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What got me hooked into photography to begin with was a disposable camera in 2003.
I have looked into film cameras for a few years at least and just never made the purchase. I have been to busy upgrading my camera equipment and learning all of it.
I was gifted a bunch of film cameras from an awesome person and I plan cleaning them up, ordering film, and shooting a lot on them. The most basics you can get is shooting film. No .RAW format, no going back and having full control over fixing your images. You have to be ready, be perfect for what you are shooting, and get the shot you want in the moment without any type of after process or corrections.
I have also done a lot of research on film and I think what I am going to go with is Portra 400, at least for the first 5 rolls. I love the colors and contrast in any sample image you see with this film.
I was given such an assortment of lenses as well and I think for at least one roll of film I am going to leave the ages dirt on the lens for shootings too add texture and character to the image.
This is a ‘‘Portra’’ Preset I am working on, really excited for the final end result and I will also have it in a Preset Pack available soon. I want to get more samples and examples using it, plus I need to create and do the same with more. I really want a film stock preset pack. It would be beautiful.
I can not wait to share the experience of 1. Cleaning the cameras, 2. Learning to really use a light meter, 3. Learning the cameras in general, 4. The end fucking result.
It has really made me appreciate so much getting these cameras. It has meant so much to be the person who received them and I can not wait to see through time when using the camera bodies and lenses.
Some of the cameras are from the 1980’s, 40 year old cameras. Lenses from the 60’s, that is 60 years ago! Seeing through glass that old has given me such a high hope feeling on the potential of these photos that I haven’t even taken yet.
I have a few already planned out and what I imagine in my head is more beautiful than I can create with my A7RIII. Some things just can not be replicated or created no matter how much you try. You can mimic very close, but you can not truly achieve it. The experience alone is something you definitely can not create on a new camera, no matter how new or expensive.
The YouTube channel I have told no one about will be getting a lot of ‘‘ASMR’’ videos of me cleaning the camera bodies and lenses and that is going to be a lot of fun to do and make!
Preset Pack Testing is going to be a Blog I make at some point too. Just showing examples of the same preset on a range of photos and how to best utilize that one preset across multiple images differently.
I have a lot planned out, it has been a lot since making this website not even a full month ago but I am here for it!
Thank you again Justin, it has been very appreciated and will continue to be!
