Mamiya 7 blog

some mamiya 7 portraits

mt baldy, January 2018. 

photos comes pre window mounted, ready for 16x20 frame. 

a few black and white photos i processed, this was from about five or six years ago. 

more prints went up for sale. if you need some fine art prints of the sierras check them out here http://millanphoto.bigcartel.com/

First prints from various camping trips in 2016. This is the start of my camping series or mamiya 7 first year photos series. Limited run prints are starting to go on sale, http://millanphoto.bigcartel.com/

Perfect transition to the only real project I started this year, other than bringing my camera camping, was documenting my dad. First, the camera is super quite with the leaf shutter, I can take a few photos of my dad and his kids without them even noticing. Second, the quality is really good, and I don’t mean the instagram or tumblr quality I mean the prints and scans are really good. I haven’t been able to print to the potential of the negatives but I have done some 8x10 test prints and the quality is really good. Starting the project with my dad is one positive of film and the new camera for sure. I wrote about some of it on a old post, its helping me connect with him and getting me back into documentary style photography. Documentary is for sure where I started, doing more of it brings me back to the basics. It also contrast the fashion work I do where the goal is always working to make people or everything look good, when I do documentary stuff its just about what it see and based on instincts.

a few portraits with the mamiya 7 on portra 400.

mamiya 7 on portra 400. still building photos of my dad.

my mom spent a night at the hospital. from like a month ago. 

start of my dad series. so my plan for this project is to shoot him until he is dead, which could be soon or in a bunch of years. i have a disconnect with my dad an family from a divorce a long time ago. so trying to discover my father again through the photos is part of the purpose of the project for now. my plan is to bring my camera every time i go to his house and take a few shots until he lets his guard down. then i want to shoot more meaningful portraits not just these candid type. he is paralyzed on some of the right side of his body which makes him sub conscious about some of his actions when i got my camera out. but, that makes it more challenging for me and he cant get mad at me anyways, he is still my dad.  

on a break.

black and white edit. mineral king. 

mineral king still. still a few more 120 rolls to be scanned. 

me with portra 400 on mamiya 7 and my mom with ektar on canon ae1  in the garage. i had to color correct the ektar with my lights.