. grey area | when to convert your images to b&w
When I was first studying photography in the ’80s, I only shot B&W film. There were so many benefits that I didn’t realize at the time. One was that it was cost effective. I only had to pay for the rolls of film and I processed everything by hand. [All the above images were shot [...]
photography is [our aloha house]
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_ ALOHA HOUSE from Leaves from A Grass House by Don Blanding Green are the hills behind my home; White are the clouds that froth and foam To the high blue sky where the rainbow’s veil Is a gauzy Scarf. There’s a winding trail Through fern and guava and waving ti…. …A pleasant jaunt when [...]
photography is [an art and a business]
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This is some of my favorite work lately. It’s the type of work I really love and the type of work I’ve always loved. I am not quite sure why it stands out other than it is beautiful to me. Both images are technical disasters. I know I wouldn’t be able to sell this work [...]
photography is [leaving las vegas]
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Shot on expired Kodak BW400CN film with a Nikon EM and 50mm manual focus lens. Because you can’t use electronics during take-off and landing, I decided to carry my completely analog 35mm camera to WPPI. I bought this camera to take with me on my sailing trip in 2002 just in case my electronic film [...]
photography is [the casa romantica]
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Awhile ago we visited the Casa Romantica here in town. We wanted to do something different but didn’t want to join the swarms of So Calians in the local mountains and we didn’t want to drive far (ever since we went sailing and didn’t have a car for 2 years, we haven’t been big fans [...]
photography is [a good ol' twin lens reflex] | film photographer
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All of these were shot on Kodak Ektar 100 with a $95 Yashika Mat 124G twin lens reflex manual focus camera. The hardest part was focusing these because the little magnifying glass for looking at the ground glass up close is broken and kept flopping around in my view. It definitely helps to use my [...]
[photography is] a yashika mat 124g & nikon 8008s film camera
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All 4 above were taken with the Yashika Mat 124G with an 80 f/3.5. The next 4 were taken with my trusty 8008s and 50mm f/1.8 lens. The Nikon I took to Europe and had temporarily short out on me from being in a Schmetterling Haus and then again all the way to Raiatea and [...]
[photography] is sailing
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I recently processed some old film that I found in Jim’s Holga camera that has been lying around our house for 8 years. I finished off the roll then sent it to Richard Photo Lab in Hollywood. Although I am sure it is not the technical quality they are used to seeing, the images are [...]