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Name
Dave McLaughlin
Title ︎︎︎ Break in the Weather
One day this week I shot a roll of film - my first since ‘97.
I studied photography in high school and didn’t get back into it until much later, all on iPhone. I initially wanted to keep it simple. I tend to get bogged down if there are lots of options & additional variables.
I have a mate Alex who I met when he used to work at my local bottleshop. He & Aimee now run a great lab (@silverhalidestudios). He’d been saying I could borrow a point & shoot sometime to rattle off some film again.
There was a one day break in the gloomy, overcast weather we’ve been having for weeks - so I swung by and they lent me an old Olympus. The front cover mechanism was broken, so I was using a plastic fork to turn it on and off.
My eyelashes got in the way a lot. The shutter seemed to take forever. The viewfinder felt like it was the size of a grain of rice. You wouldn’t think going from phone to a point & shoot would be too much a shift, but the gap was still evident for some reason.
It was real fun - kind of felt new again. I had to be more considered, shooting less liberally. I think I may have seen a little differently too.
Huge thanks to Alex, Aimee & Luke at Silver Halide who kindly lent me the stuff and walked me through.
There also really is something about the wait to see what you’re going to get. I’ll probably go again, even if just for that.
I studied photography in high school and didn’t get back into it until much later, all on iPhone. I initially wanted to keep it simple. I tend to get bogged down if there are lots of options & additional variables.
I have a mate Alex who I met when he used to work at my local bottleshop. He & Aimee now run a great lab (@silverhalidestudios). He’d been saying I could borrow a point & shoot sometime to rattle off some film again.
There was a one day break in the gloomy, overcast weather we’ve been having for weeks - so I swung by and they lent me an old Olympus. The front cover mechanism was broken, so I was using a plastic fork to turn it on and off.
My eyelashes got in the way a lot. The shutter seemed to take forever. The viewfinder felt like it was the size of a grain of rice. You wouldn’t think going from phone to a point & shoot would be too much a shift, but the gap was still evident for some reason.
It was real fun - kind of felt new again. I had to be more considered, shooting less liberally. I think I may have seen a little differently too.
Huge thanks to Alex, Aimee & Luke at Silver Halide who kindly lent me the stuff and walked me through.
There also really is something about the wait to see what you’re going to get. I’ll probably go again, even if just for that.
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