Some sample frames from work in progress. Shot 2 rolls of 35mm Cinestill400, a motion picture film that’s been repurposed and marketed for still photography and standard C41 lab chemistry. Found a few light leaks, some interesting color shifts and contrast effects but nothing that would make me use it instead of a more traditional emulsion unless that’s all we’ve got after the zombie apocalypse 🙂
Nikon F100 35mm SLR with various lenses
3-11-23: Been spending some time printing photos to hang. It’s been refreshing to work with paper again after so much screen time these past couple years. I’ve made all the prints with a ‘hybrid’ process: film capture and development in C-41 chemistry by a local lab, then scanned and digitized, with basic ‘darkroom’ work done on the computer in adobe lightroom, then inkjet printed on archival paper. Here’s a teaser of 2 of the pieces from the show that should be up Monday or Tuesday next week 🙂 If you’re in Philly in March, drop by Higher Grounds cafe at 631 N 3rd (3rd and Fairmount) and take a looksie.
It was a beautiful spring day….. In January.
A few minutes in the garden with a macro lens.
I got this old manual focus macro lens pretty cheap when the pandemic lockdowns hit last spring thinking it’d help pass the time. I ended up ‘essentially’ working through the past year though so it didn’t get the play i thought it would. I Stepped out the front door the other morning and saw the bumblebees on the coneflowers and took the opportunity.
All shot hand held – Nikon D700 with a Nikkor 105 f/2.8 AIS Micro
‘Lower NorthEast’ Philly – Just hit the street with a camera in hand and see what happens.
The techy stuff for those who care 🙂
All images shot handheld w/Nikon D700
Nikkor 35mm f/2 AF-D or 105 f/2.8 AI-S Micro
The ‘Rona doesn’t stop fires…. A Frankford Ave storefront burned to the ground the other day….
I started out giving myself a project of picking my 12 favorite shots from 2017 because…. well its that time of year… Anyway, that quickly got out of hand, so I gave up on that and changed the self assignment to pick 12 shots from 2017 that I like but hadn’t posted. That morphed into putting together a cross section of shots from 2017 that represented some experiments, diverse content, cameras and medium (35mm and Medium Format film, and digital). 12 grew to 13… Cuz I wanted the Meek Mill pic in there… So here it is.
Cameras Used: Nikon D300 (Digital), Nikon F100, Nikon FE2, Zorki 4, Yashica D
Films Used: TriX, Kodak Portra 400, HP5, Fomopan100
Grab shot on my Monday morning walk to the L…
Kodak Portra 400 developed and scanned by local lab –
Nikon F100 50mm f/1.4 AfD (Hand Held 1/25sec @ f/1.4)
In The Shadow Of Liberty 