Nature
Photographed with a Minolta SRT-101 and Fomapan 100 speed film.
I really like it when I have the opportunity to make photographs in a location completely devoid of people. It happens so rarely, even when I go to great lengths to find locations far out of the way from main roads, cities , and towns. It’s part of the challenge when working in Oregon. The population here tends to appreciate the outdoors. Thankfully Oregonians tend not to mind nudity too much either.
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Photographed with a Mamiya RZ67 and Ilford HP5 film.
I wasn’t sure if I initially liked this image when I pulled it out of the developing tank the other day. Every other frame on the roll of film was of an incredibly majestic waterfall except this shot. In fact I remember exposing this frame on more or less a lark because I had to use up a final frame on a roll of film before packing up and heading back to the car on a hike. I really honestly thought it would be a throw away image.
After scanning the image I’ve come to realize I’m really quite pleased with it. In fact, I haven’t even bothered to scan the images of the waterfall quite yet.
This image was made with a Mamiya RZ67 set up on a tripod. The scene was in a ravine with a creek running down the center and the light was very dim. If memory serves, I believe the exposure was at about twenty seconds and f/5.6 or so. Most landscape photographers would agree that it can be fun to do long exposures of flowing water and this image is a pretty good illustration as to why. There is a good kinetic energy to it that I like looking at.
Photographed with a Hasselblad 500c/m and Fomapan 100 film.
I made some fantastic headway over the weekend developing old rolls of film that I never got around to processing over the years. Ten rolls of film over the course of two days which is a heck of a lot for me. Of course, it really helped that the weather was bad here in Portland with some fairly heavy wind storms and cold weather gusting through the city. Such times always put me in the mood of turning out the lights, cranking up the heat, and just developing film while playing old records. Life doesn’t get much better than that now does it?
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Photographed with a Hasselblad 500c/m and Kodak Tri-X film.
Yesterday I found myself on a mini-road trip out to the Oregon Dunes. I had never been there before but have been wanting to explore them for years. After yesterday I’m now asking myself why on earth I had waited so long. It’s a gorgeous area with rolling dunes of sand for what appears to be miles. In truth, it is actually just a small little patch on the Oregon coast, but when you are walking through it the feeling is nothing short of majestic.
The day was surprisingly warm and bright when we arrived at about ten in the morning. The sun was already very high in the sky and the lighting incredibly harsh, but the model who came with me was a trooper and I think we managed to get some wonderful images.
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Photographed with a Hasselblad 500 C/M and Fomapan 400 film.
I’ve mentioned on this blog before how many people don’t realize just how dark it can get when photographing in the deep forest. Even on a bright and sunny day, the tree cover can get so incredibly thick that it feels like one is trying to make photographs at night. Or at the very least in the late evening.
I was experiencing that challenge when photographing this scene with my Hasselblad 500 C/M and a roll of Fomapan 400 speed film. Exposing the scene at f/2.8 and 1/15th of a second still left me a little underexposed forcing me to compensate a bit in the development process. I think I managed to pull it off, and thank goodness I have a fairly steady hand as I didn’t bring a tripod with me on this particular photoshoot.
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