studio
Today I followed through on my plan to book into the studio to try taking some double exposure self portraits with the Rolleicord.
Why, you may ask, did I go to the effort of booking the studio then not actually make use of the studio flash? Well, that would be because I had no idea how to sync them when using this old camera.
So instead of trying to work that out, I dragged a few random lights about, set up a couple of tripods, said a small prayer to the focusing and exposure gods and set the self timer.
I think I used the studio for about two hours, shot some digital and a roll of 120mm HP5+.
I had booked in to develop the negatives straight after, which was slightly nerve wracking as I honestly don’t remember the last time I developed a 120mm roll.
Was half expecting to turn the lights back on and the film would be lying on the floor as I’d rolled the paper onto the reel instead….but thankfully I got it the right way around.
By this point it was only around lunchtime, so once my negs had dried decided to do some quick scans on the Epson to see if there was anything at all of use on them….and I was actually quite pleasantly surprised…
Yep - we definitely have some squinty looking photos of phone boxes that I shot last week.
Dark, but potentially some interesting double exposures on here.
The last three look quite promising…..
Really like the way the one with me sitting on the chair turned out.
So yes, had fun in the studio and managed to successfully(-ish) develop some medium format negatives.
Going to hopefully get some of these scanned in next week using the fancy scanner - you can see all the dust and random hair on these as I just papped the whole polyproprolene negative sheet on the scanner to get a general idea.
I shot some digital too to have a play about with slow shutter speeds.
I had this idea of taking images whilst stuck in this dress, as despite following the recommended sizing on the website…..I got it stuck over my shoulders the other day and after the mild panic that I would never escape abated, thought the general awkwardness of it might make for an interesting thing to photograph..
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Oh yeah, and some bonus polaroids….as I shoved it in my bag as an afterthought on my way out the door this morning…..
