First Post
In order to show off my attempts at hobbies, I have started this wonderfully creative page. I don’t plan on posting often, so don’t get your hopes up.
This summer I decided to see if my father’s old Yashica 635 TLR still worked. I took it in to the local camera shop, had it looked at, and bought my first roll. Below are some of the better pictures that came out. Keep in mind these are scanned with a crappy scanner. Next time I will remember to get the photo shop to give me a CD.
scott said,
July 18, 2007 at 6:34 am
nice pics! i’m curious tho. are you cropping any of them in scanning? if not, what shot format does your yashica take? you can look at the negatives to find out. are they 6cm x 6cm? or maybe 6cm x 4.5cm ? or something else altogether?
i lament the crappy scanner myself. honestly, untill i shell out the big bucks for one of the nikon desktop cylon robots, i find it totally worth it to have the lab make me a photo cd.
keep em coming!
bertaparadise said,
July 18, 2007 at 7:48 am
I did crop them a bit, just because of the way I scanned them. However, the camera takes a 6×6. When they scanned in, you can see the grain of the matte, which made the photos look grainier than they actually are. I adjusted the shadow and the tones a bit to fix, but it’s not great. the really odd part is that the camera does not take pictures as I see them. In the Memorial picture (jesus candle), all I could really see was the jesus candle in my aperture. It was take with an Fstop of 22 and a shutter speed of 1/250.
Nick said,
July 20, 2007 at 6:47 am
Roberta, I love you because you are a lady and you dragged an old old camera out of the closet, bought some huge-ass film, set the aperture and shutter speed, took the picture, had it developed, scanned it, and at the end when Scott asked you about it, you could tell him the settings that you used. All of this was on purpose, too, not because you thought it was an old-timey digital camera or something like that.
Cool tool.
Oh, and the quintessential Clark. About 11 years ago, while sipping grape-tards or whatever we called it when we mixed the cheap orange and cheap grape sodas together, that is the exact same pose that Clark was in. He may have even been wearing that same T-shirt.
Clark Person said,
July 20, 2007 at 10:03 am
Nick, it was a mix of Mightee Grape and Conte Orange that we referred to as “Might-tah’. And yes, I have had that t-shirt since high school. I bought it at Dusty’s Records and Tapes. Ah, the good old days.
Nick said,
July 21, 2007 at 4:51 am
Thank you, Clark! I love you too.
scott said,
July 22, 2007 at 7:09 am
omg! MIGHT-TAH!!111
fuck i miss you guys.