So I went through 13 summer films and there is just one more left. It was shot at the end of summer, after many days and weeks of trying to catch the right things at the right time to shoot - a big sailboat at dusk to be precise. I saved a Provia 400F for that occasion, and already thought it was too late, that it was never going to show up again. And just when I spent most of the film on random things, slightly disappointed, it finally appeared! At that point I had only a few shots left, but when you get used to shooting film and not getting second chances, those few shots were all I needed! Despite tricky conditions, they all turned out focused, sharp and properly exposed, ready for the picking.

So expect final 5-10 summer shots in next few days, and that will wrap it up. On next rolls people will be wearing thick clothing. Goodbye summer!

 
Anyway, I'm shooting about 2 rolls per day since I got that little piece of plastic, but first things first, there is more summer stuff left for upload before Lomo gets a break.

I've gotten about halfway through this summer's shots and now it's time for a short break from usual nighttime playing around I like so much. What follows is my attempt at fashion photography. Two actually, with an intermission, but nevermind that now.
It all started when =majandra graciously let us root through her bigass wardrobe and stood back while we kept falling on the floor from amazement, shock, awe etc. She even gave us a bunch of amazing stuff she doesn't use anymore.

Needless to say, one piece inspired me so much I asked my (usual) model to wear it for a shoot. The location and arrangements (you'll see...) instantly popped up in my head, and MUA for both shoots was by =majandra.

Thanks to both of them for enduring ridiculously strong sun and ~satanstolemytedibear for looking good in the heat wave of the midday sun. It was so bright I had to tell her a moment before snapping to shortly open her eyes, and so hot I could barely touch the metal of my (black) lens, not to mention selective sunburns I got. Nevermind, it was worth it.

Starting tomorrow...

 

...because I got a new camera. It's the Lomo Fisheye with a ringflash, my ticket to unphotography (also known as lomography ). And that means even more crazy colored crossprocesses with wrong exposures, heavy vignettes and more focus-free blurry heaven!

Now let's see what it can do. I'm taking it out today for the first time and am also restocking the cheap, expired part of my film supplies to feed the little gremlin.

Finally a camera I can carry everywhere and not think a bit before snapping away.

 
 
The fact the scientist proved that having fun makes time go by faster is little comfort. After one of the best summers ever, I feel it went by like a flash.
However, being a photographer, at least I have material evidence that it existed.

I'll be sharing those with you for next couple of months -- it will take that long because I shot about 14 rolls of film. Now that may not seem much (500 shots, so what, right?), but (almost ) every shot was thought through, so there isn't much garbage. I expect about 100 shots making the cut.


So what's coming up?
I'll be uploading in order of shooting, so after few macros I shot in my garden when I just arrived, some cross processed shots sneaking around town are coming up. I had a LOT of slide film this summer, and I only managed to shoot 1 as an actual slide - I crossed all the others, I just couldn't resist

After that, some beautiful scenes off the legendary Velvia (original emulsion) are coming up. I rarely afford myself a Velvia, but when I saw these shots I was awestruck. You might not, because enough manipulation will get you anywhere these days and it's really hard to tell afterwards, but this film dates back when you couldn't bump up the saturation and contrast with a click of a mouse. Inserting film, pressing the SCAN button and seeing a shot that needs nothing else done to it was always my holy grail. Each shot off Velvia is like that, needing not even the slightest adjustments.

After that is my first infrared film shot at home. It took amazing endurance to go shooting in such extreme sun and heat that I could barely touch my black camera - that's how hot it got. Lucky I had a tripod . It was worth it though.

Following up were few rolls from two fashion shoots. Some of my best model shots were done on those rolls, so I'll break my usual practice and upload more shots from the same session than usual. I just can't help it.
As for the second shoot, I still haven't seen a single shot from it, so I'll be dying of curiosity until it gets in the scanner, which will be some time from now.

Finishing off are more rolls with night shots around the town, mostly on cross-processed films. Crazy colors and deep contrasts await!
Those films (mostly Provia) proved very stubborn to scan in their true glory, so I made some reference scans on an expensive Kodak machine which has amazing color interpretation and wrote down the conversion parameters to use on my Nikon scanner. Yesterday I found out it works perfectly, so expect original 1970s cross processed saturated contrasty look with shifted hues on following fims!



See you around! (:

 
Finally it's time to pack and leave for the southern tropics I hear my hometown has become. I packed so much film it's ridiculous! Hopefully it won't be 40C in shade all the time, making me worse than useless for shooting (or anything else for that matter).
 

So enjoy the summer and see you in September, when I'll be back to the world of internet, film scanner and deviantART!