It turns out that if you let color film sit around for 5 or 6 years, it makes for real neat vintage colors. Old film makes old-esque pictures, cool eh?
Coincidentally, pops gave me a handful of old film the other day, leftover from when he shot a friend’s wedding.
Nikon F3, Nikkor 50mm f1.4, and Fujicolor Super HQ 100.
I burned up the first roll just goofing around in the front and back yard; the second was the progress-keeper of project lets-paint-alicia-and-jon’s-house-while-jon’s-out-of-town (Alicia and Jon being my older siblings, one an “in-law”). I like shooting color, but it seems easier to say things with black and white shots. Different strokes for different days and lighting and things, I guess.
Beyond the nice ones here, most all of the shots on these two rolls were horizontal and I have no clue why.
Nice, I really like the vintage touch. Now did you add any effects to these pictures at all or all they simply the product of old film? I’m asking because it looks like you added a layer blur on “Roll 2 #25 (Good dog :)”. Anyhow, I love the look of these pics. If only I knew what all the buttons, lenses, and “stuff” on the my dad’s SLR camera meant, I could be snapping some nice pictures myself. It’s just lying in a closet because we’re both waiting to learn how to use it haha.
Thank you! No effects or touchups; I only have a very low quality scanner, which is why the images look very low-resolution.
The greatest trick is that you actually don’t need to know what all that stuff means. All that you really need to know is how your aperture setting changes the look of the shot. Big aperture gives you a shallow depth of field, and vice versa with a small aperture. Higher film or sensor sensitivity gives you more grain or noise, respectively.
Look at pictures you like, think about why you like them, then go take lots of pictures; that’s all there is to it.
Neato! Expired film does lend that funky pink quality of old family snapshots. Also the way that everything is abstracted except the lavender in #7 is pretty cool.