Unearthed the RB67 for another roll, this time with the 180mm f/4.5 Sekor C. Natural light, shot wide open, dev’d in the same ancient xtol.
Tag: Mamiya RB67 Pro SD
Return to Covent Garden
Back in December 2011 I was in London with a Yashica-Mat 124G that I had just bought on eBay. Unbeknownst to me at the time, the Mat was actually broken & of the full 12 shots I took on that first roll only half actually came out. As far as I can tell, the rest were actually shot onto the backing paper. That roll was also the first time I ever developed a film myself, so looking back at it I was incredibly lucky to get such a nice photo of the Christmas decorations at Covent Garden, which looked even better when I rescanned it when I got my Epson V600.
I told myself that if Covent Garden had the same decorations up again, I would go down better prepared with a tripod & camera I knew worked properly. Well Christmas 2014 came around & the same decorations went up, so I hopped on the train with my RB67 Pro SD, a 5-pack of Tri-X & a nice Manfrotto tripod borrowed from work. Well, not so much hopped, as it was rather a heavy setup!
Of course ‘the best laid plans’ etc. & the shoot didn’t go quite as perfectly as I had hoped. It was quite late on a Sunday night by the time I made it out & got set up, so there were far fewer people than I had expected & the same bustling Christmassy atmosphere wasn’t really there. But conversely, because there were fewer people & the parasols were down, you could actually see from the vantage point all the way to the back of the building & the pillars across the entry. The flare from the lamps is unfortunate as well, but I’m honestly not sure how I could’ve avoided that – something to learn for the future!
I took a bunch of shots, both from the same off-centre position as 2011 & from the exact centre. None of the shots jumped out like that original 2011 shot, but there were a couple that I was relatively pleased with (click for bigger).
Narrative Clip – Week 7
Week 7, covering the second half of November & through December.
Starting off with an early RAG Week, which of course means a copious number of purple balloons!
Available light portraits w/ RB67
Cosplay Photoshoot, Mamiya RB67
The university anime society held a little cosplay photoshoot the other weekend & I took the RB67 & a box of Tri-X along. Annoyingly I picked up on lots of glaring compositional errors when I scanned the negs, but didn’t notice on the focussing screen when I was shooting…
First up Bryony crossplaying as Haruka Nanase from Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club at the beach (naturally).
Kara as Mikasa Ackerman from Attack on Titan.
Up the coastline from the pier at the outer cathedral ruins.
Gwen as Yuna from Final Fantasy X.
And finally down to Castle Sands.
Obligatory sexypose before finishing up for the day.