Film....an Ancient Ritual and my newest Squeeze!

There is something so cerebral about the experience of using film again after many years of becoming a slave to digital.
In this digital world we live in, something as primitive as using film makes me feel as if I'm alone in a new world where I am constantly discovering a new and fascinating style of photography.

All this is pretty funny because film is where it all started, but it has really become lost in this cheap, instant gratification world of digital. And gosh darn it, it's sad! Now, I am by NO means giving up on digital (no way!) but I am entering a new stage of experimenting and have been loving it so far!

I got my hands recently on an old family medium format camera (Hasselblad to be exact) and these are a few attempts at my first couple of rolls. These cameras are so sensitive and touchy that only a few turned out, but hey, this is my first try! It's also a pain in the butt to load the film into a medium format camera, so this is why you will see some "interesting" exposures.....but, all in all, I feel so incredibly retro that I can't stand it! And me, I love all things vintage, so I figured film was the next step in that obsession.

Tomorrow I am swinging the "Hass" (as I lovingly call him now) along with me to a wedding to try out some portrait stuff with film for the first time at a real life wedding (yikes). But, these will be merely practice and I am still shooting the whole wedding digital, of course. Who knows though??? Maybe I will get the hang of this thing and make the Hass a more frequent prop at all my shoots!!!

Hope you like my feeble attempts to be a "real" photographer :)

Also, these are kind of small when posted here on my blog, so if you want to see them larger (because they look cooler larger) click on the picture itself and it will take you to my flickr account where you can view these life size!

Other than my Dad making a stupid face, I love this one. And all the red on the outside of the image is because when I tried to take the film out, it got a bit exposed to light (ooops) but I think it's sorta bitchin'!









Still practicing focusing while looking through the top of a box.


Okay, so I totally exposed this particular piece of film and you can't see my hubb's face, but I think it's kinda cool in a "Wow she's a total beginner with that Hass" kind of way!!!

It's Britney!

Here's a warning:

As I learned during this shoot, you need a freaking permit from the city to take pictures in the Japanese Gardens.
And they don't bother to tell you that at the front gate.....so, photographers, beware.....the ticket lady at the Gardens had NO MERCY and no smile on her face when she turned me down. Luckily I'm used to being told not to take pictures in certain places. At least this time I didn't get yelled at.

Anyway, we managed to fill up a day's worth of pictures and even got the geese to cooperate for a shot....but next time I'll bring bread.

Britney was a gem (and so was Bonnie; that's Mom....she sure posed as my assistant quite convincingly!) and hopefully my creative juices were flowing enough to their satisfaction when they get a peek at these!

Good day...........good times.......good, uh, vibrations?













You know, tires.....cause why not?

Lisa Lisa Bo Bisa.....Banana Fana Fo Fisa.

LISA!

Hi! Here are your pictures finally.....worth the wait I hope.
This girl rocked out with her....hair out. She was a cowgirl, a model, Pochahontis (hope that's spelled correctly) among other things. And also, her father is now convinced she should move to the Philippines and pursue an acting career. I for one, agree.

And I gotta say, this was the most fun I have had on a Senior shoot and I will tell you why: Hekla the RG Holder and Lisa the model were cracking jokes the whole 3 hours....it was quite honestly a challenge keeping the camera steady while I was trying to control my laughter.

SO, a few pics were blurry, but don't worry, I made up for it by pumping out almost 300 final pictures for this poor girl to choose from. I know, I know, I got a bit out of control. Such a rebel am I.

Lisa.....hottie boomalottie....way to work it girl!






I believe we called this one the "Tyra".



Mom was REAL excited about this one....it's kind of a Mom pleaser, what with all the pink flowers you know.....

Senior Time!!!! Seth step on up to the plate!

B-A-T-T-Y you ain't got no alibi, you're Batty HEY HEY you're Batty!

That's right, I busted that one out just now.....what can I say?
Seth deserves a little cheer.....I can say that because after all, we are related. Anyone in my family deserves a little cheer.




In case you didn't know, this is Seth Batty.....of Buchanan's baseball team...and this is the ball he hit a Grand Slam with.
Don't act like you're not impressed. He's kind of a big deal.