Everyone knows that I shoot nature photos 95% of the time. Blah blah yah yah. I guess it’s just something that develops as one goes about his or her life. Hm, never really thought about it until now but I remember shooting nature when I first started in photography. Nature is interesting though- trees especially. They can be so great and so alive but are doomed to stay in the same spot forever and thrown into the duty of cleaning our air.

Lately I’ve been working non-stop on this artistic resume AND my HOLGA photographs in hopes of getting into an art gallery. I know I know.. it’s been way overdue. I’ve been sitting in the background for far too long now and the foreground is dying to meet me.. at least that’s what I hope for.

Business Business Business

I’d like to start selling my Holga work. If you would like prints… please please please please please please please please please let me know and we can email back and forth with prices and sizes and cute things like that.

Until next time,

Phoenix

P.S. Happy Birthday Sarah- my wife

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I’ve got to get all of this developed.

I counted it all.

I counted 600 photos exactly.

There has to be at least one masterpiece within all of that..

Right?

Today today yodat.

I recently got some film processed but I didn’t want to pay for scanning. There is only one usable image on the film anyway. So tonight was devoted to figuring out a way to “scan” the negative without paying. I knew with Photoshop and a high quality camera, anything is possible possible possible.

This was shot while holding the negative on a lamp. Opened the image in photoshop, cropped… inverted.. black and white, boom bam done.

Tomorrow tomorrow worromot I will be shooting it while it’s taped to a window. That will give me a clean background. Unlike this lampshade texture.

Exciting.

8×10 print | 20.00

So I got a C grade on this assignment back when I was in school. I was furious at the time because I spent nearly 8 hours sketching, getting materials, waiting on the epoxy to dry, and testing testing testing.. oh! and drying drying drying. All that work for a C. Everyone knows I’m not into studio work but this was the only time that I actually wanted to shoot something that involved the studio.

I love the shot and the grade doesn’t mean a thang anymore.

I passed. It’s done. It’s done. It’s done.

The photograph was shot using a 4×5 camera with 4×5 film(duh!). The film was Fuji Provia 100.

Film is very beautiful. I love black and white COLOR photography.

It has it’s very own classy feel.

So while shooting the above photograph, I was hanging out a window on a PERFECT day in Dallas, Texas. Then out of no where this boat flies into the frame and the focus hit dead on in time for the shot. Couldn’t have asked for a luckier event. My theory is the more you shoot, the more lucky shots like this you get.

This photograph was also taken in Dallas. Shot on a tripod with a Mamiya RB 67 with Fuji Provia film.

I converted it to black and white because it looked really blah in color. Who knew.

I’d love to own a Mamiya RB67 but the cost of those are ridiculous not to mention the cost of film/processing/scanning.

 This photograph was taken with my beloved Holga camera in Woodward Park. Tulsa. Oklahoma.

Shot on a tripod using the bulb setting. I wish the Holgas came with a T setting. T for time. Time gives you the ability to open the shutter and keep it open for as long as you want with one click, then click again and the shutter closes. This would allow for far greater control on my long exposures and a little more freedom and safety. The bulb setting means that I must stand and hold the Holga shutter(which is in a weird spot) for a long amount of time WHILE trying not to shake and ruin the exposure. 

I promised myself I wouldn’t share my Holga work on the blog until I had the new work processed but I can’t hold on any longer. Holga talk is my favorite kinda photo talk and it sparks creativity. So without further riff raff, here’s the first Holga photo that sparked my interest in creating images with the Holga that were three or more images shot together on one piece of film. Nothing in the photograph is put together using Photoshop. All in camera.

I’d like to shoot more of these Holga photographs but now that I’m out of school and on my own, the cost of processing and scanning(talk about horrible scanning jobs) is very high when working on a tight budget. I’ve been vowing to process the two or three rolls of other Holga rolls I have like this but I’d want to be able to scan the images myself on a flat-bed scanner.

That’s it..tomorrow.. I’m taking a roll and getting it processed. I’ve talked myself into it. I’ll at least be able to see how they turned out and worry about scanning some other day and time and place.

Stay on the look out!

Peace.