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Analog/Wedding: Erin and Scott

Posted in Analog, Travel, Weddings on November 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Erin and Scott are two nerds who got hitched in Erin’s parents’ backyard in mid-September.

Jeff, a few Missouri photojournalism alumnae and I attended. Naturally, we all brought our cameras. Naturally, I brought my Mamiya.

It was a small, lovely wedding.

Thanks for sharing your lovely day with me, Erin and Scott!

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Analog: Penn State football

Posted in Analog, Pennsylvania, Photography, Photojournalism, Sports on October 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

My editor slated me for three Penn State football games this season, at least before any post-season action starts up. I took my Mamiya to the first game I shot — against Alabama — just for kicks, and it turned out to be a nice icebreaker for the veteran photographers and me.

The film turned out nicely, too.

My last regular-season game is tomorrow, against Illinois. The forecast is calling for snow, which I’m actually okay with. For aesthetics and my own comfort, I’d much rather shoot in snow than in cold rain.

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Analog: Hanover Chili Cookoff

Posted in Analog, Pennsylvania, Photography, Travel on October 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »

A decent hour-long, winding drive from my apartment, Hanover is home to Snyder’s of Hanover and the Hanover Chili Cookoff.

(It’s home to other things, too… like news editor Kate. Not to be confused with photographer Kate.)

News editor Kate, photographer Kate and I met at the 16th annual Hanover Chili Cookoff last month for chili, beer and more chili. It was a pretty gross, hot, humid day, which limited how much chili and beer I could consume, but it was still nice to get out of the office with folks from the office.

We also met up with some Hanover Evening Sun folks (journalists always seem to gravitate to each other, what can I say)… including Clare!

Clare began her graduate courses at Missouri right around when I began my photojournalism sequence. Getting to see another Mizzou photographer — in Hanover, Pa., of all places — was pretty neat.

Next up from this roll of film: My first game at Penn State!

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Analog: Backyard barbecue

Posted in Analog, Pennsylvania, Photography on October 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »

As you may have read here almost two months ago, I am now/finally in possession of my very own medium-format film camera.

(It only took five years. That said, I will always be searching for the Pentax 6×7, complete with the wooden handle.)

I’ve gone through five rolls of Portra 400 and finally scanned them all in one late-night scanning spree. Here are a few from the first and second rolls. I’ve color-corrected all frames, and performed only minimal cropping, such as when the frame edge made it into the scan.

My roommate and I went to Ben’s house one cool August evening for a barbecue. Ben is a friend of hers from high school, and he’s renting his parents’ old house, which has a sweet backyard. Ben’s pretty sweet, too.

I’ve looked over all the scanned frames and decided that I need to err more toward overexposure. Oh well. In the meantime, I’ll blog more frames from other events over the coming days and weeks.

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Cocked and ready to shoot

Posted in Analog, Photography on August 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

As some of you may have already read, I bought a new(ish) camera a few weeks ago.

Earlier this week, I ran a quick roll of film through it, just to make sure it works. You never know with these old(ish) film cameras. The advance wheel could be inconsistent, the shutter could be off, etc. So whenever I’ve used a film camera that’s new to me, I always run a test roll through it.

I’m happy to report that my camera works!

The first roll!

I’m not sure that I’ve figured out how to frame/compose with it yet. It’s a twin-lens reflex. Whereas “what you see is what you get” with single-lens reflex cameras… you don’t quite get what you see in twin-lens reflex bodies.

I’ll figure it out eventually. In the meantime, I’m confident enough to shoot Penn State football games now. *wink wink Brad and Eileen*

Regarding the title of this post — For this camera, I have to “cock” the shutter before I can take a single frame. So yes, I really do have to cock the camera before I can shoot it.

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