sidemirrorshooting

You’ll never know what you’re going to get.

I had 2 rolls of Fuji Superia 200 given to me by a friend of mine since she has no use for it. So I have managed to finish this roll and sent it to Digiprint for processing.

Checking the date, it was expired since 2002, that’s a good 6 years ago. Even I’m skeptical about it. I kept it in a pizza box inside our fridge for a good time before taking it out for use while I ran out of film when I was in greenbelt, and here were the surprising and yet fun results.

green. green. green. when I saw this and how the glass, ashtray and ciggie was all in focus, I wanted to jump for joy. hooray for knowing hyperfocal distance, even if it was all smart and uncalculated guesswork. I love how the background of greens and foliage blended with the greens of my subject. :)

I’m starting to like Superia film when I am reviewing the pictures I took. The colors seem brighter and saturated for a color negative. Seems great for landscapes and other sorts that is maybe not so good for people…

Although the skin tone is not alien-y. After all, it is not cross-processed slides haha, you should see me in my yellowed, already-yellow Chinese skin on cross-processed elitechromes. Talk about a bad case of Hepatitis. Haha :)

When my friend Ben and I were crossing the bridge, we saw the pretty white ducks. The little girl in picture above was throwing chips at the hungry ducks and the neighboring fish. This was a pain to capture. Like people, they seem to get fidgety and they move about, and I was on a manual focus camera.

No, I am not complaining but merely stating the fact of moving subjects mean different focusing especially when it involves further or nearing distances. So I was happy when the ducks came out clear and blur-free.

I am a bit worried about the undeveloped film with another roll of Fuji Superia from an unexpected photo-op (opportunity), so I hope there are salvage-able pics there. The lighting condition was way off…I was shooting everything at 1/30. We’ll see…

The duck is prodding at the coys. (Koi ?) I had fun taking pictures of them. Even if they were very…uh, frisky? I can’t wait if I have my pets at my soon to be pad…I bet I will be raising very vain kitties and puppies :P

Onto the next day. It was odd seeing a crowd at Manila Cathedral on the usual Sunday Mass. The pictures would look familiar since I used them on the Film 101 post.

These were the people in front of me, that didn’t want to move at all. Anyway they sort of added some sort of uhm “framing?” to my photo.

The throng of people at the Cathedral.

The red brick looking building at Intramuros. This was post-processed with Adobe Lightroom just to add more contrast and vibrancy to the photograph.

Can I just say f/1.4 is the bomb? look how it blurs out everything except for the AE-1 program text (that’s my new baby by the way…I’ll tell about it more when I have it checked at the camera doctor…) (It’s wearing the kitstar lens for now :))

I know now how to capture skies without over exposing them… Yipee. I just don’t go beyond 1/125 on an f/8 or f/11 and I’m set. :)

Superia really gives out real toned colors … even expired. :)

That’s my entry for tonight…Hope you guys enjoyed the insights, and the pictures.

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