MrPingouin's Igloo

Here they come, the pictures I talked about on the last post.
This session was a real nightmare, I did all the dumbest mistakes you can do with a film camera :
* I let the camera fall on the ground : it opened itself on the crash and the film was exposed, luckily by night in Madrid
* I thought I had rollback the film to change it, but I hadn't : I opened the camera and the film was directly exposed again, at 4pm in Tavira (south of portugal)


Fortunately, the damage was less important than what I was fearing.

All the pictures were taken with the olympus XA and fujifilm superia x-tra 800 film, here you can see the result of my home scanner. This camera is definitely my favorite wandering shooter, I decided to buy it a Manfrotto modopocket, I really don't want to carry a big tripod all the time.

Anyway, here are some pictures of Madrid, a really cute city, but I think I do prefer Barcelona, maybe because of the sea.









And after 1 mid-day road-trip, we were in the south Portugal, in Faro. But the pictures here are all taken in Tavira, one of the best little town you'll find on the south coast.
The train you can see helps you to go from the town to the beach... really cool.

There's a woman at the end of this corridor of the Cathedral of Chartres, she's selling tickets to visit one of the towers of the edifice.

Still this scanner problem, I'm getting mad.

I was in London last week-end. I decided not to take my EOS350d but just the little olympus xa. I didn't find any fujifilm superia x-tra 800 film there, so I had to take only what I found : the same in 400 iso, and a kodak gold 400, very general public (tourist ) films.
The procedure is still the same, scan of brilliant paper prints, auto-levels in CS2 and voilà, I really like the tones it produces.

Last post I talked about pictures. Here there are, taken with the Olympus XA camera, t-max 400 for the film.

Black and white gallery

I don't remember exactly where it was. I don't remember the name of the train station I were wandering in, but I guess it's one of the big stations of Paris.

I took some hours to develop a film tonight, for those who wanna know it's a HP5+400 film, put in a Canon A1 camera, the film is developed by myself (LC-29) and scanned in an Epson Perfection v350 scanner with no image enhancement.

I really like the atmosphere of this picture, I find it kinda... oppressing.