Bob Keefer
Is a writer and photographer who lives in rural Oregon.
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Monthly Archives: March 2010
What’s for dinner?
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
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 reposted.
Self portrait
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 yanks the film out of the camera early.
So, in that way, film encourages more experimentation than digital, which simply allows it, but doesn’t insist.
photo: Me, in the driveway, 2010
New work from the black and white photo factory
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 through the trees like a the glow from a giant soft box.
I’ll re-post the image once I have done a hand colored print of it.
Film for my Polaroid SX-70 — again!
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 my last stock of true SX-70 film degenerate with age to the point of uselessness.
Why, in this digital age, is such a film so appealing?
Because it’s there.