oasis child

I've been practicing shooting portraits and people and I'm finding it difficult and a little uncomfortable telling people what I want them to do because I don't want my photos to look posed. A huge thank you to Riz for putting up with my indecisiveness when taking portraits and photos of her! The first two were just candid shots of her and bottom two weren't. Yaaassss Riz! I think these are the last I'll post from this roll of film. If all goes well I'll have more photos up by the end of the month. Fingers crossed that the very old film I've used to shoot the other day don't mess up those shots.

Additional photos taken from my 2nd roll of film from February. Riz and Will had both finished rolls of film and were ready to get them processed and I still had 2 exposures left and was determined to finish my roll as well. We walked by a party store before the photo lab and Riz suggested we see if we could do any photos in there and I was able to get two spontaneous and candid shots of both Riz and Will. Fun photos, nice grain, pretty bokeh!

So I've set the goal to go out with a camera more often and take at least a roll of film per month and this month I have developed two rolls of film, with another roll on its way. This time trading in the beaches, headlands, fields and greenery for the city. I've also started getting my photos scanned onto a CD at the photo lab (will's suggestion) so the new images on the blog are going to be way better quality than the photos I've scanned using my shitty 3-in-1 printer/scanner. Still trying to figure out how to photograph portraits and people, a lot of my photos look a little awkward, oops. I'm really really really happy with this roll though, not many I didn't like. These are photos taken in an alley where we were able to escape the hoards of businesspeople on their peak hour rush home and to eat a $1 punnet of strawberries some very vocal shopkeepers were selling in peace.

I bought a couple rolls of expired 35mm film earlier this year and ran the first of those rolls through my ae-1 recently. I had a really good feeling about this roll and thought I'd have some photos that I'd be very proud of but I was very disappointed when I picked up the photos from the photo lab. A few of the shots I took in low light, which I thought would have normally turned out fine, were unusable. Others didn't show up at all, and some of the photos have weird black lines through them and I'm not sure if it's a result of the very old film, the camera not advancing film properly (which hasn't happened before) or the photo lab accidentally processing my film incorrectly (probably something with the film though).  I did have a few photos that I really liked though. The first, which is of Rizelle, was taken just before Laneway and the others during a day I spent with Will. We went for a little walk and I think I was probably wearing the wrong shoes because I found myself slipping on every rock. Really liked the tones and colours I got with this roll of film!