Bantam King

February 08, 2017 by Jamelle Bouie

Shot while having dinner at the aforementioned restaurant. (Yeah, I know, that's probably a little rude.)

Taken with Fuji X100T using telephoto conversion lens. In-camera monochrome conversion.

DIY, part 2

February 07, 2017 by Jamelle Bouie

These are the second set of self-developed and self-scanned photos, this time taken using a 50mm Canon rangefinder lens (first manufactured in 1958!). I took a bunch of these while hanging around in the National Gallery of Art, and a bunch more while visiting Berkeley, CA last month.

This next group is from Berkeley and its surroundings. My favorite photo of the bunch is the last one, of the kids. I might turn that one into a print, in fact.

This is how we live

February 07, 2017 by Jamelle Bouie

I seem to take a different photo of this mural with a different camera in different light every few months.

Taken with a Fuji X100T. "Classic Chrome" film simulation.

In your eyes

February 06, 2017 by Jamelle Bouie

I want to say this is in an alley between 6th and 7th St off of Florida Avenue.

Taken with a Fuji X100T. In-camera monochrome conversion.

DIY

February 05, 2017 by Jamelle Bouie

After a year of shooting film and sending it off to a lab to get developed, I've started developing my own stuff, by way of classes and a local darkroom. This also coincided with the purchase I've been building toward for the last few months: a Leica M5, my new rig for daily shooting. I may write about the m5 one day, for now, here are shots from a roll of film I developed and scanned myself. These were taken using the cheap Russian-made vintage lens that I got with the M5. Subsequent posts will have photos taken with different lenses. I think there is a bit of underdevelopment here, and a few of these photos are definitely underexposed. Still, I'm happy that I actually know how to do this kind of work, since now I can start to get better at it.