Hello everyone! This will not be a traditional post dealing with a shoot. Instead this post will be about myself getting back to basics. Since the new year I haven't shot many rolls of film and this really saddens because I used to always shot film. I would usually shoot at least 3 rolls a week and develop at the end of the week or just whenever I felt like it. For certain rolls as soon as the sun went down I would jump into my darkroom (My bathroom) and get to developing. But these last few month I have been pretty busy with photoshoots and I never really had the time to develop so I would just never take my film camera on shoots. I at the moment of posting this should be finishing up a roll. I still have about 4 rolls of Porta 160 and 1 roll of Tri-X 400 to develop. Now that might sound like a different language to many of you but just know that they are different types of film.

When I shoot 35mm film I go to my favorite camera, the Olympus OM-1n. It is built well and the size fits my needs perfectly. The OM series also got called the Lecia's of SLR's. I have had the camera for a little of half a year now and I see myself using it in the future.

For medium format I only have one camera that shoots the format and that is my Yashica-A. It isn't the best but it gets the job done. Now, it is not one of the best TLR's but the images form it are amazing. Medium format captures so much detail that 35mm and even digital can't. I plan to upgrade to a Rollieflex soon but for now it will have to do.

And last but not least, my favorite, instant film. I use a Polaroid Automatic Land Camera for Fuji film and a Polaroid SX-70 with The Impossible Project film. Getting the image right out of camera is certainly an indescribable feeling to a photographer because for the most part we don't know how it will come out. The chemicals might not be applied property or it might be damaged. Every single polaroid is special and if you took 10 different shots of the same thing I guaranty each image would be different.

Thanks again for taking the time to read the blog or just browse the images. Until next time, keep shooting!

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