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I Finally Found the Appeal to Black and White Film
I just never understood it. Why use black and white when you can have color! Kodachrome!!!! As the song goes. I’ve been in love with color film from the start. The challenge and complexity dragged me in kicking and screaming yet I loved every moment of it. I have never even shot film in black and white. I was given a roll of illford HP4 and it sat with the rest of my film and it collected dust as the others came and went. It was the grandpappy of my film collection. I finally relented and put a roll into my Canonet G3 QL17 and fired off 24 shots. Most…
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The Difference
The difference between the novice and the master is that the master has failed more times than the novice has tried. Very poignant. I try to keep this in mind when shooting film lately. I have screwed up a few more rolls of film. I have taken some good shots and also been stumped on what to shoot next. I’m off to give myself some assignments and shoot ideas and just get out there and take some rolls of film. I need to keep on taking the bad photographs, experimenting with developing, and screwing up before I can fully master the craft.
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Burned Looking Film
I just developed my latest roll of film and it came out burnt looking. It really is the best way to describe it. What happened was that one side of the film got caught in the camera or in the developing wheel (I used a lab box, not a manual spooling method) and with the bent over end it did not spool correctly. This left the film touching itself and sticking to itself so the developer liquid could not contact the surface to correctly develop the film. This is that result. Many good shots were lost, but a few were salvaged and have that interesting light leak look. To avoid…
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My Quest for Taking Better Film Photography
What started with me simply wanted to know how to develop my own film has turned into my new obsession of wanted to take better photos. My entire life I’ve only used the auto mode on any camera. Maybe, just maybe I would put it on that running man mode for high speed shots and moving objects. That was really it. Once you start getting into film, you learn that those modes don’t exist on the film cameras. You also now have a fixed ISO setting (based on the film loaded) where-as a digital camera will auto adjust the ISO for you depending on the lighting. What I’ve learned so…
