Rollei Night Shooting

I went out last Friday night shooting with a couple of friends. We headed to the waterfront since they both wanted to get some panos of the city. I started taking a pano when my trusty D70s became less than trusty and died on me again, it seems to die a lot lately, I must think of some diabolical way to make money to finally upgrade it… Not that I can really complain since I’ve had it for about 8 years and really thrashed it (the 18-70mm lens now only works from 18-57 and no longer has a focus ring). I did take a couple of Half Frame panos but my Demi is flaky at best and I wasn’t sure how they would turn out.

Anyway, so I got bored waiting for the other two and noticed that there seemed to be some portrait thing on with about three groups of people taking portraits with speedlights… Well time for some  Rolleiflex action 🙂

I haven’t done too much of this due to the fact that in low light it is really hard to focus since the original  ground glass screen is kind of dark at the best of times (still need to upgrade it to a much brighter Hasselblad on which is 2 to 3 stops brighter) so with these I just guesstimated the distances which is a little bit hit and miss.

The second shot was a total focus miss but I really liked how creepy it feels…

Rolleiflex 2.8 E, Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Film, CanoScan 9000F Scanner.

25/05/2011 | Categories: Blog, Rolleiflex, Street | Tags: black and white, Creepy, Dark Halide, film, HP5, ilford, New Zealand, night, photo, photography, Rollei, Rolleiflex, Simon Burrow, Street, Street Photography, Waterfront, wellington | 4 Comments