Ilford Pan 400

 Here are some frames from my first roll of black and white film. It was a roll of ilford pan 400. I don't really like it, it's not very contrasty, lots of midtone greys. Some of these photos are six months old: it took me a while to find someone to develop the film!

ps I am now in Stockholm Sweden for the next month, yeh!

Street Photography (my attempt at)

I've been following some street photography blogs and have been inspired to try my hand at it. So I took my camera to the streets of Melbourne. Only some of my images are in black and white, the rest are in colour. I used Kodak ultra max 400 speed film and I like the results. The colours are more subtle then those produced by fuji superior xtra 400 (the other commonly available cheap film) and skin tones I think are much nicer. Some of the scans were done with a Nikon coolscan IV, the rest were done on a normal scanner with a film attachment. I got sick of editing out dust, hair and scratches so I left them in there. These were all developed at Lab-x in St Kilda, I would reccomend gonig there, they are good and cheap. Previously I had been getting my film developed at BIG-W, but after gettting my film developed professionaly, I will never go back. The biggest difference is the lack of scratches and seccondly, the images are just much sharper.

This last one was a double exsposure. All B&W photos were taken on a roll of ilford delta 3200.

cheers
jono

Shooting Hoops

I recently caught up with my cousin Alan for the first time in over a year. We hung out a few times over the last few weeks catching up on lost time and more lost time to come. Here we are playing a game of 21, I normally lose, but this time I actually won.

cheers

jono

ps LOTS more photos to come very soon.

Lady of the Jungle

Some of you might recognize this location from photos in a previous post. Well I loved the setting so much I had to go back to shoot some fashion portraits. I was able to bribe Noshin to model for me with some coffee...she accepted :)

This last one was taken on expired AGFA vista 200, all the rest were taken with a canon 400D and 50mm f1.8mm.

Cheers

ps thanks Noshin, you look unreal!

Bindarri National Park Hike...

I went for a hike in Bindarri National Park a week or so ago, it's in the north coast of NSW, Australia. I had to go because the weather was perfect for some moody photography: it was cloudy and raining all day. All photos taken on a Nikon FE with expired AGFA vista 200.

^ Sometimes to take a good photograph you need to isolate your subject...sometimes nature does that part for you.
^Hundreds of tadpoles in hundreds of pools of water alongside the waterfall ^The sun came out in the end...whilst I was in my car on my way home. I had to pull over to snap this beautiful vista

I'll be on a road trip as of Monday. We are heading down to Melbourne, it'll only be a three day long road trip (if all goes as planned) but we are expecting to see some amazing places along the way, such as the blue mountains and Jervis bay. Which reminds me I need to go buy some more film!
later

jono

Forests on 35mm film

So for the past week or so I have only taken photos on my SLR, the DSLR has taken a back seat. I have no car so I have been riding around on my push bike exploring new places with my trusty nikon strapped over my shoulder. Here are these places. Photos are the best of 4 rolls of expired AGFA vista 100 and 200 asa. I scanned them at pretty low quality, but the scans captured the essence of each shot, albeit a bit blurry.

 ^ I can't help but feel a whimsy model in a white dress is missing from these shots, particuarly this one.

 ^ This shot was taken on a day when we had a massive dust storm, it created a really cool effect, as though there was really high pollution.

 

 

^ This one again, but a slightly different angle. I love these two shots. The graffitied building stands out, yet sits there so comfortably with its' dark spindly forest friends behind. Find the bush turkey.

Cheers
jono

Feeling new

I gave my blog a spring cleaning, as you can now see - it is very clean. Literally. I like minimalistic blogs. I now have an about section, link section with all my links and blogroll plus a contact section if you wanna send me an email about how you don't like my new design. Also, archives are located down the bottom of the page. To make this post worth your while reading, I dug up some old portraits I took. 

v This is Matt Ryder, I took this photo a year or so ago for his album 15 minutes.

v This is Julie, she's from Norway.

cheers
jono