I shot my first roll of film in August 2010, and I fell in love. Before that, I hadn't shot a film camera since college before digital photography was the norm. I took a film photography class and learned that I was terrible at developing my own negatives, then put the camera away until 2010. By then I was totally smitten with photographing everything and wanted to dip my toe back into the world of 35mm film. It was so much better than I remembered. At first it was kind of awful. The …
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March Film at The Village Bakery
Earlier in March. I ordered five rolls of film, four of which are still cooling in my fridge. The fifth was promptly loaded in my camera. My plan this year was to shoot a roll of film each month, which seemed simple enough. Then January and February got insanely busy and slipped away with no film photographs. As much as I like digital photography (and need it for my business), film is still my one true love. It felt great to carry around my little Pentax this month. It felt great to drop my …
Around Here in Film!
Hi there! The thing about shooting a roll of film a month is it leaves me some thirty-six photos to post (if everything goes well -- December's roll was about 85% successful). So these photos I took one sunny morning seem to fit perfectly for this post. What's been going on around here? Well, it was back to school this week, back to the routine. That meant I had to get back to sitting at my desk everyday for a few hours, but I went to yoga three times, so it all evens out. In the last …
December in Film
Oh, December. So well documented in the December Photo Project, but then there were those last few days. Those days were saved for film, black and white film -- Kodak CN400BW film, to be exact, which is my favorite black and white because of its high contrast and the fact that it's C-41 and can be processed with color film at my local camera shop. Win-win! The end of December was strange weather-wise. We had mild weather, followed by a snowstorm, followed by more mild weather, followed by …
November in Film
I had hoped to share these photos two weeks ago. But when I dropped my 120 film off at the local camera shop, I learned that they no longer process 120 film in house and it had to be shipped off somewhere. Oh, and it was going to cost about five dollars more. Not awesome news, but I did finally get my film back this weekend and I kind of like it. Truth be told, the first two photos in this roll had already been shot and I couldn't even remember when (turns out it was over the summer). So, I …