*The Smirk*
Canon A2 + Lensbaby + Rollei RPX100
Model: Lilly
The thing I really love about film shot with a Lensbaby is the way the grain breaks down the more blurry the picture gets. This one is a really good example of that, with the edges of the shoulders not only blurred, but fuzzy. Also, Lilly’s smirk is priceless.
*Is it rain?*
Canon A2 + Lensbaby + Rollei RPX100
Model: Lia
Lia’s hat made me think of rain, so we had the idea for this composition. I love the way her eyes look at the « sky » or rather the ceiling of the studio.
*Mrs P.I.*
Canon A2 + Lensbaby + Rollei RPX100
Model: Patricia
This series of shot was largely unplanned, I just told the models to bring whatever accessories they liked. Patricia’s hat gave her a very « noir » look, hence the title. I like how one eye is in shadow and one in light on this one although to be fair I had a ton of spill light from the background lights, so luck rather than design.
*Out of Cinecittà*
Canon A2 + Lensbaby + Rollei RPX100
Model: Lia
Lia is Italian, but when I took this shot I was not particularly aiming for something Italian looking. And yet when I saw the results, it struck me how this evokes Italy in the 60s to me. Maybe Lia’s inherent Italianness just shines through!
*Wistful*
Canon A2 + Lensbaby + Rollei RPX 100
Model : Lilly
I did a studio session last week. The primary goal was to experiment with more silly double exposure ideas, but while I had these beautiful models along I thought I might as well do something fun as well, so I got out the old Lensbaby and shot a roll of portraits on Rollei RPX 100, a film I hadn’t tried before. It was rather less contrasty than expected, but that’s easily fixed in post. I love the delicate side of this particular shot, so that’s what we’re opening the week with.
*Broken Shack*
Fuji TX2 (XPAN) + Rollei RPX25
I had initially loaded the RPX25 upon arriving at Nuuksio national park with the idea that there’s be plenty of lakes and therefore I could do long exposures over water to my heart’s content. Turned out finding the paths to the lakes was trickier than I thought, and I ended up doing only a few shots over water, and not very good ones at that due to the overcast, textureless sky. But while exploring I stumbled upon this run down cabin in the woods which (I felt) made for a perfect black and white subject.
*Cabin in the North*
Fuji TX2 (XPAN) + Rollei RPX25
For my first ever attempt at shooting RPX25 I didn’t make it easy on myself: in the midst of the Nuuksio forest on an overcast day, and accounting for reciprocity failure, I often had exposure times of 30-45 seconds. As a consequence the results were hit and miss. But when they hit, it was amazing. The level of fine detail that this film retains is just amazing. This one is my favourite shot, an abandoned cabin in the woods.
*Dogtown*
Ricoh GR1 + Kodak T-Max 400
Sai Kung is a seaside town North-East of Hong-Kong Island. For some reason, either there’s a lot of dog owners there, or dog owners converge there at the same time I go there. Either way, I intend to go back to do a series of nothing but dogs and dog owners. This is one of them. Interestingly, while many people aren’t too happy about being photographed in the street, if you show interest in the dog, they agree readily!
*Waiting for the MTR*
Ricoh GR1 + JCH400
You know this annoying feeling when you’re going to drop film at the lab and the one roll in your camera has only a couple of shots left ? I tend to shoot anything, and it’s virtually always crap. Well, not this time! This is one of those rolls. I think it was even shot in the Lai Chi Kok station where Camera Film Photo is located!
*Sham Shui Po Life*
Ricoh GR1 + Ilford FP4+
Sham Shui Po is an area of Kowloon that feels like it has still retained much of the Hong Kong life of old. It’s busy all times of day (and night, I suspect) with street vendors of all sorts buzzing around. These guys were just setting up, I have no idea what they were selling, but it’s such a typical scene that I thought I would share it.
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