Mamiya M645 - A long way...

Moving forward, slowly.. to better days to come.
I have heard a lot of different opinions about the Mamiya Sekor C 45mm but in my world it looks great but I have not tried it enought to praise it too much..

Mamiya M645 1000s + Sekor C 45mm f2.8

Single - mamiya M645 1000s

Yes, I am single again, after over 13 years in a relationship with a woman that I also share two children with. I can´t say I am happy about it, I have been very sad these last three weeks, she sees me more like a friend and have lost her feelings for me and I who thought things where ok..

Mamiya M645 1000s - Sekor C 80/1.9 - Kodak Portra 400

I made this self portrait on the first week because I wanted to express my feelings about being single. I´m alone, I´m cold and yet, I am free to do what I want..

Can´t say I´m looking forward to this new life and the forthcoming weeks/months but I guess things will get better and I guess there will be a day when I can feel happy again!
I love my children and that makes my days a little less difficult to live..


BTW.. looks like my new Mamiya works as it should, this is from the first "test-roll."

Sometimes life sucks - Yashica Mat 124

 

I am complaining, over a lot of stuff right now..I shouldn´t and I don´t think this tree is complaining, standing there through wind and rain and sunshine, with little birds as company, cold winters and blossom springs.. Life.. So wonderful and also painful. I should not complain, I should live and enjoy life. .

I have loaded my new Mamiya 645 with a roll of Portra 400, that is something I can look forward to, test-shooting my Mamiya. Have a nice day everyone!

 

But I agree with the words of my friend who said "Life continues. Water your tree and it will grow."

I was out test shooting my first roll in my new Mamiya today, it felt great! Can´t wait to see the results!



Yashica Mat 124
Kodak Ektar 100



 

New roads and new choices

Where will they lead us, all the roads that can be chosen? I have to make a turn in life, choose new roads but I wish I didn´t have to.. You can´t see what´s ahead of you but you may have a safe picture of what you think the future will look like. Then one day something happens that changes that pictures and suddenly that road is closed so you have to take another road..that can be scary. For me it is anyway..

This picture may not look that scary but it is a road at least. I did not take this road, I just took a picture of it with my Yashica-Mat 124 and Kodak Ektar.

Heading for new roads - Yashica-Mat 124

Yashica-Mat 124 - Kodak Ektar

TLR in the autumn

I just had to shoot this window of Klara Church in Stockholm! Early October 2012 and the sun was awake, perfect for a trip to Stockholm with a TLR and tri-pod.





Yashica-Mat 124 - Klara - Kodak Ektar

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/from_what_far_star/5712817201/" title="YASHICA MAT 124 TLR by whatfarstar, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2386/5712817201_a729529211.jpg" width="500" height="350" alt="YASHICA MAT 124 TLR"></a>

Frosty Mamiya mornings

This shot was taken last year. I know that cold autumn mornings and winter makes you want to stay inside but there is always something interesting to capture out there..grab your camera, grab your lens and get out there!

Frost - Mamiya M645 1000s

Into darker days

Autumn, and winder´s knocking on the door a few blocks away...we´re going towards darker days. But still we can enjoy a few more sunny autumn days and that is nice..This picture is taken on my lunchreak at work a couple of weeks ago.



Autumn leaves - Pentax MX

Autumn in black and white

This shot was taken 7 October 2012..It was Sunday and my head was aching from the night before, but I was filled with enthusiasm and happiness over my new Pentax MX so I had a long walk, almost two hours with my new little friend.

This time I used Kodak BW400CN, a black and white film that needs to be processed like ordinary negative color film, in C41. This was because it is cheaper for me to get it developed. I have not yet started to do it myself, I think I´ll have to sooner or later.
Anyway, the results from this film is pretty good, I have not compared it to other films side by side in a competition or anything, better just to take it for what it is. I like to shoot and try different kind of films..



Pentax MX



The colors of autumn

Pentax MX - Autumn colors

Into the dephts

A picture today, also from my first roll ever in my new Pentax MX. Autumn bush with shallow depth of field, probably at f/1.7.

Pentax MX - 50mm - Superia

Just a Pentax MX picture

 

I will keep it simple today, just a picture from my very first roll of film that went through my new Pentax MX. Taken with the standard lens, SMC Pentax-M 50mm 1:1.7 and Fuji Superia 200.

 

 

 

 

Ivy - Pentax MX - SMC 50/1.7 - Superia 200

First MX roll developed!

Yes! This feels great! Today I went back to my local photo store to get my developed fuji-roll back and I was really happy to see some images on the negatives. That means there are no major errors in the camera body so I was really excited to get home and scan the film.

There has been quite some time since I scanned some film in my scanner so there were a lot of dust and stuff there even though I tried to blow away most of it. I have not tried to be super-artistic in these shots, it was more like a "test-roll" to see if the camera and light meter work as it should. And to my big joy, it did! Everything looks great, even though the pictures was not my best.

I have one shot that I really like from ths roll and I´m going to show it to you. I use a Canon CanoScan 9000F, which is some kind of amateur-scanner but it is ok for now because  can´t afford a better one..It makes some kind of weird lins over my pictures, hard to explain but it tsakes some time to fix in Photoshop Elements 8, that I use. Sometimes I can´t save the shot so I have to re-scan it until it get´s better..very annoying...

Ok, here´s the shot from my first roll of film in my newly aquired Pentax MX:





The fallen one, a autumn leaf - Pentax MX + SMC Pentax-M 50mm f/1.7