Today I'm sharing a couple of black and white photographs I really enjoy coming back to. Several things came together resulting in photographs that I am really proud to share here.

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CadillacVintage & Decaying My journey back into film photography has been about 4 years long at this point and I am still learning with so much ahead of me. There are so many different films that can be shot so many different ways and developed in different developers. The choices are truly endless. And it's very different from the digital world. There, you start with an as good of a photograph as you can and later play with it in software applying filters or different post-production techniques to get to the final output.

With film, it's  a reverse process. Many of the creative choices are made before ever seeing the photograph. Color or black and white? What film? How to expose the film? Some films like more exposure than the posted ISO speed (box speed), some less. Further, does the situation call for pushing or pulling? Even after the shots are taken, there are additional choices before seeing the image, like the choice of developer, the agitation during development, and more.

And then there's the image, with its own unique look. If you like it, great, mission accomplished. If not, the process has to be repeated with adjustments made. It takes patience and a lot of time, but to me, the results can be very rewarding.

Such was the case here. The cinematic Kodak 5222 black and white film, now also sold by CInestill as BwXX, fit the subject matter perfectly. The film is sensitive to most of the visible light but is somewhat limited in the reds, thus heavily shifting focus to the blues. That results in highlights and shiny surfaces taking on a different look than with other films. While the theory of this can be hard to visualize, the pictures seem to explain it the best.

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REO Gold Comet, Vintage & Decaying
Shot on film: Pentax Spotmatic, Cinestill BwXX / Kodak 5222

I hope you've enjoyed today's photo pair as much as I enjoyed the whole process from the choice of equipment and film all the way to digital presentation here as well as darkroom printing - but more on that in the future.

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