Film Friday

Fifi moves fast, so capturing her on film can be a trick. Especially when I am shooting the Polaroid.

I cherish these images of her.

Giant leaves

Sand and surf

Pouting about something on a log

'roid week 2013

This week has been so much fun. Seeing the most amazing instant photography in the Flickr pool has been incredibly inspiring and wonderful to view. It was also great fun to have instant photography take over on the Mortal Muse blog, did you see all the great posts we had?

Here are the images I shared in the pool. All images except for the last one were shot using my Polaroid Land Camera 103 using Fuji pull apart film. The final image was shot using my sx-70 using impossible film. Happy Film Friday!

her studio

train spotting

land sailing

summah time

open window

self

show off

delivery

Film Friday - Steep Ravine

One of the hardest parts about shooting film is the waiting. It is also one of my favorite parts about shooting film. The anticipation to see all the images instead of being able to chimp and instantly know what I got. Even when I shoot with Polaroid, I have to wait....

I already shared my time at Steep Ravine cabins, but only this week did I picked up my film from the lab. What I saw when I opened the little white envelope took my breath away. I honestly am feeling so comfy with my Minolta these days and it makes me CRAZY happy to be shooting. 

Here are some of my favorites....

(To see the digital of this one, click here)

Friday on Film

When I shoot film I always feel like the end result has warped me back in time.These two shots from the parking garage near Chinatown in San Francisco are no exception, they feel really nostalgic to me. Perhaps it's because of the black and white film, or the point of view that I was shooting from.Whatever it is, I like it.

Surfs Up

People, I love the way these five frames came out of the surf spot we found during our trip. I mean really love them. Sure, technically, the exposure might not be right and the images are a little out of focus, nut you know what, it doesn't matter. I am going to blame the way these came out half of this on operator error, but partly on the lomo film. I think it is meant to give the images a grainy and a little bit funky feeling. To me, this is how I remember things from a vacation, don't you? Memories from vacationing are often dreamy, soft, not quite complete moments in time, and that is exactly what I see when I look at these.

Surf's UP

 

Film Friday

One of my goals for 2013 was to shoot more film, specifically, at least 12 rolls/packs. Judging the fact that the fine folks at Gordon's Photo know me by face, name and phone number, I think I am filling the quota, and then some. I took so many photos during our camp trip with both the Yashica LM and the Polaroid 103. It felt good to have time to play with the film cameras, so good that I didn't have the DSLR out nearly as much as I normally would have on a a trip like this. I am learning so much as I challenge myself to use film. I see the light differently, I am getting how judge that light and adjust my aperture and shutter speeds accordingly. Not all my shots come out, the film gets jammed or doesn't get loaded in the first place (phantom film makes me sad), or the counter doesn't start and my frames get off, but I still like what I see for the most part.

Now where to start?
How about at the Half Moon Bay, down at the very windy beach? I used the Yashica for these two photos.

Then maybe a little bike riding down the camp ground's "alley"? (Also shot these two using the Yashica)

 

I  was able to sneak in some quiet time alone on the beach and got these two shots with the Polaroid.

I will be sharing more each Friday, and might be sneaking some images up on my Tumblr site, an.a.log, in the next few weeks. So stay tuned!