Well, the following photograph is not quite retro yet, but (only) 2 years old. It was taken during my basic photography class in 2008 and with the help of a borrowed negative scanner, it can now be viewed digitally. Lovely, isn’t it?
Two years ago, my camera and I weren’t good friends at all. The very first roll I ever took turned out to be not properly loaded, leaving the negatives with sheer emptiness. A few months later I visited New York with my camera and a roll of film, this time properly loaded. However, during the developing process I mixed the order of chemicals up, with black negatives as a result. On top of that, I didn’t know my 35mm. had a light meter, so every photograph I took, I guessed what my exposure would be. Lastly, every frame with a shutter speed of 1/500 or faster, was only exposed for 1/3 of the frame. Until this very day, I still don’t know why.
Waterworks, Philadelphia. 2008.
