Sitting Around
Last summer I showed some pictures from a micro 4/3 digital camera that I took. I had a new work project camera at home to get familiar with prior to some field work. I noted then that one of the reasons I have been coveting a pocketable digital camera was the ability to take street photographs without being obvious about it. Since then I have decided that the small point and shoot film cameras fill that need. I have also realised that I don’t feel all that good about taking candid shots.
I cropped all of these for instagram, and a couple of them showed up there.
The last shot is very nostalgic for me. I can’t remember the last time I saw someone outside a photofinishing store looking at their prints. It was such a common sight for so long, but it must be 8 or 10 years since I last noticed someone doing this.
Beginning
This is a crop from the first shot on this roll of film.
I loaded it in the car right outside the camera store and took this as a no-hoper kind of shot, a shutter click to get going.
Half of the frame was exposed when the film loaded, though I assumed all of it was.
Even though unintended, I really like what I found on the partial frame.
Legislative Reflections
Here is the British Columbia legislative library on the back side of the Legislature, reflected in the still Centennial Fountain. I think it was turned off because of cold weather and possible freezing.
The last time I photographed this location, the fountain was active, but it was raining and there were reflections to be had from the puddles on the pavement.
Under the Weather
This is what our weather has been like for a couple of weeks. Not quite unrelenting, as we had a couple of nice days last week.
But it has felt unremitting since I was under the weather on the few nice days, or more accurately, under the bed covers.
Ending
Is it in bad taste to follow yesterday’s post with some shots from the cemetery near my home?
The photograph above was taken at the same time, and with the same view-finder framing, as the Polaroid I posted a few days ago.
School Zone
I remember taking this picture, but for the life of me could not remember where.
I finally figured out it must have been in Port Alberni when I was there in November.
This film has been in my coat-pocket camera since just before that trip; the next frame is from the day after I returned.
Detective work – notes would have helped.
This is the first roll of Ilford XP2 that I have shot. I used it with various ISO settings from 100 to 800 and am very pleased with the results.
Many thanks to Gary at Filmadvance for the recommendation.
5X Macro
This 52Rolls.net of mine summarizes my previous post here at burntembers.com.
Check out 52rolls for a wide variety of photographers all shooting at least one roll/pack/sheet of film a week and posting about it. There are some excellent photographs taken on everything from large format to half-frame sized film with pinhole and lensed cameras.
There are lots of experiments as people come to terms with their gear, their film, developing and/or ideas they wish to convey.
Bud is about 3mm across, perhaps a touch more. 6 sec (Elan 7N metered it at 15 sec, DSLR metered at 8 sec), f16, ISO320
My week #5 roll is appropriately about shots made with a 5X macro setup. They are once again made with the Canon Elan 7N (aka EOS 33V), but this time hooked up to Canon FL/FD mount macro gear that I have been using with my DSLR. For (too) much detail about this setup see my simultaneously published post here which also includes some DSLR shots taken of the same subjects when I swapped camera bodies. The photos shown here are on expired Fuji Superia X-Tra 400. I made them to test the setup on the 7N for things like how well it meters in these conditions, and generally how this high magnification (~5X) macro works on film. Looks to me like it works just fine.
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