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 Photos, Lincoln City (Oregon), Summer 2021
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35mm film photos from a vacation in Lincoln City, Oregon.
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.
Half-frame 35mm photos, Dec 2020 - May 2021
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Here’s a selection of film photos I shot over the winter & early spring. Half-frame 35mm on Pen FT camera, with a few different films (mostly AristaEDU 400 and Tri-X 400). These are in more-or-less chronological order. As usual, I’m still developing and scanning these rolls myself.
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.
Digital Photos, Fall 2020
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Some recent digital photos, taken in Portland.
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.
Photos, April-May 2020
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More photos shot on my half-frame film camera, from late April and early May 2020.
The control over the focus and aperture is pretty limited with this camera, so I still don’t fully know what to expect when I shoot with it. Lots of pics were too out-of-focus or over-exposed, but I like how many of them turned out. The out-of-focus and blown-out quality of the pics from this camera is really interesting. I love how this quality makes the pictures look like they’re from another time, or a dream. It calls to mind a different world when I look at them, and I like taking pics of stuff just to see how it’ll look filtered through this camera. It’s making me notice things I hadn’t before, even when I’m not taking any pictures.
Photos, 5 April 2020
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Some more digital photos, from April 5th. I took a very long walk that day around NE Portland.
Photos, late March 2020
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I recently got a Nikon DSLR so I’ve been taking some non-film photos. Here are a few from the last few days of March. The weather has been nice during social isolation so I’ve been able to take some good walks. And I have a lot more free time now that I’ve lost my day job…
Photos, January 2020
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I recently got a new (old) camera, a Fujica Auto-M. Here are some pics I took to test it out. (Film: Kodak Gold 200)
Photos, Color, Fall 2019
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Here are some photos I took in October/November 2019. I shot these on Fuji Xtra 400 color film with an Olympus OM2S.
Photos, Color, July 2019
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Per my previous blog post, I’ve recently taken up film photography as a hobby. Here are some color photos I took on Fuji X-Tra 400 film in July 2019 in Porltand, OR.
Photos, B&W, July 2019
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Recently I got a Pentax 35mm camera and took up taking film photos. It’s been a really fun hobby so far. I get the rolls developed at a camera shop and then scan the negatives at home. Here are some photos I took on Tri-X 400 B&W film in mid-to-late July 2019, in Portland and Lincoln City, OR.
