15mm Heliar

Wideanglenude

Oh So Wide!!

August 29, 2015 in Black and White Film, Nudes, Photo Sessions

One of my favorite lenses to break out and use every so often is the super wide angle 15mm Heliar attached to a Leica M or or any other M mount camera.

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Underexposed For A Reason

March 26, 2015 in Black and White Film, Tutorials, Nudes, Photo Sessions

Every so often I love to underexpose black and white film on purpose. There is something fabulous and eerie about a wide open composition underexposed by about two, maybe even three stops.

A New Field of View

January 06, 2015 in Digital, Photo Sessions, Nudes

I’ve long been the kind of photographer that sticks with mostly one type of lens, what most of us would consider a “normal” prime.

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Here you will find the ramblings of photographer Alexis Kennedy, his latest images, and just general thoughts about photography, film, art, and creativity.

Alexis works primarily with analogue film including 35mm, medium format, and large format film.

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You'd never know it looking at this photograph, but from an exposure perspective this was quite difficult to pull off. Standing in dark open shade with bright summer sun shining just beyond its inky borders. I think I had to meter this about six time

I underexposed this roll a little bit on purpose to really deepen the shadows. I think it worked out pretty well. This is also one of those cases where I used really high ISO speed film to just make the overall image grainy as hell. I mean, if you're

I think the soul of America died a little bit when cheap yet unique and quirky roadside Motels became a thing of the past.

Now days small towns just have the same three hotel chains right off the highway that all contain the same bland looking room

A rare moment of using artificial light in a studio setting. I try to stick to using natural light as often as possible, but it was raining on incredibly cloudy on this particular day, making the window light very minimal. So I had to break out the f

One of my favorite old buildings in Portland. Sadly this structure is probably destined to be demolished. I'm sure its filled with mold and asbestos and a whole host of dangers not fit for human beings. But still, I enjoy looking at this monument to

More color film from my recent batch returned from processing. I do love a good stormy sky on film. Who doesn't? You'd think that would be an easy thing to capture in the Pacific Northwest but it isn't. Mother Nature and I don't always get along.
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Widelux image standing in the middle of the Columbia River. This was a tough image to compose with the Widelux because there are a lot of elements I wanted to get symmetrical in the frame. Not every exposure on the roll worked out, but enough did tha

It is really something when you have full bright sun even in the early hours of the morning. When you live in the Pacific Northwest long enough that kind of day just breaks your brain a little bit. What on earth does a person do with all that light?

My cat hanging out on the back of the toilet, as she often does while I'm getting ready for the day. Of course as soon as I pointed the camera at her she looked away like a diva who is far and away too cool for a picture.
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#polaroid #instantfilm #c

I need to change out the light seals on one of my Hasselblad backs. As one can see in this image, there is a light leak in the lower corners. In some shots it actually looks kind of cool, but it is unpredictable and therefore needs to be addressed.

More color film from my outdoor sessions this past summer. Absolutely lucked out on the weather this particular day as Portland was just coming out of a heatwave and we were finally seeing cooler temperatures. Sometimes brutal heat is even worse for

Self portrait looking straight into the mirrored service of the "The Bean" in downtown Chicago. I never like to be critical of public art. Why? Well, public art is one of the few forms of art that people interact with and talk about without

Just got back a large quantity of color film from processing. I tend to build up several rolls exposed over months and months and months and then will hand them over for processing all at once. This can be quite thrilling because by the time I get th

I never ever get tired of photographing reflections on the water. It's not always an easy thing to do. The conditions have to be just perfect, especially when trying to capture a reflection on film.

The water has to be still enough, shallow enough,

I feel like this has been the summer of Polaroid for me. Many hours have passed with Polaroid prints slowly developing in my breast pocket and the sound of little color prints ejecting from the front of my camera filling up otherwise silent studios.

You'd never know it looking at this photograph, but from an exposure perspective this was quite difficult to pull off. Standing in dark open shade with bright summer sun shining just beyond its inky borders. I think I had to meter this about six time

I underexposed this roll a little bit on purpose to really deepen the shadows. I think it worked out pretty well. This is also one of those cases where I used really high ISO speed film to just make the overall image grainy as hell. I mean, if you're

I think the soul of America died a little bit when cheap yet unique and quirky roadside Motels became a thing of the past.

Now days small towns just have the same three hotel chains right off the highway that all contain the same bland looking room

A rare moment of using artificial light in a studio setting. I try to stick to using natural light as often as possible, but it was raining on incredibly cloudy on this particular day, making the window light very minimal. So I had to break out the f

One of my favorite old buildings in Portland. Sadly this structure is probably destined to be demolished. I'm sure its filled with mold and asbestos and a whole host of dangers not fit for human beings. But still, I enjoy looking at this monument to

More color film from my recent batch returned from processing. I do love a good stormy sky on film. Who doesn't? You'd think that would be an easy thing to capture in the Pacific Northwest but it isn't. Mother Nature and I don't always get along.
.

Widelux image standing in the middle of the Columbia River. This was a tough image to compose with the Widelux because there are a lot of elements I wanted to get symmetrical in the frame. Not every exposure on the roll worked out, but enough did tha

It is really something when you have full bright sun even in the early hours of the morning. When you live in the Pacific Northwest long enough that kind of day just breaks your brain a little bit. What on earth does a person do with all that light?

My cat hanging out on the back of the toilet, as she often does while I'm getting ready for the day. Of course as soon as I pointed the camera at her she looked away like a diva who is far and away too cool for a picture.
.
#polaroid #instantfilm #c

I need to change out the light seals on one of my Hasselblad backs. As one can see in this image, there is a light leak in the lower corners. In some shots it actually looks kind of cool, but it is unpredictable and therefore needs to be addressed.

More color film from my outdoor sessions this past summer. Absolutely lucked out on the weather this particular day as Portland was just coming out of a heatwave and we were finally seeing cooler temperatures. Sometimes brutal heat is even worse for

Self portrait looking straight into the mirrored service of the "The Bean" in downtown Chicago. I never like to be critical of public art. Why? Well, public art is one of the few forms of art that people interact with and talk about without

Just got back a large quantity of color film from processing. I tend to build up several rolls exposed over months and months and months and then will hand them over for processing all at once. This can be quite thrilling because by the time I get th

I never ever get tired of photographing reflections on the water. It's not always an easy thing to do. The conditions have to be just perfect, especially when trying to capture a reflection on film.

The water has to be still enough, shallow enough,

I feel like this has been the summer of Polaroid for me. Many hours have passed with Polaroid prints slowly developing in my breast pocket and the sound of little color prints ejecting from the front of my camera filling up otherwise silent studios.