Rebecca Wenham Revisited
Friday, January 13, 2017
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| Rebecca Wenham - Mamiya RB-67 Pro-SD Kodak Portra 160 Colour Negative Film |
There are two other blogs that featured Vancouver cellist
Rebecca (Becky) Wenham. They are this one and this one.
But this blog is not about our wonderful Becky. It is about
photography but also in some way it involves physics.
We all know that you cannot put more than one object (or
person) in the same space. Ancillary to this idea is that one photograph, no
matter how you fix it or manipulate it; the result will be just variations of
the same thing. This is, that one photograph.
My photographer friends either make fun or do not understand
when I tell them that although I have a very good digital camera, a mirrorless
Fuji X-E1 I have not abandoned my use of my film cameras.
There are some shoots
where I have used:
The Fuji, a Mamiya RB-67 with b+w on one back and colour
negative on another, plus very carefully I might shoot one exposure in colour
and one in b+w using the now discontinued Fuji Instant Film on two separate
backs on that Mamiya. Then I might use a couple of Nikon FM-2s, one with b+w
and the other in colour negative. I have a wonderful rectilinear 20mm wide
angle so I might also load up the Pentax MX it goes with.
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| Rebecca Wenham - Mamiya RB-67 Pro-SD Kodak Portra 160 Colour Negative Film |
My idea is that I never get the same photograph. The act of
picking up a different camera and focusing, while my subject adjusts, means
that no picture will ever be an exact duplicate of another.
When I had my plan to photograph Rebecca Wenham I immediately
discounted the use of b+w film. She is a lovely redhead. She is also a very
busy musician so I had to make it as simple as I could so as not to tire her.
So in the end I shot some pictures with the Fuji using two lighting
setups. In one I used a ringflash and in the other a softbox. With the same two
lighting setups I loaded a Mamiya with colour negative and shot two Fuji Colour
Instant Film shots. You can compare and decide.
