Negative Positives Film Photography Podcast

This week we welcome our guest Angela Solis (www.derpinsel.com, twitter derpinsel, IG thisisgela_s, YouTube camerajin)!  Topics include the importance of family photos, her move to Canada from the Philippines, joining a photo club, lomography, her first photo exhibit, shooting during the pandemic, a teaser for the upcoming Negative Positives 80's Cheesy Filter Challenge, Angela's camera collection and being married to another photography camera nerd, favorite cameras, the Konica aa35, printing services, travel photography, square format vs. rectangular format, photo gifts, film fridges, Angela's favorite and most photogenic places she's traveled to for photography, the twitter film photography community, favorite films, the Nikon museum in Japan, Havana, and cross processing slide film!

A Gutterman family solo show!  Mike is joined by his wife, Manette (IG justmanette) to help out and interviews his sons, Gibson and Grant (check out Grant's music at www.fanlink.to/garquo ) about their first time shooting and developing film.  Manette answers some more questions from the Negative Positives Facebook group, we answer emails from Bill Donovan about Hasselblad TLR's, John Money (IG johntmoney) who has a nice note about the podcast, Nigel Cliff (IG wordsleyboy) about gifts in the mail, and Mike Kukavica (IG drunk_darkroom) about flash photography tips.  Next, we have a call in camera reviews from Anthony Fisk (IG tehmonolith) for the Sokol 2 and Nigel Cliff (IG wordsleyboy) for the Chinon CE4S.  Finally, Mike gives shout outs to David Utterson (IG patioutterson) for a cool salt print, Kevin Lane of the Uncle Jonesy's Cameras Podcast (IG kevinlane, IG ujcpodcast) for a print and APS camera, and Ben Mills (IG hipshootfilm, www.hipshootfilm.com) for volume 2 of his awesome zine series called "4 Stops".  Lastly a public service announcement from Jody Andrasi and listener music from Tim Allen (IG timbuk2017) with a track called "Day N Night".

This week we welcome as our guest, Sam Warner (IG unrecoveringphotographyaddict, www.theunrecoveringphotographyaddict.com).  We talk about what got Sam into film photography, shooting during the Corona Virus, Sam's first zine "Finding the Grain", street photography, Clyde Butcher, camera choice for an apocalypse, half frame photography, photo walks, being Santa Claus, his film camera collection, taking film photography classes, Sam's blog, shooting flash photography, and his favorite films!

A Mike solo show with a special open from Robert Lainez's (IG rlainez) son, Harrison Lainez!  Also, talk about gifts received in the mail, including a print from Mike Kukavica (IG drunk_darkroom), a zine from Bob St-Cyr (http://stcyrphoto.blogspot.com, IG foto.bob), prints from Dave Mihaly (IG theoldcameraguy, YouTube theoldcameraguy) and a camera sticker zine from Ethan Moses (www.cameradactyl.com, IG cameradactyl) of the Homemade Camera Podcast.  A shout out to Sherry Christensen (IG embrace_the_grain, IG ruralrouteonefilm) about her Embrace the Grain Podcast for having me on as a guest for episode 35.  Next, a call in camera review for the Mamiya RB67 from Jack Allan (www.jack-allan.com, IG jack.w.allan).  Then we have a call in film review from Bill Smith (IG wbsmith200, IG classiccamerarevival) of the Classic Camera Revival Podcast about Ultrafine Extreme 400 film.  Finally, a discussion of the 6 stages of the creative process and how we should maybe embrace our insecurities in our art.  Lastly, a listener music track from Carsten "Doc" Deutschmann called "Monsterious Walk" by Bleekman's Planet!

This week we welcome Jess Hobbs  (IG jesshobbsphoto, YouTube Jess Hobbs) who is Jess Sea on FB.  Jess talks about how she got into photography, her Youtube channel, her involvement in Em's from Emulsive mentorship program and the FP4 Party, her hometown series, Polaroid week plans and the sunglasses Polaroid technique, her farming, shooting on private property, seeing in color vs. black and white, film choices, shooting in a zombie apocalypse, photography in rural areas, her inspirations, the YouTube film community, and tips for shooting music festivals. All donations to the www.ko-fi.com/negativepositives account in March will go to support Roxanna Angles student film project!

A Mike solo show!  Thoughts and info on the 300th episode giveaway after the dust has settled. Mike receives a postcard dark room print from Toni Skokovic (IG junctionrails), some HP prints from Jim Graves (IG _jimgraves), emails from Allison Capece, Mike Kukavica (www.kukavica.com, IG drunk_darkroom) and a call-in camera review from Dean Lastoria for the Horseman VH-R.  Next, a shout out to Eric O'Hara (IG 4xfourtography) for an awesome trade for a Pentax 50mm f1.4 Takumar Spotmatic Lens, and a call-in camera review from Ian Fleming (IG ifleming) for the Nikon L35 AF.  Finally, Mike talks about his first experience of seeing low light photography on a friend's Apple Iphone 11 and inserts a music track from Jody Andrasi (IG jodyfarms) from his band Mansbridge (available on bandcamp, spotify, and iTunes) called "Single-Lens Reflux"!

A Mike solo show!  Thoughts and info on the 300th episode giveaway.  Mike receives a postcard darkroom print from Toni Skokovic (IG junctionrails), some HP prints from Jim Graves (IG _jimgraves), emails from Allison Capece, Mike Kukavica (www.kukavica.com, IG drunk_darkroom) and a call in camera review from Dean Lastoria for the Horseman VH-R.  Next, a shout out to Eric O'Hara (IG 4xfourtography) for an awesome trade for a Pentax Spotmatic lens, and a call in camera review from Ian Fleming (IG ifleming) for the Nikon L35 AF.  Finally, Mike talks about his first experience of seeing low light photography on a friend's Apple Iphone 11 and a music track from Jody Andrasi from his band Mansbridge (available on bandcamp, spotify, and Itunes) called "Single-Lens Reflex".

The Negative Positives 300th episode Prize-a-palooza giveaway love-a-thon sweepstakes!  Huge thanks to this community for the generosity to this effort,  we give over 70 prizes away to listeners of the podcast, mostly from listeners who want to give to other listeners!  Huge thanks to all the fine people that donated, people who sent call ins, and those that sent nice messages about the show.  Finally,  the tradition continues.... Andre gets drunk enough to go on a couple of love rants at the end of the episode!  We wouldn't have it any other way!

A Mike solo show with an update on round table episodes, a call in from Jonathan Camp about episode 298, an email from Christopher Smith (IG christophersmithphotography) about film podcasts, and more entries and prizes donated by listeners for the 300th episode prize-a-palooza giveaway love fest.  Next, some mail Mike received from Andrew Bartram (IG warboyssnapper, IG warboyssnapper_pinholes, IG largeformatphotographypodcast) of the Large Format Photography Podcast and the Lensless Podcast, Christiaan Hillen (IG analogwilderness), and Angela Solis (www.derpinsel.com, IG thisisgela_s).  Also, we have call in camera reviews from Bill Smith (IG wbsmith200, IG classiccamerarevival) of the Classic Camera Revival Podcast about the Canon EF, and Ian Christie (IG the_mr_christie) about the Kodak No. 2 Folding Brownie Model A camera.  Finally, Mike talks about the new deal with Kodak and 5 major motion picture studios and how that helps us, and thanks Ko-Fi donors!

Mike, Andre, and Roxanna welcome to the show Mr. Mike Caputo (IG aloha_bigmike, Flickr aloha_bigmike, FB Mike Caputo), film photographer, public darkroom owner, firefighter, actor?, and king of dad jokes!  We talk about his photography, him starting a public darkroom in Hawaii, shooting color and black and white film in Hawaii, darkroom printing, and the economics of film photography in his area of the world.

A super long Mike solo show with emails from Robert Jamieson (IG jamrobert) and Ian Christie (IG the_mr_christie) and reading of the 300th episode Mega Prizapalooza Love Fest giveaway entries as well as announcing listener donations to other listeners in the contest.  Also, a segment recorded with Neil Piper of the Soot and Whitewash podcast (IG neil_piper, IG sootandwhitewash, IG projectboxcamera, FB Group 126 Shooters) to catch up with him after obtaining his master's degree in photography and new projects he has started.  Finally, a film love package Mike received from Anthony Joseph Colvin, and thanks to the people that voted for him and this podcast in the Sunny 16 2019 Sunnies Awards.  Finally, Mike talks about his reasons for starting a Ko-Fi donation page for the podcast and thanks the amazing community for helping him out with equipment issues.  This community is amazing and huge thanks to everyone that donated funds to make the production of this podcast run a bit smoother.  

Mike, Andre, and Roxanna welcome John Gleason, Jr. (IG probusphotos, Flickr probusphotos, FB page probus photos, FB group Louisville Worldwide Pinhole Day) on the podcast!  We concentrate on pinhole photography, the process, getting started in pinhole, pinhole cameras and film choices, metering for pinhole, and John's plans for Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day in Louisville, KY this April.  We also address a call in from Andrew Reynolds (IG randrewreynolds) about TLR shooting.  Spoiler alert:  there is also a classic Negative Positives restroom incident in this episode!

A Mike Solo show with tons of listener interaction!  Neil Piper (IG neil_piper, IG sootandwhitewash, IG projectboxcamera, FB Group Project Box Camera) of the "Soot and Whitewash Podcast" starts a box camera project, Jim Graves (IG _jimgraves) sends an email review of the Ilford Simplicity Developing Kit, Ethan Moses (IG cameradactyl, IG buttergrip, www.cameradactyl.com) from the "Homemade Camera Podcast" sends a thanks and an update about his kickstarter project, Dan Novak (IG danielnovakphoto, www.danielnovakphoto.com) sends a nice message, and Sean Welch (IG seanwelchfoto) sends a message about the podcast and the recent music interludes.  Also, Mike mentions a new podcast from Mario Piper (IG mariopiper) called "Gen-X Photography Podcast" and talks about another photography podcast he's been listening to from Clay Daly (IG cwdaly, IG throughmylenswithclaydaly) called the "Through My Lens with Clay Daly Podcast".  Next, Mike reads entries to the 300th episode Mega Prize-a-palooza sweepstakes love-a-thon giveaway and also announces some prizes other listeners have volunteered to give away to other listeners!  Then, we have a Call-in from Ian Barnaby Nutt (IG barnaby_nutt, www.barnabynutt.com) from the "Viewfinder Vikings Podcast" about a photo exhibit for photographer, Pentti Sammallahti, that is currently on display in London.  Finally, we have another call-in from Jeremy Zorns about affordable but decent Vivitar and Tokina zoom lenses he recently acquired!

Mike, Andre, and Roxanna talk about the 300th episode giveaway and announce our prizes to the listeners.  We discuss our thoughts on our year in photography in 2019.  Finally, we talk about what we want to accomplish in 2020 along with a call in from Mike Williams (IG mike_on_film) about 2020 film resolutions.

Mike welcomes on Bill Manning from the "Studio C-41: 1 Hour Photo Podcast" (IG studio.c41, www.studioc41.net) to fill in as a cocoa captain for an out of town Andre Domingues!  We have as our guest, Jessica Jones (IG yessyones, www.yessyones.com)!  We talk about Polaroid and Fuji instant packfilm including subjects such as expired packfilm, image lifts and transfers, recovering the negatives, and the Polaroid 450 Land Camera.  We also have some Star Wars talk, discuss photo groups and photo walks, Jessica's Instax blob series, and Pentax and Mamiya 67 cameras with prism vs. waist level finders.  Finally, you will want to stick around till the end to hear Bill Manning's Chewbacca impression!