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A Lack of Inspiration

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This weekend I got a day to myself and thought it’d be a lovely chance to head out and burn through some film. So, I loaded up my cameras, caffeinated myself, and set off for a walk. I walked for about two and a half hours and didn’t take a single photo. It was nice to get out of the house, but maybe I need to give myself a break from forcing new photos and concentrate on scanning and developing the film I have shot already.

Though, having said that as I’m writing this someone is doing some work on the house next to mine and all I can hear is drilling and sawing, so I might go out and try again.

Anyway, here’s a teaser photo from a trip I took a little while ago with my partner. We went down to the Morning Peninsula and stayed in Rye. I snapped this one as the wind was whipping rain around and I was just wearing a linen shirt because I didn’t pack a jacket. I love the pop of red on the building and the gnarled twisted bush/tree on the left.

Cape Schanck Lighthouse Museum. Mamiya C330, 80mm f2.8, Fuji Pro400H.

The Three Sisters

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Christmas 2021 was a bit touch and go with COVID spiking and RATs rarer than hens teeth, we made it up to the Blue Mountains though! This photo is of the Three Sisters in Katoomba. The weather on the day we visited couldn’t have been better. The clouds were low, the light was soft as was the wind, and there were little wisps of cloud floating up from the forest below the lookout.

Three Sisters, RB67 65mm f4.5, Ektar 100.
Near Katoomba, RB67 65mm f4.5, Provia 100

These two photos were taken on drastically different film stocks. Ektar 100 is a punchy colour negative film from Kodak that has some amazing reds, which really make the rock formations sing. The Provia is a nice contrasty slide film with a fairly natural rendition of colour, leaning a little on the cool side.

Polly Woodside

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Looking for something a bit different and a bit fun I picked up a couple of rolls of Lomography Redscale 50-200. Redscale is a film that has been loaded into the canister or roll backwards, so that you expose the film through the orange film base. I’d done a little research on it before starting to shoot with it, seeing results I liked the look that shooting it at around 50 ISO (more yellow, less red, and interesting blues).

On a sunny day in early 2021 I took a long walk around South Wharf and Docklands, the burned through a roll pretty quickly. That’s easily done on an RB67 with just ten frames.

This is definitely my favourite from the day. I had to wedge my camera in the fence around the ship, making framing and levelling it a bit of fun (especially with the flipped image in the waist level finder). In an ideal world (one with an open gate and still no people) I’d have fit the whole ship in there and not had cut off the bit above the prow.

Polly Woodside shot on Lomography Redscale

I decided to leave the film boarder on this shot to show what film I’d used and some of the imperfections. The RB67 back I used for this seems to have a slightly wonky film transport, hence the film label bleeding into the frame in the top left corner.

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