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No Loitering you Kids….
Saturday, April 30th, 2011Tuesday Black and White
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
Recent Film images
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011Bronica Gs-1 and Fuji 160s (I think)
Kodachrome…may you RIP
Sunday, January 9th, 2011Kodachrome. That name stirs up many emotions. Floods the mind with many images. Countless of them that you’ve probably seen at some time and point in your life. Time, Life, National Geographic, all had photographers who shot with the iconic (I don’t even think that that word does justice to the emulsion) Kodak slide film. Paul Simon sang “Please don’t take my Kodachrome away”…but Kodak did, no longer producing the film or the infamously toxic chemical process used to develop it K-14.
A little over 5 years ago, I found myself in a closing Ritz camera store in the Grapevine Mills mall. They were trying to unload everything that they could, including rolls of expired film of all kinds. Black and white, Fuji color, Kodak color print, different slide films, 110 (when’s the last time you’ve seen 110 film??). Digging through the bin, I didn’t see anything that caught my eye….until I saw a couple of boxes of K64, expiration 2003. I grabbed them (there were actually alot more than the two I picked up…why didn’t I buy more rolls is beyond me), and I was off. I knew that it was hard to get Kodachrome processed then (I believe that Dwayne’s and one other place still processed K-14 at that time), and I knew that I would have to make the images count, that I had to use them for something special (so I thought), so I brought them home and threw them in the freezer, to be thawed out for that imaginary occasion in the unknown future.
Those rolls sat unused for 5 years.
When the announcement came from Kodak that they were ending the 75 year production run of the film, and support of the K-14 process, I knew that I couldn’t wait forever, that I had to shoot something with the film. The imaginary special occasion was the experience of using this film, and being one of the last groups of people to have Dwayne’s process it (my film made it there around Dec 10th). I shot one roll of K64 (the other roll I gave to Grant Meeks for him to have fun shooting some Kodachrome) and a roll of K200 that I found laying around(I have no idea when or where I bought it!). I decided to shoot the K64 as an exercise in seeing and shooting with limitations; one body (My trusty and war torn Nikon F3), one lens (one of my favorite Nikkors, the 20 2.8 ais – really a limitation in seeing, shooting with only an ultrawide angle lens).
***The First and Last frame***
Grant Meeks
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010Formula: Take two photographers, an empty studio due to a cancelled shoot, and a bunch of studio strobes and what do you get? Well it’s pretty simple; me and Grant just messing around with some lighting setups. He took some of me. And here’s mine of him, I also managed to sneak in some film shots as well with my Lubitel, sent those off to Dwyane’s today, soon as I get them back, I’ll post a couple of those for a compare/contrast.
Random Film love…
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010I’ll go ahead and say it…I miss film, I miss the feeling of knowing that you only had 12, 24, or 36 shots. I miss that rhythm of opening the back of the camera, taking out that exposed roll and slapping another in its place. I miss that smell when you opened a new unexposed roll. I miss the simplicity of it. I miss the all metal cameras. I feel all of this each time I pick up one of my relics from the past. Not that I have a bunch of old collectibles, all my film cameras were bought used….well used. Paint worn down to the brass around the edges, scratches, buttons that had popped off long ago. I always considered myself a shooter not a collector, I didn’t care how it looked, if the meter worked, and it was light tight, it was good enough for me.
Today starts what I am going to work on becoming a reoccurring feature here; Random Film Love. I’m going to hit the streets, pound the pavement, and get back to the basics. I’m going to get back to what I loved about photography in the past. Not that I don’t love it now…it’s just it was different back then. I don’t know if I’m going to go as far as bringing 1/2 of the darkroom back (the developing stage), I don’t really have the space for the enlarger and trays and such, and I don’t think I want to go back to constantly mixing up developer and fixer every 3 or 4 months. I’d like to thank Dwayne’s photo for the develop and scan of these rolls of film!
I always seem to come back to my old Junior High. It was my first school upon moving here 20 years ago. I met friends here that I still have to this day. I remember playing basketball on the rough asphalt courts during 9th grade PE, then during summers when I was in High school and on into college.
Went back on two separate days – once in 35mm:
And once with the Square:
Film Time! (Images from April…)
Sunday, July 25th, 2010Just 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.
1/2 of a GOYA shoot….
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010Just 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:
Five images On a Sunday In Fort Worth
Monday, May 17th, 2010Due 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!
A bored Self-portrait…***edited for Geek-Speak***
Monday, April 19th, 2010With some dirty wrinkled seamless I had lying around…and an excuse to test out my new Creative Light softbox, I think I’ll be buying some more of their stuff, this is one Nikon SB-80 flash, very even coverage. From a 1 x 1 softbox.
