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I’m Zach. I do film photography and darkroom prints.

Most of what I post here is on Glass in higher quality scans w/ metadata, if that tickles your fancy.

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Where's my family and home?

A black and white photograph of street art. The art is of two circles, with the text 'wheres my family and home?' written along the circumference of the larger of the two.

JCH Streetpan 400 @ 200 // Mamiya 7ii // Mamiya N 80mm f/4 L

Some very light backlog posting, this one from April of this year. JCH Streetpan is my favorite "non-professional" B&W film stock - at least in medium format - but that comes with a bit of a caveat. I've found that I'm far happier with the results of Streetpan (at least when I'm making prints from it) when I pull it one stop. I've actually posted a single streetpan photo before, way back in my first post ever, before I ever started posting nonsense to go with the pictures....

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A black and white photograph of head and foot stones in a cemetery plot, the foot stone reading 'Hodges', with a pair of matching headstones reading 'Mother' and 'Father'

Ilford Delta 400 @ 3200 // Mamiya 7ii // Mamiya N 80mm f/4 L

Took a few wrong turns a few weeks ago and ended up in a cemetery way too late into the evening with only 400 speed film in my bag. I think this roll of Delta was a bit on the older side too. I had hoped that perhaps capturing some ghosts would give me some more credibility so I went for the classic: Just push the shit out of it.

No ghosts unfortunately, just aggressive grain. For winging it about 20 minutes before sundown on some old film, a few of the shots turned out great. I mostly ignored my camera's meter and went on vibes alone, and then cooked the shit out of these negatives in some similarly old D-76 at stock dilution for 19 full minutes.

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Take the Ramp

A panoramic format photograph of an on-ramp beneath a highway overpass, the evening sun casting the long shadows of large support beams over the roadway

FPP Retrochrome // Mamiya 7ii w/ Panoramic Adapter // Mamiya N 65mm f/4 L

I'm still managing to get about one shot I'm happy with off each roll of Retrochrome (which, in this format with the Mamiya pano kit is 1 out of 10, so pretty good all things considered). I've learned thus far that the best way to make it shine given my workflow is to take pretty monochromatic shots and then pray that I can white balance it properly in lightroom. Blue and green tones seem to work best for this given everything I've shot on this stock, which was a surprise to me initially since the FPP product shots for the stock are actually all pretty warm. I tried to balance this same shot with a warmer tone in mind, but even after tweaking it and tweaking it and then walking away for a few hours, the best I was able to get was just like, <someplace>, Mexico-tier results, which is not what I'm going for.

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A panoramic format photograph of a early-2000s model sedan parked in front of a garage door on the side of a well-worn warehouse wall.

Cinestill 400D // Mamiya 7ii w/ Panoramic Adapter // Mamiya N 65mm f/4 L

Panoramic stuff is hard to post nicely on the web on most platforms, especially now that most every page is responsive or mobile-oriented or has a layout that can be easily squashed for vertical content. The most obvious solution here is just to use the default image carousel/lightbox, but I'm really attached to my silly little post layout.