Hi all, I'm Erik.
Where to start? Like most people I had a toy camera as a kid and I'm old enough to have used several 35mm point and shoots when they were new. Of course that was completely ignorant look-through-the-finder-and-push-the-button-that-makes-it-go-click photography. In my high school art classes I had a lot of fun making a pinhole camera and doing my own darkroom work. I wish I still had the prints. Recently I unearthed my dad's long ignored Pentax ME-F and started experimenting, and reading. I've discovered that I love the more tactile experience of shooting with a manual camera, and the honest simplicity of film. I'm just experimenting a lot right now, with no clear idea of where I'm heading, but I am learning, and joining this place is long overdue. I'm going to be very brave here, and share some of what I've been doing. These are from two rolls shot around White Rock back in the summer. All are shot on the ME-F with a Pentax-M 50 f2 on Fujicolour 200. (Yes I do have other lenses, but I love my 50)
125 @ f16
250 @ f16
60 @ f5.6 I really want a graduated ND filter
15 @ f8
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4 seconds @ f5.6, I think.
Forgot to write it down, oops!
4 minutes @ f22 (for maximum DOF) I guessed at 2 stops overexposure for reciprocity failure. The reason it's tilted is because I was perched precariously on a very small rock that didn't really have enough room for me and the tripod, and I had to guess at framing.
I should really think of a punchy way to finish this up.
Damn! I got nothing. Oh well bring on the comments!
Where to start? Like most people I had a toy camera as a kid and I'm old enough to have used several 35mm point and shoots when they were new. Of course that was completely ignorant look-through-the-finder-and-push-the-button-that-makes-it-go-click photography. In my high school art classes I had a lot of fun making a pinhole camera and doing my own darkroom work. I wish I still had the prints. Recently I unearthed my dad's long ignored Pentax ME-F and started experimenting, and reading. I've discovered that I love the more tactile experience of shooting with a manual camera, and the honest simplicity of film. I'm just experimenting a lot right now, with no clear idea of where I'm heading, but I am learning, and joining this place is long overdue. I'm going to be very brave here, and share some of what I've been doing. These are from two rolls shot around White Rock back in the summer. All are shot on the ME-F with a Pentax-M 50 f2 on Fujicolour 200. (Yes I do have other lenses, but I love my 50)
125 @ f16
250 @ f16
60 @ f5.6 I really want a graduated ND filter
15 @ f8
Dead Link Removed
4 seconds @ f5.6, I think.
Forgot to write it down, oops!
4 minutes @ f22 (for maximum DOF) I guessed at 2 stops overexposure for reciprocity failure. The reason it's tilted is because I was perched precariously on a very small rock that didn't really have enough room for me and the tripod, and I had to guess at framing.
I should really think of a punchy way to finish this up.
Damn! I got nothing. Oh well bring on the comments!
Dennis
