#sonya7ii

shom ✊🏽🐧📷🤿🏔️🪚shom@gts.shom.dev
2025-11-29

I was really struggling anyway to take a shot of Alcatraz from that far away with effectively a 35mm focal length. The island looked tiny in a big frame with nothing interesting around it. But as I was taking the steps down towards the bay, I caught this frame and I'm glad I decided to take the shot on a whim. While taking this shot is when I realized that I probably goofed the last one, but I didn't want to climb back up the hill to see if the red bus was still there.

📷 #Rolleiflex (Standard 1935)
🎞️ #KodakGold200
🧪 #BelliniC41
🖥️ #SonyA7ii + #Darktable

#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #6x6 #MediumFormat #SanFrancisco #Alcatraz

A color photograph of a many gnarly tree trunks and branches mostly in silhouette with some areas of the tree bark being lit by the sunlight in patches. There is one larger opening in the middle of all the chaos that opens up to the background where Alcatraz island can be seen in the Bay waters and the hillside and a few clouds behind it on the other side. Shot with a Rolleiflex Standard1935 and ZeissTessar75f3.5 lens, on KodakGold200, and developed with BelliniC41 by Shom Bandopadhaya. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).
shom ✊🏽🐧📷🤿🏔️🪚shom@gts.shom.dev
2025-11-29

I wish I could claim I intended to do a double exposure. In fact I suspected I had accidentally double exposed a few minutes later when taking the next shot once I had left the area. I'm glad this has turned into a happy accident with the Coit Tower in the background and Alcatraz above the grill.

📷 #Rolleiflex (Standard 1935)
🎞️ #KodakGold200
🧪 #BelliniC41
🖥️ #SonyA7ii + #Darktable

#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #6x6 #MediumFormat #SanFrancisco #CoitTower #Alcatraz #Volkswagen

A double exposure color photo of a red Volkswagon Bus that is prominently taking up most of the frame under some blue skies with fluffy clouds with the Coit Tower in the background. Overlayed on it is another exposure of Alcatraz island in the distance, which is sitting right between the windshield and grill of the bus. The Alcatraz exposure has a some trees on the right that are faded in the sky and some purple flowers in the foreground which now looks painted onto the bus. Shot with a Rolleiflex Standard1935 and ZeissTessar75f3.5 lens, on KodakGold200, and developed with BelliniC41 by Shom Bandopadhaya. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).
shom ✊🏽🐧📷🤿🏔️🪚shom@gts.shom.dev
2025-11-27

Another heavily underexposed image here but I really like the soft light highlighting this young tree amongst the large mature trees. I do have some better exposures that I'll share as I work on them, but somehow the poorly exposed ones are the ones I'm most drawn to.

📷 #BessaR2 + #7Artisan35mmf2
🎞️ #RolleiInfrared
🧪 #Rodinal
🖥️ #SonyA7ii + #Darktable

#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm

Black and white photo of a dark forest scene where there are many trees in the background. There is a small clearing up a gentle slope where a lone tree much smaller than the behemoths around it is gently light as if through an overhead limelight. The scene is very underexposed and quite gritty and the infrared film makes the vegetation app    ear white and glowy, especially the central subject. Shot with a Voightlander BessaR2 and 7Artisan35f2 lens, on RolleiInfrared, and developed with Rodinal by Shom Bandopadhaya. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).
shom ✊🏽🐧📷🤿🏔️🪚shom@gts.shom.dev
2025-11-21

I'll post a few more from this roll of infrared. This frame was severely underexposed but I really like the scene. While it's really not showcasing infrared prominently (except the dark sky) it does have an other wordly glowy feel to it. Sometimes you just like a thing and it doesn't make objective sense, this is one of those.

Interesting off screen note: there were wet foot prints from someone who had gone swimming in the lake not too long before I arrived. That water was 40°F / 4.5°C at best 🥶

📷 #BessaR2 + #7Artisan35mmf2
🎞️ #RolleiInfrared
🧪 #Rodinal
🖥️ #SonyA7ii + #Darktable

#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm

A black and white photo with a pair of raised ladder handles attached to the end of a dock which is sitting on a lake that stretches to the out of focus background framed by mountains with snowy peaks under a darker sky with swirly white clouds.
shom ✊🏽🐧📷🤿🏔️🪚shom@gts.shom.dev
2025-11-20

Well this was my first roll of Infrared with the R72 filter. I didn't get everything in time to do a practice run before I took it on a trip and that really shows in the roll. I also didn't get bright sunny days but I had already loaded the film so went ahead and shot it over a couple of days. And given how wildly off the exposures were I had to stand develop to try to salvage it but I really should have pushed by 2 stops instead. Fair to say that I'm not happy with what I got.
But it is still a fun learning experience, got to be in the mountains, and look at those white trees!!!

📷 #BessaR2 + #7Artisan35mmf2
🎞️ #RolleiInfrared
🧪 #Rodinal
🖥️ #SonyA7ii + #Darktable

#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm

A black and white photo shot on infrared film so the organic vegeation like trees looks bright white. There are many trees with a prominent pine in the front right foreground that are growing alongside a rushing creek with some rapids with white crests, the the distance there are layers of mountains with some tree coverage and rocky snow dusted peaks.
2025-11-18
Darmstadt - Mathildenhöhe mit Hochzeitsturm und orthodoxer Kapelle
#darmstadt #mathildenhohe #hochzeitsturm #hobbyfotografie #hobbyfotograf #urban #sonya7ii
shom ✊🏽🐧📷🤿🏔️🪚shom@gts.shom.dev
2025-11-17

#SilentSunday

(When the light leak is this ferocious, you kind of have to lean into it and invent a narrative that this beam destroyed the farm house and now is sweeping across the landscape. The other narrative is this is a learning experience of not to replace the dark slide in bright direct sunlight.)
📷 #Kiev88 + #ArsatC
🎞️ #Kentmere100
🧪 #FX39II
🖥️ #SonyA7II + #Darktable

#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #6x6 #MediumFormat

A black and white photo of a dilapidated farm house standing in a field of long grasses. The farm house is two stories with an extension on the side that is a single story which somewhere between unfinished and disrepair. There's a large tree in the background alongside a shed. The entire photo is very heavily affected by light leaks emanating from the middle right and streaking across the frame both up and down in a V shape almost as if destroyed the house and now is sweeping across the landscape.

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