Stories: Cinestill part I (Patreon)

Hey everyone, I decided to start a new series of posts called; Stories. 

Yes Stories, stolen with no shame from Instagram because I just can't find another title that says it better. The purpose here is to showcase and tell, you guest it, stories from photos I take or took in the past. The other day, a brave Patreon told me that sharing other images besides the usual model collaboration was fun and interesting to see. I always wanted a platform besides Instagram to share my other ventures into photography, so I decided why not share it here. 

I know some of you pay to see my collabs with model and I get that, but don't worry, these posts won't be replacing my usual shtick, see this as extra content, some people out there may want to see this and I would like to open more possibilities here and attract a larger public. I love photography as a whole and I'd like to share more variety with these photos that are dormant on HDDs right now. 

Stories will of course be blog posts for the Patreon tier, some will be just pics from a simple project, a night walk or like in this case, a film roll:

These photos were taken in Summer 2014 from Old Orchard Beach in Maine:

Like the title said it, I used some Cinestill 800T here. 

I used a Nikon FE2, a camera I bought from Ryan Muirhead, some of you might know him, a well-known film shooter:

https://www.instagram.com/ryanmuirhead

I don't use this camera very often, I spoke about this in the past, long story short I have a hard time nailing focus on 35mm SLR, my old eyes prefer rangefinders.

I rated these at ISO 800, looking back I could have pushed it without a problem. 

The story here; during family vacations I usually reserve an evening out alone with myself for a night walk to try and find interesting images to take. 

Hits and misses here, although I wasn't going for technical masterpieces, I was just enjoying the moment and having fun. 

It's crazy, looking at these, 8 years ago, it's like I didn't even know how to take a photo lol. I feel like the only one I like here is the first one, the no vacancy shot. 

I walked up and down a touristy street, stopped by this fair, did not wander in residential areas too much back then, today it would have been the first thing I'd hit.

The rest of the photos I took at Old Orchard are more or less family pictures, I don't want to bore you guys with that, however here are a few keepers:

Colour film is Portra 800 still with the Nikon FE2 and the b&w is Tri-x of course taken with a YashicaGTN. 

They grow up so fast they say, well it's true.

There is a time where they don't want you to take photos of them anymore, so make it count while it lasts.

We always loved this one, probably because it was taken candid:

You might ask yourself what is part II, where is the rest of the Cinestill? Check back in tomorrow.