Springtime With the Twin-Lens

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VIDEO DESCRIPTION
It’s springtime, baby. The bees are buzzin’ all up in my orange blossoms and I think one of ‘em flew in my bonnet, because I got a hankerin’ to get out in this beautiful weather to snap some photos. There’s a specific 6x17 shot I’ve been wanting to take for quite some time in Garden Grove, but first I think I’ll dust off the Mamiya C220 to shoot some 6x6 square format.

So with my TLR by my side, I took a little stroll through Old Town Orange (in Orange County, California of course) to expose a few rolls of Kodak Portra pushed 1 stop to get that tasty contrast. You see, I wanted to create a look a little bit like those old citrus ads. You know the ones I mean? A hand-painted old-timey Sunkist ad telling you to buy more Orange County oranges. One of those.

I’m not really the “photowalk” type, but maybe I will be from now on because I got some photos I actually quite like on this outing. And man, oh, man do I love using that Mamiya. There’s something special about shooting square format and there’s really nothing quite like using a twin-lens camera. Even if I hadn’t gotten a single good exposure, I would have been happy just to take the C220 for a walk.

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