A couple looking out and into the Santa Monica beach. One of the more crowded beaches and most visited by both locals and tourists. I like to visit it quite often as I always find subjects and I like to people watch here as well.
Although they are posing I took a candid photo just a few seconds before. They caught me and asked me to take another photo so they can keep it and I gave them my card. They have yet to contact me for the photo! Maybe its just not that good. If you know them – let them know. Obviously, the candid did not come out as that would be what I would have displayed here.
Out for a Photowalk with some Google+ photogs. There are a few people in the Los Angeles area who love to shoot at night. Hooking up with them has been very helpful in both meeting new people and in practicing long exposures and getting out of the comfort zone. This particular night had some of the fastest winds ever in Pasadena. We walked around until past midnight – photographing, chatting.. I had a great time!
A couple taking photos in the street of Los Angeles Downtown. Kind of funny as they are taking a photo of each other at the same time.
While in a photo store I decided to try a film unfamiliar to me Rollie Pan 25. Not much information is published regarding this made in Germany film in a strange container. I loaded my M6 and took it out and shot the entire roll in a day. I also just got the Voigtlander Ultron 28mm f/2 lens and needed to find out how it shoots. I burned through the roll quite fast within 24 hours in order to understand for my self for both reasons the film and the lens.
Decided that Diafine will be the developer soup for this roll as I could not find anyone else who developed it using Diafine. I was a bit nervous when developing it and thought it would ruin the film. Diafine is the best and the only developer I have tried. I read about it on Figital Revolution site and Stephen has detail instructions on using Diafine which are simply to follow the instructions on the box. He also has his home made soup from coffee (check it out).
Just after finishing shooting my first roll of Rollie 25 I saw a great article by Max Marinucci called Low Speed Film, Fast Lenses. Max inspired me by his example of photography on Filckr.
Most of the photos came out fantastic and I love this film as well as the lens. I must admit once a photo is nailed – you can see it!
I did some experimentation on how to scan these on my Epson V700 and tried scanning as a positive film, negative film color, negative film b&w. In the end there is quite a small difference between these settings. Some of my photos were just a bit under exposed. This has happened to me before and I think part of the issue is related to the fact that Leica metering is in the middle of the viewfinder and the size is dependent on which lens is used. It can be tricky.
this image is from Joe Chan site which contains several manuals
Here are a few shots/outtakes which I thought were underexposed via operator error. It is nice to under expose for effects, but that is intentional…. these are not.
