Last summer, I went on a walk one evening and ended up at the graveyard. The light was absolutely beautiful slanting in creating soft light and long shadows. I had my Pentax Super A and SMC Pentax A 50mm lens (produced mid 1980’s) with me. Out of my camera collection, this is still my favourite. My dad gave it to me for my 18th birthday and every time I use it I think of him, especially now that he’s gone.

Anyway, I tend to mostly shoot automatic with this camera, so I can just enjoy looking for photographs. Although it might be time to try some more experimental works, but that’s for another time. Shooting in automatic has always produced good images with this camera, no matter the lighting conditions. I also find the slit image focus aid clear and easy to work with.

In each photo I tried to capture the light and create interesting compositions by including clear fore-mid- and backgrounds. Some shots were more successful than others. I can see here and there, that I didn’t take enough time to focus or frame the composition, but I also see that there are some real treasures in there! I didn’t have to do any tweaking in Lightroom either!

I finally got around to trying out Lightroom, and I love it! And will definitely try to push the limits with this programme. That, again, is for another time though.

The film I used is 35mm LomoChrome Purple (ISO 100-400) by Lomography. I love this film! Depending of the lighting conditions all the colours shift creating these otherworldly images. The film is developed using the standard process, so no need to worry about any of that. This is definitely a film I will use again.

Enough talk now, here are my graveyard pics!

This angel, covered in moss, with a background of green leaves turned red is one of my favourite shots form the roll

In some shots I feel the light is either too soft with not enough contrast, and in others there are too much dark values making the images rather heavy.

I’m so happy the photo above worked out! I took it against the light and honestly wasn’t sure at all if anything would show up. My fear was that if the photo would be completely overexposed. Looking at it now, I could say it’s actually slightly under.

And finally, upon exiting the graveyard, there is this massive chestnut tree. It was the last frame of the roll, a good ending to this evening of wondering amongst the graves.