Black n White

Are two of my favourite colours, in case the entire site hasn’t made that obvious. It’s also how I’ve chosen to shoot stuff recently, by which I mean with a camera, and not something else more suited to my current vocation in the army.

So my first roll of black and white film was pretty much an all-around positive experience, my second roll of  film decided to truly and completely fuck me over, and yesterday I finally got my film scans back from the new photo developer I’ve decided to try out, because the first one I went to was closed on Sundays and that just happened to be the day I would head all the way to the city just to develop my film.

As you can probably tell, I was more than a little frustrated during the shooting. A whole fucking 36 exposures and $6.90 down the drain due to a camera malfunction is, admittedly, nothing particularly serious, but goddamn is it fucking annoying to have painstakingly composed, thought about and decided on 36 (actually more like 72 since the roll fucked up twice) exposures, only to have the entire effort for naught.

It’s like you were playing with a toy camera the whole time. And that feels worse than any other stupid mishap that could have befallen oneself.

But enough of this self-pity. Pictures! These have had some post-processing applied to them unlike the previous roll, because mainly my choice of a new developer was evidently a poor one; my entire film roll was mostly overexposed and I had to bring down the exposure quite a bit in Lightroom.

I realize that I over-compensated for the overexposure in some of the shots, but that’s partially because I was half-asleep when editing these and I only had about an hour to finish up all 35 shots (1 shot was unusable as I used it to test whether the film was loaded correctly)

Overall, I’m pretty disappointed with my shooting this time round, though I did grab some shots that I’m proud of, and I learned a lot more about my F-301 and its lying, stinking viewfinder. Oh, and I guess I learnt a bit about texture in black and white too. Gogo gadget chiaroscuro.

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