Wallace Koopmans Artlog

It certainly is thank you for pointing that out.

I’m not sure why but a picture of an older dryer at a laundromat just seemed to be the right fit with my Polaroid a week project.  Maybe it’s because at the height of Polaroid is also about the time in my life where I used a laundromat, traveling and working away from home.  The two must just converge in my memories.  Again I was also reminded about why Photography is such a great social medium,  the owner of the facility was very nice and accommodating as well as the other people there.  In case your wondering it’s Old Country Laundry in Aldergrove and the decor was every bit as interesting with old photo’s and collectibles.  Certainly more to look at than clothes spinning in a dryer although I think that has an appeal too. 

Take an underexposed negative, scan and boost almost everything that has a slider in Lightroom.  Ta-da I meant to do that. 

Here is a closeup of  that gives a better sense of the grain from the film.  Lightrooms grain slider is not able to reproduce the organic nature of grain yet it really just adds some noise that can be somewhat controlled.

Wow I didn’t realize weeks went by so fast.  Well here is my week three image.

You may notice that is is the same scene that I took with my Pentax ME in a previous post.  I like to compare the look I get with different cameras,lenses and films.

Well the idea that I wasn’t going to buy much went out the window pretty fast.  Looks like I’ll have some more cameras to fix and test.

I had a difficult time keeping dry while I snapped a few shots in the nearby community of Mission.  I had my Pentax ME super tucked inside my jacket with a SMC 40mm 2.8 lens on it.  It was nice to use an SLR instead of a point and shoot or a rangefinder for the ability to preview the image in the viewfinder.  I really change cameras too often to be able to get a solid sense of how any one of them will frame a scene from what I am seeing in the viewfinder. 

That’s a mournful declaration.  Made all the more melancholy by the method of delivery.  I can image someone taking the time to tape together the sign and then writing this.  They must believe that the person they miss will read this and feel the same way too, but I doubt it.  Tape on a pole seems like a last resort.

The sophomore of images.  Week two in my Polaroid a week self imposed challenge.  This one is from Bradner BC.

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.