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2010-03-08 Signs of Life

Fighting an awful cold, but it gave me a chance to snap this one in our back yard today. Not only were the snow drops poppin', but the Diacord G is alive and kickin'! Hellooooo 1958!

Shot on Acros 100. While I'm partial to HP5 at the moment, I do have a few rolls of 100-speed film kicking around for portraiture. Last night Jake and I set up some backdrops and lights (it's strange to see PocketWizards firing strobes from a 1958 hot shoe!) and shot some portraits of guests visiting us for a few days... I happened to have a few shots left on the roll, and this is one of those. I think this shot works well on Acros 100.

2010-03-04 Travelers

Still working on framing with this camera; it's a 1947 Bessa 66, and I find it more difficult to frame close-up shots than I do with the 1938 version. Hand-held @ ~1/25th sec, f/11, Ilford HP5+.

Pictured are three travelers on their way to New Orleans. I believe the woman on the right is Jennifer, and the dog is Venus. Sadly, I had no notebook at hand and it was raining at the time (so the electronics didn't come out to assist me)...

2010-02-27 Sunburst

2010-02-26 Snowscape

2010-02-23 Post-Plow

2010-02-21 Grunge Birthday

From today - a shot from my Voigtl�nder Brillant, a TLR-like camera from the early 1930s. As you can see, the film feedl is badly damaging the emulsion. You can't see what the side of it looks like just outside of the frame - the gears for the film counter are chewing up one edge.

I think I could fix it. But I'm not sure whether or not I want to. There's something about this look that I kinda like.

... and this is Ilford HP5, pushed to EI 3200.

2010-02-19 Plowing

A few more coming from Snowpocalypse 3. And then I suspect I'll have some more film scans - just developed my first two rolls of 120 film (ever). Neopan 400 (the last two that I had, and the last I'm likely to have for a while, as I'm shooting Ilford HP5 now). Developing went well once I ditched the $15 cheapo developer tank reel and replaced it with a $50 nice one...

... with one minor caveat. Looking at the negatives, I think there's a light leak in one of the corners of Bessa's bellows; all of the shots have one overexposed corner. My other bessa isn't due back from CLA for another 7-ish weeks, which means I'll be going on a light-leak-hunt after I shoot the remaining three shots on its current roll.

2010-02-18 Tree #2

From fairly early in Snowpocalypse 3, shot from within the warmth of our kitchen with my favorite lens (Canon's 135mm f/2 prime).

2010-02-17 Hippity Hoppity

Back in the digital world, this comes from the height of Snowpocalypse 3 - trees had just started breaking under the weight of the snow in our neighborhood, and Jake and I beat a hasty retreat into the house.

2010-02-16 Hitting the Road

Comments welcome - again, Ilford Delta Pro 100. I wish I could have composed this a little less busy (perhaps without the truck interfering with the seat, for example, and with the person walking into the dead space between the cars). But given how long I spent on it (about 30 seconds) I'm moderately pleased.

I think this was about f/8, which must mean 1/175s. Perhaps I need to start keeping better notes on my exposures...