Canon AE-1

A couple of weeks ago I was given an Canon AE-1, a camera that I'd admired a lot online. These are photos from the first film I used in it, a random colour 400 Tesco film I had. It's very grainy but I'm pleased because I like grain and I like the photos, and this film makes it clear that the camera definitely works.

Zoom lens!

Today I finally borrowed a zoom lens from college (which I've planned on borrowing before but never have) and as soon as I got it home I started messing around with it, and being amazed by it. I really wish I'd taken it before as it is very cool. I borrowed it with the Severn Roller Torrent v Manchester Roller Derby bout in mind which is tomorrow, and I might take it to town with me in the morning to get some more interesting photos, but these are the ones I took at home earlier today. You may not find them as amazing as I do because you don't see these things every day from the same place and know how far away they actually are, but I still like them just as photos too.

Zenit E First Roll

Today I finally got the first roll from my Zenit E developed. I'm generally really happy with them, my Zenit seems to be working which is the main thing. The film is expired by about 10 years and some of them are slightly purple so I'm assuming the two things are linked. The film's really grainy as well but considering I got loads of it for free from my grandad I can't complain! I also quite like the grain really. Some of the photos have come out a bit dark but I think I know what I was doing wrong now. I'll just have to see what happens next time!

 

^ (This is a photo of me that Naomi took)

The Power of the Crop

Much earlier this year, before me and my BFF (my mom) went to the Chinese New Year festivities, I took this photo of The Electric cinema because I was using up the rest of a 400 ISO film and I liked the look of the street.

Now I do quite like this photo but after all this time I just decided to edit it and I figured I'd make the most of those people walking along the bottom:

And I like this version much more. I also decided to do the same with the top of the photo, like so:

So not a particularly interesting post but I just wanted to put these photos on my blog because I rather like them.