blue

The other day, I was at a friend's house, by the pool.  I took lots of pictures and I realized how much I love the color blue!  Even though pink is still my favorite! :)

But I also got a slap in the face by something pretty disappointing.  Overwhelmingly so.  It really bummed me out.  I'll just add it to the list I guess.

When I look at the photos now, they feel kinda sad and empty, which isn't what I was intending when I shot them.  But fitting I guess, after the day.

To go with the pictures, I thought I'd add the definition of "blue" to the post...  The first (obvious!) and third definitions seem to fit the best.

From merriam-webster.com:

Definition of Blue   adj  \ˈblü\

1 : of the color blue

3 a: low in spirits: melancholy

   b: marked by low spirits: depressing  < a blue funk> < things looked blue>

Onset Beach

Kind of a last minute thing, just before 7pm, I decided to drive down to Onset Beach. I thought I'd get there in time for the pretty sunset light... I JUST missed it...  So I have some pictures I made at dusk instead. 

The plan WAS to shoot film in my Holga, (finally!) and I also brought my Coolpix and my Brownie.  But since the light was pretty much gone by the time I started, I didn't shoot any film... I knew from experience with my Holga that any negatives would be super thin.  And I cannot afford thin negatives!

So, I did some through-the-viewfinder with both the Holga and Brownie.  I did NOT like any of the Brownie shots.  They were way too distorted, even for my taste!

The light was kinda flat at this point, but I got a few I like, and some I'm still not sure about...

TTV Morning Glories

A couple days after the first few morning glories showed up, there were several more, and I played around a little more with the Brownie.  

As I said before, since these particular morning glories have sprouted up from seeds from last year's flowers, I never know exactly what colors they'll be.   It's starting to look like these along the shed will be light pink, magenta/hot pink, and dark purple.  purple not pictured ;)

These images are "small" because when I tried to make them larger, the colors got all wonky... Thanks Blogger... (I went back to old posts and apparently this is not new.  Just hasn't been as noticeable before...)

Not only that, but the colors are already not that accurate, despite my efforts to correct them in Photoshop.  Could be due to a couple things- the fact that the flowers are in open shade, or the old/imperfect Brownie lens/viewfinder... OR maybe because of my Nikon.  I've seen a couple of mentions that some digital cameras, Nikons in particular, have some trouble accurately capturing reds and purples.  Not sure how accurate those theories are, or if that's the case here, but I guess it's possible.  One more argument for film!  (Of course, different films have different biases but at least you're not stuck with one!)

Anyway:

And one non-TTV shot:

Thanks for looking! :)

Brownie Through the Viewfinder

Did a little TTV experimenting today with my Brownie camera.  I tried before and failed because I couldn't get the Coolpix to focus close enough to the glass.  It might be because I've had lens issues with the Coolpix, but suddenly, it's focusing closer... hmmm... so I busted out the Brownie again.  Because of the (tons of) glare I was getting on the glass, and how still I had to be to keep the Coolpix aligned with the glass, (this isn't the case with shooting TTV with the Holga) I felt a little limited by what I could shoot, so for experimenting purposes, I took a daisy out to the front porch where there was lots of nice light this afternoon:

I really like the borders I got... but there was lots of glare on the glass... I think tomorrow I'll attempt to do some shooting with a dark cloth!  Just like back in the day with the 4x5!  At least the Brownie and the Coolpix aren't as heavy to lug around...  :)

Strawberries!

The other day after I picked my first bunch of strawberries, they looked so pretty sitting there in a pile, so I did a little photo shoot... They're a bit on the small side, but a couple of them were perfectly shaped!

Crazy Pink Flowers

As promised, here the TTV photos I took of my favorite new flowers.

I like these flowers because:

1- they're pink!

2- they're a little crazy-like and they just do whatever.  And I think that's what made me want to shoot so many pictures of them the other day!

I think what I like about these photos is that a couple of them are pretty close to what a real Holga photo would look like.  With all my experimenting with the Holga TTV photos, I've had very few that have had that imperfect-focus-blown-out-highlights look.   (The first one especially)

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flamingo

some Holga ttv photos I took at my sister's house the other day:

A couple new Holga TTV images

I don't really have anything to say about these two...
:)

piiiiinnnnnk!

I love pink and I love stars.  I have a little collection of them actually.  My dear friend Karly even brought one back from Africa for me once! (By the way, Karly is an amazing designer!!!  Check out her website and blog)

So, here's some pictures that are pink and have stars.  Pretty straightforward...

marigolds

Holga TTV photo of the marigolds I planted the other day.  It was right at sunset, so the light was REALLY warm...

Also, I started documenting my flower garden a couple weeks ago, but I just posted everything tonight.  I faked the posts a little- I dated them for when I should have posted them...

you can find all the older posts here! Please take a look! 

munchkin feet

The other night when my nieces were here, I wanted to take some "through the viewfinder" Holga/digital pictures of them.  Well, they turned out a little too snapshotty, but here's some of their feet that I liked.
Emily, the oldest, wanted me to take a picture of her feet, so I did, and then Catrina and Jamie, of course, wanted pictures of their feet too... 

Emily- she had the best socks

Catrina- this weakling couldn't hold her feet up

Jamie- my littlest munchkin.  She was distracted, 

so I got more than just her feet.

More Holga TTV Experimenting

Got some flares on a few of these... I've worked to avoid the flares before, but I thought I'd try to go with them this time.  Maybe they'll work better next time... If the red Holga leak can work, why not the flare?

Also, these must be the least colorful color photos I've ever taken!

backyard

I was having a bit of a blah day until I went out back to take some pictures.  I love the look of the light when the sun sets against gray clouds...

thanks for looking! :)

curtains and soup

Since I've been doing the through-the-viewfinder thing with my Holga and Coolpix, I've kinda been shooting everything...kinda like when I first got my Pentax K1000.  ANYthing that caught my eye would get photographed.

Lots of things have been catching my eye lately- even my soup the other night... I loved the colors, but it didn't really turn out the way I wanted it to.  Not sure what I think of it.  But here it is anyway:

Also, I think I might be a little in love with the colors in my (soon to be former) living room... here are a couple images to start with... more to come :)