We were testing our new lighting setup the other night and our little diva was our model. We also have this Aperture Preset, Milky Noir, which gives a nice vintage finish on shots. They just seemed appropriate for the little rockstar.
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Massey Monday: Playtime
Just like last week, these aren't the greatest of shots. You should try playing with a hyper brittany spaniel holding a wubba in one hand and a DSLR with a fairly large lens in the other. Then, imagine that you're chillin' in a 6 foot Love Sac. Not that these obstacles are tough, but they do make it difficult to get a clean shot. I think we must have played for 30-40 min straight (and she didn't tire out). The light was quite interesting and she was having such a good time. I don't think I looked through the viewfinder for any of these shots. Since they are a bit blurry and just plain random, I thought I'd process them as square with a mostly vintage finish. Good times.
Thirsty Thursday: Mystery Rolls
Rambler: Beth Drink at Hand: Naked Grape Pinot Noir (yeah, I bought it because of the name...don't judge me!)
Something a little different this Thursday...not so much about a cool place to go shoot, but rather about an attempt at shooting some film! About a month ago I walked into the local camera shop with 3 rolls of exposed Kodak Tri-X 400 black and white film in my hands. I bought this film when we lived in Japan...yep, that's right, purchased 2006 most likely. It was well past the expiration date! I found one roll already exposed when I was organizing some camera stuff when we moved into the new house. The other two rolls I took recently. Actually, that's not even true...I found my film camera with a 1/2 exposed roll in it. So I had a roll and a half of mystery images (I had no idea what that old stuff might be) and a roll and a half that I had shot within the last few weeks. I waited the requisite week to get the processed film back from the lab and then had to wait a few more days for Terry to scan the film with our Nikon CoolScan film scanner before I actually got to see what I had.
It turns out that the old "mystery roll" was pretty old...from 2008! That also means it was exposed, tossed in a box, moved Lousyana, endured the heat of that place, moved back here to California, and finally shown some chemical bath love. Back in '08 a friend was considering buying a digital camera, so I loaned him my digital camera when he went out to shoot with us at Point Pinos one evening, and I shot film with an old Nikon full manual camera. Here are a few from that evening.
A few months later we went to Yosemite. I guess I took the camera with me to finish that roll from the summer evening at the beach. I don't even remember having it with me. But of course I took a Tunnel View photo in black and white--because no one has ever done that before!
Fast forward to 2011...I decided to try a roll in my Canon Elan 7E on our way north along the coast to Pescadero. I used the Photodiox adapter with the Nikon 50mm manual lens. It was pouring down rain, but I couldn't let this bike go without a quick photo. Terry kept making fun of me because I kept looking at the back of the camera after snapping the shutter--but there's no instant feedback in the form of a LCD screen on the back of a film camera.
To finish off that roll I took the camera along on a quick hike with the dog in Ft Ord and shot a few here at home.
Get out and try something new or different this weekend. You might be surprised by the results!