Storm Aftermath
We have been having a series of storms this fall. A couple of them have reached wind speeds between 120 and 124km/hr (74-77mph) at Trial Island (in the distance in photo above).
I don’t have any pictures from the height of the storms – it was just too wild and too much spray to be taking cameras into. I did try to get some on film in slightly less wild conditions and the above phone shot was secondary to that effort.
I could not tell if my camera was even taking pictures as I could not hear the film advance over the wind. That film will be processed today.
In the meantime, above is a picture from about a week ago of the waves breaking over the storm drain. Below are shots from yesterday of all the wood that ended up on the walkways that ring Ross Bay. In the panorama below the storm drain is near the upper left corner, but mostly underwater so not very visible and on the right is Clover Point. The bottom picture is of the storm drain, after the storm but while driftwood was still floating around.
Sign of Art?
A building in Portland across from OMSI.
I can’t figure out if the framework is deliberate art, or the remnants of a large sign of some kind.
It is weird how some of the black beams are quite reflective and others are not.
Street in Motion
A late evening streetscape in Portland, with lots of motion blur but I still like it, for the colours and moiré effect in the grating.
52 rolls 2016: Call for participants
For my Burntembers readers – here is the information for 2016 if any of you are interested in posting one “roll of film” a week. A roll could be a few polaroids, large format sheet film or some other version of “roll of film”. I have been having a lot of fun with the project in 2015, though at times it has been a stretch and at other times with fieldwork and so on, it has been impossible to post every week. Even so, I would recommend it highly to anyone that is interested in film photography.
It’s that time of the year again where everyone starts thinking about the great things they want to do in 2016. If you’re still looking for a film photography project how about joining 52 rolls? It is always a fun project, albeit a challenging one, to shoot one roll of film (be it 35mm, 120, Polaroid, sheet film) a week and share the results with the rest of the community. The rules are as follows:
- Shoot one roll of film per week
- Upload the results some time
- Profit!
The rules have been kept intentionally simple and vague as shooting every week is challenging enough. So, you can define yourself what a roll is (and change it every week if you want to). I will for example shoot two sheets of 4×5 a week (more on that in a later post). And you’re also not required to upload the results within…
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6×9 Ross Bay Mono
A comment on one of this series on my 52Rolls post yesterday spurred me to do some black and white conversions from this roll of film.
I was thinking in black and white when I made this shot as I had long ago taken some black and white photos of the house in similar light that had pleased me.
So, here is one of the shots from yesterday, cropped a bit and converted to black and white. (more…)
White House
Here is the rest of today’s roll of film shot with a Fuji GW690. The light was excellent and transitory, lasting for a short time. Fortunately long enough to finish a roll of film with satisfactory results.
The rest of this roll is published on my blog earlier today at http://wp.me/p1R4lY-7gB.
For the past couple of weeks it’s been heavily overcast or very stormy; altogether dark and gloomy with flat light. One afternoon the sun shone through a gap in the clouds near sunset, for perhaps 20 or 30 minutes. Long enough for me to get over to Ross Bay and shoot some waterfront scenes.
I am still trying to come to grips with the Fujica GW690 – I sure love the large negatives, and the lens is very good, and the simplicity of the camera very appealing. Using a spot meter is a bit tricky as I don’t really know what to metre on, so I have mostly been using incident light readings and then adjusting as seems necessary. Such as in this first shot which I dropped an f-stop or more to expose for the whites.
This was shot with Fuji 400H. I am finding it pretty hard to scan. I need to redo…
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6×9 Ross Bay
The white house on the corner of Ross Bay as the sun briefly appeared and then lowered behind cloud once again.
The shots are captured with a Fuji GW690. This camera makes 6×9 cm negatives.
The rest of the roll can be seen at White House as part of my 52 rolls project.
My first ever blog post was of this same scene, with similar light.
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