"Bird" (Bird)
04/28/2014 at 12:45 • Filed to: None
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"Bird" (Bird)
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I posted one of these from !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! yesterday, but I wanted to post some of my FD shots here directly. I've been playing around with film photography, and I'm in deep now. I've decided any pit environment in motorsports is the perfect place for B&W. All I want to do is shoot film, and come home and develop it now.
I didn't get to shoot any action shots this year. I hate shooting through fences, and there really aren't any good vantage points to shoot from in the spectator area. I'd need a press pass to get any good shots there, so I decided to just spectate, and focus my photography on the pits.
It takes a little extra work to shoot film. First, lugging around heavy antiquated equipment gets tiring. I shoot with a Kiev 88, and three lenses. A 65mm, 90mm, and 300mm. The 300mm is all metal, looks like a rocket launcher, and has a metal screw on lense cap...it was made by a former Soviet munitions factory in Ukraine. All of these were shot on Ilford Hp5 anf FP4. Then developed in my kitchen, and scanned in my living room.
I love the fact that Formula D's pits, are also the vendor area/car show so you get access to everything.
I've also decided that I love the way chrome or polished stainless looks in B&W. The highlights just pop.
You can see the rest of the gallery on my website,
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, and if you want like me on
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, or follow me on
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. I'm trying to get out and shoot more, and hopefully having somewhere to put everything will motivate me a little.
Justin is driven
> Bird
04/26/2014 at 20:08 |
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Man the clarity and the grain are just.... so goddamn nice. I either need to get a film camera or a much nicer DSLR.
That last shot is spectacular. Very nice.
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Bird
> Justin is driven
04/26/2014 at 20:24 |
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Thank you.
The last shot is one of my favorites, that and the long lens shot of Grunewald looking at his car.
You should get a film camera...you can do it cheaper than I did, I went for medium format, so it was a little more, but still fairly cheap. I'm using a Soviet made Kiev 88. The medium format is a lot of the reason these have the detail and clarity...and Ilford films are just amazing...
I got everything I listed in my post, plus all the chemicals and gear I needed to develop, and a Canon 9000F Mark II scanner for about $800. I think that $800 also included like 10-15 rolls of film. I didn't spend it all at once, I bought the camera and shot these , but the lab ruined two of my rolls, and their scans sucked. So I bought the scanner to rescan what they didn't ruin. Then I bought all the stuff to develop myself so I would only have myself to blame.
I'm using the same developing tank Larry Chen uses, but went with Ilford chemicals. The whole process is amazing, and it will make you a better photographer.
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Justin is driven
> Bird
04/26/2014 at 22:15 |
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I have no doubt, and I really wish I had the time and space to do it. But with a pending move and not a lot of free time, it remains a dream. The next step in my continuing education as a photographer.