Bentley Supersport

I had the fun task of shooting a Bentley Supersport at the end of last week for a magazine. The timings were very tight to say the least, we also only had the Bentley, no chase car, so it limited our options somewhat. Still, got to drive around in it to the few locations we had mapped out which was great fun, that car can shift. Location one was a tunnel about an hour or so from Dubai, ideally would have been better to have another car to shoot from while moving but still managed to get a good looking shot. Then on to the white village up on a hill for some static shots. I've a bunch more to edit but thought I'd post a few here. I'll upload tear sheets when the article is published.



©2010 Jerry Balloch

Polaroids

One of the frustrating things about living in Dubai is the availability of certain things. Since buying the Mamiya I've realised that you can get any film you want in Dubai as long as it's b&w Ilford! You want polaroids? No. So I ended up placing a big order with B&H, ignoring the shipping charge (ouch!) and waiting for it to arrive.

It was worth it though, so nice to be shooting film again. I shot a bunch of tests last night with b&w Fuji FB-100. Still getting used to the camera, but I thought I'd share a few here. All shot available light at f2.8/f4. I shot a roll of film too so I'll see how it comes out. Next up colour!





©2010 Jerry Balloch

RZ67 Pro II

I've just bought myself a Mamiya RZ67 Pro II medium format film camera. My reason for this was to get back into shooting film. It's all too easy nowadays with digital to fire off countless frames without really thinking too much about it, kind of on autopilot almost. So I decided to get myself a film camera again for my personal work, slow things down a bit and see where it all takes me. I think it's great to experiment as a photographer, I used to shoot film but somewhere along the way I sold my film cameras and went fully digital. Don't get me wrong, digital is great, I love it, and for my commercial work it works well, but I just felt something missing, a need for something different. Let's hope that this camera, this process, can fill that gap. It'll be great fun finding out if it does. You never know, I might end up using it on some commercial jobs.

I bought the camera second hand so I ran a quick roll through it the other night while cooking dinner to see if it all works. I'd forgotten the difference between f2.8 on medium format vs. 35mm, that's some shallow depth of field. Here are a few shots. I'll post more of me getting used to shooting film again here as and when I do. It'll be good to see where it all ends up.







©2010 Jerry Balloch