Some digital pics with an inexpensive Samsung digital camera

Some photos I took with an inexpensive Samsung digital camera:  for the "fence" photos I didn't have any film cameras with me; for the "rainbow/yard" photos, the light was too low for the film I had in the camera.

For this one, I imagined the vandal writing "PEACE NO..." -- and then getting interrupted.

I like the sentiment -- but it's uncool to paint on other people's fences (someone has since painted over the fence).

The color of the sky was indeed this color.  Funky.

 

A bit later -- as it got more towards evening -- there was a bit of a rainbow.

--GG

Canon Demi Half-Frame -- An old house and a rural road

 More from that 72 exposure roll on the half-frame 35mm camera.

Here are some photos of a local abandoned house that is apparently my "muse":  I keep going back to take photos of it.

 

 

And here's some of a rural road. 

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Canon Demi half-frame -- Buildings

 The great thing about shooting on a half-frame camera is that you get a ton of shots per roll -- esp. if you're shooting on a 36 exposure roll (you get 72 shots!!!). 

The bad thing about shooting on a half-frame camera is that when you get the scans, there are 72 photos to review.

Here are some of the better ones, that are photos of buildings. 

Here's a few that I didn't alter:  they're just straight from the scan.

As usual, click to enlarge:  you'll get a better sense of the picture.

And the rest, here, are mildly edited -- mostly to increase the contrast and/or bring out the cloud textures.  For example, "before" and "after":

So:

Ayep!  :)

More to come -- but not about buildings.

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Double exposures with the black Tolne toy camera

 One of my cameras -- the black plastic Tolne "toy camera" -- has a flaw:  when I first used it, the film got stuck when advancing to the next frame:  I forced it (bad!), and thereby broke the mechanism that keeps track of how far you have to turn the knob to advance to the next frame -- and also the "safety interlock" that prevents double exposures.

I actually use this to my advantage, using this camera to do intentional double exposures.

The camera takes 35mm film -- and for this one I used some color (400 ASA) expired film.  I tried to hit it with more light than usual -- but it has very limited exposure controls, so the colors came out somewhat dull (as expected). 

 

Here's an example of the photo "as is" (i.e. as the lab scanned it):

...and then after I "punched up" the colors a bit, with one of the presets in my photo editing software:

And here's another example.  Before:

And After:

Here's some more of them (the ones that turned out better) -- after a little processing (which arguably defeats the artistic purpose of shooting on expired film):

That last one of that house isn't a double exposure:  it's just "regular".  

That house is my "muse":  I keep coming back to it, trying to get the perfect shot of it.  You'll see more pics of it.  :)

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Results from two mystery rolls of film

On 10 Sept I bought a camera online which came with two mystery rolls of exposed film (one was 120 format, the other was 620 format):  the seller thought they were old but un-used -- but when I went to his house to make the purchase, I could tell they'd actually been shot.

I was sufficiently curious about their contents to pay for their development.  They were pretty old  and had been in a hot garage for a while:  my note to myself said:

A roll of 120 and a roll of 620; already shot, as it turns out; both rolls expired in the mid-’70s, so have probably been sitting in a hot shed for 50 years –- will have to totally push-process; just came with the camera.

The contents were:  trains.  Huh.

Here's one of them as it came to me (kinda faded and deteriorated) -- and then with a bit of digital enhancement:

And here's a few more, after I cleaned them up a little.

As usual, click to make larger (some of them are hard to figure out when they're small).

There's a few more that I haven't posted:  these were the better ones. 

So I guess someone really liked trains. :)

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More photos with the Canon half-frame

 Here are some more photos that I took with the Canon half-frame. Unlike yesterday's photos, these ones actually benefited from some color "massaging" I did (my photo editing software has three presets that I sometimes use).

As usual, there were lots of mediocre ones that I shot -- these were the better ones.  :) 

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Some photos with a Canon half-frame camera

 Some color photos, with a Canon half-frame camera -- which I bought from one of the guys at the local photo lab I go to.  :) 

Half-frames are neat because you get double the exposures per roll of film -- because each photo only uses up half of what a "regular" 35mm photo would use.  This means that you can take twice the number of shots with a single roll of film:  nifty!  :)

As usual, no post-processing -- these are just the scans as they were provided to me.  Also, you get the full effect if you click to enlarge.  And of course, I took a few different attempts of most of these scenes:  I'm only showing you the ones that I think are the best:  not showing you the duds.  :)

Yep1  Them's the pics.  :)

--GG