally and professionally. I have this feeling that something is going to happen for me this year, this is going to be the year for me. I have a couple of posts in the works right now:
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I had a wedding December 26th(yes the day after Christmas), that I shot as a second shooter!
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I’m going to post my new year’s resolutions.
I know, I know (about the resolutions) everybody is making them and posting them on Facebook, Tweeting them, blogging them. But that’s not why I’m doing it. In the past I’ve made resolutions and then not followed through, because there didn’t seem to be accountability. They didn’t seem concrete. They were just words in the January air, they left my mouth and then kept going and going, until they were out of sight and out of mind.
Blogging, just adds a permanence to my thoughts, so that I or anyone can go back to that post and say “See, you said that you were going to do this and you didn’t” You broke your resolutions. I think that because in the past, I just like everyone else, seemed to make resolutions that we all knew in our heart of hearts that we weren’t going to follow through with, we were stretching too far. You know the “I’m going to stop smoking” resolutions – when you’ve been a 3 pack a day smoker for the last 10 years. Or I’m going to run 5 miles everyday, but you really haven’t been exercising on a regular basis. The goal is too big – therefore too easy for you to give up on. I’m going to make some smaller goals that I actually will follow through with, and there by giving me momentum to accomplish something bigger!
Now I know the rule with photographer’s blogs is that we can be serious with our words, but there usually has to be a photo accompanying the words, so here’s a self portrait of me looking serious…or looking toward the near future:
Tags: 35 F2D, GOYA!, Laidric Stevenson, Laidric Stevenson photography, New Year's Resolutions, personal, second shooting, self-portrait, Steven Sow Photo, Stevensowphoto, Welcome to 2010!
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