Don't Be like me and get lost in the process
Let me first of apologize for the late blog post. I really tried to get one in before mid week. That was a lie. I completely forgot about writing one to be honest. I've been a little preoccupied with working with some new gear and workflow. I had to recent additions to my photography. One is in the form of a Leica M6. I traded one of my last fuji cameras for it and have been shooting with it pretty much non stop since it arrived. I have about 12 rolls so far that are undeveloped. The other is a new Epson v850. I used to have a Pakon scanner which was an amazing device. Unfortunately it only scanned 35mm. So i sold that and picked up an epson for a really good price on eBay! Down side to the epson is it's a little bit slower at scanning and a little more involved, but thats okay since i can scan medium format, 4x5, and even 8x10 if i own a large format camera.
Still needs a little more coloring
The following images are not taken on film just FYI. Although i've been shooting film i haven't sent them out to be developed yet. I've sort of considered developing all this myself but then decided not to since I'm not here permanently. Until i start developing at home i'll stick to sending my film into my favorite place Indiefilmlab. Once i get them back i'll use my nifty new scanner and the next follow up blog will hopefully be full of film images that have been scanned and digitized. Yes i get that its contradictory to shoot film and then scan for online viewing. It defeats the purpose right? Well It's really the easiest way to share those images and help me create prints on my inkjet at home. Anyways i'm going back to scanning and try to master the software since it is pretty cumbersome.
Harvest preparation!
I recently realized we're nearing the end of summer. Fall is on the horizon. When fall starts to hit, Harvest is usually in tow. I've recently started to organize the amount of photos i have taken over the last 4 and half months. I've only been able to go through about a quarter of it because there is ALOT of content. I didn't really think about doing this on a daily basis which would have made this a little less tedious, but what are you gonna do right? Since we are currently finishing up our last minute pruning and spraying of the trees, I decided to write up a small reflective blog post about the last 4 months and go through a little photographic recap.
I recently realized we're nearing the end of summer. Fall is on the horizon. When fall starts to hit, Harvest is usually in tow. I've recently started to organize the amount of photos i have taken over the last 4 and half months. I've only been able to go through about a quarter of it because there is ALOT of content. I didn't really think about doing this on a daily basis which would have made this a little less tedious, but what are you gonna do right? Since we are currently finishing up our last minute pruning and spraying of the trees, I decided to write up a small reflective blog post about the last 4 months and go through a little photographic recap.
It's very surreal going through what i saw when i started the project to what i can see now. I think the project is coming together very well despite a lot of challenges i faced so far. One of them was facing sort of new camera system. Just four days before i left for the project i ran across a really good deal for a digital Leica and i went for it. I say sort of new because i owned a Leica M6 but only had it for about a year. I then ended up trading it for a Contax T3 because i thought i wanted a really good point and shoot camera. I did love the camera and it was a joy to use. The simplicity that surrounded a film point and shoot was mind blowing but i still missed how i felt using a leica. I know there are a lot of people out there that say you don't need that, Leica's are over priced luxury cameras, and a camera is just a tool you don't need a hammer attached to a high price tag. While i agree with that notion i don't hear a lot of people talking about the caveats to that. A camera is a tool but a tool should fit its user. A good tool should be a tool you like using, other wise you'll never use it and it'll sit on a shelf for all its life.
So there i was with a new system in hand trying to remember and relearn the nuances of using a fully manual camera. I've never actually used a Leica system on anything work related. The biggest fear i had was focusing. I don't have the luxury of auto focus and had to really practice and master how to focus quickly, It was tough at first but i slowly got used to it. On a side note, manual focus on a Leica M camera stops on each end(close focus to infinity). Some focusing systems allows the focus ring to keep moving once you get to the point of inifinity. This made this a lot easier for me to quickly pick up on. I can automatically know where my camera is focused at by feel and adjust to focus closer or further. Once i got that i was all set. Now i could concentrate properly on creating the work i wanted to create. Technical is important but not as important as content and emotion in your work.
There were a few other challenges that i've mentioned in past blogs you can find here, so i won't bore you with repeat content. I intended this to be a shorter blog to be honest with you, but with so many thousands of images i decided to do a secondary recap at a later time. Please enjoy some of the photo slide shows and if you still haven't followed me on Instagram, you can do so by looking up @chriiiissss. I post images there usually on a daily basis.