This was shot at the Noordhoek Common at Calum’s birthday picnic, which places it about 8 months ago. I had forgotten how much fun it is to get back a developed roll of film and pore over each shot. Every image feels so much more valuable than the hundreds of thumbnails that spew out of my DSLR.
As with most of the other pictures on my first two rolls of 120, the exposure was chosen sans light meter (The Yashica 635 doesn’t have one). Most of the B&W shots ended up about a stop over, but nothing that can’t be fixed in post. The dynamic range of this film is awesome, really forgiving.
I finally got my first two rolls of film through the Yashica 635 developed and was really blown away. I was hoping for maybe one acceptable picture, or just to prove that the camera worked, but I got a whole bunch that I really like. Medium format has me in its claws now!
This is the photo that caught my eye the most, but I will share the rest of the results in the days to come.
I don’t have anything very exciting to show for my matchbox pinhole camera. This one immediately reminded me of Nicéphore Niépce’s ”La cour du domaine du Gras”, or ”View from the Window at Le Gras” for us English swine. The only difference being, mine is about as revolutionary as a Che Guevara T-shirt.
I’m not sure whether it’s just because I know what it is that I can see what it is though. Can anyone else make it out?