Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge

black and white film images of NYC

To make these images I used my manual Leica R8, 35mm camera. I used Ilford HP5 Plus film to get well-separated mid-tones for proper and detailed exposure. I was able to get fine grain where I wanted and heavy grain for certain shots. I love how dynamic film is. It's also very sensitive. I can immediately tell when a printed image was made using film -- there's such a personal quality and a certain depth you can't get elsewhere. Makes my heart happy! Some of these will be in my Etsy shop, soon. Feel free to post in the comments or DM me @ taracphoto@me.com if you have any questions, comments, etc. in the meantime!

For more photos of NYC, click here and here.  

FFF Weekend on the Sidelines, Part II

B. Hollyman Gallery

You may have seen my recent posts here or on tumblr, documenting my little weekend adventures while I sat FFF out last weekend. I love rediscovering my city, the city of Austin (Tupac, anyone?). It's been a while since I visited a gallery and, more specifically, a gallery that exhibits fine art silver gelatin prints. I'm talking about hand-printed photographs developed in a darkroom on archival paper.

It sounds ridiculous but I honestly got teary-eyed.

Austin Photographer - A Point of View

As an Austin photographer, I see alot of photography and other artwork. Not that I go to an extraordinary amount of art shows but I always see it. Art. Frankly, I see more things that I consider artful that aren't created in the usual sense of the word art like photographs, paintings and sculpture are. For example: