I posted a picture a few days ago of the first scan we saw from our first roll of film and we were blown away!

Just like when we got our first Digital Rebel and wanted to learn how to shoot with it, we used the scenery around us. Since we live on Cat's grandparents cattle ranch, you guessed it, cows are the subjects of the majority of our images:) #moo!

Dolores dog! For those of you that have came to our home, you most likely have met this little rascal!

Beans cat!

What a stud!

I knew I would, but I love my Canon 1V film camera. We have been taking it with us to weddings to get a few images in addition to all the others we have, and I can't wait for those to start coming back from the lab! I do love the instant gratification from our digital images, but something about having to wait a few weeks to see the film scans makes it much more fun to me. It's like Christmas morning!

When we get our next scans in I will put them up for you to look at and me to marvel over! I still can't believe that I am shooting on film. It seemed like such a mysterious creature for so long, now I am doing it!

Over and out!
Luke

The day finally came! I got an email just seconds ago with the link to my film scans and we dropped everything and patiently waited for the scans to download.

To say that it was agony waiting for the scans to download would be an understatement. We watched as each megabyte downloaded and got more and more impatient.

As the files were getting downloaded I was getting more and more nervous about what the final images were going to look like. What if my dreams of totally blown out images and black blobs came true! What if the people at the film lab got a good chuckle out of my first two rolls of film!

Finally the time came to open up the folder and see what the images looked like. This was the first one that we saw.

That's right, I started shooting with film the same way we started with digital. I walked out in a pasture and started to take pictures of everything around me, mainly cows. I am sure the people at the film lab thought "What the!" when it was images of cows, tractors, and trees.

After looking through the scans, I am SO SO SO happy with how they turned out. I know now what I need to change and what worked. I think that I will be a little less hesitant to take a picture because I know they will turn out how I envisioned in my head.

We are getting ready to head out the door to Austin for a wedding this weekend and a few extra days of piddling around the town, but when we get back I will be sure to share more :)

Canon EOS 1V // Kodak Portra 400 // 70-200 f/2.8L IS II

I have been anxiously awaiting this response from our lab and cannot wait to get the scans back from my first two rolls of film. I have to admit, I am also expecting some sort of email that says "Mr. Neumayr, please call us about your most recent order," then I call them and they tell me how everything is overexposed or not in focus or just total junk.

Ideally, I think my photos will look like this...

But I am fully prepared for them to look like this...

Either too dark or way overexposed.

I almost just took the film to a local drugstore to get it developed, so I wouldn't have big time professionals that see amazing art come through every day and then be taken back by my "approach" to film photography.

Even if the pictures are less than ideal, I have still learned so much by just shooting two rolls of film. First, it was very hard and took a lot of time for me to shoot those two rolls. Since I couldn't see a digital display on the back of my camera with instant results, I focused and refocused, I metered and re-metered. Then I took one single image and instinctively looked at the back of my camera to see what the image looked like, just to see a black back cover to the camera with no display.

My only idea of what the film scans are going to look like comes from the fact that I also took one of our digital cameras with me and shot an image digitally with the same settings of my film camera. I know that film and digital capture images slightly different, but since the images on the digital camera were inline with our style, I do have high hopes for my film images. The wait is what is killing me! 15 business days and I will know a little more :)

Just like when I learned how to shoot digitally, with my first two rolls of film I walked around our house and took pictures of everything around me. Trees, flowers, people, cattle, etc. It was a fun trip down memory lane, because I started to remember how I would shoot a series of images and then run to the computer to look at them. Then Cat and I would critique the images and go out for more trying to adjust certain elements to make sure that we were consistant and the images matched our style.

I have also noticed that after spending just a few hours with my 1V, I have slowed down a lot and have started to study how everything looks, both in my eyes and through the viewfinder. Now I am also much more particular when I shoot digitally which I am SO excited about! I know that sometimes I get in a groove and forget to just stand back and look at what is right infront of me.

So stay tuned! I will be sure to share updates as I can. For now, we just have to wait and hope that everything comes together like we hope it will!