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A series of self-portraits taken using a 50mm lens, a Nikon flash aimed up and diffused and a variety of diopters of +1 and +2 magnification. My goal with this roll was nothing more then to shoot a roll of film aimed at myself capturing a mood.
My second 'studio' session with my most favorite person, my girlfriend. We used her bedroom for this session and arranged the lights just so. Developed in fresh Diafine, some retouching for spots due to dust/lint. Unlike my usual rolls, she picked what shots she was ok with to upload here where as I usually just upload the entire roll good or bad.
I had a bad case of the restless and can't sleeps last night. So I decided to give my Dektol+Film thoughts somewhere to go.
I loaded a roll of Arista EDU 100 into the Lubitel 166U, added a Holga Close Up lens attached with some rubber bands, measured my focus zone and tried to get my arm trained to hold camera at that point, then metered for light. I used two of my softbox lights which are pretty intense and very focused so they make hard light on whatever they hit without diffusion. There was also a single lamp on in the room. My metering told me I needed 1/8th of a second at f/4.5, but as I moved it around, so it could meter the darker areas it went well into the 1-4 second shutter range for that aperture. I am pretty sure I was way more stops under then I thought, mentioned above. The 3200 was a guess. Thats at least 5 stops pushed, then maybe close to that in push for the development.
I knew I wanted to push the film at least 4 stops to see what Dektol would do in that kind of situation. I ended up shooting at (somewhere around) 3200 metering for 100 film... and pushing the film about 3-4 stops. And I still got images which blew my mind. If I had left them in the soup for another few minutes who knows what I'd have gotten out of it.
I pushed the Clarity on these up a bit so the grain tends to really pop, but I love how Dektol slams the film right in the face with it's hard core super dark blacks and contrast. Aside from the focus issues, these shots came out better then I hoped.
My actual focus area was literally a space of 1-2" and I did all of these by hand, guessing I had them at the right location, set to f/4 (just beyond the last measured aperture on the 166U) and at 1/60th of a second shutter speed.
I think I need to measure and mount the camera on a tripod for this and do it again with a little more usable light.
Fun shoot, entertained me when I couldn't sleep. And I want more Dektol.
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Het is alweer een tijdje terug dat de 126 film van de markt is gehaald, maar op iedere zolder (en desnoods die van je opa of in mijn geval, oom) zwerft er wel een Agfamatic of Kodak Instamatic rond. Het zijn leuke camera's om mee te experimenteren, vooral op dit prachtige formaat. De cassettes zijn ideaal voor hergebruik. Een ideale combinatie in het tijdperk van wedergeboorte van analoge fotografie milieuvriendelijkheid!
Textures have always been popular with digital photogs and I've always found their photos terrific. But I've never been big on Photoshop, even if I did learn how to apply textures there out of curiosity. So I decided to use masks and apply textures the analogue way.
I used a color negative 120 film in my holga 120 CFN!
This is my friend Emma (@emmalotta ) ! She is always up for taking pictures and "modeling" for me, and likes snapping away on my collection of cameras, so i think its about time she gets her own lomo camera! She has wanted one for ages and I really think she would like the sardina! So pretty please can i grant her that wish? @lomography
