Latourell Falls, 2004
An old shot I dug up that I took of Latourell Falls in the Columbia River Gorge, back when I was still a fairly inexperienced photographer trying things out and learning rules (and when and how to break them).
This day I had taken out a Bronica S from the store to test. These cameras are... not the greatest. They are not bad, but unfortunately there are probably more reasons not to buy them anymore than to buy them. I had never shot one before and it needed the testing as they tend to be mechanically unreliable. One reason to like these cameras though is that Nikon made their lenses for a number of years, so many of the old Bronica lenses are actually Nikkors and very sharp. Anyway, I got two shots off of Latourell Falls and then the back jammed, as I was saying above.... This shot was a bit overlapped with the other shot following it so I had to crop it down from its original square format, but I still really like it.
The other thing I always kind of liked about this image is that I shot it with Scala film, which is a black and white slide film. A beautiful one at that. This scan does not really do it justice I noticed after looking at it last night on the lightbox. The tones in the slide are pretty amazing. I miss Scala, it was an incredible film that went the way of the dinosaurs when Agfa went out of business a couple of years ago. Though I have not tried it, there is, or at least recently was, a company called DR5 (www.dr5.com) that would develop pretty much any black and white neg film as positive, including infrared!
Anyway, just a couple odd tangents about this picture I remembered when I pulled it out to scan last night.
Latourell Falls, 2004
An old shot I dug up that I took of Latourell Falls in the Columbia River Gorge, back when I was still a fairly inexperienced photographer trying things out and learning rules (and when and how to break them).
This day I had taken out a Bronica S from the store to test. These cameras are... not the greatest. They are not bad, but unfortunately there are probably more reasons not to buy them anymore than to buy them. I had never shot one before and it needed the testing as they tend to be mechanically unreliable. One reason to like these cameras though is that Nikon made their lenses for a number of years, so many of the old Bronica lenses are actually Nikkors and very sharp. Anyway, I got two shots off of Latourell Falls and then the back jammed, as I was saying above.... This shot was a bit overlapped with the other shot following it so I had to crop it down from its original square format, but I still really like it.
The other thing I always kind of liked about this image is that I shot it with Scala film, which is a black and white slide film. A beautiful one at that. This scan does not really do it justice I noticed after looking at it last night on the lightbox. The tones in the slide are pretty amazing. I miss Scala, it was an incredible film that went the way of the dinosaurs when Agfa went out of business a couple of years ago. Though I have not tried it, there is, or at least recently was, a company called DR5 (www.dr5.com) that would develop pretty much any black and white neg film as positive, including infrared!
Anyway, just a couple odd tangents about this picture I remembered when I pulled it out to scan last night.