u/LandySam11

I think I held my polarizer in front of the lens for this shot.

Seemed like a better alternative to spending $120+ on a factory hood.

Some screenshots from today’s text conversation with my uncle.

When I shoot with my Nikon, nobody asks about it. I’ve started carrying my grandpa’s Hasselblad in public, but I never actually load it with film. Now, people always ask me about my Hasselblad and I get lots of aura. I only use my Nikon though because it has P mode for Professional.

Last week, I went on amazing sunrise hike, shot two rolls of slides (E100 120 and Provia 135), from which I expected some of my landscape best work to date (cover photo is a digital backup from my phone). Unfortunately, I received an email from my lab saying that they’d missed a step in development and blanked the whole batch of E6. They gave me a refund, two rolls of Ektachrome, and a $100 store credit, but I’m still devastated. Just to add injury to insult, I got in a bad mountain biking accident after the hike and probably won’t be able to hike for the rest of the summer. Enough of my complaining, what do you all do when you’re discouraged? I’ve been shooting film for 5 years now, and I’ve never landed in a low like this, but I genuinely don’t even want to go shoot at the moment, even if I weren’t injured. I’d love to hear your thoughts!

EDIT: Thank you everyone for your kind words of encouragement! I really appreciate y'all taking the time to write such detailed and positive responses. I'll be back out shooting in a couple of months I'm sure :)

Clarification about the injury, as there seemed to be some confusion, I tore the prepatellar bursa sac in my left knee, so I can't bend or lift my left leg. I can "walk", but only backwards by stepping with my right leg, then dragging my left leg so as to not bend it.

To a degree, it actually worked quite nicely. The slides have excellent contrast, they're pretty sharp, but they're rather orange. Correct me if I'm wrong but I presume this has to do with the fact that I developed them in C41 instead of ECP-2, which should have die couplers, right? The film I used was respooled Kodak Vision Print Film 3383 and I just took pictures of my negatives using my DSLR scanning rig. I tested various exposures and various white balances on my light table (cinestill cs-lite), but it all looks pretty orange. Do y'all know anything about ECP-2 processing? Is it hard to do at home?

Forgot to turn off the date stamp on some of these

Can’t do a full core trade in because of the hole in the block.

I got up yesterday at 3:30 in the morning to shoot these. Definitely worth it in my opinion.

At one point, I saw them driving, but I never saw them in the actual lake. I’ve been traveling around a lot the last couple of weeks and I can’t believe the rare and quirky cars I’ve seen.

I’ve got a few fresh rolls of slides and I really don’t want to mess them up (the Velvia cost me £38/roll and the Provia was $40/roll in the USA). I’m planning on using matrix metering aperture priority for landscapes. What sort of scenes should I be aware of and might need to add over or underexposure to the matrix reading?