Hi, everyone! I'm Dean Santarinala, a 23 year old photographer from Chicago, Illinois. I have worked as a photojournalist and designer since 2006, but art has been a love of mine ever since I can remember. On my blog, I try to share the best of my personal adventures and professional work... and hope that all of you enjoy my posts!
Found this Chairman gem in my files. This is from sophomore year, I think the Chipotle had just opened and we were in Photo I. Yay for film SLRs, developer, fixer, stop baths, enlargers, and red lights. I’ve heard from everyone else that color processing is a bitch, but I’d still be interested in trying it out..
… is not an iPhone! Go buy a Hasselblad.
This morning I woke up ready for a bike ride and leisurely neighborhood shoot and much to my chagrin I found that my trusty 1D mark III was feeling quite under the weather. She’s got the dreaded “Err 99.” FUCK.
Well, I called Canon and it looks like they’ll need to take a hands-on look at her. It’ll take 2 weeks to check out and repair. SHIT. :-(
So now I’ve only got the film minolta (I found batteries for the meter! but still need to buy some film) and a 20D my buddy lent me earlier this summer, so expect the number of awesome 1.3x35mm crop /10.1 MP /10fps images to decrease dramatically in the next few weeks (although its not like I’ve been posting more than once a week this summer. Commuting consumes me). At least she will hopefully get back to me in time for my trip to New York. I’ve also started toying with the idea of trading her in for a 5D mark II once she’s fixed (which was ultimately the plan after I’m done with school). I’m not quite sure how I feel about that though.
Here is my latest obsession: a circa 1976 full-manual 35mm minolta SR-505 WITH 50mm f/1.4, 28mm f/2.8, and 200mm zoom that my mom found while cleaning out the closet. She bought it for my dad when they were still dating. It still works, except for the light meter — they stopped making that battery because it has mercury in it! This piece of family history makes me so happy.
I need to go out and buy some more film for it, I’m almost done with my first roll, but I’m sure the exposures are a bit iffy because I winged it with a roll of ASA 400 film that’s probably way past its expiration date. This will satiate my cravings for a rolleicord… for now.
Here’s a photo before church with my parents at Queen of All Saints when I went home on Friday.
I was very enticed to take pictures of the ceremony and saw a lot of really cool photo opps, but restrained myself since I didn’t wanna be a weirdo (because : (1) I didn’t ask the parish if I could do it first, and (2) I was supposed to be paying attention). There was a lady from the church with like a D40 or Rebel taking photos / pop-up flashing from 20 yards away, taunting me internally. We also left quickly right after the mass, which was sad because I wanted to take some indoor architecture photos. Another time…
Here’s some photos from the next day, outside of the Calumet Photo window, trying out a 2x teleconverter on my 70-200mm (now f/5.6 because of the light loss). I wasn’t very impressed, but I still wish I had something cheap, long, and accesible for sports.
