Sneaker Summit

Better late than never. I shot these in February at the Sneaker Summit in Dubai. Was a great event, almost too busy to allow for photographs, but I managed to get a few shots.

I was testing out a Leica M6 which I'd hired. Great camera. Shot these on Ilford 3200.







© 2011 Jerry Balloch

Nice Moment

Another couple here from the 6x7 project. This time I was shooting my Dad as he did some leather work in his book room. I'm shooting available light on Ilford Delta 3200 here. Getting some nice shots when my youngest son walks through, completely ignoring me and the camera and starts talking to his grandpa, click, caught it. Really delighted with this shot...



©2010 Jerry Balloch

Beach Black and Whites

I'm still in the UK, been a great summer. I've been working on this personal project documenting the people close to me using my Mamiya RZ67 as a way of really getting to know the camera. It's going well and I have a bunch of images scanned and ready to share. My plan is to make a book with them 6x7 - 6 images each of 7 people. I'm using a variety of film stocks as well as trying to capture what the person means to me rather than 6 straight portraits of each person. It's a really nice way to remember this summer and the things I've been up too. More to come...



©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