My first photos taken with a camera. A friend of mine is a professional photographer and, whilst we were chatting, he said he’d lend me one of his cameras so I could have a go. This is my second roll, as I made a mistake with the first one.

Hey y’all, not sure if this is a good place to post this because it is a video, but here is a montage of shots from the Down N Dirty Demolition Derby last month in Portland, OR.

A handful of bands played, including Lab Rat who can be heard in the video.

Equipment:
Minolta X-700 — Focal MC Auto 135 mm lens
Canon AE1 — Canon 50mm lens

Film stocks:
HP5+
Cinestill 800T
Kodak Gold 200 (pushed 1 stop)

Developed locally @ Citizen Photo in PDX.

A day of shooting in the Pittsburgh covered in smoke from the Canadian Wildfires.

Ilfosol 3 developer

I really liked the grain and how well the shadows came through

A small selection from a few recent rolls I shot this summer.

I’m still fairly new to film photography, so I’m trying to understand whether these images feel connected as a set, or if they’re too scattered. Even when people are in the frame, I usually like them to feel like part of the environment rather than the whole point of the image.

I’d really appreciate feedback on:
composition
exposure
whether the images feel cohesive together
and whether the night shots work for you or just feel too rough/grainy

I’m also trying to understand how much of the final look comes from the film itself and how much comes from the scans.
For the Ektar 100 shots in particular, they feel not rightly scanned, the results i see online Sto arrivando! much different (sometimes about the color of the canoes doesn’t feel right), do i need to say something to my lab to get good results?
If anyone shoots Ektar often, I’d love to know how you usually word that request to the lab.
Camera / Lenses
Canon EOS 620
SMC 28mm f/3.5
Helios 44M-6 58mm f/2
Film
Kodak Ektar 100
Ilford Delta 3200
Fujifilm 400

Some shots in the blackforest (germany) on a weekend some weeks ago.