All Hallow’s Eve

It is Halloween today and I have spent October watching horror movies. Long Legs has perhaps been the best one of the bunch. I really liked the vibe of this movie and it looked awesome. Some great performances too.

My adventures in analogue photography has been going well. I’m having to learn to be patient and slow down and be more thoughtful when I press the shutter button. But I am really enjoying the process. The Canon AE-1 camera I bought from eBay has been brilliant. I have shot about 5 rolls of film so far. I’m trying out different ones to gauge the different qualities of each. My current roll of film in the camera has already been exposed to light and I’m really curious how my images will look after it has been developed!

Talking of developing I can tell you I have actually developed my own roll of black and white film at home. I was a bit nervous that something would go wrong, and it did! The chemical side of things was easy enough. But I had a lot of trouble fumbling around in the change bag trying to put the film on to the spool that goes into the development tank. It got stuck and I made a mess trying to put it right. Several frames were damaged… and left a anomaly on the negative. But most of the images came out OK. I’m really chuffed at my varying degree of success but it was a good lesson learnt. I can do it and it is fun to do, so I will be doing more developing when I can.

I have upload the images from my analogue camera to this website. It is a good reference for me to see if I can improve!

I bought a TTArtisan 40mm F2.8 APS-C Macro Lens for scanning the negatives from my analogue camera to digitize them. It was the cheapest I could afford at the time and offers better image quality over the cheap and nasty negative scanners available. I have also shot some macro shots of various things. I will have to wait to Spring and Summer when I can try and get some good bugs and insects shots.

That’s all for this month folks,

Happy Halloween!