Titan - 2022.

June 12, 2022

Over a decade ago, before I called Atlanta my home, I was in the city touring various colleges looking at MFA programs to attend. By random happenstance I ended up at a Chuck Palahniuk book signing (or at least I think that was the order of operations anyway) and I met the person who would both become my first friend in Atlanta, and who would eventually be called “Titan”.

Titan is no stranger to this blog. And we are no strangers to working together. However, until today, it’s been FAR too long since that has happened. We last worked together back in 2014 during my “Year of Film”, and for at least the last few years we have both never seemed to be in the same place at the same time. I’m extremely happy that was able to change…and hopefully it won’t be another 6 years before we shoot together again.

Until then, I hope you all enjoy the work we were able to create today.

To see more of Titan, make sure to follow her on Instagram and Twitter (and other fan-based forms of social media).

Week 33 – Creepy/Cooky – Arista EDU 400

November 13, 2015

Hope everyone had a happy Halloween! I probably should have mentioned that last week. Titan and I shot this set for Zivity based around a sort of Wednesday Adams vibe. I loved the setup, and the images that came off my digital camera (I'm currently trying to narrow down 82 photos to around 15).

While shooting digital I wanted to make sure to fire off a roll of film as well. Because we were in a hurry, I didn't exactly take my time as much as I should have. But at least I had a few nice shots on the roll. Hopefully it will be sooner than another 6 months before we are able to work together again.

Coming Soon to Zivity: "Titan Addams"

October 28, 2015

Halloween is just a few days away, but I wanted to help celebrate a little early and give all of you a little teaser of an upcoming Zivity set with Titan (since it will probably be after the spooky season before the set goes live).

Titan and I wanted to channel everyone's favorite "spooky girl" while taking a little walk around Atlanta. When we shot the set we wanted some place strange and a little bit scary, little did we both know that the leaves wouldn't be changing for another week. Either way we had a great time, and both had a hard time narrowing down the shots to the final set.

Take a look here, and keep your eyes open for our homage to that strange pop culture family phenomenon.

Cara Mia!

Also before I forget be sure to keep up for the roll of shots we shot at the same time for the 52rolls project. Every Friday at 10:00am over at the project blog.

And as always I do have a few 30 days free trials to Zivity available. Just drop me an email through the contact page on the website or to INFO@UNEXPhotography.com and I'll get you taken care of. If you like what you see be sure to throw us a few votes in the process. It helps both of us create new and exciting sets, and we will both love you in the process!

Week 6a – All Hail the God-Film, Portra – Kodak Portra 400

February 06, 2015

Just a fair warning this update will be a little longer than my previous blog posts. Mostly because I ended up shooting double what I set out. 2 rolls of Portra 400 ends up to be 72 frames. I will be presenting it in two sections in this blog post. The first will be random shots taken to start roll 1, and the second will be my first attempt at a cohesive photo shoot for this project. Portraits have been my focus, so I hope to master a few things and present more of them soon.

With that many frames, and the fact that I am still learning the quirks of a manual camera, I had a lot more frames that I was not happy with this time around. I will save you all a lot of the hassle and not be including near as many "outtake" photos as I normally do.

Also its worth noting I'm not entirely sure I'm doing what I am supposed to with the developer kit. I seem to have had a lot of very bad water spots on these rolls even after following instructions. Any tips would be appreciated!

Gallery One Below:
Tumblr users will need to visit UNEXPhotography.com/52rolls like always.
Wordpress users...well, I think it just posts everything in a row.

If you have made it this far, now here are the shots from my portrait session with a friend of mine. We have worked together many times, and like always it was more than a pleasure this time as well.

Sadly these photos didn't turn out 100% the way I wanted. I'm still trying to master the camera I am using, and full manual everything is still a bit of a challenge. I found that many of the shots taken were out of focus. I'm still trying to work out what the issue was, but I think its better to move on and learn from my mistakes. Maybe slow down a little (which was one of my goals anyway for this project).

Titan Gallery Below:
Tumblr blah blah blah, Wordpress blah blah.

Developing Notes:
Standard Development using the Unicolor C41 kit.

Post Processing Notes:
I am genuinely surprised at the latitude (I guess you would call it) of this film when it comes to adjusting color levels. It was very easy to create more than a few different "looks" using the scanned negative. I tried my best to color the images as I remember the scene, but I still think it was pretty neat. "God-film" indeed. I think next time however I will try to purposely underexpose by a stop. I ended up doing that digitally and has much better results.

Next week's post will also be technically from this week. I mean, I shot them both at the same time. But it is entirely different, and I think will be a departure from something I would usually do.