I am excited but also a little nervous
today I'm going to do some film photography which I haven't been doing
for at least 20 years last time I did film photography I think was in Milan
and if I find the pictures I took I will send them right now I don't even
know if my camera is working I don't have films we'll see I will try
it let's go I show you the camera so this is my very first camera and this
instead is a camera that I had for at least 25 years I found it on in a flea
market in Italy the last time I used this was 20 20 years ago and because we
are going old school maybe I should bring also my polaroid first thing I need to
do is to buy some films I would get some black and white and maybe also some
color let's see what I find get some film also for the Polaroid I
will also bring my light meter because of course of course this camera doesn't
have a light meter so this would be useful let's go buy the
films this is great I found the Velvia 100 which is a Fuji slide
that I used to use a long time ago and then I also found some black and white
Ilford and I got some polaroid film at the store I put in for the
first time after 20 years the film roll into the camera it was really really
cool I was so excited actually I forgot to film it I will film the next time
anyways this session is a practice session because next week I'm going to
Bodie very close to the Yosemite National Park have never been there I heard
this very cool I think it's perfect for film photography so today we practice
a little bit and the first composition that I found is this railway track I
love the turn it's a little against the Sun first of all because I have a Polaroid let's do
the old school Photography way let's take a Polaroid first
I need to put in a box ten to fifteen minutes all right
very very curious about this I want to see how the Polaroid came out I'm just
so let's mount the camera on the tripod
I need to meter this
so I want to use an aperture f8
500 f/8
hope it was good we'll see I got another exposure with the train passing
by and I didn't tell you I'm shooting a black and white - here is the train - with
an Ilford film. I am going to search for another composition so this is my second
so this is my second composition, this is a shipwreck it's called Polaris has been here for a long
time I've been here before for some long exposure nevertheless I will take a Polaroid
first and then take my film shot it's a little hard because it's against the Sun
I'm not sure how to expose this but I'll do my best
Polaroid done I'm gonna use f8 it tells me 1000 because we are against the Sun I
think I will use actually 500 so one stop less because I want to see more
details of the shipwreck, let's see if this works
okay let's go for a third composition, I am not sure if I like the abandoned pier or
the tilted tree maybe the tilted tree, the tilted tree is kind of cool but
unfortunately there is people underneath and I really don't want people in my
photo so I thought I would go for this leading line of the coast into the bay
I'm really enjoying this process I want to show you why so this is what I see
when I look inside my my camera it's fantastic the way you compose your
images with this kind of camera it's just something else the amount of
details that you can see on the glass is just so cool it makes you really think
and focus on your composition. It's awesome!
I finished my first black-and-white film roll and I'm very excited to bring them
in and see what happened