Shot my roll today, in spite of the very threatening weather and a stomach that is somewhat unsettled as well. The roll is hanging up to dry now, and for once, I seemed to have loaded the 6x9 back on my Century Graphic correctly
I've got my Franken-cam ready to go; I'm just waiting for a break in the rain. I have yet to get a really satisfactory shot with this cam, which might just prove that I can take even the simplest of concepts and make it too complicated to be workable. I am an optimist though, so I am happy to spend my time trying.
Interestinly enough, the local digisnappers club teamed up with the local 4-H club and vandalized some coffee cans last weekend. Because Pinhole day is also Easter Sunday, their plan is to shoot and p rocess some paper negs next Saturday. A dangerous move... puting silver gelatine paper in the hands of mere teenagers. Some of them might just like it. I wish them the best.
Tom, on Point Pelee, Canada
Ansel Adams had the Zone System... I'm working on the points system. First I points it here, and then I points it there...
I lucked out that the rain didn't close in until this afternoon, so I shot a few sheets of film and a few sheets of paper in the latest 4x5 "box" camera. I'm bound to have something recognizable. For those who like resolution, I also ran a roll of Acros through my Ercona II. We're doing a blow-out dinner momentarily, so it may be a day or so before I get the stuff through a developer.
I shot a roll of 35mm through a camera I modified...some inside while it was sprinkling...and most in the basement where I have a table set up for photo shoots...and a 200W halogen light in an aluminum cone. I've yet to develop it yet. Probably here in a bit when I have some water free.
I love the smell of fixer in the morning...It smells like...PHOTOGRAPHY!
The photo blog has moved... I Love Film : by Susan McNutt, the mad photographer
I took this one today down at the Hamilton Harbour. Cookie tin with 0.4mm hole about 100mm from the film plane. About a five minute exposure using Kodak 2430 aerial duplicating film, and developed in Gainer's VitC+Metol.
I put a bit of pop can behind the lens of my Helioflex ... with a pinhole. Talk about pinhole photography, right? ROFLMAO!
I forgot that it would be better to put the pinhole in FRONT of the lens. (Why? Because I'm out of paper and the shutter won't stay fixed and I'm tired of opening the camera.)
P.S. That's a skirt hem with lace, if you're curious. Fujifilm Acros Neopan 100, inside, under a 200-something halogen light and the overhead fluorescent. I didn't take very good notes but that was around an 8-10 second exposure using the lens cap as the shutter.
I love the smell of fixer in the morning...It smells like...PHOTOGRAPHY!
The photo blog has moved... I Love Film : by Susan McNutt, the mad photographer