I have developed my first photos taken with Sara’s Hasselblad. It’s been a complete failure! From 2 films of 12 photos each, barely 3 photos have come out with decent results. And I think only one of them is “good”. I am going to keep trying to see if I finally get the light right.
That’s me analyzing the half-format negatives.
SaraLuna has lent me her beloved Hasselblad so I could play with it for a few days. It is truly a gorgeous camera but I am having trouble getting used to work in “analog”. I will tell you in the future all the details of my experience with the camera; for now I will let you some photos that I have taken using my Canon S90 through the viewfinder.
Here you have a photo and the text that I prepared for my new book Momentos (at the moment only available in Spain) but that eventually didn’t make the cut; we didn’t include the photo because it was not good enough (it’s a little bit blurry and there is a stupid foot there). As it is not on the book, I share it here with you.
Having lived in the Mediterranean coast all my life I was surprised to see snow in Tokyo, a city next to the sea in a great bay. As time went by I realized that it was not something exceptional. I was working, and suddenly it started to snow, I went out to the balcony to contemplate the unusual scene of white snowflakes falling over the asphalt of the city. The girl on the photo, in spite of the cold weather, seemed like she was not in a rush to look for shelter and stopped for a few seconds just under my window. I stayed observing curiously, at the beginning I couldn’t see her face, I could only see the snowflakes decomposing after impacting into the blue umbrella. However, there was a moment when she looked up and slightly tilted the umbrella uncovering her eyes during a brief instant that I could capture with my camera.
