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Dec. 16? Houses and Trees
I swear that I had scheduled this Lumenbox lens post for today, I distinctly remember clicking on 16 and hitting schedule. I’ll try the same thing with the post I’m writing right now. Who knows if that will work? Edit: WordPress scheduling is broken I guess. I definitely scheduled this to post at midnight and…
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Dec. 13, 4 Frames of Adox CMS II Inside.
The Adox Adotech IV developer that is the recommended developer for CMS 20 II doesn’t have a very long shelf life, this batch that seemed like I had just mixed up a couple days ago, was about to expire, so my primary inspiration to finish this roll of film was to just not waste the…
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Dec. 9, Blurry
I was finishing up a roll of Adox CMS 20 II that I was shooting at ISO 12 when I decided to finish the roll with indoor shots. As you can imagine this resulted in some quite long exposures that required a tripod and cable release, which was all fine and good until I decided…
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Dec. 1, 14 Frames of November’s Odds and Ends:
Yikes! I was supposed to post the odds and ends from the end of November yesterday. Instead, here they are a day late and a dollar short, there are more than I expected for what I recall as a somewhat photographically lean month. I’m over 65% sure that these have not been posted before (maybe…
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Nov. 20, And 7 More Frames of Turquoise;
These are from the same roll as the Apocalyptic Reno post, but I didn’t think they really fit in with that grouping of shots. Taken with my Leica Ic and Voigtlander 15mm, developed by The Darkroom in San Clemente.
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Nov. 17, Apocalyptic Reno, 16 Frames of Reno Businesses with Lomo Turquoise and my Leica Ic:
To be fair, I expect that any locale with orange skies and turquoise vegetation would look at least somewhat apocalyptic. I have to admit that when my three rolls of LomoChrome Turquoise 35 arrived I was pretty excited to see what the results might look like. Previously I had been quite impressed with LomoChrome Purple,…
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Nov. 15, 3 from the Archives
These are from Dec. 10 of last year and among the first of my film photos after a hiatus from taking pictures of about 30 years. Back then I primarily took photographs as a way of documenting my art work. In those days shooting slides of your work, Kodachrome in daylight and tungsten Ektachrome under…
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Oct. 27, Just Some Trees;
Shot on Agfa Copex Rapid 50 with my 1949 Leica Ic and developed in Artemisianol (sagebrush). These are from the same roll as Return of the Leica Ic, just a few shots of trees that didn’t seem to go well with the building photos.
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Oct. 25, The Return of the Leica Ic: Buildings & Copex
I love my old 1949 Leica Ic, but to be honest it’s not half the camera that my Canon IVSb2 is, I mean that literally, as it’s missing the upper range finder section. Aside from the missing rangefinder/viewfinder, It’s just not as solid, well machined or precise as the Canon but I don’t love it…
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Sept. 2 My Other Most Frequent Subject:
My neighbor Shaun’s house. I think because I’m so easily amused, I can photograph the same subjects seemingly endlessly. I suppose that’s not something that I need to bring to the attention of my regular readers. So just in case you haven’t seen enough photos of my neighbor’s really cool 1930 faux adobe stucco house…
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August 30, A Few Nature Shots
Man I sure waffled a lot on whether to post these. My first instinct was that they were not amazing in any way, but that they were mildly ok. Then I decided they were far too boring (usually I’m not very shy about posting boring photos) and then I re-decided (that’s a word!) that they…
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August 23, Some Photos of Overpasses
From the same roll of yesterdays shots of buildings. Shot on Film Washi S with my 15mm Voigtlander (Cosina) Super Wide Heliar on the Canon IVSb2 rangefinder. Developed in Artemisianol (sagebrush). I suppose these aren’t very exciting at all, but I’m a bit fascinated by the way they cast shadows and how light plays on…
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August 21, Back to an Old Favorite
I must have an extremely short memory, because after I shoot a few rolls of other films I forget how much I love, love, love Film Washi S sound recording film. Shooting Washi S always feels like coming home to me. I hope it doesn’t go away for good! Yesterday was the first time I’ve…
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July 29, Really Just a Bunch of Left Over Shots or Who Curated this Post?
Whenever I start to cull shots for posting I almost always begin with too much optimism “these shots are all great!”. Upon further inspection it usually proves out that none of the given shots qualify as “great”, and only a few would even qualify as interesting. I use “interesting” on my own terms here, when…
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July 22, Making Artemisianol, My Hunt for Big Sagebrush
I’ve mostly had pretty good to medium luck using seaweed, bladderwrack specifically, as a film developer, but I live in Reno Nevada on the western edge of the Great Basin, bladderwrack for seaweed developer is just not that readily available out here. I thought that maybe I should try to make developer out of something…
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June 17, And a Few More Frames from Salt Lake City on Kodak Portra 160
Once again these were shot with one of my favorite combinations, my Leica Ic with the Voigtlander 15mm. Film was developed by The Darkroom in San Clemente CA. I brought the saturation down a little bit so the off whites in most of these pics would come out a little more true to life, which…
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June 15, 7 Frames from Inside the Salt Palace on Tmax 3200 (at 1600)
For a while now, I’ve been fascinated by the interior architecture of the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City Utah. It’s really just a large convention hall built in 1995, but there’s something about the interior framework and glass along with the play of light they bring that really speaks to me. Before Covid hit…
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June 2, And a Few More Damaged Frames of Agfa Copex Rapid.
Just more from the other day. I mostly don’t think these were quite as interesting (if indeed the first batch was interesting?) as the first batch. Nonetheless, here we go.
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June 1, Copex Damage, and even more whining;
Before I get to the damage part of this article and whine even more about my troubles with developing tanks, I have to say that the name Copex sounds vaguely obscene to me. Not to dis the film, I like Agfa Copex Rapid a lot. It can be tack sharp, has really nice contrast, develops…
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May 18, And a Few More Shots of Downtown Reno with Adox CMS 20 II
Not much to say about these, I don’t think these were as good as the first batch from yesterday’s post, but maybe they’re not all bad? Adox CMS 20 II shot at ISO 12 and developed in Adotech IV.
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May 14, A Few More with Washi S, the Voigtlander 15mm and the Reveni Labs Spot Meter.
One of my main purposes in shooting this roll was to compare the readings from my new Reveni Labs spot meter to my regular tiny shoe mount Reveni meter, so there weren’t that many different shots from that roll, but several different exposures of most shots. The good news is that the result between the…
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