A month or so ago I ran across an online pamphlet for Phase One titled "The Food Portfolio" and I really wanted to try to re-create some shots from there as well as some other still life shots I’ve seen in the last months.  These don’t really do justice to the original shot, and I obviously don’t have my own $30,000 Phase One digital setup (yet), but I feel like I did pretty well.  Here is a link to the original.

I will be trying some other shots in the next day or so, or perhaps some I’ve saved in my flickr as favorites from other people.  Some of the shots in the food portfolio look rather messy, so we’ll see how that goes.  Liz comes home Friday so I should try to have the house restored at least close to a cleanish condition. 

Here’s a side by side shot of both, the Yashica on the left, and the 30D image (square cropped) on the right.  Considerably different look, I think.  Both images shot at ISO 400, f4, 1/125s.

Here’s another, just the film this time.  Daphne seemed to want in on the action, so we had to oblige.

 And now one of just Daphne, this time taken with Fuji Provia transparency (slide) film.  It has an AMAZING look to the film, but is a bit more expensive to process.  Having transparency film is much nicer because you don’t have to scan the images to see what you end up with, you just have to hold them up to a light source.

And a couple from my sister’s softball game in Mansfield, TX last weekend.  Again, with the Fuji Provia 100.

I think I may try experimenting with processing some black and white film at home.  It costs about $15/roll to have it processed at most of the local labs, but you can get a kit (including all the chemicals) to process it at home for around $40, and that’s enough chemicals to last a good long while.  Unfortunately to process the transparency color film, the chemicals come in larger volumes than most consumers would use in a reasonable amount of time, but the black and white home processing (at least from what i’ve read) is totally reasonable…and there’s no darkroom required as long as you’re not printing/enlarging. 

And a few in black and white from their sparkler exit…I will try to post a couple versions of some of these next week…

Here are a few from the day I really liked.  The entire set can be found on my flickr page here.  These are all taken with my Yashica Mat 124g camera and Kodak Portra 160vc 120 film.

I have plenty of digital images to sort through and edit and will have those posted later, but I was so excited to get these film images scanned and put up here.