Photographs by Roman Alexander Vargas

Mt. Baldy Adventure/Disaster - February 5, 2012

Yesterday Savannah, Tee, Heather, and I drove up to Mt. Baldy from my house to shoot for Imaging 3. We thought the only negative of it all was that we would be freezing our asses off but no, we were wrong. Heather shot with the Hasselblad Leaf Back first and then we packed up and drove a little farther up. I saw a spot I wanted to photograph so we stopped the car and took all the equipment out again. As soon as we set everything up the camera would not work. It constantly kept making this irritating “happy” beep noise. It was about 30-ishº outside so we thought maybe the camera and my laptop were too cold. Frustrated, we brought all the equipment back in my car and turned on the heat. We decided we should just shoot from inside the car. We drove down and stopped at a spot. We finally got the camera to work but it ended up being the little sync chord the entire time. It was janky and hanging, literally, by its little wires. Whenever we would shoot with it, Capture One would transfer the files as a fucked up looking image. For example:
As you can imagine we wanted nothing more than to toss the camera into the river down below, but instead we just shot until we got something clear. As soon as we got a good one, we just turned the camera around and shot in the other direction. When we finished I was so stressed out. I just wanted to get the fuck out of the cold and off the mountain. I think I was really quiet driving down. Mostly because I didn’t want to drive off a cliff, so I was focused on driving haha.

THAT’S WHY I SHOOT FILM Y’ALL.

Anyway, here are some little snapshots I took before hell ruined our morning.


 



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