The Glass is Way More Than Half Full
Today’s image was taken with medium format Kodak TMAX black and white film.
Harvest Time
I took 3 cameras loaded with various film stock with me when I guided this most recent photo tour in New Mexico. I finally had a chance to get it all developed and scanned so I think I will dedicate this week to shots on film. This image was made on Fuji Velvia (35mm). When I laid out the Velvia slides on the light table it looked like a color bomb had exploded. I honestly had almost forgotten how much saturation and contrast Velvia has. The color hits you like a punch in the face – just right for autumn and fiesta time in the Land of Enchantment.
Getting the Shot
I’m back in New Mexico leading another group of photographers through the Land of Enchantment. The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta has been providing us with some terrific photo opportunities.
Mountain Sunset
As I continue to scan some of my old slides to present here in my journal I’ve come to realize that I miss the rich, saturated colors that I could get by deliberately underexposing Ektachrome film. With the right subject matter, a light to moderately underexposed slide looked terrific right out of the camera. No processing software necessary, just shine some light through it and enjoy.
Ready to Fly
Scan of an Ektachrome slide I exposed in 1994 at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. The balloon laid out on the ground in the foreground is the one I was flying in that day.
The Long and Winding Road
Going way back in the archives for today’s image. Original exposure shot on Ektachrome slide film 20 years ago.
She’s a Real Bombshell
The scanner I’ve been using for my work on film is pretty crappy so I invested in a decent one yesterday and actually got around to hooking it up at around 2 in the morning. I just wanted to do a quick test so I threw an old slide in it and made this low-res scan just to see that it worked. I think I will be happy with the scanner when I take time to make some high-res scans. This particular image is scanned from an Ektachrome slide I made in 1993. I was hiking in the desert in area that had been a practice bombing range during WWII and came across this dented-up old bombshell lying in the dirt near an extinct volcanic cinder cone. I made the image with a 24mm lens on my ME Super SLR. I just shot some images last week with the same lens on the same camera body. Now, 20 years after this shot was made I will scan some fresh negatives from the same setup and see what they look like. I can’t wait.
