Week 18a – Brianna – Kodak Portra 400

I met Brianna through Morgan (which you all should remember since she has been featured twice so far in this blog so far).  

It took a good while for us to get together but when we did it was totally worth it.  We kinda went into this shoot the same way I work with anyone who models for me. Its all about getting to know how someone works. Nothing too exciting or hard, it was more like "come as you are and let's make something happen". The biggest down side was once we finally were able to get together we were working on borrowed time before the sun went down. But that allowed us to work during a very special time. 

It's pretty known that magic hour is amazing. Add Portra 400 to that and it's a beautiful thing. I only wish we had more time to prep a tiny bit more, but between this week and next I am pretty happy with what we got.

Development Notes:
Unicolor C41 Kit
Standard Development
Scanned and Color Corrected in Photoshop 

Self Censorship Concept MK2

I'm trying to play around with a couple of ideas regarding my upcoming Self Censorship project. I have done some experimentation on my year of film blog where I physically drew on the film negative resulting in haphazard white lines covering up any nudity. However my ORIGINAL concept was more in line with what you will see below. 

What do you guys think? Does this work for a concept piece? Would it be better with more of a physical prop in the photo instead of adding it in post? Are  the font and description choices sufficiently "FCC Censor" enough?

Week 17 – Leftover wedding photos, and other things – Arista EDU 100

This roll ended up being a little more random than most. I loaded it with the intention of shooting all of it after the wedding of my friend Abby. However after a couple of frames, we all were sweaty and ready to move on with the rest of the day. So it sat in my camera for a few days. (Ok, more than a few days, maybe a week or more, in case you haven't figured out yet I am shooting WAY more than I expected so there is like a 2 week lag in what happens on the blog and what I am actually doing). 

After a particularly busy week, I decided it was time to finish the roll and get it processed for all of you. One major thing of note is I shot the entire roll in a focal length I don't normally work with. Part of the camera package I got for christmas included a 28mm lens. Typically I shoot more portrait style images and work with something closer to 50mm-90mm so it was fun to play with something a touch wider.

Development Notes:
1:50 Dilution Rodinal @ 70º-ish
Agitation for first 30 seconds, 5 seconds every 30 seconds.
7 Minutes.
Standard Fix - 4 Minutes (Brand new batch of Fixer).

Week 16 – An Afternoon At The High Museum – Ilford Delta 100

I like free things. I'm not sure if I know anyone who doesn't. Especially when they are free things that have some sort of artistic merit. When I happened across a tweet from The High Museum of Art here in Atlanta that admission would be free for a day. I made some time to take an afternoon. 

If you remember from around week 12 I did some shooting at the George Eastman House and captured a photograph of a few patrons viewing part of an exhibit. I wanted to work on that a little bit more on this roll. As well as playing around with images of a more abstract form. 


Development Notes:
1:100 Dilution Rodinal @ 72º
1 Hour. 30 Seconds of light agitation at start, 10 seconds at 30 minutes
Standard Fix

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