Film
A few snapshots from my trip to the Rose Bowl back in January.
Gonna start blogging my rolls
Made few portraits of my brother during his visit to the PNW last Christmas. I’m a bit out of practice and out of focus, but who cares? Any excuse to look through the ground glass and fire off a few frames on the Rolleiflex photographing your folk is fine by me.
Shoot for self.
Going really meta here for National Camera Day with a photograph of my trusty Leica M6 made with my faithful but all too ignored Rolleiflex 3.5F on Ilford HP5. To be honest, I’m struggling to find a place for film in my life. Right now film doesn’t suit my lifestyle. Not to say that I’d walk away from analog completely, I could never do that. Film is how I fell in love with the medium of photography. Film requires work on my part, and it’s work that frankly I’m finding I don’t have the time to put in. We’ll see, film always has a way of coming back.
Long live film.
I haven’t been shooting much film lately. Not sure if it’s because it’s winter in Seattle. This leads to short, wet cold days. Anyway, I finally got around to developing a roll of Kodak Tri-X 400 I ran through my Holga. Here’s a all 12 frames…the whole Holga.
Finally got around to developing some film. To be honest, while I love shooting film developing and scanning myself has gotten tedious. I just don’t have the time any longer to set aside for marathon developing sessions followed up by marathon scanning sessions. I’m beginning to hate this part of the process. I know hate is such a strong word. Don’t get it twisted film will always have a place in my life. While most days I have my Fuji X-Pro2 slung across my shoulder rest assured there’s also a point and shoot film camera in my bag, whether it be my Holga 120N, Olympus Stylus or Leica Mini Zoom.
Luckily in Seattle we still have a few dedicated analog labs operating and thriving with the resurgence of film. I may just go ahead and support these local businesses and start sending a few rolls there way. Everybody wins.
A few sacred frames from the Rolleiflex. I say sacred not because of the subject matter but because of the time. Rarely these days do I go out just for the sake of making images. When I exposed these frames that was one of those days. I took the Rollleiflex over the Leica that day because I wanted to slow down and take my sweet ass time. Note to self, make time for the sole purpose of shooting this summer. Oh and these were shot on old faithful Kodak Tri-X 400, forgive the puns I’m a dad now and they just come so easy.
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA