{"id":392,"date":"2007-08-16T13:01:37","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T05:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/2007\/08\/16\/first-photos-from-my-yashica-gsn\/"},"modified":"2007-12-17T13:54:26","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T05:54:26","slug":"first-photos-from-my-yashica-gsn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/2007\/08\/16\/first-photos-from-my-yashica-gsn\/","title":{"rendered":"First Photos from my Yashica GSN"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, so I’ve got the first two rolls of film from my Yashica GSN.<\/p>\n

I am pleased. The GSN was fixed nicely. No light leaks. And I notice from the shots during sunset it tends to make the light look redder than it actually was. Sweet.<\/p>\n

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The first roll, I didn’t wind up properly and accidentally exposed some shots from my Pulau Sibu trip<\/a>, but many made it and have been uploaded to my gallery<\/a> of the trip. Also played with rendering some of the colour shots in black and white.<\/p>\n

Also took some shots of Sumo<\/a>. But when it comes to animals, shooting on film can become a very costly affair. Still, again, I got some fantastic light of him sitting in the sunset. Again, these shots are in my gallery of animals and plants.<\/p>\n

Here are the others. Enjoy.<\/p>\n

\"Sumo<\/a><\/p>\n

Sumo shows his best side under a street lamp. Superia 400. Yashica GSN. 45mm 1.7. It was underexposed, on close inspection, Sumo is slightly blurred as he moved. I used a bit of levels to bring up the mid-tones. But that’s it.<\/p>\n

\"Overcast<\/a><\/p>\n

Typical shot at Lower Pierce Reservoir. Superia 400. Taken around 4:30pm. I’m really impressed with the shadow details under the bridge. There was strong sunlight coming from the right and the day was overcast. A tough shot with the harsh light.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

What I quite enjoy with this camera, even without any filter, there’s a bit of vignetting around the corners. I like that bit of imperfection. People are always talking about vignetting like it’s a bad thing.<\/p>\n

\"Shade\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I really liked this scene when I shot it. The sun is getting lower but the photo gave a much redder hue than in actuality. I liked the shadow of the tree and then the other forms of shade one can get from the sun – from the physical tree and then under those man-made shelter. It’s such a perfect shadow.<\/p>\n

Pity the imperfect shot. Would it have been better from a high angle? I might have been part of the shadow then. I still like it though.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

I took these two shots one after the other. I was looking at the light and the shadows of the path. I couldn’t quite decide which was a better orientation then. Now, looking at it I prefer the horizontal one. What do you think?<\/p>\n

\"Sunset<\/a><\/p>\n

I used the tree to hide the actual sun and then did a quick dodge of the foreground on the computer. I think it worked out pretty well.<\/p>\n

\"Relax\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I think this was a lucky shot. I was playing “Fetch” with Sumo down the hill and saw this couple sitting on the bench looking at the sunset. It is heavily cropped because I was in such a hurry I didn’t straighten the horizon before pressing the shutter. Still, I think it’s very nice. I call this shot “Relax”.<\/p>\n

\"Avoid\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Finally, my attempt at zone focusing. The method is to use depth of field, estimate a distance and get the picture in focus without looking at the viewfinder. This was shot at waist level. A lot of my shots in this roll used zone focusing as well and I only looked the the viewfinder to do composition. I find it especially useful when shooting shots of Sumo as he’s always running around.<\/p>\n

Okay, that’s it! The rest of the film pictures are in the abovementioned galleries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, so I’ve got the first two rolls of film from my Yashica GSN. I am pleased. The GSN was fixed nicely. No light leaks. And I notice from the shots during sunset it tends to make the light look redder than it actually was. Sweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,46,51,57,48,36,29,47,50,56],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joanneteo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}