Category Archives: Zen Garage

Some photographers that use digital cameras whine when they have to go through 300 shots from a shoot. I mean seriously? What were you doing? Simply hoping that at least some of the 300 shots were going to be OK?

With film you’ve got to make every shot count and that means framing well, and often times making the decision to not hit that shutter button. I once overheard Nick suggest to another photographer to “pretend” that he had a roll of film in his camera, and perhaps try to take less, but more considered shots. I thought this was great advice!

On topic; our Melbourne based Photographer Curt Graham chose to use his Fuji GW690 III with 120 film which has only 8 shots per roll.

Check out his awesome photo feature on ZEN Blog: https://www.zengarage.com.au/fuji-gw690-iii-first-rolls-120-film/

June’s End Of Marrickville Meet was awesome. Bit bitter sweet for me as it was such a great day, but also so sad that we have to give up the space (government have bought the block and making apartments).

Whilst I usually bring a camera to EOMM’s, and in the late 90’s my sole job at EOMM was to take a photo of every single car that rocks up to post on JDMST forums, I get so deep into conversations at meets that I often come away without taking a single shot, so this time I thought I’d task Gina with covering the meet for me.

Gina’s been finding her ZEN in a LOT of things lately; piano, cycling, yoga, and now photography! Whilst she usually shoots with a 35mm lens I threw a spanner in the works by forcing her to shoot with my Sony FE 85mm F1.8 lens.

Here are the results. I think she smashed it!