{"id":4137,"date":"2024-07-22T17:50:38+00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T17:50:38+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/?p=4137"},"modified":"2024-07-23T08:37:54+00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T08:37:54+00:00","slug":"12-months-of-film-april-april-everlasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/2024\/07\/12-months-of-film-april-april-everlasting\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Months of film \u2013 April: April Everlasting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Of all of the possible excuses for being extremely late with writing a monthly post (it’s July, for fuck’s sake!), the “everything went well and I don’t know how to put it into words” must be the most insane one. Not that it matters one way or the other, but it’s been gnawing on my consciousness for a while, so now is a good as time as any to get it over with.
Side note: the mental search for the perfect spring-ish movie title that can also be made into a stupid pun, which I tortured myself with for days, failed spectacularly. In my defense, I’m not a cinephile, but a bookworm.<\/em> Not a particularly smart one, seeing I’ve decided to name movies in the titles of these posts<\/em> but nevermind that<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Writing about April during a heat wave in the middle of July is a surreal experience, to say the least. I can hardly remember what it felt like — the blissful sleep, the mild weather, the gentle breeze, the whole month of perfect dates, where the only thing you need is a light jacket. The queen of months. April. Perfect for Kodak Portra 160. Both are simple, with a slight pink hue, nice, and easy. Poetic. Familiar.
All of that was the reason I decided to pair the Portra with Contax 167-MT. Not as gentle as the month or the film used, but beautiful, elegant, with that perfect typography, which I love more than I should. But, mainly, it’s almost completely automatic – except for the manual focus – which was a nice change after months of shooting with fully manual cameras. Or, to put it in other words: an easy-breezy month deserves an easy-breezy camera.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The thing is, I should write about Portra now but..should I? What’s there to say that hasn’t been said already? It’s quite a famous film, loved by many and written about by many more. So loved that it borders on pretentious and over-hyped. It’s not. It truly is a great looking film. Soft and warm. Like spring. Or a cat. With that said, and by that<\/em> I mean my overly poetic description of a piece of colored plastic, here are the photos:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’d like to repeat this setting, to be honest. Maybe during autumn, in late September, the ultimate orange-coded month (April is pink, yes, and no, October is not orange, it’s brown). We’ll see. Until then, let me just say, this month was a pleasure to shoot, and a pleasure to remember.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take care, be safe, and make good choices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of all of the possible excuses for being extremely late with writing a monthly post (it’s July, for fuck’s sake!), the “everything went well and I don’t know how to put it into words” must be the most insane one. Not that it matters one …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"venue_id":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,36,18,289,318],"tags":[22,510,21,514,512],"class_list":["post-4137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-day-to-day-life","category-photos","category-shooting-film","category-twelve-months-of-film","tag-color-negative-film","tag-contax-167-mt","tag-film-photography","tag-kodak-portra","tag-kodak-portra-160"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/scan0013-e-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4137"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4169,"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/revisions\/4169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iso3200.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}