film friday–week 8

Several shots on this week’s roll of film were shot out my car window. I was in the car stopped at a red light and saw a sign that I kind of liked and wished I could take a picture. The camera was in the seat next to me. I considered doing it. I thought I wouldn’t have time. The light was going to turn green at any second. But I wanted the picture. And the light was still not green. So I grabbed the camera, rolled down the window, and took the photo.

And then I thought, what if I took a picture out my window every time I am stopped at a red light? I passed several things that would’ve made cool photos, but of course once I wanted to hit red lights, I didn’t. I finally got stopped a couple times, but then I also went down some smaller streets with less traffic where I could stop at will in the middle of the street to get a photo. I was in the museum district/montrose neighborhood, which is one of my favorite parts of Houston.

This is still expired Fuji NPH but this week I rated it at 200 again. Little too overexposed the past couple of weeks at 125.

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tiny boxwood’s

I had a breakfast date last Friday at a cafe called Tiny Boxwood’s. I thought the name was really strange & random. It is set inside a nursery in an upscale neighborhood. After we ate we walked around the nursery grounds looking at what they had. One of the first tables we came to had a bunch of miniature boxwood plants. “Tiny boxwoods!” my friend said. And we looked at each other as suddenly it clicked and we went, “Oh yeah! Tiny Boxwood’s.” Duh.

The cafe was super cute. Love that they have a cheese plate for breakfast. I had black bean & cheese breakfast tacos that tasted amazing. And I liked the nursery so much I went back over the weekend and bought a bunch of little succulents to put in my windowsills.

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film friday–week 7

More film. Here are some of my favorites from this week’s roll. Some of these were shot out the window of the car (from the passenger seat) as we sped down the highway on a quick weekend trip to Dallas. (Even though we’d just been there a few days before…) I tried to keep the shutter speed fast enough to stop the motion of the car going 70mph. I kept it around 1/2000th or 1/4000th.

Some of these I loved at first glance. Like the one of my bed at night (which I shot with the camera on a tripod at 1/6th of second shutter speed, by the way). I am seriously in love with how this film handles tungsten light. And some of them I expected to love as I photographed them, but the image that came back on the CD wasn’t what I had envisioned. Still figuring out this film thing.

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two projects

Two projects to share tonight. Neither of them are mine.

First is called “You Are What You Eat”–Mark Menjivar’s project of photographing the insides of refrigerators of people around the country. It’s strangely fascinating to look inside strangers’ fridges. Check it out here: You are what you eat.

And then a photographer in Brooklyn, Jennifer Causey, who is working on a project called the Makers, featuring people who make things by hand. Her photographs are beautiful, as are the people and things featured in them.

These two photos are NOT MINE…they are Jennifer Causey’s from the Makers project.

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a comparison

Quick comparison. Last week I shot the same thing on both digital and film. I processed the digital file the same way I normally would. The film is a straight scan (from Walgreen’s). I like things about each one.

Film on top; digital on bottom.

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