Life Through My Eyes

Hello everybody! Today, my mom had mentioned that she wanted to go to H&M since she hasn’t been there in awhile. I wanted to buy a couple things too so I decided to go with her. I picked up 3 things: 2 button downs and 1 jacket. I spent a little more than I wanted to, but shopping is just as big of a hobby of mine as photography.

Test tomorrow, but forgot to study. FML.

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Hey everyone! Today was just me doing school stuff. I have classes from 8:10am-5:25pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays so I’m always pretty tired once I get out. I had to go to Dragon Printing (I think that’s the name) to pick up my Kanji print outs. The more I look at the prints, the more worried I get about the class. I’ve always had a small problem with remembering and practicing Kanji. I can only try my best, but it’s pretty stressful just thinking about that and some other stuff I have going on.

Just one link today:

http://josevillablog.com/

This is my favorite wedding photographer hands down. Such amazing work. I think he shoots a Contax 645 although I’m not 100% positive. Somebody on Film Wasters pointed out the exact model but I forget what it was. When you’re sponsored by Fuji you know you’re doing big things.

Here’s some more film stuff. I haven’t touched my 30D in a little bit. Somebody recently asked me why I shoot film (compacts and rangefinders) when I get better results from doing digital (using my 30D). Well, the answer is hard to explain. The best way I can put it is that the imperfections are what make it special and unless you pop a roll of Velvia or Superia or Astia or whatever in your camera and shoot it yourself then the answer may be hard to grasp. It’s one of those things where the reward is the actual shooting and then getting surprised at some of the results you get.

With that being said here’s some more shots from the Olympus Stylus 🙂

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Hey everyone! So today was the first day of classes at SFSU. It was a pretty chill day. I got to class around 8 and then afterwards had breakfast with Aidan, Lilia, and some other people. Then I met up with Jen and Dexter to crash their Japanese class. I have so many breaks in between classes it’s ridiculous. Around 5 hours worth of breaks altogether. My professors seem really nice for the most part too (I’ve had 3 of them before) so that’s a plus.

I finally got a roll of film developed that I put through my Olympus Infinity Stylus. I love that camera. It’s small and discreet yet it takes great pictures (for a point and shoot film camera that is). Hopefully I’ll find the time to do more shooting throughout the semester.

I’m going to break down the shots from date. So first here’s a few shots I took when I went shooting with Rolo and Brandon.

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Hey everyone! So today I had a pretty awesome shoot planned out, but it was ruined by the weather, as usual. It was really overcast and it totally blocked out most of the available light I had wanted to use. So instead I just took a couple random pics and decided to reschedule to tomorrow morning.

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Hello everyone! So recently I’ve been pretty busy with work and friends and stuff so I haven’t had too much time to shoot around. Yesterday I went out with Rolo and Brandon, though to get some shots in. I used an Olympus Stylus loaded with Ilford FP4 125 film. We walked around A LOT so I was pretty tired after. Later on I met up with some friends whom I’ve known forever for dinner. Finally, Aidan picked me up and we went to have a late night snack. I swear to God I’m so fat from eating all the time hahaha. Today all I did was go to Walgreens to get my film developed, but it turns out they only do C-41 processing. Completely slipped my mind so now I have to wait to get my roll of FP4 developed. Anyways, classes start soon and I still can’t write properly. I’m f*cked.

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Here’s just some random pictures since I couldn’t get my film processed.