Our Film Adventure!

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!