Week 38 – Miss K – Fujicolor 200

December 18, 2015

So here we go. Week 50(51?) (officially). This year has been a trip. Based on my notifications this should be the last roll for the project here for 2015. Removing the mystery roll post from a few weeks ago, and that one time I scanned my gameboy. This makes up all of the entries for this year. Next week I'll be doing a roundup of some of my favorite images, just in case you haven't been following the whole time.

"Miss K" and I have been friends since very shortly since I moved to Atlanta back in 2010. She has always been a bit of an enigma (and likes to keep it that way). However it was decided that she and I HAD to work together before the project ended. Fitting that she would be the last.

We had a lot of fun shooting this during a very late night at my studio. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

Development Notes:
Unicolor C41 Kit
Standard Processing
Slight Editing in Lightroom Post Scan

Week 36 – Nikki Nuke'm – Kodak Portra 400

December 04, 2015

You know, when I first sat down to scan these images my first thought was "You know, just copy and paste what you wrote from the other photos of Nikki Nuke'm that you shot. Nobody will ever know". Except once I started the retouching process, I knew I just couldn't do that.

If you don't know what I am talking about, please make sure to view the digital photos taken during this series here.

There are few things I can say about this entire series more than "I LOVE THIS". Not every shot was a winner, they never are, but I was able to create a solid series of images and for that I am pretty excited. This is a great example of what a year of constant practice will do for a skill set. I can only hope that I can continue to see things improving, and that my follow up sets with Nikki turn out as great as this one did.

Development Notes:
Standard Development Unicolor C41
Levels adjust and retouching performed in Lightroom

Week 35 – Murphy's Law – Fujicolor Super HQ 100 (+1 Stop accidentally)

November 27, 2015

So you know what they say. If it can go wrong, it will go wrong. And sometimes you just have to make the best of it.

I was invited to a meetup with other Atlanta Film Photographers. Members Steven and Neil put on a great showing of skill and knowledge, and after a real world lesson in lighting it was off to the races. Almost immediately I was more than a little intimidated, not by my gracious hosts mind you, but at my own skills (or perceived lack there of).

If you follow me on Twitter you may remember that I was struggling with my wireless trigger system after starting the move to Sony FE mount cameras. Long story short, old doesn't like to work with new so much. So my usual trigger set was out of my bag. I remembered sync cables though, so I figured I would be ok. As I lined up for the first shot, I pulled out my light meter...and the battery was dead. Rendering my metering useless. Luckily both Neil and Steven allowed me to use some of their kit and I was able to snap a few shots. Including my first photo taken with a medium format camera, and a single shot with a Leica to see if I could make it work with my lights...I'm only a little jealous.

So I had a great time, even if I did feel super intimidated by all of the great talent who showed up. Got home to develop the roll, and realized I had grabbed a 100 speed roll of film instead of 200. So the shots that I was able to grab, all were underexposed. After a little frantic googling and instruction reading I was able to compensate with development and below are the photos I was able to capture of Models Diya and Uh...another whose name escapes me at the moment (sorry).

Development Notes:
Unicolor C41 Kit 4:40 (as per directions)

Week 34 – Mystery Roll? – Exchange Select Color Print Film 800

November 20, 2015

"Hey dude, I picked up this camera at the thrift shop and it still has film in it. Wanna shoot it and see what happens?"

Stories that start this way, end either really well or really poorly. I'll let you know how it ends when it happens. This is not quite that story.

A friend of mine, Nik, from Super Awesome Laser Media is an avid thrift shop shopper. At least once a week I get an update as to where all the fun photographic toys are. He tagged me in a Facebook post the other day saying that he had come across an old Minolta 35mm camera with a pretty decent lens. He said that I needed to shoot the rest of the film, develop it, and see what happens. I was super excited to see what would come.

When the day came to deliver the camera, he was unable to bring it...but did have a surprise for me none the less. Another roll that was in a random camera.

"Usually if the battery is good enough to rewind it I will pop out what is inside" he told me. Followed up by "this one took a while, so there is bound to be something on it". And there was. A grainy mess taken sometime within the last 10 years or so based on the uniform of the service member. Below is what was on that roll.

Week 32 – DJ System Fail (ROLL 52!) – Kodak Portra 400

November 06, 2015

**EDIT** I completely forgot to write anything about this series. As you can tell by the title it is the official 52nd roll of the 52 roll project. I'm still going to try and finish the series through the rest of the year. But it may become a bit of a challenge.

This set was part of my testing of my DIY black background. Check out the Extra blog for more info. Cody aka System Fail saw some photos from an earlier test and wanted to be a part of the process. I gladly took a chance and shot some great photos!