yashica-d vs hasselblad 501c

i decided to put it to the test my old faithful yashica tlr vs my new hasselblad 501... so i used both on the shoot with terry to compare them... in the Hass i used new kodak portra 400 and the yashica it was fuji reala 100 ... not exactly a fair comparison but i've been doubting my new cvamera and was thinking of selling it. just because i probably only bought it for the label.

i've realised i need to shoot the hassleblad on a tripod for best results... the shutter so powerful it vibrates the camera in your hand.

the yashica is a bit hazy in comparison but that adds to its charm.

a couple of images from the shoot with puzzle muteson..

i know these are seriously contrasty and there are stains where i didn't wash the negs properly after fixing them. its part of the photo. Anton corbijn mixed with post war japanese photographers, daido moriyama, influenced photos.

http://www.myspace.com/puzzlemuteson

bex pre wedding make up

this photo is from the first wedding i photographed on my own. i shot the entire wedding on a digital camera but made time to take a couple on film. i took this photo on a hasselblad wide open at 2.8f and a 60th of a second on ilford delta 400 pushed to 800. this is a scan of a print i made in the darkroom today... its a bit dark and contrasty .

puzzle muteson contact sheet... don't you miss contact sheets?

while on the isle of wight photographing a wedding, i took the chance to photograph a friend and musician Puzzle Muteson (Terry)... the light was fading fast as a miscommunication left me standing outside the wrong co op to meet him... so i worked fast to get some portraits. i just wanted a contact sheet of images, simply because i love the look of a contact sheet and they are rarely seen these days. shot on a Yashica t5 made famous by terry richardson, i've had this camera since i was eighteen and its slowly dying. more images to come just waiting for the film to be developed ( its colour)

Check out terrys music here http://www.myspace.com/puzzlemuteson

i love you ruth

one a week... at least.

I've been struggling with the photographers equivalent of writers block, the only way through this is to keep taking photographs. This block is not helped by having too many camera's, so instead of simply picking up one camera and going out to photograph I have to think, which will be best and for the moment i am persisting using my newly acquired Hasselblad 501. Its like anything, I'm sure. Its just a label and i was sucked in to buying but now i've got it i compare it to images i took using a Yashica-D TLR and these have more contrast in the colours and a sharpness that the hasselblad seems to lack?! I look at other peoples work using Hasselblads and a similar film stock (Pieter Hugo, Michal Chelbin http://www.pieterhugo.com/the-hyena-other-men/ //www.michalchelbin.com/ http://www.viktoriart.com/.... and so on ) Obviously, these photographer are in another league to me and its the light and the moment that makes all good photographs what they are.... I've loaded up my old yashica and I'll see if it is as good as i remember, maybe it just feels right to me and lets me see things differently to when i've got the weight of expectation using a prestige camera like a Hasselblad.

So from now on i'll endeavor to post at least one picture a week that I'm pleased with. As a start to getting busy and motivated towards the last year of my degree. We'll see what happens.. For now here's a couple of images I took the other night wondering around my new home town of par, some have light trails in which was not intentional and i know they are cheesy but i like the photo's so who cares.

out of time out of date out of money

Experiments with layering images through multiple exposure on film. i had a conversation with roger, the technician at truro college about how i was struggling to afford film so i then decided to take photographs on the same film over and over, and over again. this process builds up an abstract image of memories. the things i see and photograph merge into one amalgamation of events. similar to the way your brain makes things up that it can't quite remember. half truths... the way we wish to interpret what we have seen.