Family Time at Meridian Hill Park | Washington, DC

I still love film!

Here are more photos from the same roll of Kodak Portra 160 using the Canon F-1 film camera. Arlene and I discovered Meridian Hill Park in DC on our way to friends house in Maryland. It's a great place for hanging out and a spot for a future engagement shoot.

Here are some random photos I took of Roman, Arl and the park. I didn't have a lens hood on my lens, hence the sun flares. I didn't like the effect particularly in these photos.

Random photos of the park. I like the sign the best.

Dad's old Canon F-1 Film Camera

This weekend I dusted off my dad's old Canon F-1 film camera that he gave to me last year. The thought of shooting this camera was something special, since he used it to capture moments of me and my siblings growing up. The Canon F-1 is 100% manual, meaning no auto-focus or metering - nothing. The light meter didn't work so I used my light meter app on my iPhone to figure out the proper exposure. I never shot with it, so I made a few shots 2 to 3 stops over-exposed at f 1.4 using Kodak Portra 160. Needless to say I was happy with the results and had to post these two photos. I plan to post more from this roll later this week.

I will definitely use this camera more often and I hope one day I'll be able to pass it along to one of my boys.

Family Road Trip on Film - Sesame Place and Catoctin Mountain Orchard

I love my film camera!

Honestly, I love using it more than my digital camera. For some reason I trust it more...maybe it's because I take more time making the photo, rather than just shooting away. I feel like my Yashica FX-3 35mm makes images that I just can't get with my Nikon D90 or D700. And it's manual focus.

These photos are from a family road trip we took back in October. We packed up and made our way to Sesame Place just outside of Philadelphia, PA. There we met up with my sister-in-law and her family. On our way back home we stopped by Catocin Mountain Orchard in MD, to take in some fall festivities.

This is the last roll of film I shot using Kodak Portra 400 (developed and scanned at Walgreens). Arlene even took a few. Might be time to pick up a medium format film camera in 2012.