Several of you have commented on the antique cameras you’ve seen in some of our photos. We thought you might enjoy seeing the pictures we’ve taken with those cameras, in glorious black-and-white.
Also, some we’ve shot with modern-day equipment, but still eschewing color for a classical look.
Eat your heart out, Ansel Adams.
B&W photos just have a total different feel about them, even when you see the exact same photo in color. It can give a bit of dated or muted look,less warmth and feel but the one thing Kim and I feel, and these were no exception we like the little bit of eroticism that B&W adds to a photo. Nicely done ladies, your work continues to inspire. 🙂
Great images with the old cameras! Thank you.
Great motives too.
You girls have a great photographer. I really like the 3rd photo from the top. The girl that giving the stare. These b&w images give your blog a different look and feel when reading. What antique camera was used to take these photos?
Exquisite.
These Pictures are amazing. Great job by the photographer, This blog is awesome.:P
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
Timeless! My favorite session yet of the only blog that I actually anticipate. The Appreciation Society inspires and romannces me. They strike a nice balance of female form and intelectual activism. Kudos to the photographer for being able to stay “focused”…..deerrrrrr
Thank you.
Excellent photos! I’m a big fan of B&W, and these are wonderful shots. I like the third photo from the top, too. Her eyes are mesmerizing.
AA?
Antique? I’d say proper. I’m thinking I see a 2.8 E Rollei, or is it later? One question I have is the film. Are you relegated to the new phoney black and white or do you do your own processing on pan x or tri x?
Here in San Jose, I’m lucky to live a few blocks from the only place in the county to do 120, but I have to buy the phoney kind B & W and can’t do slides at all.
Sorry to comment on the cameras and not the photography, but you set me off with the antique business. Even my 35mm are older than any of you women. Sorry for the ageism. I’d say Brassai is the apt comparison, not Adams at all, unless you also use a view camera on top of a very old Pontiac.
Yes you ladies do Brassai well here, but … hell would you like to recreate the famous picture of his of the couple’s dancing in the barroom? Artistically only I mean. No assumptions of one’s proclivities at all.
As for me, I idealised each and every one of you in every way.
Love all of you,
David
The photographer replies: Yes, the camera was a Rolleiflex 2.8E. And yes, she does her own processing, Tri-X film processed in Rodinal.
Lovely. What a righteous blog.
Keep them coming – black and white or color. Inspiring blog.
WOW….simply wow. These are beauty donations for the enrichment of society. Delighting the open eyes, and challenging the astigmatic, willing to look this way.
Thank you ladies.
Beautiful in color. Classic in black and white. Elegant in sepia.