Month: April 2018

Windows To The Soul

Black And White Photography, Martha, Photography

In street photography, we don’t wait for golden light. Mid-day will present a different set of circumstances. I love street portraits. I saw this girl on a NYC bench and she caught my attention.  She smiles with her eyes, the shadow play from her lashes, one of my favorite street portraits.

Who do you trust?

Black And White Photography, Photography, Steven

 

James in the RV © Steven Willard

I won’t trouble with the backstory here, except to say that I needed a place to live and had concluded my best option was a used RV. I live in Connecticut but figured I would find the best deal either in the South or in the sunny Southwest where rust wasn’t likely to be an issue.

I met James on the internet when I saw the RV he was selling. We emailed back and forth then spoke at some length on the phone. The catch was that I was in Connecticut and he was in California. If I wanted to buy his RV I was going to have to trust the voice on the phone; take a leap of faith and fly out to California, which is what I did. I needn’t have worried. James is one of the nicest guys I’ve ever met, his family is lovely, and the RV was exactly as he described it. I drove it back to Connecticut and have been living in it for three years with no problems.

Sometimes you just have to have faith.

Visit my blog at https://stevenwillardimages.wordpress.com

Time..

Black And White Photography, David, Photography

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…to go back to real film. None of this namby-pamby pixel nonsense…Well at least I met the urge half-way. To be a little serious a moment I just wanted to put a couple of films through my Hasselblad. I’ve finally found a local shop that processes C41 film. This shot however isn’t C41. I wanted to test the chemicals I had as well to see if they were ok.

Above you see a result. A table top shot of my pocket watch and my old but usable Yashica TLR.

For you film types still out there here’s what I did.

Camera: Hasselbald 203FE

Lens: Carl Zeiss 80mm f/2.8 FE on an E32 Extension tube.

Exposure: Unrecorded f/11 at something. Natural light, slow enough to blur the second hand on the watch.

Film: Rollei RPX100

Dev: 59 mins stand-developed (The lazy mans development method.Pour in and forget for an hour).in Adox Ardonal mixed 1+100. fixed and washed as normal.

Scan: Epson V700 using Silverfast SW. Using a Betterscanning.com holder.

Everything else Lightroom.