After A few sessions testing with NikonosV on dry land it was time to water test the camera . The light was as dull as dishwater but the waves were ok and my son Oliver came along with me for the ride . I love St ives but we only go there in the winter , its just a nightmare in high season
This was my second roll of to film , well 3rd actually . I have had a number of school boy errors and mistakes on the journey back into 35 mm surf photography . My previous roll of film had not loaded properly and I found that I had zero photos from a couple of sessions . I also accidentally opened the camera thinking I had rewound the film on one roll and destroyed 6 images
Ilford HP5 400 pushed one stop to ISO 800 . Apeture around f11 .
I love the grainy nature of the photos . Zone focusing is reasonably easy provided you dont start to open up the aperture on the lens .
This is probably my favourite from this session , thanks to the light leak and also the fact that its my son in the photo
Oliver doesn't surf so often these days and despite everything he says , he's still a great surfer
Dan ( Mole ) Joel swam over for a chat
No shame in a lot of grain