Morning Walk with Ilford Delta 100 | #filmfriday #allthefilm

I feel incredibly lucky to call Tennessee home.

This roll of Ilford Delta 100 was shot within a mile of my home, some of it even in my yard.  Here's a glimpse of Tennessee as seen in my neighborhood. If you've never been, you should see it for yourself; but if you can't do that, I hope you will enjoy the tour though my lens on an early morning walk with my Nikon F100...

Nikkor 28mm f2.8D

Nikkor 50mm f1.4D

Nikkor 50mm f1.4D

50mm F1.4D (freelensed)

 Sigma 105mm f2.8 EX DG

 Sigma 105mm f2.8 EX DG

  Sigma 105mm f2.8 EX DG

 Sigma 105mm f2.8 EX DG

Nikkor 50mm f1.4D (freelensed) 

 Nikkor 50mm f1.4D

 Nikkor 50mm f1.4D

 Nikkor 28mm f2.8

 Nikkor 28mm f2.8

 Nikkor 28mm f2.8D

  Sigma 105mm f2.8 EX DG

 Nikkor 28mm f2.8D

 Nikkor 28mm f2.8D

 Nikkor 28mm f2.8D

 Nikkor 50mm f1.4D

 Nikkor 28mm f2.8D

 Nikkor 28mm f2.8D

Nikkor 28mm f2.8D

Until next time-

Xoxo-

Leah

Nikon F100
Ilford Delta 100 (rated and processed @ 100)
Lenses listed under each photo
Processed by Dury's of Nashville
Scanned on Noritsu

Experimenting with Light - #FindingTheLightWithErinHensley

I have a lot of photographer friends. A lot. Really.  And I have learned from and been inspired by all of them at some point. But there's this one, Erin Hensley, that has a nifty little group on facebook, and every month she has a theme to inspire people to get out and shoot, and I really, really love it.  Not only is it filled with eye-candy of nearly 5k photographers (yes, nearly FIVE THOUSAND), but it's filled with lots of support and sharing of knowledge. August's theme was "Experimenting with Light", and since I had quite a few interesting images as a result of this theme, I thought I would blog them.  I am really loving the results of trying some new tricks and re-trying some old ones.

So, without further jabber, here are the fruits of my inspiration.

 This one was shot as I rode shotgun with one of my best friends, Amie (another amazing photographer friend), and she indulged my quirky desire to shoot landscapes at a slow shutter speed while in motion.  That's a good friend, y'all.

Another one from my drive with Amie.  I love this so much, I am going to name it and write some poetry about it.  Don't judge me.

 These two were also done while Amie drove and let me hang out the window of her car with my shutter slowed waaaay down (it was past sunset).  These two look to me like paintbrush strokes, or the pinkish one like a peacock feather and the blue one reminds me of wind.

 Now, this one looks to me like a reflection in a puddle.  It's actually an out of focus image shot through a glass door while it rained, with one of those little spiral shaker balls (like from a shaker bottle for smoothies) held about an inch away from the lens.  Neat, huh?

 Teensy-tiny little ant-sized bug of some sort, on a tiny little flower in my yard.  This one was captured "reverse freelensed", or with the lens detached and rotated backwards for the soft, dreamy effect with macro capabilities.

 Another reverse freelensed image.  I love the way freelensing catches and manipulates flare.

 This one and the next three, were done using a prism.  It's a nifty, but tricky little gadget and makes for some really beautiful, surreal, other-worldly images.

Very surreal, like a dream.

And this one looks like either heavy fog, or a pathway above the clouds.

This one makes my rainbow-loving, inner-child happy.

This lovely, glowy image was catured at dark, beneath Amie's porch light.  It's actually a multiple exposure using a prism. I think it's dreamy, and I dig it.

Technical Details:

Nikon D700
Nikon 50 1.4D | Nikon 28 2.8D
Prism
Imagination
Rad friend willing to drive while I hung out the passenger window

If you want to be inspired, or just have a hankering for eye-candy, join the Finding the Light with Erin Hensley group on facebook, follow her on Instagram and like her facebook page.  You can thank me later.

Love-

Leah

Just in the Driveway

I'm so homesick.  Homesick for Mississippi, for the people I love that live there.  It's been nearly two years and every day is still a struggle.  I don't know if I will ever get over it.

Of course, my go-to therapist is my camera, so I decided to take a walk around our property and look for things to love, to explore it like a tourist, so-to-speak.  It was mid-morning, a little cooler than the day before, and I thought fresh air might do me some good.  I also decided to challenge myself to experiment with shooting "wide open", with all shots either by the 50mm 1.4 or 28mm 2.8 lenses, at either f/1.4 or f/2.8.  I didn't take any ND filters with me, so I had to drop my ISO to the lowest setting and the shots with any light at all had to be shot at a shutter speed of 1/8000 (my camera's maximum).  Several of the shots are freelensed (lens detatched), all of them are manually focused, and the macro images were taken with the 50mm reverse-freelensed (detatched and rotated backwards).  The wide-open shots on the 50mm turned out quite soft, but I like the dreamy effect it rendered, and I usually shoot skies at at around f/11, so I was espicially pleased with the dream-like quality that shooting the skies at f1.8 and f2.8 yeilded.  Overall, it was good for my soul to look for the beauty in the ordinary things I pass by each day, and fun to experiment by pushing myself to use my camera and lenses in these ways.

The following images are the result of that little morning walk, just in the driveway.

Get out and see what you can find in your yard to photograph. Detach your lens and turn it around backwards and try to get some macro shots. Try shooting wide open.

Experiment.
Create.
Breathe.

xoxo-Leah