7th Philippine Bird Festival

I only got a few decent shots from the other roll during day 1 of the Philippine Bird Festival.

I actually really still wish they had actual birds, maybe even just a few. Or even just one.

Anyway, i visited them again for day 2 with a new roll loaded in my camera.

I realize my shots didn't really satisfy me, even for point and shoot level.

The most interesting thing i saw was the body painting exhibit or competition.

There were some really talented artists involved in it. Wasn't able to stay until the exhibition

but i could see there were some pretty good paintings done.

A lot of these pictures have horrible focus but i'll share them anyway.

Used Fujicolor YKL 100.

 

 

Sunny Siquijor

The beautiful sun, sand and beach of the mystical island, Siquijor.

street colors

tears are falling from the sky tonight

Canon AF35 ML

I had my first roll developed for my Canon AF35 ML. It's a point and shoot film camera. I used a Fujicolor YKL 100 film. I was both impressed and disappointed but more on disappointed.

Out of 36 shots, i got about 27 only, about half of which are out of focus. And then i read more reviews about the camera and my hunches were confirmed. It had a weakness on the battery compartment. It tends to become loose over time. Another weakness is the focusing system. Sometimes it fails to focus but when it does it's also really sharp. The 1.9 opening lens is one of the fastest there is in a compact camera.

But for those shots that were well exposed, i was very happy, especially because i finally saw some of that good film grain i'm looking for.

I went to a bird festival today, it was held at the West quadrangle of Silliman University. Some booths were set up featuring exhibits from different people featuring different bird trivia. I was disappointed to see that there were no actual birds. :(

The rest of the photos, they weren't exposed properly

sleepy

DIY 35mm color negative film scanning

I’m not really satisfied with how the local photo labs processed my recent rolls of 3mm color film so i searched online for those negative scanners to save money on having film reprocessed in a different lab. It turns out, there's almost no selection to choose from in local electronic stores.

I stumbled upon a site which shows how you can scan your own film at home or make your own negative scanner. I tried it out using similar materials and I was glad my own experiment worked

All you need are some developed film strips/roll, a digital camera and a light source. Others would use external flash, a lamp or just available light outside your house or from a window.

The goal is to get enough light behind the negative to expose it properly and then take a picture of it.

See below. I put up this photo on natural light source — the window!

if light source is too bright, a diffuser may be used (or wax paper, translucent white cloth, a curtain or similar) to tone down the brightness a bit.

Take a good and sharp photo of the negative as shown above.

Next, I open the digital shot(s) in Photoshop and cropped the photo to show only the negative and the sprockets (holes on top and bottom).

Next comes the best part when you finally see the images. Right now, the pictures appear in reverse (thus the term negative).

Press CTRL + I. This will invert (reverse) the negative’s colors and give you the real colors captured by the camera.

After I did this, I adjust the colors a little just to fix and remove some excessive greenish or bluish tint. It’s not “scanned” perfectly so it's not at all sharp and accurate but with practice, you can get better results.

These were some of mine.

That's it! I hope you learned something from this tutorial!