Another 120 Film Photograph

This is one of my favorite shots on Fuji Velvia. Shot in 2007 with a Moskva 2 folding MF camera early in the morning in the Eastern Sierra Mountains (~late October). You might think that I juiced up the colors in Photoshop, but it's not true. In fact I had to take down the saturation of the scan to make it look more natural. Velvia colors can sometimes be too much.

New film scanner

I couldn't live like this (without a decent film scanner) anymore and got a new Canon 9000F. I am very very impressed with the colors that it gives when scanning color negatives (those are notoriously difficult to work with). Resolution is enough, and the fact that it accepts 120 film is the icing on the cake. Here's an old photo of Alice from Technique shot with a Mamiya MF film camera (80mm f/2.8 lens most likely). There's still some dust visible because the scanner can't do dust/scratch removal from BW silve-based film.

Panoramic Camera Revisited

I have become obsessed with panoramic cameras recently (caught the bug in 2006, then lost it, then caught it again). Here's a recent panorama shot on the Berkeley campus with a 1980's Horizont Russian swing lens panoramic camera. It's not a great photo or anything, I just like that there's a lot of stuff happening in the frame.

My First Self-Published Photo Book

I stopped shooting with a dSLR for now and started organizing and scanning my library of film images. I hope to slowly make photo books and store memories that way. I debated between Blurb and AdoramaPix for a long time but finally settled on AdoramaPix because they have higher printing quality (and paper thickness). This comes at an additional cost. I made the book available for anyone to view and even purchase (highly unlikely though). Here is a preview of the book: http://www.adoramapix.com/ghe/book.mvc/mit-in-panoramas-8x8. I will post more once the book arrives.

Sunrise in San Francisco

It's rare that you catch a breathtaking sunrise. For some reason sunsets are more colorful (at least that has been my experience). Anyway, I made a really early trip to SF on the F bus and caught a very spectacular sunrise on Velvia 100 with a toy camera (Superwide 22mm). I digitized the film with a 100mm macro lens (more about that in a later post).

Cake

I have been making cakes for a while. I like it, but I end up making cakes only when our lab has a party, a birthday, or a potluck dinner. I have mastered the Tropical Carrot Cake, Lemon Cake, and now, a Chocolate Raspberry cake. I usually make the same cake 2-3 times in a row until I feel confident that I know everything there is to know about it, then move on and try another cake.

Here's my second chocolate cake, I made it for Yara's leaving party.

Olympus OM1+50mm f/1.8 on Kodak 400 ISO film

I shot some photos and then forgot that I had film in the camera. Just developed the roll and got some nice ones. Surprisingly good for such an old camera/lens combination.