Ms. Midshipwoman Nagato + ARIA
"Midshipwoman Nagato reporting aboard, Sir."
1803, Britain is once again at war with Napolionic France. A young Midshipwoman prepares to take her snotty cruise aboard the 20-gun sloop HMS Hotspur...
Ok, so I found a bunch of closeup filters (effectively the poor-man's macro lens) for the Minolta and was looking for somethingn to try them out on. Yuki was handy and I had a toy boat so... for those interested: shot on Ilford Delta400 b/w film, Minolta XDs manual focus SLR with 35-70mm macro lens, closeup filters 1,2 and 4.
Unfortunately the toy boat I had playing "Hotspur" is quite a good one (and it'd want to be, that was like, all my birthday money and 3 months allowance when I was 10). There was also a bit of breeze around on the day so I had the devil's own trying to get a shot of it sailing in the background: cock shutter, put down boat so it would sail behind, run back to Yuki, lie on ground, re-focus camera, check light-meter reading and shoot.
A rare colour photo from the period... shot on the LX3
Keepine with the nautical theme: Alicia from ARIA, the first figure I tried out the closeup filter on.
and if you thought she looked freaky backlit in colour...
BW photos are yummy. Love the lx3 shot as well.
Nice boat! :P
It is a fantastic boat ;P
Cheers mate.
Ah, B&W always has such a charm to it *___* Lovely shots!
Yeah, I still reackon b/w is a horribly under-utilised medium in figure photograpy.
I only really like shooting b/w film though, b/w with digital just isn't as exciting to use for some reason.
ooh interesting! haven't been seeing any film shots posted in figure.fm!
yep.. last pic is... evil :3
I think there's a few folks who shoot film around the place here, but not many using it for figures.
interesting photography.
Cheers mate
I like your style of picture taking. :)
Thanks :D
I figure there's plenty of folk shooting figures so I like to try and bring in equipment or techniques that aren't often used for figure photography (film, b/w, polaroid, holga...), guess I kinda enjoy the challenge of it. How successfull I am with any of those remains to be seen, but the thought's there ^^;