Recent 35mm film photos, in no particular order. I haven’t added any here in a while so there are a lot. I still have a few hundred more to develop and scan, so there’s more coming eventually.
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35mm film photos. Montana, July 2021.
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Went to Montana in July, to the Bozeman/Belgrade/Billings area. I took 35mm film photos with my Canon P and a 35mm Voigtlander lens, with various film stocks.
35mm film photos. Manzanita, Oregon. July 2021.
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Went to the Oregon coast in mid-July, mostly to Manzanita but also Nehalem and Wheeler. I took pics with my Nikon FM and a 28mm lens, with a few different 35mm film stocks. As you can see my camera had some light leaks.
35mm photos, Dec. 2020 - May 2021
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35mm (full-frame) photos from December 2020 - May 2021. Shot on several different cameras. AristaEDU 400 and Tri-X 400 film, developed and scanned by me.
35mm half-frame photos from November 2020
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I got a working half-frame camera in November so the bad news for you, dear reader, is that I can now shoot twice as many photos on a roll and will be taking even more photos than I have been. I got an Olympus Pen FT, and it’s been really nice to shoot with in general.
By the way, other than being able to take twice as many photos, the draw of the half-frame camera for me is that, since each image is smaller on the roll of film, the grain is much more pronounced in each image. In fact, it’s twice as large as it would appear in a normal full-frame 35mm image.
I love the gritty look of these images that comes as a result of this larger grain, and I love how the process of reflected light being recorded onto a film strip can distort reality. It’s more a process of mark-making than of capturing real objects and scenes. Film photography in general has this appeal for me, and black-and-white film is already great at abstracting reality. But the smaller images with larger grain that the half-frame camera produces add yet another layer of distortion between the real thing and how it’s expressed in the final image. These images feel even more dreamlike to me, they have the quality of a moment half-remembered. And rather than simply being a still moment in time, these images make it look as though the world itself held still and posed.
35mm photos from November 2020
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I took a lot of film photos in November. Here are a bunch of them. The first 12 were actually shot in October on the coast but I didn’t develop that roll till November. Other than that, these are in no particular order.
35mm photos from October 2020
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Still taking lots of photos, still developing b&w film myself. Here are some more of them, in no particular order. 35mm on various cameras.
Photos, 35mm, Fall 2020
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I’ve recently learned to develop black and white film, so I’ve been shooting a lot of 35mm photos and developing/scanning/processing the rolls myself in my studio. I’ve also been practicing pushing the film to higher ISOs to make the images really grainy and contrasty and I’ve been happy with the results. Here are a few recent shots. These were shot on a Ricoh AF-40 and a Canon P with a 50mm lens, using various B&W films.
