Jamie Orillion Photography & Design

The other day I was playing around with lights and just doing some test setups.  I decided to text Rebecca and tell her that I have taken over the kitchen and be prepared for it when she got home from work.  Needless to say you couldn’t really walk through the house because of my monstrosity of a setup in the kitchen.  When they got home I wanted to take a few family portraits from a different perspective as opposed to the ones you see everyday.  Well… Here is what I ended up with.  Enjoy!

Well… I have to be honest. Not exactly what I had hoped. I’ve gone through several rolls of film in my Leica M6 to test out different ISO qualities, BnW vs. Color, etc. I was fortunate enough to borrow some film from a buddy just to burn, but there were no guarantees on quality/age of the film. I processed the first couple of rolls and realized that the film wasn’t so great. Every image was hazy with virtually no contrasts in one roll… the other was a bit better, but still not great. At least I know the camera works ;) I did want to post one of my favorites from the “bad” roll. I was able to pull a bit back in with photoshop, but all in all… back to testing and this time with new film!

before:

I’ve been wanting to do it for some time now, but I didn’t want to end up being too lazy.  I found this work out instructional video that I think will really help!

Now that I have the new site up and running and most of the little things are taken care of I can begin to focus on the actual content of the site.  Just out of sure curiosity I’d love to hear what you would be interested in hearing, discussing, viewing, etc. here on my site.

I will obviously continue to post my same old personal stuff and my thoughts here and there on top of my random iPhone shot of my kids and what not, but I want to know what would you would like to see?  What do you want to hear?  What do you want to discuss?  I’m open to suggestions and I’m hoping to get them!  I don’t have all the answers, but I’d love to get some discussions going.  Topics can be anything from photography, design, software, ideas, technology, technique, locations, discussion, personal, equipment, behind the scenes, involvement and so on!

Let’s hear it!