July 2023 Bellevue Film Shoot
A few weeks ago me and my friend went to Bellevue to do some urban shots with our film cameras. I am new to film photography, and was using a second-hand camera that I got for free from a friend, so suffice to say, I had no idea what I was doing.
I've used a DSLR before, but have never used film. I basically put it into auto mode, went shooting, and hoped for the best. Here's what I got.
Shooting with Ektar 100 color film. Images are downscaled to reduce bandwidth, and to keep people from stealing my pictures.
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A nice shot of a building with some cool, angular looking windows.
2
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I liked the black and white parts of this building, and that it had very harsh sticky-out bits. Also vines.
I took a whole lot of vertical shots because they kinda just felt right. Don't judge me.
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Same as the last shot, but horizontal.
4
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This looked a lot cooler in my head.
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I like the vibe of this photo, but my poor friend is hard to see. Other than that I like it.
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A lot going on in this one, but I like it.
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I don't like this one.
8
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I didn't notice until someone pointed it out, but there are 2 hands in this picture.
Also, I like the texture of the building in the background, reminds me of waffle shirts.
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I don't know why I took this one, it's pointed up too high.
10
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Better.
11
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A very cool crane shot.
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Not a great photo, but you can sorta see these ghost artifacts on the pole and on the concrete. Very weird, very cool.
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I love the wobbly glass panes in this one.
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Some very nice looking bushes. The cars above are overexposed, but I don't mind.
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Not a great picture, I just found it interesting that they would put numbers for each floor on the outside.
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A nice cross walk.
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A very slanted picture of an intersection.
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This was a cool construction site that caught my eye. I just now noticed that there is a big lamp post in the right of the shot, but oh well.
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There was road work happening all the way down this road, and about 10 signs all lined up. If I moved a bit higher I probably could've gotten a few more signs.
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Another bush. This is a very fancy bush in a fancy strip mall with vallet parking, security guards, and high-end stores for luxury brands like Gucci. We didn't exactly fit in.
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More bushes, but near an escalator. This one accidentally lined up nicely with the left edge of the frame, which was nice.
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Still in the fancy strip mall. This one turned out great, I like the mix of curves and straight lines.
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Same construction site from before, but higher up. These porta-potties where sorta the most eye-catching thing in the frame, so I just decided to make it them the star of the show.
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We walked across the highway to go to Uwajimaya. Not a great shot, but I thought I would at least take one highway shot.
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This orange construction sign in the woods caught our eyes, so we went to check it out. Not much to see.
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A random potted plant in the corner of Uwajimaya. Didn't know how this one would turn out, probably could've gotten a bit closer.
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This was harder then it looks. There is less than a foot of space between the start of the mirror and the shelves, so I couldn't get a lot of mirror without leaning way in and making a fool of myself.
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A curb outside of the store that looked cool.
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My friend.
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A cool pedestrian bridge that caught my eye. It turned out great.
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My friend again.
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An island of grass on an island of asphalt near a highway onramp.
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A cool sign with some cool sepia tones.
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The same shot as 19 but from across the street. I found it odd that there was this one-story building on this little plot, surrounded by construction, and a skyline backdrop behind that.
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Looked better in my head.
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The last one. Same position as 13 and 14.
Fin
That's it! These pictures turned out a lot better than I expected, which means it only goes downhill from here. Next time I need to go shooting in manual mode. My camera did a great job in auto, but I need to figure out what shutter speed to use (I had my aperture all the way open, so I might want to play with that as well).