Matt Haines Photography

Family Portrait Photography for Ventura, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles and Orange Counties.

Goodbye Darkroom.


Shot in Carpinteria, CA.

Oh this is sad.

My wife insisted we clean out the laundry room. Why is that sad? Well it’s a really big laundry room, and it has also functioned as my darkroom for the past few years. Except, well…the darkroom hasn’t gone dark very often lately. Maybe once in the last year have I actually done any ‘old school’ photographic printing, or even ‘older school’ alternative printing such as kallitypes.

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Film! Square! Medium!


It’s been awhile since I developed my own black and white film in the laundry room. I used to do it a lot more when photography was just a hobby (albeit all-consuming). But since I’ve been a professional portrait photographer, well…the fun little things like film development just fall by the wayside. I’ll usually shoot a little color film on a client shoot, but it gets developed by the lab. So I finally got around to developing some rolls I’ve had sitting for a few months.

It’s not the developing of the film that takes up so much time.

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Photo-a-Day, part 2


Skater

Skater

Here is part two of my “Photo-a-Day” week-long project.

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Photo-a-Day, Part 1


The Kiss

"The Kiss"

Based on the prophotolife.com blog entry I mentioned earlier, I managed a full week of “a photo a day”. Here’s the story, and some results.

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