Spent some more time in the dugout today. I could do this every game for a season and still feel like there was more to photograph. If someone were to hire me to spend a season photographing stuff like this, I’d be one happy bearded photographer. On a side note, big congrats to the IPFW Baseball team today, a big win over NDSU after dropping a few games to them earlier this weekend. By the way, I noticed for the first time today that the balls that are used have “Extra Innings Technology”…anyone care to take a stab at what in the world that means? Seems like that would be the kind of technology you wouldn’t want in a baseball!

The baseball season is winding down, and today it was in the form of a bitterly cold and insanely windy day. Today was a doubleheader against North Dakota State University, and so game one was spent shooting the massive amounts of action photos that is a baseball game. Everything runs together at that point. Around inning 2 of game 2, I asked my boss if it was alright to just shoot some detail art for the media guide and stuff like that, which he was fine with. The 5 innings I spent shooting details and personal moments really lit my fire for making photographs again, just felt like everything was with new eyes. So here’s some photographs I made this afternoon.

For part 5 we’ll go back to the beginning with some more images from the good ‘ol Diana 35mm toy camera! I finally invested in the Lomo DigitaLIZA film holders, any film shooters out there that scan, I’m really digging these film holders. Way easier to load and work with than the ones that came with my Epson scanner. And they don’t crop the sprocket holes on 35mm, which is neat (but the 120 holder crops the film information, that was a bummer).

Part four of my adventures into film photography is a camera that I find to be nothing short of awesome. I’ll digress into a side story for a minute. My grandfather was an avid amateur photographer, and pretty much every photo he’s a subject in, he’s holding a camera. I’m guessing this mindset was passed on to me. He was an infantryman in Germany during World War 1, and when he came home he brought with him a new camera. An Agfa Billy Record 8.8. An old bellows camera (my old history of photography professor Bill Nichols gave the insight that it was most likely made before 1939, since Germany converted available factories into war material production plants), and this camera is incredible. Bellows are in amazing shape, and it snaps 6x9cm negatives onto rolls of 120 film. We’re talking 2-3 times the size of a 35mm negative. The detail out of this camera is remarkable, every roll has been a joy to shoot and process.

This is what happens when you forget to advance the film! I still really like this image though.

It’s always great to see old friends, and tonight Rodeo Ruby Love kicked off their spring tour with style in Fort Wayne, Indiana at The Brass Rail. Fantastic show as always, those boys rarely disappoint! Zach and Kurt, super great to see you dudes! Best of luck on the rest of your tour!

UPDATE – 4/23/12 – Finally got a roll back from the Minolta. Here’s a 35mm frame!

Hey friends, it’s been a minute since I’ve updated this! The start of baseball and softball season is always hectic, especially when you add in the fact that volleyball and tennis are still in full swing (cheesy pun intended). So here’s a few images from the past couple weeks to get everyone up to speed.