Film Photography Fail!

Film Photography Fail!, a photo by Michael Raso - Film Photography Podcast on Flickr.

I purchased what I thought were light-proof black bags online in order to ship 4x5 sheet film for processing.

Surprise, surprise..I checked the black bag description..."These plastic bags are not light-tight by themselves." YIKES! Make sure your bags are light tight before sending exposed film to the processing lab!

Pictured: Dane of The Smoove Sailors (an American Improv Rock 'n Roll band)
www.thesmoovesailors.com/
May 2012 / Jersey City NJ USA rehearsal space

photo by Michael Raso
Graflex Crown Graphic press camera
Kodak Ektar 100 4x5 sheet film

I host the The Film Photography Podcast Internet Radio Show - http://filmphotographyproject.com/podcast

Shooting Polaroid on 4x5

Although it took about eight months to get familiar with my newly acquired Graflex Crown Graphic 4x5 camera, I'm finally out shooting!

While my exposed Kodak Ektar and High Speed Infrared is at the lab for processing, I shot some Polaroid 57 High Speed Instant Film. Although expired in the 1990s, the film still yielded a reasonable if not grindy image.


First  portrait on Polaroid 57 - fellow photographer Mat Marrash



Kenichi Sugihara - Bassist for The Smoove Sailors



An emotional riff from Pink Delicates' Kevin Neblung

As with anything, the more practice you have, the better you get! It's a different (shooting) work flow using a large format camera and not quite as spontaneous as the smaller formats but the Crown Graphic is quickly growing on me. I look forward to receiving my processed film next week!
Special thanks to Mat Marrash for the help in the field and in the lab!
All photos © Michael Raso 2012

Check out Pink Delicates! http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/ThePinkDelicates and The Smoove Sailors! http://www.thesmoovesailors.com/

I host the Film Photography Podcast - An Internet Radio Show & On-Line Resource for Film Shooters Worldwide - http://filmphotographyproject.com/

Pack Film's BIG Brother, Polaroid 8x10!

Guest Blog by Mat Marrash

Anybody that's listened to the Film Photography Podcast for more than five minutes knows that founder and host, Michael Raso, has "a thing" for Polaroid instant film. What some folks might not know, however, is that as a co-host, being around Mike one too many podcasts has given me "the bug" as well. So much, however, that I didn't stop at 600 series cameras and pack film, I needed bigger! How big? Big enough to shoot Polaroid on my absolute favorite camera, the Eastman Commercial 8x10!

Read More:
http://filmphotographyproject.com/content/features/2011/12/pack-films-big-brother-polaroid-8x10