Moose22
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For comparison here are some I shot on HP5+ at around 2000ISO, developed in ID-11 stock. Higher contrast, different look but still pleasing. These are 35mm, all shot in a 60s Yashica rangefinder.
I've become well known at the club and have befriended a lot of the musicians there, who notice I am shooting on film and are interested in the results. Several have gone on to use my photos in their promotional material and one threw me a few hundred quid to use one as an album cover. But I do this purely for fun, with permission of the club owner who is a photographer himself.
I'm the same. Most of this is for fun, I'll only "work" for someone I know who wants to try something out, and who I know is happy to experiment with me some. Actually, music, portraits, anything.
I went mirrorless the December before the pandemic specifically to get back into shooting musicians. Used to go to an open mic at a brewery with a great stage, and I got to know the owners as well. I always gave them some copies of anything good with their logo in it, but that lasted 3 months before the state shut everything down. Now that I'm doing film photography again, I'll do more on film.
Funny how film has some cachet though. I was taking pics of a third band at that coffee shop (nothing good, those guys drew a crowd and I couldn't get any good angles on any of them) and during the break I had my FA in hand, the bassist walks up and says "Hey, where's the F?" Long time photographer in his younger days, has an MFA and studied photography as an undergrad. He had spotted the prism on my F2.
I got a handful of business cards and had my ear talked off. All because of the film camera. Nobody gives a crap when I have the Z7 out, even if I make some amazeballs shots.
This is him. Angles were horrible so I was just trying to see if I could get some shadow detail inside and not blow out the background (40 minutes before sunset, they're on the shaded side of the building) and I had FP4 in the F2. I told him so and we had a nice chat about such difficulties before he had to get back to playing.
