Photography

I recently picked up a new hobby: film photography.

I've been shooting on Kodak Portra (400 speed) film with an old Rolleicord Twin Lens Reflex. Aside from being fun, the activity has guided me through thinking about different factors that affect an image; e.g., latent light, depth of field, exposure times. And the cost of each photograph has taught me to be more deliberate about what to attempt capturing.

After having the film developed at a mom and pop shop down the street from my parents' house, I digitized the photographs with a Hasselblad film scanner graciously made available by the Yale Digital Media Center for the Arts. The film scanner costs upwards of ten thousand dollars (!), according to B&H Photo and Video. I uploaded a subset of the scans (jpeg-compressed) to Flickr.

So far the results look pretty good. This being my first time, I didn't handle the negatives very well, and there are more than a few artifacts on the scans. For that, I apologize.

Portra400_01_03

Portra400_01_08

Portra400_01_06

Portra400_01_01

Later on, I'll try my hand at developing black and white film.