Ellen On Film

A few months ago I purchased a 1970's era Yashica Mat-124G. I had been really, really wanting a square format (6x6) so the right deal came up and I picked one up. Now this camera was a TLR (twin lens reflex), the same sort of camera that Vivan Maier used to create her street photography, portraits, self portraits etc. 

Now usually when I get a new camera, lens or whatever I have a few people I will ask to create some work with the new equipment. And in this gear test, it was my red headed friend Ellen. Now it was early December so it was freezing cold and Ellen told me she had this amazing window light in her living room. The rest was history. Now I did shoot some digital but I'm more interested in shooting more film this year, especially since I obtained my own chemistry to develop at home. (Real quick I'll tell those photo nerds who are curious. I shot with TriX 400, metered at 1600. Developed with Kodak HC-110)

As excited as I was to use this camera. I SOLD IT. 


Why? You'll see on my next blog post when I develop, scan the next roll of film!

Quincee Lark

A couple of weeks back Quincee and I had met up at her home to create. It had been awhile that I had created something for me. I always enjoy photographing portraits in a home. Lighting can be more dramatic, contrasty or help show off more of the persons personality.

Aside form shooting digital, I brought my Pentax 6x7 and Pentax K1000. I shot one roll of Portra 400 @ 400. For the K1000 I used Lomography's limited release of its F2/400 film. It was the first roll of 10 I bought. And to be honest it's not a film I will just use for whatever. Sort of like the fine china or special booze. Only break it out for special occasions! After developing at a local lab I scanned here at home on my Epson V600 and cleaned up in PS.