002 Date Uploaded:27-01-2024Date Taken: 09>10-2023Location: Paris, FRANCE
Type: Film PhotographyCamera: Asahi Pentax K1000Film Stock: Kodak Ultramax 200 & Portra 400
These are some photos I took when I was in Paris last year. This was my first couple of days on the trip and I had taken 4 rolls of film with me and was hoping it’d last me the whole three weeks (spoiler: it did not). The architecture is magic, but I did almost get run over by manic Parisian cyclists more times than I care to admit.
Anyway, the fear of running out of film meant that for the first leg of my trip, I was super conservative and careful with my shots, and spent way too much time fiddling with my settings and framing every photo. I was so focused on making every exposure count and not wasting a single one that I ignored the number one rule of photography — to observe. It also meant that a lot of truly memorable vignettes and photos were taken on my phone rather than on film.
I think that anxiety was very much reflected in the resulting photos — they lack a spontaneity and confidence that photos from later legs of the trip, and my photography since, have. As an added challenge, some of my trip was hampered by rain and overcast weather — which was completely out of my comfort zone, especially shooting on film — so a lot of the shots from this roll had horrible exposure and I just didn’t vibe with even though I might have loved the subject itself.