Decided to give some black and white film a whirl. 

'I'm ready to suffer and I'm ready to hope'

That time I made 28 exposures on one frame of 35mm film. 

The off hours. 

Focusing

I've been taking the last week or so to just relax and get my things together before I move to Illinois for a new photo internship at the Peoria Journal Star. That means I've been doing a lot of packing and shooting film. The focus on my LC-A+ is temperamental (or I just suck at estimating the distance from my subjects). Either way, I'm getting there. 

Lomo LC-A+

As pretentious as it may sound, when I'm not working for the paper, I prefer to shoot film. The limitations of using a 35mm toy camera are kind of freeing; I don't have the need to chimp and check my exposure, and I'm far more choosy about what I want shoot. Plus, there's the added bonus that they are compact and lightweight. I can throw one in my purse and not worry about damaging anything. 


The only downside of most of my toy cameras is that they are at very narrow fixed apertures. We're talking f/11-f/16 all the time. I wanted something a little more versatile for some projects I've been mulling over, and the Minitar 32mm f/2.8 of the LC-A+ seemed perfect. I can have the size and spontaneity that I get with a toy camera, plus a killer lens. Sounds sweet to me. 


I need to spend more time with it to get the focusing down (like a Holga, you adjust by estimating the distance from a subject), but I think it's going to be my new favorite camera. 


These were all shot on Lomography color negative 100 film, which lent an interesting blue cast to the roll. 

  

Like I said...I need some practice. 

35mm Weekend

Ryan came to Texas, then we went to see Bailey in Austin.

 (I also met Edwin, Anjali Pinto's boyfriend and all-around cool guy)

 

 

 

Belated

I rediscovered a Holga photo I never posted. My lens broke after I took this first photo, so the rest of the roll was depressing and blurry. I was at Alum Creek Beach in a sudden downpour when I took this one, hence the foggy lens.

I also had some film developed from my juice box camera and then completely forgot about it until I found it on my desktop today.

Plastic Summer

God, I'd love to go back to California. Columbus ain't so bad, though.

The Crew

I had the fantastic idea of taking portraits of the You're Next crew...but for once a light leak wasn't good to me. I lost a lot of the photos I was really excited about, but that's what happens when you trust in a camera made out of plastic. Here are a few favorites though.

Aaaaand most of the pictures turned out like this :(