Colin Dullaghan's photos with the keyword: film

I love photographing my cat, but I understand it's pretty boring for her.

As a gift to my sister, I promised to photograph her son. Of the ten shots on the roll from that day, this was my favorite. A lot of credit, though, should really go to Grayson's grandma, who elicited this smile as she crouched just to my left. Baby photography is hard! Technical notes: Wanting to use natural light, I loaded a roll of Ilford Delta 3200 in the Mamiya RB67. For a narrow depth of field and flattering effect, I used a 180mm lens. Even with the fast film, I had trouble shooting above 1/30th of a second in the window light. (Another surprise was a side effect of the low-light setting: His pupils were almost completely dilated! I'm not sure why I didn't anticipate that. In a couple of the pictures, the whites of his eyes weren't visible at all, leading my wife to observe, "Um, he kind of looks like a puppet.") The biggest thing I learned from this, though, was that Ilford 3200 should really be shot at ISO 800, or so, unless you're using a special developer. I used my usual 1+100 Rodinal, and got thin negatives with tons of grain. Ah well, I kind of like the effect -- or, at least, I've convinced myself that I do. At any rate, unless I get that special developer, I now know of no way to shoot portraits in room light with an RB67. Which is kind of disappointing. The camera's so versatile, I've always told myself that there's nothing it can't do besides fit in your pocket!

I have a policy against buying cameras just to look at, and indeed I made good on my promise to actually shoot pictures with this one. But it's still awfully fun to look at.

I was determined to shoot with a Kodak No. 3A Autographic camera I found in an antique shop. It was in pretty rough condition, and I'm not sure the seller even knew how to open it! But, I figured, a dark cloth wrapped around the bellows should minimize the many light leaks, stopping the lens way down should cut down on my having to guess about focus too much, and some foam-rubber spacers should let me spool a roll of 120 film across the (enormous) film gate. I was right! Next experiment may be 4x5 ortho film -- I won't even have to cut it down; the back of this camera is *that* big.

I really can't say what happened to make this so dramatically underexposed. Other shots on the same roll came out fine. But this one was my favorite.

Stumbled across this little protected area near Broad Ripple in Indianapolis. Nice work protecting it, Indianapolis!

What's summer without a sprinkler?

In person, this white bird was striking and stood out right away. In color, less so, and in black and white I think it takes a while to spot him! Taken in front of Clyde Butcher's Big Cypress Gallery.

Some sort of way station along US 41/Tamiami Trail, Southwest Florida.

Initially shot on Fuji Velvia, and it was pretty like that too. But I think I like this better.

I shot this in color, on slide film, but wasn't in love with the results. Converting to BW gave me some nice options, though!

My daughter watches as a friend's son fishes. I think she wants to try it now.

As I set up my tripod to see if I could learn more about capturing cloudy skies with different kinds of filtration, I noticed someone else had come to this empty lot to practice driving an old Mercury around.