2021 off-season cowboys (color)
Back when color film was plentiful and I was shooting it with wild abandon. Now we're all hoarding it like it's going away…
Honestly I think I shot more color film in 2021 than I ever have! It just seemed a good time for it.
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One of the aspects my peers criticized in my photo project was that there were hardly any pictures with me in them. I've kept that in mind ever more frequently this year and either taken more selfies or had someone else hold the camera for me. Hopefully I was successful in my attempt to add a bit of my own personal je ne sais quoi to these.
Film, in order: Fuji Superia 400, Kodak Ultramax 400, Ilford XP2 Super, Kodak BW400CN (exp.2008).
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Yesterday was the first Mother's Day that my brother and I didn't have our mother. Looking back on it, even though we butted heads a lot, I was able to spend a lot of time with her in the last few years and I'm grateful for that now. This would be the companion piece to my other tribute which was posted back in December.
While developing all the rolls I shot in 2020 I came across a few that I'd taken of my mom, usually holding her first grandson. Thanks to my old photo instructor Stacy for letting me get all that done in the school darkroom, or I don't know when I would have gotten around to seeing these. The entire Summer I was shooting nothing but Kodak Tri-X.
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Fog in Garden of the Gods, Pt.II
It's happened before, though it's a pretty rare occurrence! I just took these shots wile driving through on my day off.
The last time I was able to take advantage of this wonderful weather was more than three years ago.
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Fog in Garden of the Gods, Pt.II
It's happened before, though it's a pretty rare occurrence! I just took these shots wile driving through on my day off.
The last time I was able to take advantage of this wonderful weather was more than three years ago.
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They didn’t necessarily fit anywhere else…
…but I like them…
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Cowboy, Mall Santa, and underwear model, Santa Fe.
No, I'm not going to go into his life story here. Merry Christmas Eve.
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Self-portrait as cowboy, with chicken
What else is there to say?
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Behind the scenes, after-hours, and the Mill Hill Saloon
Just a bit of off-time, that's all.
Happy Thanksgiving.
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Summer 2021 on Ilford XP2 Super
After not being able to use the UCCS darkroom last year during the pandemic, I decided to patronize my local camera store a bit more, which has included buying/processing color negative film almost exclusively. One thing I didn't want was to be stuck with even more rolls of black & white that will either take a lot of money to be developed or will sit in my freezer until I can get back to developing at the university. I still wanted to try to continue my current photo project for just a little bit longer and for that I decided to go chromogenic black & white. Here are a few of the shots I took over the Summer:
I shot just a roll or two of BW400CN before Kodak discontinued it and man do I wish that Kodak would bring it back but I'm happy and thankful that Ilford is still here for us. I would not say that XP2 is a worthy replacement for Tri-X but for what I needed I think it works well. One thing that I noticed was that it behaved very much like a color negative film in that I think its true speed is not 400 but 200, so I tried to overexpose when I could. The shadows can fall off really quickly and yet it is so flat when scanned. That's mostly good because I have never been thrilled with how black & white is scanned by the lab; it's usually way too contrasty and if the exposure isn't exactly perfect you're losing quite a lot of information. I prefer to scan myself at low contrast and dial it in on the computer, something that XP2 does nicely even when lab scanned.
I will eventually go back to Tri-X when I can develop it myself but for what it is and what I need right now I'm pretty happy to continue shooting Ilford XP2 Super.
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resurrected camera (unofficial)
