More crazy coloured captures

 

-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-

Four

Ahh I just love the look that film has! so vintage looking. The grain and sometimes softness of the photo can add so much character.

AGFA £1 film

Olympus OM-10

Orlando Roll 3

So here are all the photo's from Orlando Roll 3 ! Despite the fact that a lot of the photo's didn't turn out because of the back of the camera being opened , it made some quite cool effects (light leakage) on photo 7 which I love.

I've loaded my OM-10 with an AGFA roll from poundland which I have some exciting ideas about using. 

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-Ella-

Darkroom Day

Today I spent approximately 5 hours in the Darkroom . 5 hours. Of course if you've never worked in a darkroom before then that probably wouldn't seem like a long time. Even longer if you aren't the only person in there. There is nothing more stressful to a photography student (working traditionally) than being in a darkroom with other people who aren't being considerate or just simply have no idea what they are doing...

1. please please please LOWER THE BRIGHTNESS of your enlarger light if you are going to remove the negative carrier! (doing so stops other peoples paper being unintentionally exposed and reduces risk of blindness ha)

2. when you remove your print from the developing tray please be considerate and recognise the fact there may be someone stood behind you so don't flick it everywhere because that launches drops of developer which permanently stains clothes. just stop.

3. My goodness. If you place a print the size of Asia into the developing tray when other people also have prints in their please for the love of elephants don't let it float all over other peoples prints, this will ruin other people prints & possibly yours.

Think that's about it where my ranting is concerned...so here's my favourite's from today.

-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)

Negative Landscape

Olympus om10

AGFA 200 (expired)

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-