This weeks roll is Kodak HD 400. I found it online in a lot of 5 rolls from a second hand website. I don’t believe it was out of date, and the owner claimed that the film had been kept in a cool place while he had it. So I did some research and found a really helpful article from Lomogrpahy who offered great insight to the film. The author seemed to think the film was all around solid and relatively cheap and accessible, so I was excited to give it a shot.
While I was shooting this roll, I visited my home town, Brunswick and spent a whole day on the neighboring Jekyll Island.
This was the first shot of my roll. I was walking down a dirt road and came across this water treatment area for the island. I was facing the sun, so it seemed to really light up the shot in a warm way.
This was taken at Driftwood Beach, which, if you haven’t been, is worth a visit. The day at this point started to become partly cloudy. The detail in the variety of color feels very true to the scene as I remember it.
After I visited Driftwood, I walked down the whole eastern side of the island and saw tons of things. One of which was this make shift wall a passerby left to fight the tide. At this point the sun was beginning to lower on the horizon and the was starting to become overcast. The blues and greys of this picture are really lovely to me.
This was the last picture of my roll and it’s probably my favorite. The smoothness of the greys and blues are some of my favorites I have seen of any film. It almost feels like a painting.
In closing. I certainly loved this film. It was crazy cheap, and seems to be consistently cheap, even if bought from a shop. I think the film seems to have this sort of hazy quality, that makes everything feel older than it is, which I certainly like.
Life on 35mm 