This time I wanted to shot more street stuff and the first person I captured was Melvin, a street dancer in Leicester Square.
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| Street dancer Olmpus OM10 50mm 1.8 |
The film is really great for portraits, as the above image shows, along with the Olympus 50mm 1.8 the subject really pops and there is great bokeh. I managed to capture a couple of other portraits but one problem shooting wide open I did miss focus a few times.
I thought that shooting on the streets with this film might be a problem with it being so slow but on a bright day I was able to have reasonable shutter speeds and set the aperture to around F4-5.6 the one of the Hen party was shot at this setting.
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| Hen Party |
One place that can really mess up shutter speed and cause problems is the book market under Waterloo Bridge, its pretty dark under there but again the film worked well and managed to capture the images I was after.
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| Book browsing. Under Waterloo bridge |
I really like the tones I seem to get from the film and I like the high-ish contrast the images produce.
I'm on the look out for somewhere to buy more of it, in either the U.K. or Europe as so far it only seems to be available in the U.S.
There is also talk of a zine being produce from images from all the photographers involved in the project.
In the last post I mentioned the fine grain in the film, below is a 100% crop and as you can see the grain is pretty hard to see.
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| What; No Grain! |
