Asher,Thank you very much, for the warm welcome, and kind words! I guess I left out way to many details, in my mad rush to enter my first post, please excuse my ignorance,and possible breech of forum rules! I sometimes lack the common sense that should be held high, and cherished!
This photograph of my son, dressed impromptu due to my cheer joy to finally shot film after many years of analysis paralysis, as one member of another forum had diagnosed me! Not only was this my first roll of film ever, I also went one step further, and developed it myself! Too top it off, I used an experimental developer know by users, as caffenol! This was my very first try as well!
The fact that I knew nothing about the whole film processes, aside from what I saw online via Google searches, and video's, I still had no clue to what to expect! The scratches are a result of my first use of a darkroom bag, and my first experience loading a rod, and reel as well!
These were all very hard to do, as I knew that I was going to most likely ruin my film, I still had committed my mind to getting done! A part of me feels the loss of the other images, that I will never see again, but my soul is still settled due to the little results I had, especially the only surviving one, of my son as my muse! The others can never be reproduced, or revived, ever, and a hard as it is to accept, my final results, still brings joy to my heart!
I have used Photoshop to crop my film strip, since, I don't want to cut them up to a possible fatal error! The dark one was cropped a little tighter, but I also messed with the look in order to find a mood that may look appealing, well, at least to my amateur eye's! The first photo should be the one that is super bright, is basically straight out of my film! I do have a few others that I used a "Ilford Delta-400 Professional 120" presetting in order to try and maintain its film integrity!! xD
I am glad you have enjoyed them, and that you acknowledged my use of film! This camera is my sole medium, as I had to liquidate many of my digital Nikon items, D800, 85mm 1.4, 28m 2.8 AI-S, and more, in order to avoid near ruin due to my daughter's medical bills that saved my daughter, and killed her cancer! xD God is good, life if precious! I am so fortunate to have the ability to shoot photographs from my medium, from my cellphone, down to my fantastically made elder Pentacon Six TL film camera, and its CARL ZEISS JENA DDR BIOMETER 80mm 2.8! It was a miracle that all this cost me way less than $200, which, compared to my liquidated Zeiss lenses, and the ones on my lost, but not forgotten, Rollei 6008 Pro, it is a testament to what Zeiss is capable of!!
Thank you very much, and happy photography! Americo.Rodriguez aka a.rodriguezpix at (banned) fredmiranda, arolleibrujo at APUG, anikkorguy at NikonCafe a.Rollei.brujo at Nikonites, photocamel as a nikkorguy too, and many more aliases at those fantastic photography related websites and Flickr too!