Rhett Redelings' photostream  

I made a book. You can find a link to it, along with some of my photographs, at rhettredelings.com

It should go without saying but my work is all copyrighted and not available for your use unless you ask me. I'll probably say yes but you still need to ask, lest I get cranky and in a lawyer-calling mood.

About me: I mostly shoot film. Thankfully, it rarely shoots back.

The most common thing I hear from people when they see me shooting film cameras is "Oh... you're still shooting film?" They rarely ask why, their looks of pity saying more than words ever could. However, on the rare occasion some one does actually ask why, I say this: "I'm not still using film, I'm using film again; for the same reason that film makers don't shoot major motion pictures with video tape." Don't get me wrong, I use digital cameras and they have their place but they don't look like film. To me, digital pictures look like video stills. The best of them look, to me, like film. So why not just shoot film? The obvious answer is convenience. Digital cameras can shoot more, shoot faster and in more varied lighting conditions without needing to change, pay for or transport film. But since when is art about convenience? That said, I'm hardly disciplined enough to live my life as a purist. Like everyone else, I carry a mobile phone that has a camera built-in. Mine takes surprisingly decent photos most of the time, so I use that when I see a photo and don't have another camera with me. And I just bought my first DSLR to add to my tool set for the reasons stated above; but my heart still belongs to analog photography.

I develop my black and white film at home. I take my color film to a lab. I use a computer to scan my negatives and do basic contrast and/or level adjustments. Otherwise, the work you see here is free of digital processing. I make that distinction because I am interested in processes that do not come with an Undo option and I work hard at becoming a better photographer, not a better digital artist/editor. There are great digital artists out there, some of them on my Contacts list. I am just not one of them.

My flickr stream is not my portfolio or best-of. Rather, it is the documentation of my process, my journey as a photographer. I have a little website that is more of a portfolio, with some photos and a link to my Etsy shop. If you're interested in owning a print of my work, I'd be honored to sell and fling you one: rhettredelings.com

In the interest of making Twitter interesting for myself to bother with, I'm using it to challenge myself to use it to post 1 mobile phone pic each day for 365 days. Anyway, my efforts and any other nonsense I think is worthy of a few bytes, are here: twitter.com/redelings



Here's some of what I use (or have used), if you're interested:

film cameras

-single lens reflex-
•Kiev 6C - 6x6 medium format (120 or 220) SLR with a Vega-12 90mm f2.8
•Mamiya 645 1000S - 6x4.5 medium format slr
•Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera - Polaroid instant film slr
•Olympus OM-2n 35mm SLR, with 50mm f1.8, 28mm f2.8 Zuiko, 35-135mm f3.8 Tamron lenses
•Canon FT 35mm SLR, 50m f1.8, 28mm f2.8 lenses
•Canon AE-1
•Canon F-1 35mm SLR, 50mm f1.4, 28mm F2.8, f3.5 70mm lenses

-twin lens reflex-
•Mamiya C220 with an f/2.8 80mm lens
•Seagull 4A-109 - 6x6 medium format twin lens reflex (dead 8/2009)
•Superheadz 'Blackbird, Fly' 35mm TLR, "toy camera"
•Starlite - focus free, medium format
•Kodak Duaflex II - focus free, medium format

-rangefinders-
•Zorki 4k - 35mm LTM rangefinder, Jupiter-8 50m f2.0
•Agfa Karat 36 - 35mm rangefinder, fixed lens, folding fixed lens, 50mm
•Canonet QL17 GIII - 35mm compact rangefinder with 40mm f1.7 fixed lens
•Olympus 35 RC - 35mm compact rangefinder, 40mm, f2.8
•Olympus XA 35mm f2.8 compact rangefinder
•Polaroid 230 Land Camera

-point and shoot-
•Lomo LC-A (circa 1985) 35mm point & shoot (dead 9/2009),
•Holga 120n (Modified) - 6x6 medium format 99%plastic "toy" camera
•Ansco Regent - 35mm folder with fixed 50mm lens

-pinhole-
•Zero Image 200 - 6x6 medium format (120) pinhole camera
•Blind Wino Pinhole Cam 330 - 6x6 medium format pinhole camera
•Blind Wino Pinhole Cam 770 - 6x18 medium format pinhole camera

digital cameras
•Canon EOS Rebel T1i (aka 500D), 50mm f1.4, 18-55mm IS kit lens, 55-150mm IS
•Pentax *istDS 6mp dslr, various lenses
•Canon Powershot SD500 7mp digital point & shoot
•Epson RD-1s - 6mp digital rangefinder (borrowed)
•Motorola Droid using Vignette for Android
•Samsung Omnia - 5mp camera phone (retired)
•Palm Treo 700w - 1mp camera phone (retired)