the day after christmas

This is a super delayed post. These pictures were from December last year. These are my friends whom i've known since grade school days. The couple in this set are getting married soon. I've been posting a few teaser photos from their e-session. I haven't processed them yet. Two session's worth of pictures is a lot.

That is why i also considered using Lightroom (LR) recently. Lightroom allows me to export multiple edited photos quickly – though it can also be automated in Photoshop. I used to hesitate using LR because i always got less saturated images when i export but somehow, they turned out fine. So maybe now i can create LR presets, too. :) What i like about LR is that i get some really subtle vignettes and film-like "noise". I'm still working on getting the tones right.

But one thing i'm never touching is "Clarity" setting. To me, this is one thing most photography enthusiasts i know tend to overdo. When overdone, there's no arguing the photo ends up ugly. So it should be used sparingly, just like any other setting. But that is entirely my opinion.

And, i am no longer putting watermarks on my photos. I just find it so time consuming (or i'm just getting really lazy). It's true also that watermarks tend to ruin a photo if not applied wisely. Well, maybe in some photos i still put my name or initials (especially in tumblr because i see people reposting pictures without proper link-back to my blog). But surely, my watermark has become lighter and smaller through the years i've been practicing photography.

These pictures were shot at Mooon Cafe Silliman Ave Branch, the Dumaguete boulevard and Cafe Antonio.

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Old Photographs

These are pictures from my grandmother (mother's side).

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My lolo and the people he worked with.

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My lola and my mom's brothers.

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Family picture, my lola and lolo at the center (mama standing on the right)

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grandparents' wedding photo

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obligatory cake-cutting picture

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my mama and her younger sister

DIY Redscale

First of all, this isn't my idea. I have read about DIY redscale a few months ago and i finally got the chance to try it recently.

The results were not excellent as i would have wished but i did get the reddish tones i wanted. I don't have photos of how to do the process of transferring the roll so i drew it instead. I hope it's not confusing.

What you'll need:
  1. an empty spool of film
  2. a roll of unexposed film
  3. pair of scissors
  4. clear tape
  5. a completely dark room (or a changing bag)
The goal here is to expose the back side of the film strip to get the reddish tones from the final pictures. So for that to happen, you need to attach the reverse side of the unexposed film to an empty spool and transfer the roll into it.

Important: You have to transfer the film to the other spool in a changing bag or in a room that's completely dark so that your film remains unexposed.

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All photos were shot with a Pentax P30 with a roll of Kodak Ultima 100 (one month to expiry date). The film scanner i used was quite bad in quality (CDR-King Film Scanner), plus the lab where i got my film roll developed didn't wipe the strips properly.

I cut the entire roll to 5 shorter strips so i could store them in an envelope and later did i realize the mistake of doing that because now, they are all stuck to each other. I long for the day when i can finally own a good quality film scanner.

All photos were shot around Dumaguete market and boulevard area.