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NEOWISE

Canon T3i

7.16.2020 / 7.12.2020

#photography #queer artists #astrophotography #comet #neowise #hi everyone sorry for the extremely long delay in posting #I'm far too much of a perfectionist so I'm gonna try to be a bit less strict in my posts #there are still some research-heavy ones in the pipeline that I'll post slightly out of order #but I'm gonna try to get the easy stuff out of the way

Zinc Fields III / IV / V

Canon T3i

6.6.2020

#photography #queer artists #abandoned #urbex #rurex #farmhouse #barn #nature #landscape #wisconsin #midwest #new diggings #lead mine #aetna #I'd like to do a deeper dive into the history of these places but unfortunately I don't know too much about these specific buildings #the top two are a farmstead north of New Diggings just down the road from where there was once a school (in the 1920s)#the bottom one is the remnants of a barn that formed part of the small hamlet of Aetna/Etna slightly to the north of there #we learned some details about the history of the town talking to a guy who owns one of the few preserved buildings there #alas three years have passed and I'd have to do some digging to recall the finer details

wrong-brothers

Porch Light IV

Canon FT-QL

Kodak Gold 200

Summer 2020

#evening reblog #doing this manually because I didn't really feel like setting up a full set of reblogs for this

Porch Light IV

Canon FT-QL

Kodak Gold 200

Summer 2020

#photography #queer artists #35mm #landscape #nature #midwest #dodgeville #wisconsin #filmisnotdead #film #vintage #whoops I sat on a photo for two months because I didn't like the coloring again #and then slightly changing my approach with color editing fixed it #as usual it needed dark greens removed

Pleasant Valley / Gold Mine

Canon FT-QL

Kodak Gold 200

5.30.2020

#photography #queer artists #35mm #long exposure #landscape #nature #filmisnotdead #film #vintage

Porch Light III

Canon FT-QL

Kodak Gold 200

5.23.2020

#photography #queer artists #35mm #landscape #nature #midwest #dodgeville #wisconsin #filmisnotdead #film #vintage #this was even more striking and sparkly in person #something about the haze after a rainstorm is just perfect

The Desert in Spring IV

Canon FT-QL

Kodak Gold 200

5.1.2020

#photography #queer artists #35mm #nature #landscape #midwest #prairie #bluffs #spring green #wisconsin #filmisnotdead #film #vintage

Porch Light II

Canon FT-QL

Kodak Gold 200

4.7.2020

#photography #queer artists #35mm #astrophotography #moon #landscape #midwest #dodgeville #wisconsin #filmisnotdead #film #vintage #this was taken with a 1/15 shutter speed but apparently that was still too slow for however I shot this #once again though I can't believe I didn't edit my film shots after scanning in the past #this was pretty darn awful before editing #still not my favorite by any means but a lot more interesting

Tanglewood

Canon FT-QL

Kodak Gold 200

4.5.2020

#photography #queer artists #35mm #abandoned #urbex #rurex #midwest #barn #mineral point #wisconsin #filmisnotdead #film #vintage #this was one of the first times hanging out with friends after everything shut down from the pandemic #did a little hike with all-hail-the-kazoo and all-hail-the-conn-8d on the former milwaukee road

Porch Light I

Canon FT-QL

Kodak Gold 200

1.11.2020

#photography #queer artists #35mm #landscape #nature #sunset #midwest #dodgeville #wisconsin #filmisnotdead #film #vintage #whoops I lost my executive function on getting past this one photo for months #because I couldn't decide what to call it #anyway hi y'all #I'm hopefully back #(whoops I had that date wrong)

Winter on High Street

Canon FT-QL

Kodak Gold 200

12.28.2019

#photography #queer artists #35mm #nightscape #midwest #aesthetic #filmisnotdead #film #vintage #and here begin the experiments with night photography on film #honestly I'm relatively happy with how well these turned out #given it looks like I was using a 1/8 second shutter speed and handheld shooting in the cold #so all of this is probably motion blur rather than being out of focus #also not fully sure how to tag this given they're just not great

Inter-roll Intermission

Would you look at that, we’re finally on my most recent roll of scanned film!

This upcoming one began just before the pandemic and involved experimentation with more challenging lighting - particularly night scenes. I also scanned this roll myself, as I did with the last one, though I think there were slightly more scanning artifacts this time despite my best efforts.

In a more positive change, I began recording data on photos taken much more properly to ensure I have dates and settings (the latter for diagnosis of potential problems), something that the last roll was sorely missing. I had previously metered all shots by taking comparable shots on my T3i, giving me metadata for these posts and diagnostics, but it also made shooting film a very involved process. Before the last roll of film, I got batteries to finally use the through-the-lens metering system of the FT-QL, which streamlined my setup substantially - but perhaps a little too much, as I didn’t think to replace my system for getting metadata. After realizing my mistakes on this past roll, I’ve taken to keeping a shot record on my phone.

Now, I say this is my most recent roll of scanned film, which is true... at the moment. However, I just sent off four rolls of film for processing at The Darkroom (due to using one roll of expired C-41 slide film that was in a newly-acquired Nikon/Nikkormat FT2), which total over 100 photos. So, that’ll be fun to go through. This batch includes two 36-shot rolls taken at EAA Airventure this past summer, which is going to be an interesting experiment in action photography on film. Don’t be shocked if many of those don’t turn out, manually focusing on high-speed flybys is a challenge for someone used to landscape photography.

#photography update #explanatory