bought/gift/made /15

I've been excited to share this collection of goodies!

In the bought category, white sage incense. I'm a newbie when it comes to all things incense related and even more so in the smudging realm but since purchasing these guys I'm fallen head over heels in love :) We use the incense in our bathroom and honestly there's a simple reason why I love it - so much nicer than those toilet sprays! With the smudging, I found it's my go to thing when I feel like my space needs a refresh.  I light it up and skip around the house and say nice things and it's all pretty fun and happy :) Two things I can get behind! 

I've just used the last incense stick the other day and tracked down a local vegan company who hand rolls their incense.  I'll be sure to give an update after trialing those ones :)

In the gift category - glorious, glorious film, gifted from my lovely friend Emaya! Now there's 100% no excuse to not be shooting film :) :)

And finally, in the made category - CANE! I went on a cane hunting mission with my friend Lowy.

He then taught me how to weave

and hey presto, I made a cane basket *feeling proud*

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Holga 120n - Ilford Delta 100

As promised some black and white shots I took in my Holga 120n. I used a roll of 120 Ilford Delta black and white film with an ISO rating of 100

 I think black and white works really well for the Holga :) Unlike yesterday's post, I made sure to keep my frames lined up and stuck with the intended square format too, which is always cool!

Double exposure, peachy girl!

You might remember some of these photos from posts back on the blog in 2016 :)

 Fraser!

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Film Camera a Month - March

I actually thought I wouldn't have a roll for this month. Oddly I've been super social (odd for an introvert like myself) but hardly took any photos *gulp*. Thank goodness for Emaya visiting and us ending up at a super photogenic netball court for some skateboarding practice.

This month I was using my plastic fantastic, Holga 120n. It's a camera that takes 120 film, so embarrassingly I only had to fill up 12 frames but still found that super hard to do! I also had a silly moment where I thought I had loaded the camera with black and white film and found myself holding back from taking photos because I thought they wouldn't translate well to b&w. To make things seems even sillier, I had actually written on a label (stuck to the back of the camera) what roll of film was inside *face palm*. It's actually such a good tip, because the Holga 120 doesn't have a little peep hole to remind you what film is currently in use. Next time I will try and remember to actually read my super helpful note :p

So the camera was actually loaded with some Kodak Ektar 100 (colour!) and my aim for the roll was just to go crazy - I did half winds and double exposures and just click click click! I think perhaps I went a little crazy because how I scan my film is really only set up to do a frame at a time, so I did have to go into photoshop and splice some frames together. I do also dig the randomness though and I think it's one of the joys of Holga. I was actually sad there weren't super light leaks in this roll which I guess I was half expecting but, yup lesson learnt, don't expect anything from a plastic camera :p Onwards to the photos!

I think this month I really missed having a "reliable" film camera. I see myself in the future using my Holga when I go somewhere specific and want really random experimental shots. I think there is definitely a time and place for the Holga :) Oh and I totally wish I would of done at least one shot using a flash too *second face palm*

Tomorrow, I'm going to show you another roll I took with the Holga120n back in 2016 and, it's black and white and fun and I'm sad it's taken this long to share it! Stay tuned!

Oh and next month I'm using my instax for April - wish me luck!

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Pentax 6x7 Portra 400

Yesterday I showed you the results of running fuji velvia slide film through my asahi 6x7 camera and today I'm sharing a roll of Portra 400. I changed the ISO in camera to 200 for this roll and then had it processed as normal + scanned using my DSLR method :) I also should say, I accidentally opened the back before the film was completed wound upon the spool, you can really notice it in the peachy shot because that was the last frame of the roll and thus the one that got hit the hardest with light. The funny thing about film is the mess ups are one of my favourite things and that peachy shot maybe my favourite from the roll!

Emaya might kill me for posting this but I still think it's a nice photo! I guess a win for digital photography, where you can just check the back of the camera for eye blinks and then take a bunch more shots without batting an eyelid :P

light leaks for the win!

I've still got a lot more learning/playing around with the Asahi to do + getting comfortable changing film rolls but I'm really excited to own this bad boy and for all the photos to come :)

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Asahi Pentax 6x7 - Fuji Velvia Film

So a few months ago I finally saved up enough pennies to buy my dream film camera, an Asahi Pentax 6x7. 

Mine didn't come with a strap but I've been loving the tripod screw version on the right I picked up.

Obligatory self portrait with camera!

This thing is huge and heavy, it's also my first proper medium format camera taking 120 film; a film due to its negative size, records more data than 35mm film - a plus if you want to go large in printing.

After much research, I also settled on the takumar 2.4, 105mm lens, equivalent to around 50mm on my canon full frame body. 50mm is my all time favourite focal length so it was kind of a no brainer. My only complaint so far with the lens is its minimum focus is around 1 metre, I would of loved for that to be a lot closer! After building my scanning rig, I was able to "scan" two rolls of film, so today I'm going to show you the results from a roll of fuji velvia, which is a slide film.

I actually did two things with this film, I shot it in camera at 32 ISO( it's rated at 50) and I had it cross processed, so instead of running it through slide film chemicals, my local lab ran it through the normal colour processing - so I could get some funky colour results!

Note to self: hand held portraits - way to close to focus!

I love the crazy colours happening! 

One thing which I'll have to get use to and currently have a love/hate relationship with is the film only allows for ten shots when using the 6x7. I've been privileged in the past with the 35mm film getting 30+ shots per roll in my canon camera. The plus for this, is when I have to get through 30 shots, a lot of time film will sit in my camera, so the quick turn over is nice; although only having 10 shots before needing to change rolls does seem a little crazy to me! 

Tomorrow I'll show you some photos from a portra 400 roll :)

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Holga 120N - 100 Fuji Superia 120 film

Ahh me and Fuji we meet once more and yet again I've wound up with expired film - ahh the curse of my life with Fuji! I swear one day I'm going to buy Fuji film not expired :p Remember when I said I had a not-too-successful roll of colour put through my holga well yup this is it!

This time I didn't use the back plastic square backing you put into the camera and ended up with lots of light streaks (which I personally love) anyway just some food for thought, if you too are playing with a holga :)

(Taken outside at lollipop land!)

STATS

3 keeps 9 fails (ouch!)

Fail Reasons

3 underexposed inside shots, needed to like triple+ expose each frame to get somewhere near correct exposure! 4 horrid double exposure shots taken outside - gosh I was not on my double exposure game this roll, horrible clashing and down right bad shots, ha ha and finally 2 plain old boring shots *bows*

Things to remember

Don't shoot indoors unless you have lights or a tripod + the camera on bulb mode. Also this camera cannot do close ups so don't even think about it! I recommend at least 1 metre away from your subject at all time! (you've be warned)

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