Autumn / 35mm

Olympus OM-10

Expired Kodak Gold 200

Mist

This is one of my film photo's from my third shoot using Orlando (Olympus OM-10) I don't think I actually uploaded it to my blog because at first I didn't really like it but after hearing that my boyfriend liked it I decided to upload it to some sites to see what other people thought too and it turns out quite a few people like it. So here it is.

 What do you think?

Earlier today I uploaded it to my instagram account ( @redcurlsandacamera ) and it was re - posted by an account that shares film photographers work and it got a fantastic response almost instantly! It's small things like this that make me so excited.

-Ella-

Vintage film with a twist

I had some of these photos printed today ready for my college photography exhibition that's coming up and they look great printed , very pleased with the results. For anyone wondering , there is no filter on any of these :)

-Ella-

More crazy coloured captures

 

-Ella-

More from the soup

 

Deciding how I'm going to have my final exhibition board at college , not sure if I should just have a small selection of my film soup photographs (as shown above and in previous post) or my expired film photos (from other blog posts) or a mixture of both. what are your thoughts?

-Ella-

The post I've been waiting to write

I have waited WEEKS to be able to do this post! because I have waited weeks to get my film developed and Asda kept finding new reasons not to develop it. So after a lot of faffing around , here's my latest shoot.

Double exposure expired film (exp. 1997) that's been soaked in my own soup :) let me know what you think!

-Ella-

Orlando roll 5

These are from my roll of film using my Olympus OM-10. All of which minus the first were taken at a Zoo. Some of the shots turned out over exposed with very little contrast (for example the last one). I played around quite a bit with the ISO with this roll as it is expired to see different results.

I'm really pleased with how vivid a lot of the colours turned out in the majority of the photographs. 

-Ella-

Pedantry in Art

So I posted a question regarding light leaks on a facebook page dedicated to die hard film lovers. It's safe to say I was surprised by the comments...

I asked if anyone knew any good safe tips for the technique as I really want to give it a go without ruining any other photo's or anything else. I was expecting tips , as I had asked however I was being encouraged to turn away from the idea completely. why? because people saw the technique as a fault.

Man , I was surprised! I wondered if they had read the post properly or if they thought I wanted to destroy my camera in the process but nope, simply just middle aged dude's telling me that it's a fault , it isn't something I should want to try or experiment with.

'As light leaks are a sign of an equipment fault and are random at best. Why ruin a perfectly good photograph ? It doesn't make sense'

You know what I say to that? AGHH.

Art doesn't have to make sense! and it is NOT a sign of equipment fault , not necaserily all the time anyway.

It's a CREATIVE technique.

I think possibly the most infuriating comment I read was :

'Then what your saying is the photograph isn't strong enough to stand on its own without the adornments of faults ?'

I had no idea that photographers could be so narrow minded, luckily I have yet to physically meet a narrow minded artist.

I love light leaks , I have seen so many pieces of art on Lomography.com where photographers have used light leaks purposely within their work along with dozens of other wonderfully eye opening experiments. I applaud those who encourage creativity and open mindedness. 

Until today I actually thought that all artists surely had to be open minded and creatively encouraging to create their own pieces? I mean how can you create a piece of art without being creative? I don't know , that's just my perception and opinion. Maybe I'm the one being narrow minded and uncreative haha.  

Both photographs there have accidental light leaks. (light being exposed to the film prior to processing causing random splashes of colour).

-Ella-

 

 

Found Film

Finally found my lost film roll! which was actually the second roll of film that I shot using my Olympus om-10 , it's an expired Tesco roll (tesco branded). These are my favourite shots. I'm constantly improving my photography and I think even from my second to third roll I can see improvement. 

Camera: Olympus OM-10

Film: Expired Tesco Colour 400

Orland Roll 3

Orlando Roll 2 has still not been found and sadly I'm starting think I never will find it -sad face- so I loaded my OM-10 with an expired Kodak Roll and started shooting. The film box said the film iso/asa is to be set at 800 which I have never shot at before with film , and considering the film expired in 2006 , half way through the film I decided to change it to iso/asa 200.

 I'm glad I made that decision.

The kodak roll was a 24 exposure roll however my dad opened the back of my camera when I had already used 10 shots. gutted. So my exposure counter went right back down to 0 which was a little annoying to keep remembering that I had already shot with it and knowing that those 10 shots would be unusable.

I got my film processed today (yay!) and I'm really pleased with the shots that did turn out!! 

It's my third time using the Olympus OM-10 and I love it , I totally reccomend it to anyone wanting a film camera especially if you are just starting up film photography. I've had no problems other than having to change the batteries (yes some film cameras do take batteries) and the sad loss of Roll #2.

Here's some shots from Roll 3.

The three of these photographs I used natural lighting and I adore the warm tones that it's created!

-Ella-

First shoot over view

Olympus OM 10 , first shoot overview 

So I'm guessing by this point a lot of people have already seen all if not some of the images above from my first shoot using my om10 especially as I've posted them on 500px , Flickr , pinterest & tumblr. The roll was a 36 exposure however I only posted my favourites (the 12 above).

I had such a great time using my camera for the first time , it was so exciting waiting for them to be processed even more so because I used expired film so I wasn't sure how they would turn out.

The film I used was AGFA , ISO 200 and the expiry date was 2005.

Using the camera:

The camera itself has an auto shutter speed unless you get the manual adapter which I purchased after I processed the first roll and I am so glad I got it! I'm half way through shooting my second and I have so much more confidence shooting knowing I have control over the shutter speed. Some of my shots which I haven't uploaded came out blurry because I didn't have as much control over the camera as I wanted due to not having the manual adapter. 
I have honestly learnt more about how to use a camera properly in these past 2/3 weeks than I have in the past 2/3 years. Film photography has brought me right back to basics and I feel like I'm starting afresh!

on a side note: I've hit 11,166 views & almost 200 'favourites' on this photo :

That I uploaded to Flickr on January 5th which is the most views/favourites I've ever reached! which is super exciting!

Thank you all for your support

-Ella-

In the trees

Olympus om10

AGFA expired film (200)

More photo's

Olympus om10

AGFA 200 expired film

-Ella-

Orlando, Roll 1

My first roll shooting with Orlando

In my last post I talked briefly about my new camera, the Olympus om10 and I finished my first roll about a week ago and just today got it processed and I'm unbelievably excited with the results considering my first roll was getting used to the camera also I wasn't sure how the photo's would turn out because I was using expired film. It's safe to say I'm definitely using expired film again, I'm obsessed already!

Here's some of my shots! Keep checking out my blog for more photo's :)

Only basic editing used i.e. cropping & adding watermark.

-Ella-

Happy Christmas!

Happy Christmas everyone! I was determined to do another blog post before Christmas but life just took over and I didn't have the time so here's just a quick one.

The more and more research I was doing for college looking through photographers work the more I found I was leaning towards the more traditional route and decided I wanted to get hold on an Analogue film camera which is something I have wanted for a few years now. 

I was lucky enough to receive an Olympus om10 film camera for Christmas along with 12 rolls of expired film , the oldest being from 1961 which I simply cannot wait to use. 

I contemplated doing the project 365 in the new year, but realistically I know it's something I'd struggle to complete however I have decided to make it a new years resolution to take more and more photo's and to experiment more with my film camera.

This morning I loaded my camera with a 36 exposure AGFA colour film (expired on 06/2005) , I look forward to seeing the results and blogging them!

Merry Christmas!

-Ella-