Archive for March 2010

What’s for dinner?

In Uncategorized on 31 March 2010 tagged BW, daily life, hand-coloring with no comments

Salad from dinner the other evening. Not too fascinating in black and white; I’ll see whether color perks everything up a bit.

Flash-blur in medium format

In Uncategorized on 30 March 2010 tagged 645, BW, hand-coloring, landscape, Pentax, trees with no comments

Here’s a quick flash-blur shot in the woods taken on the Pentax 645. It’s not stunning, but I really like the way the vines creeping up the front of the tree to the right were outlined in shadow. That’s an effect I keep working to replicate, not always successfully. Again, one to be colored and [...]

Self portrait

In Uncategorized on 29 March 2010 tagged Bob, BW, daily life, portraits with no comments

One of the great advantages of film over digital is subtle. With digital, you never have two more frames to shoot at the end of a roll after you’ve finished your project. So with digital, you just quit shooting. With film, you’re forced to shoot two more. Or one more. Almost no one ever just [...]

New work from the black and white photo factory

In Uncategorized on 28 March 2010 tagged 645, BW, hand-coloring, landscape with no comments

Here’s the trail that leads up to the well behind our house; I shot it yesterday on the Pentax 645 and printed this morning while listening to Dick Dale & the Deltones’ Greatest Hits on the stereo in the darkroom. The light in the Oregon woods is splendid at times, with the cloudy sunlight filtering [...]

Film for my Polaroid SX-70 — again!

In Uncategorized on 24 March 2010 tagged BW, Polaroid with 1 comment

The impossible has taken place: Someone has brought out a new camera film, and for an interesting camera, at that. Word is that The Impossible Project is bringing out out a new black and white film — Thursday! — that fits the old Polaroid SX-70 and 600 cameras. Careful readers may recall my chagrin at having [...]