Sarah R. Bloom Photography

I'm Happy Just Because...

Shot with Holga, 120 Illford C-41 color film

Fort Wayne in Detroit, Michigan

The House that Jack Built

(Abandoned house in Pennsylvania shot with my Holga toy camera using Illford 120 c-41 film)

The City in Winter

The City in Winter, originally uploaded by sadandbeautiful (Sarah).

Holga, double exposure.

Philadelphia. January 2010

On Film

I recently had three rolls of color 120 C-41 film developed that I had shot with my Holga camera, as well as a roll of color 35mm film from a Pentax that was given to me as a gift. The images were shot between January and July.

Shooting film is expensive when you don't develop the images yourself, but I'm not in a place where I'm ready to set up a dark room. I may look into "in the bag" developing of BW film because I can scan in the negatives myself to my computer.

While it can be expensive, shooting film is a great exercise, especially after shooting primarily digital for so long. It forces me to slow down and think harder about what I shoot and how to compose it. It forces me to be patient with the unknown when I am so used to the instant satisfaction of seeing that image appear on the back LCD display. It is so easy when shooting digital to fire off several shots for each moment, knowing there will be one you can make work. So easy to be lazy about various aspects of photography when you know there are so many 'fixes' in post-processing. 

And there is really nothing that looks quite like it when you are done. I'll be sharing more film shots in the coming weeks.

"You're in it right now, aren't you?"

I'm vying for the title of Worst Blogger. I think I'm doing pretty well, don't you? :-)

I've been "in it" as Natalie Portman's character Sam says in one of my favorite movies, Garden State.

There's movement though. And plans. Always plans.

Here's some recent self-portraits in case you missed them...

Decontamination

Repaid with Scorn

Had a great outing with my friend Gwyn Michael last week at an abandoned location. Will post more shots and actual writing this week.

xo

Your Plastic Fantastic Lover

Snowtime ain't no time

Some shots around my neighborhood after back-to-back blizzards...

 

 

(In this last one I used a texture overlay. The texture is a scan of the backside of peel-apart instant film)

Screaming Trees

That's pretty much my head these days.

Taken with my Holga. Double exposure in black & white. Cemetery.

Graves and trees.

Life and death.

Sad and beautiful.