My Wife and my Mother-In-Law.
Shot early in the year on Kodak Portra 400. Self developed and scanned - no crop.
Filtering by Tag: 400
a Sense of Order
Whenever I'm looking I trie to See. I try to build the frame in my mind and that is hit or miss and sometimes it comes easily and sometimes not at all. Sometimes it's the weather, the mood, my mood, the people I'm with, or the needs of the dog when I'm walking her -- yadda, yadda, yadda..
Ok -- so you get the point -- sometimes it happens, and sometimes it just doesn't... no matter how hard you try.
But -- there are times when a scene just grabs you -- and that's when I have to get the shot. And during those times if I don't get the shot then I become obsessed and really bummed I didn't make the image.
So -- here's what I'm getting at -- while walking the dog with my wife this scene caught my eye and I took it hand held on the Nikon F100 with 400 ASA Ilford. And -- I love this image. The whole lesson here is while your looking try to see - try to see the superimposed frame in front of you - and sometimes that comes easily, and some times - it just doesn't.
Nikon F100, Ilford Delta 400
Streetwalk
Last Fall I would walk the neighborhood with Lola the English Bulldog and my Nikon F100. Every once in a while a scene would appear - or - better said - I would will a scene to be captured. Every photo - every frame - is a stretch of sanity without slapping the shutter release of pure hope something would eventually develop. And develop is correct as I'm shooting film here -- but I'll stop babbling -- this is what I got in the window of the Architectural firm.
Nikon F100 - Kodak Portra 400
Hagerman
This was in Hagerman Idaho. It was one of those days where I had the time to shoot but I had to dig really deeply to find anything -- really -- anything to shoot. I walked out side from the house - about 100 yards away and this scene appeared. And I decided to make it work and capture it as best as i could manage. Shot on Portra 400 with the Nikon F100.
Working the Boards
A Landscape Architect of the firm works the boards. Shot on Ilford Delta 400 - self developed and scanned.
Hold the Line !
"Three weeks from now, I will be harvesting my crops. Imagine where you will be, and it will be so.
Hold the line!
Stay with me!
If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you’re already dead!"
Nikon F100 - Salt Lake City - Summer 2016
Over a Month -- yikes
It's been too long - I'll be working on that for the future. I will say that I get delayed from posting as I copyright all images now. So there is a 3-4 month delay after the photo is taken before I have a group to register etc. And after the image is registered, then I can post. Ugh --- I know... but that's the process. Ok -- onward.
This image was taken with the newly repaired Rollei 6008i on Ilford Delta 400. Home processed and scanned - and the scan is excellent. The negative processed very flat and as always the flatter the better during the scan.
I really like this image and may print it 24"x24".
No crop.
SBux on State
Taken at the Starbucks on State Street; it is one of my favorites. It was a grab shot while waiting in line for service.
I was so hoping she wouldn’t look up - and she didn’t.
It matches the frame of medium format film perfectly.
No crop - Kodak Portra 400.
Yashicamat124G - MF Film
Yellowstone NP
Yellowstone National Park - Old Faithful Inn.
A wonderful place and magical where the facility has been updated to todays standards but visually kept to look original. Shot on Ilfords Delta 400 with a Rolliflex 6008i. Ilford's Delta is a wonderful film stock which has a resolution much crisper than their HP5.
Bay Villas - Maui
Timeless without the Cars
Here's Lola again - with my wife Madeline. When Lola was around 10lbs.
I love this image - combined with the look of film this brings me to a "Madmen" type scene -- with the hat and film base it looks like something from the fabulous 1950's.
No lies here -- I don't know how fabulous the 50's really were as I wasn't born yet -- but I can't get over the nostalgia this image brings. Too bad the cars are in the background - else it would have been timeless.
This is Kodak's Portra 400. For its skin tone rendering - it has no peer.
Self developed with a C-41 Tetenal Kit - no crop.
Nikon F100 - 50mm f1.4 - Kodak Portra 400, Tetenal C-41 Kit
Smoke Tones
A cedar plank salmon smoking, is a back yard favorite - and on a whim I shot the event and the captured tones blew me away.
The smoke tones, during this evening really gave way to the power of the monochrome - and this became a good learning moment of trying to recognize what BW can really capture.
Formica Color Chips
This was a grab shot - and a bit of a surprise at how well it turned out. I couldn't have imagined this result. Geometric patterns are difficult to come by, recognize, and then capture.
Ilford Delta 400
Nikon F100 - Ilford Delta 400
Timelessness
This image took me a bit by surprise -- as too how well it turned out. Exposure, composition, and focus is perfect. And not having the vision of being able to predict it, caught me also. That's one of the aspects of film - a week after you get the roll developed, there are surpirses - mostly good.
I also didn't mention - this is a timeless image - it could have been shot in 1954 for that matter.
This is Stanley Kane - of FFKR Architects reviewing a set of documents.
Creative Process
I have the unique access to the inner workings of an Architectural office - as it's my day job. And there are times when I take advantage to capture those workings, and this is one of them.
A collegue prepares a wall with creative ques to start the creatvie process.
400 speed film is great for indoors - it's perfect, combined with a f1.4 lens. I hardly use 100 ASA as I really like the flexibility 400 provides.
Nikon F100 - Ilford Delta 400 DevScan by theFINDLab