last week we took a girls trip to California…one of my favorite places. we rented a jeep (which as always been a dream of mine!) biked around venice beach, dined al fresco, stayed in LA, walked the stars, hiked around the griffith observatory and checked out the hollywood sign, headed to palm springs (MY FAV), lounged around the Parker, ate tacos, shopped the design district, fell in love with the most amazing succulent garden ever, shopped some more, ate truffle burgers and truffle fries and witnessed my oldest get her first tattoo. it was a lot of fun!! the best part was that some friends who we met through instagram spent the whole time with us!
i decided to bring a ton of film and shot as much as i could in order to make advantage of the warmer temps and gorgeous colors.
i am still working on metering. seems that my rolls contain A LOT of under exposed images. so to be honest, since back home, i haven’t picked up my camera sadly. i am not blown away by any of these images necessarily BUT i do love the tones. no matter what i do with digital, you just can’t get the creaminess that you can with film.
shot on pentax 645n and with ektar 100 film.
I totally agree about the creaminess of film. Have you tried the Mastin Labs presets? I have all of them and they are the next best thing to film. I have to admit there are quite a few times when it is hard to tell between my film and my digital/mastin images. If you haven’t tried it, you totally should! Anyway… I think these are really great images. You did such a great job telling the story of your trip through all of your photographs that I have seen you share. By the way, I LOVED the video you created of the trip! I am taking Xanthe’s class again (fell off the video wagon the first time) and trying to do better! I am struggling with getting both video and stills. :-)