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Film photography · Medium Format · Photography

Overexposed Jag

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So, it seems I managed to mess up the exposure on this shot by some margin. Had it been B&W or C41 negative film then I might have rescued some of the highlights, but slide film takes no prisoners unfortunately, so over-exposure is what I got. While this B&W conversion is no less overexposed than the colour original, I think the monochrome hides the failings better and, despite the flaws, there’s still something about the photograph that I like. So, here it is.

UPDATE: Two days after posting this, the photo managed to get into Flickr’s Explore selection. While I like the picture, I don’t think it’s that good. But then Explore is an enigma at the best of times. The photos I make that I like best never tend to get into Explore, it’s always the ones I think are more average.

Jag

Fujica GW690 & Fujichrome Provia 400 (expired 2013). Lab developed.

Taken on 30 April 2022

Film photography · Medium Format · Photography

Isetta 300 bubble-car

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Last weekend I visited another vintage rally, this time the Smallwood Vintage Rally in Cheshire. It was a little smaller than the Astle Park event I visited a few weeks earlier and missed on some exhibits like the persiod funfair rides – there was still a funfair but it was mostly modern attractions. I doubt I would travel across the country to visit it again (hopefully the more local events will be back next year), but it was good to meet up with some fellow photographers I know via an online photography forum. As we all shoot film cameras, and as a few of us had proposed bringing folding cameras along, an informal competition was devised where we would each attempt to photograph something from the same decade as the camera.

I still had just over half-a-roll of HP5+ in my 1950s era Zeiss Mess-Ikonta, so would use that for the challenge. I also took my Yashicamat 124G on the day. As the Yashicamat if much easier to use than the Zeiss, I endeavoured to use up the partial roll in the folding camera first and completely forgot about the competition. Luckily though, one of the pictures I made was of a bubble-car that, upon later research, turned out to be an Isetta 300 manufactured and first registered in 1959, just squeaking through the competition rules. There’s no prize, and probably not even any judging, so I didn’t have anything to lose, but I’m glad I got something that fit the bill anyway.

50s bubble-car
Fifties made, like my camera
Here to save the day

Isetta 300

Zeiss Mess-Ikonta 524/16 & Ilford HP5+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins @ 20°.

Taken on 14 August 2021

35mm · Film photography · Photography

Colour!

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A few weeks ago I spotted someone selling a single roll of Velvia 100 on eBay. It had a single bid, but it was still at £1 (plus postage), so I waited until the last minute for a sneaky snipe and managed to buy it for the princely sum of £1.04. With postage it came to less than £4. It was listed as expired, but as it was unboxed there was no way to know how expired it might be and, for that matter, how it might have been stored. Still, for the price, I wasn’t too worried and even entertained the idea of having it cross-processed. In the end though, I decided against it, and just shot it at 80asa.

When I got the developed transparencies back I was very happy. The whole roll apperared to be well exposed (chalk up a win for the OM-2n’s meter!) and the colours practically leapt from the sheet with richly saturated tones. To be honest, I wouldn’t be surprised to find that the roll of film was fresh stock.

As with other rolls of E6 film, it took some tweaking during the scanning configuration and in Lightroom (and Photoshop) to get the scans looking like the actual transparencies, but I think it was worth the effort (and I now have the settings saved for future use – I’ve just bought four more rolls of expired Velvia 100!).

I’ll be posting a whole bunch of the results here in the coming days, but for now, here’s a photo of a car tail-light that was catching some morning sunshine. It might not be the best composition ever, but man, look at those colours!

Tail-light

Olympus OM-2n, Zuiko Auto-S 50mm f/1.8 & Fujichrome Velvia 100.

Taken on 2 August 2020

35mm · Film photography · Photography

Carmouflage

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Another scene that I’ll probably not see again for a while, both because the year has progressed and the light won’t fall on these cars through this fence for another several months (at least not in the same way, and possibly at a time of day when the cars are not there), but mainly at present because there aren’t any cars parked on this street anymore due to the pandemic.

It’s a road I walk up when dropping my films to be scanned at my local lab, but that’s closed too for the time being and, as I’ve bought my own home-developing equipment, I might not be using them as frequently when they do re-open (something I’m torn about – while me home developing my film is cost effective, I don’t want to deprive the lab of any business. It’s a valuable place to have on my doorstep and their service is great).

While it isn’t the foremost concern by far, I do worry a little as to the impact this pandemic will have on film photography. While is was going from strenth-to-strength before all this happened, I do wonder how a potential pandemic-triggered recession might affect it. If money is short, will people still want to spend so much on film and processing costs? I hope so, but it’s a concern nonetheless.

FILM - Carmouflage

Pentax Espio 140M & Ilford HP5+.

Taken on 19 February 2020

35mm · Film photography · Photography

0 to 60 in?

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It’s said that men, when the reach middle age, can compensate for their lack of youth by splashing out on a fancy set of wheels. Well how about this hot little coupe? 🙂

It does have a slightly disapproving look about it though, with it’s eye-like lights and pursed mouth, so maybe don’t be too heavy on the accelerator…

FILM - Nice little motor

Pentax Espio 140M & Ilford HP5+.

Taken on 11 February 2020