Some Film - Shannon and Melissa
Since I’ve been shooting a lot lately, I’ve taken the opportunity to get out the Yashica again, as well as a Pentax Super ME that was given to me by a coworker. I bought a cheap used 50mm f2 lens from B&H to make the Pentax a super light portable 35mm camera. When I got my film back from shooting w/Shannon, there were several frames that ended up double and triple exposed. I’m not really sure how that happened, but some of them actually looked really neat. It’s weird to me the different looks of the lighting and the effects the film gives you. These were all shot against a grey background, but depending on the film, I end up with either a greyish or blueish background.
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Pentax Super ME, Cropped Square, to remove double exposed part of the frame.
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And with the Yashica Mat 124G, I really love this camera:
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And a couple of Melissa…with the Pentax
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I still have a lot of learning to do to be able to shoot both film and digital. With film I am learning that if I’m not sure I have the shot, then I definitely don’t have it. With both of these film cameras I own, it is nice because they both make me really slow down, meter, set exposure, meter again and then shoot, then…wait for the lab to process the negatives.
Melissa
I met Melissa last January when I took Don Gianatti’s Lighting-Essentials workshop in Baltimore. She had just turned 17 and was a Senior in High School. She came with her mom, a former runner-up for the Miss Trinidad and Tobago pageant. She has since graduated from High School in Fort Belvoir, and is attending classes in NYC. Since she’s been up there, she’s done a shoot with Cathrine Westergaard, who does really awesome work. She makes it down here to Virginia from time to time to grace us with her presence. And what fun we had!
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I have more from Melissa’s shoot here. It was a long day, but was really good to be able to get two photoshoots in on one day. I still have lots of pictures from Sunday at the meetup at Ramblewood. I am about 1/2 way done with those photos, hopefully I will have them done in a day or so. This has been a lot of fun in the past few weeks, coming up with an idea, and then making it happen. I still have lots to learn, but every shoot so far has been a learning experience. Good times ahead.
Thanks Liz for all your inspiration and support.
Shannon
Shannon has been doing some modeling for a couple months now, and she and I have been planning a shoot for about a month. We came up with some concepts that we both really liked and decided on a date we would do the photo shoot. I am trying to constantly update my portfolio and feel out what direction I would like to take my photography. It’s been an exciting couple of years since I bought my first digital SLR, and now I am actually going a bit backwards and trying to work some film into the mix as well.
This would be my first shoot in my studio, so not only would I be meeting a new model & friend for the first time, I would be trying to get a feel for the space, what works there, what doesn’t. My best bet was to keep it simple. Simple lighting, simple backgrounds, just clean and fun.
You can view a web gallery of all the images from our shoot here, but below are a few great images from our shoot together. I hope to get to do this again soon.
There will be a later follow-up post once I get through all my digital images from this weekend and can get my film images scanned and processed.
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Its no big deal, but…
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My photo got used this morning on the DCist website. I’ve been occasionally contributing photos to them, hoping one day to get picked for the "picture of the day", but this is the first time one of my photos has been used. You can read the entire story here.
Liz and I went to the Corcoran to see the Richard Avedon exhibit (which was great) on Saturday and just happened to park near where the accident happened. I took one of my film cameras down with me and we happened across the cleanup effort. Had to make sure I finished the roll so I could get pictures uploaded that afternoon. I’m glad Foto Image was able to get my negatives developed so quickly.
The entire set can be viewed here.
Thanks DCist for using my image.
