These photos are direct black and white negative scans. For some reason my scanner automatically tones them. All these were taken with a Nikon FM3a using an Ilford HP5 Plus film at Subang Jaya Lake Garden.
I don't know much about film though, I was just reading what it wrote on the negative. What I know is that I absolutely love shooting with film, the feeling you get out of film is just satisfying. Different from what you get when shooting digital. And the fact that what you shoot is what you get is quite a challenge, especially being so used to digital and the 'magic' of Photoshopping.
I really would love to have my own darkroom someday. And I really need to shoot more film. Sigh, digital has made me so damn lazy. Things are just too easy nowadays. We tend to take it for granted, abuse it creating more and more shitty images, turning Photoshop into ones savior to make ugly photos look purdy. I always stop and think to myself, and wonder, how would my images be without Photoshop. Haha, crappy ding dong I'd say! Then again, it's just another tool, a medium to create. That's why I've never really consider myself a photographer.
I'm not worthy.
Anna Joe
