What actually happened is that I ran out of colour film - and grabbed my last roll in the bag- a slow black and white film that had gone out of production 2 years ago and was otherwise known for giving legendary results. Any of the other black and whites that aren't in the auditorium are likely Fomapan 100 - a film made in Czechoslovakia that hasn't changed in decades and is still incredibly cheap. The auditorium shots are almost all Ilford Delta 3200 - some of the masquerade was done on Porta 800 colour film, and the opening ceremony was Fuji 400. Very few of the opening ceremony shots came out.
Most of the other colour shots are Fuji 400 - either with flash or without.
90% of these shots look the way they do because I was using what I had - rather than the outright best of equipment. There are no really fast colour films anymore - ISO 800 is the max - but the black and white film you can get it up to ISO3200 and that 'works' but you can see the grain on it.
I could tell you this was taken in 1966 and you'd probably believe me. Then How about this - with a big modern Game of Throns banner?
In a way it's a form of modern-day experimental archeaology - it leads to the understanding that a lot of the 'artistic' look of black and white films - and a lot of the graininess of some images - are simply the limitatiions of the technology. It's not artistic as such - it's simply the sort of image the technolgy gives you when employed as it was intended to be.
This is the equipment used all weekend. The 650 is the newest piece I have - and it's the same age as I am.
Most of the other colour shots are Fuji 400 - either with flash or without.
90% of these shots look the way they do because I was using what I had - rather than the outright best of equipment. There are no really fast colour films anymore - ISO 800 is the max - but the black and white film you can get it up to ISO3200 and that 'works' but you can see the grain on it.
I could tell you this was taken in 1966 and you'd probably believe me. Then How about this - with a big modern Game of Throns banner?
In a way it's a form of modern-day experimental archeaology - it leads to the understanding that a lot of the 'artistic' look of black and white films - and a lot of the graininess of some images - are simply the limitatiions of the technology. It's not artistic as such - it's simply the sort of image the technolgy gives you when employed as it was intended to be.
This is the equipment used all weekend. The 650 is the newest piece I have - and it's the same age as I am.
I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.
One day they're going to ban them.