Lake Bistineau Camping trip

On the first weekend of March, I went camping with my family at the amazing Lake Bistineau state park. With the water full of cypress trees. There I got to try out some film I’ve not used before including Ilford’s SFX 200. That is a black and white film with extended red range, and I messed around with long exposures and nighttime photography.

The extended red film has made me curious about infrared films. Eventually I’d like to get some infrared filters for my lenses and give it a shot. The photos look cool and you can almost see that with what I’m using above, though I have no filters, and this film doesn’t overlap into the infrared range. But it makes everything illuminate in a neat way.

And I played with long exposures at night to attempt to get shots of the stars, with some mile success. I have to follow a rule regarding exposure time as too long of an exposure can lead to stars trailing across the sky. Which can be cool, but I’m not going for that with this experiment. I used some Ilford Delta 1600 high speed film to try and capture as mush light as possible, though it is a bit grainy. I also took a shot with a roll of Cinestill 400D that I had in my 35mm camera to get a color shot of the sky and that also turned out alright.

To remedy the exposure time issue, I can get a tripod mount specifically for astrophotography and for a relatively inexpensive price. But it’s still a few hundred dollars so it’s not something I’ll buy immediately. But eventually I’ll get one and experiment with astrophotography. I’d love to shoot some Ektachrome and make some slides to project.

And some more photos that I captured on the Cinestill film.