Wallace Koopmans Artlog

Winter officially ended about two weeks ago but as far as the plants are concerned spring is only now sprung.

Week one April 1-8 no kidding.  This stuff isn’t going to keep forever despite all my desires to posses it in it’s undeveloped state.  It’s as if I’m waiting for some artistic epiphany that is worthy of it’s use.  As that hasn’t happened and I’m not sure if I would recognize it if it did, here is my solution.  If some people can do a photo a day why can’t I do a Polaroid image once a week.  In case your wondering this isn’t an App this is actually Polaroid Spectra which I have been hoarding, see above.

Ok not the greatest composition (who planted that tree?) but I actually took two and gave the better one to the couple.  Ahhh must be spring weddings are in the air.

After using digital cameras for years and shooting negatives when I want film I think I may have forgotten how unforgiving slide film can be.  I shot a roll of Elitechrome through my Fujica 35 SE and was very disappointed with the results.  I under exposed nearly everything, either through misjudging the light or because the shutter speeds where off.  Ordinarily with negatives I would still have usable images but most of these transparencies, well they aren’t very transparent.  My only recourse seems to be to process them as high contrast B&W images.  There just isn’t any room with slides to get the exposure wrong, I have one more roll in my stock but if I buy more I will be more cautious about which camera I use so that I can rely on the exposure being correct.