travelog

i borrowed my friends nikon EM a few months ago but haven’t started shooting since i couldn’t find any subjects / people to shoot. last 5th december, i had a party at my house and my friends were very willing to be my test subjects. equipped with the EM, a 50mm f/1,8 and a 28mm f/2,8 lens and 2 rolls of Kodak Tmax 400 films, i didn’t hope much for the outcome since i bought those film on ebay at a very cheap price and they were way beyond their expiry date (March 95). Yeah. more than 10 years.

processed at a local camera store and scanned the negatives un-professionally with an epson 3170 scanner, the outcome was surprising. (ignore the dust and scratches =p )in fact, this was also my 1st time using manual focusing & b/w film, and proud to say, it was not bad at all.. *grins*

since my house is not well lit, most of the shots have only one light source, e.g. table lamp, hallway lamp etc. and these were even shot between 1/60 and 1/30th of a second. mind the blurriness. :-p

overall i really like using the 400 film because of its grain and overall capability in difficult lighting conditions. ive got loads of Ilford Delta 100, and i’m planning to shoot them at 400 and ask the shop to push process it then later. oh well, that’s another story to tell.

it’s been a long hiatus since ive written something. this blog seems to be dead by now.

oh well, just for the sake of updating and making use of this domain, ill try to keep up with this blog as well. im gonna post some pictures taken during my so-called-being-at-home- 24/7 -bored-to death-holidays.

mostly what i did was shooting macro pictures of flowers (and probably insects and water drops as well) in my backyard. i thought of shooting street but darn it was too hot to go out. i forgot how hot it is in malaysia. and i also wanted to shoot landscapes, waterscapes, sunsets, sunrises by the beach but nobody wanted to come with me. everybody was busy and wasnt really at home all the time.

well, at least i made good use bringing my dslr back home. :p all shots are done with the el-cheapo manual extension tubes connected to a 50mm lens. all of them are focused and metered manually. talk about hard work, heh.

one for the b/w lovers..