Lake Wheeler + Bronica RF645 + Fuji Velvia!

I used Fuji Velvia for these. Fuji Velvia was the gold standard for slide film for a number of years. On a bright day like today, it is also very good for keeping the shutter speeds down!

Lake Wheeler and Kiev 88

These are of Lake Wheeler that I took with the Kiev 88 and Kodak E100SW. The exposures do not seem perfect, but still good enough to work with. Slide film is less forgiving, you know, and like the other film images I have posted recently, these files are not adjusted, so what you are seeing is more or less what I shot!

Lake Wheeler revisited!

These I took at Lake wheeler on the same day with my Leica M8. I was also shooting some film at the same time, so I kept switching up cameras. The images I took on film will eventually make their way here, but I like these just fine. I love manual  focus and lenses with distance scales for hyperfocal distances calculations. It allows you to use them almost as a point and shoot one moment and be very critical in your focusing the next. I also find that I slow down and am more connected to the process of making the images, whereas automation allows you to be more connected to the moment and forget the process. It's almost that one cleanses your palette for the other one. At any rate, these are images I really liked on a really good day.

Enjoy!

Lake Wheeler for Vivek (Part 5)

Turns out, you really aren't supposed to be on the dam! Oops! The gentlemen that patrol the lake were nice about it, and I didn't see the sign until I was driving away, but I still felt kinda bad for being where I wasn't supposed to be walking around. I guess if I go back for another session, I will contact the City of Raleigh first and see how I can get permission first. Oh well, live and learn!