My brother and sister-in-law recently bequeathed me two of their film cameras. I took the Pentax K1000 out for a spin with a roll of Kodak Portra 400.
These were shot at work on a rainy day.
Some of you will recognize this hydrant. I have featured it before.
Backyard on a sunny winter’s day.
Nina.
My big boy, Buddy.
In the living room by window light.
Back out in the yard…Bibi on film.
I’m still having issues with camera leak, so it looks like I really need to take the camera in for service.
The field behind my optometrist’s office.
In the backyard.
Kodak Portra 400. It loved Buddy. From what I’ve read Portra makes for great skin tones, and obviously, when one’s subjects are all furry, that’s hard to see. I’ve got another roll of this in my camera right now.
These are the “regular” 72 dpi scans I received from The Darkroom which are fine for the web, but not for printing. When I receive the negatives, I will scan some of my favorites.
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For some reason, my first roll of exposed film got set aside during the move and about a week ago, in my rummaging about, I “found” it again and sent it off. Therefore, these photos were taken before those I posted a while back. Much of this roll was not very good, as I was in unfamiliar territory (no chimping with film!) and I “forgot” I was shooting black and white film. Eventually, I started to pay attention to light and shadow, and a few came out okay.
Kodak 100 T-MAX.
One of my goals this year is to explore film photography. To that end, I have purchased several rolls and started my journey. I began this roll of film last year, so the majority of these were shot in Silver Springs before the Big Move, and last week I finished off the roll in our new home.
Obviously, the camera needs a servicing…there is a pronounced scratch line along the right (portrait) and bottom (landscape), as well some lint and dust. I’ll do that before I expose my next roll.
I had the film processed at The Dark Room, and these are the scanned photos they provided online for download. I will receive the negatives in the mail in a few days, and at that time, I’ll be able to scan them and perhaps do some additional processing.
I am loving the texture and depth of these, even if they aren’t particularly dynamic. Film: Kodak 100 T-MAX. Camera: Canon AE-1 with a 50mm fixed lens.
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Silver Springs
New home – shot with window light only.
I’d heard about this mystery process called scanning negatives, and I knew my CanoScan 4400F had the capability. I’d even glanced at the little thing-a-ma-jiggy that holds the negatives. I finally took it out for a whirl yesterday.
Way cool.
No, seriously.
First husband (daughter’s dad). 1981. Willamette River. Portland, Oregon.
I miss Oregon so much, but I digress…
I took this photograph with my spiffy, new (at the time) SLR. I barely knew what I was doing, but this one came out pretty good. I wish I’d kept up with my photography, but we were young and poor and film developing was not cheap.
A whole new world has just opened before me. Toddling off to buy some film. Any recommendations from my film photographer followers? I love black and white too, so any recommendations would be most welcome!
Carissa Snedeker Photography 