26 Instax Packs - #22 - Zootopia Instax Mini Frame in Fuji Instax Neo 90 Classic. I spent an afternoon with Brenda at the Maryland Zoo shooting with my Neo 90 and my Pentax Q10 mirroless camera. Because you can't get that up close with the animals (and rightly so) it was difficult to get good photos of what animals we were observing. There are a few photos where you can clearly see what animal it is, but I really like to fill the frame with my subject when shooting with Instax film, especially Instax Mini Film. The Neo 90 handled the exposure nicely with the sunny conditions, It was an absolutely beautiful day to spend at the zoo. The last shot of the pack was of my son Isaac just before starting back to college this semester.
26 Instax Packs - #21
26 Instax Packs - #21 - Comic Instax Mini Frame in Lomo'Instant Automat. Experiments with flash gels and nighttime long exposure instant photography in Downtown Hanover, PA.
26 Instax Packs - #20
26 Instax Packs - #20 - Lomo photos with Lomo'Instant Automat using Little Twin Stars Instax Mini Film Frame. Experimenting on a Sunday afternoon at home with flash gels, double exposures, selfies, with skeleton, cat and groovy lamp.
26 Instax Packs - #19
26 Instax Packs - #19 - Rilakkuma Instax Mini Frame in Polaroid 300. Brenda and I took a day trip to Lewisburg, PA and visited the Rollermills Antique Mall. The drive was easy, just following Route 15 north along the Susquehanna River and making one right turn on the road where Rollermills Antiques is located.
The mall was packed with vendor booths with too many things to take in at once. So much eye candy in every direction, on three floors of an old mill. When we were finished there, we drove five blocks to visit another building of Rollermills Antiques with over 350 vendor booths. We had lunch at what the cashier from the mill called a "greasy spoon" located inside. Just our kinda place to eat.
We didn't buy much, but greatly enjoyed perusing the aisles and taking in the atmosphere, reminding me much of the antique malls at Adamstown, PA. I came home with an Argus Model A 35mm camera, which seems fully functional - another camera to test with my recent acquisitions.
26 Instax Packs - #18
26 Instax Packs - #18 - Lilo & Stitch Instax Mini Frame in Lomo'Instant Automat. I needed to get Brenda out of the house, she had recent carpal tunnel surgery and wasn't able to drive. So we headed out to the Pleasant Hill Fire Company Carnival when I got home from work to get dinner (totally not good for you but delicious carnival fare). We filled up on fried vegetables, italian sausage, kraut dog, and cheesecake on a stick. Our carnival ride days are long over and we weren't really interested in playing any games (brenda was still having after surgery pain), so we headed out early to go back home. Needless to say, I passed out on the loveseat from carb overload, sketchbook in hand later that evening.
26 Instax Packs - #17
26 Instax Packs - #17 - Rainbow Instax Mini Frame in Diana F+ with Lomography Instant Back. Just felt like loading up the Diana F+ and going for a walk around Hanover, PA on a sunny, hot Saturday morning while Brenda was working. Thankfully I had turned the air conditioning on before I left the house. I had also intended to use my Holga 120IB instant back, but I have not been able to get it to work properly pretty much from the time I've gotten it. The first five frames of Instax Monochrome I shot with the Holga 120IB came out fine, but I haven't been able to get it to work since then. Hopefully they will come out with a new version. Maybe I could try using the Diana F+ Lomography Instant back with the Holga.
26 Instax Packs - #16
26 Instax Packs - #16 - Fuji Instax Black Frame in Diana F+ with Lomography Instant Back. Shot around Lake Marburg and Downtown Hanover.
26 Instax Packs - #15
26 Instax Packs - #15 - Minnie and Mickey Instax frame in Lomo'Instant Automat. I took the metro rail down to Washington, D.C. to visit Alan on one of my days of July vacation. He had just gotten a new car and happily drove us around to visit the Renwick Gallery, Rock Creek Park with the historic Pierce Mill, and then the Jefferson Memorial.
I shot most of the photos at Pierce Mill, trying to capture interior window lit photos, some of them turned out ok. I also tried the double exposure portrait on a texture technique, but my camera batteries died so I wasn't able to print it out until I got home.
26 Instax Packs - #13
26 Instax Packs - #13 - Pikachu / Pokemon Instax Mini Frame in Lomo'Instant Automat camera. It was Father's Day, so Brenda and I picked up my stepfather to take him to breakfast and go for a ride in search of unexplored areas of the Gettysburg Battlefield. I've lived in Hanover since 1990 and visited Gettysburg numerous times over the years with my family and more recently photographing different parts of the landscape. I've always been drawn to the boulders strewn about the battlefield and surrounding areas, and there is a special tree at Devil's Den that I like to photograph and sketch. Every now and then, Brenda and I will discover a new part of Gettysburg on one of our drives. I recently saw photos from another photographer of the Rose Farm barn ruins, but I was not familiar with that area of the battlefield, so it was this that we sought out to discover on our Father's Day drive.
It was a much sunnier day than the last time I shot with this camera, so the outdoor photos turned out much brighter.
26 Instax Packs - #12
26 Instax Packs - #12 - One Piece Instax Mini Frame in Lomo'Instant Automat camera. It was an overcast day at Evergreen Cemetery in Gettysburg, PA, just on the verge of rain. These photos came out very dark, I probably should have used the +1 exposure compensation on the camera. But maybe, the darkness contributes to the mood. I missed the framing a little on the closeup shots, but I usually just point the Automat in the general direction of what I'm shooting using the focusing distance recommendation for the closeup lens. I'm not familiar with One Piece, which is apparently an Anime Show featuring a pirate, but I liked the little skull and crossbones on the packaging when I saw it on ebay.