Honeymoon Film no.3

After hours spent with my hands in a changing bag and pouring chemicals into the tank, I finally finished my 6 black and white rolls. I'm definitely going to need to invest in a bigger Patterson tank if I keep up this habit (I gave back the Hasselblad so now I dont have a medium format camera of my own, but the leftover rolls in the closet are calling to me...). I've been really happy with the results and have gotten some of my favorite images ever. The "keeper" rate has been about 40-50%, whereas with digital its probably less than 10% for me. I think that's pretty cool and am going to use this as an exercise to be more frugal when I shoot video in the future. My two color rolls are back from the lab so those have to be scanned next, and then my next mission is to find a place to do enlargements. 

Honeymoon Film No. 2

Here are some photos from the second batch that I finished yesterday, these are from Dublin and Belfast. The black&white suited the rainy overcast city shots, but some would question its use in nature. I really like the way a few of them came out, I think it gives the trees an "eerie" feeling. I also shot two rolls of color, but they had to be sent out to a lab and should come back this friday. I want to take a stab at home developing color one of these days. I know its a little more difficult than black and white since the chemicals need to be hot and sustain a constant temperature, but how hard could it really be? Hopefully I can find time to do that and write about it in the near future. 

Me and Steffy were having a discussion about film grain vs. digital noise. She doubted that I could pick the two apart in a blind test, but I think I absolutely could. The grain of black and white film is what makes it special and why everyone loves it! What do you think? 

Honeymoon Film no.1

We got back from our honeymoon last Thursday and hit the ground running. On our massive to do list were difficult things like "get health insurance", "buy a new car", "fix the broken air conditioner", among many others. Somewhere in the chaos I found time to develop a few rolls of my film and the results have been absolutely stunning; the images really vindicated all of the effort I put in. These were all shot on a 1991 Hasselblad 500 C/M with a Zeiss 80mm lens, on Kodak TMAX 400 film, from the first few days of our trip when we were in New York. 

The next 2 rolls have been developed but I haven't scanned them yet, i'm looking forward to doing that soon. I'm also working on a series of articles discussing my experiences with different cameras and gear that I think could be useful to my fellow photographers and travelers. I hope you enjoy!