photography

After shooting a roll of color film, it seems to me that it’s great for making pretty pictures, but those pretty pictures don’t really say anything. Sorta the idea that Ted Grant gets at about portraits:

“When you photograph people in color, you are photographing their clothes. When you photograph them in B&W, you photograph their souls. ”

Regardless, I’ve got a lot of work to do before I am someone to opine one way or the other about what different photo mediums are good for what all. This is nice, because “work” means taking more pictures :).

All were shot with (again, grand thanks to my pops for letting me borrow his camera!) a Nikon Nikkormat through a Nikkor 50mm f1.4; the film is Kodak Ektar 100, rated at 100. Kenmore Camera did the developing, and I used an older/cheaper Canon flatbed scanner to scan the negatives (less $$ than having it shop-done, but my word it took a lot of time. I’m going to start shopping for a good negative scanner soon).

(I forgot to keep track of exposure # when I scanned them, hence the “scan #” labeling. Smooth move David, smooth move.)

Here are seven of them:

scan #10
scan #12
scan #16
scan #19
scan #23
scan #27
scan #33
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Edit:
So…somehow wordpress (naturally I blame it on them. Human error? Nah, couldn’t be that) ate this post, so here’s what I recall to be the four shots I posted.
6/24/10 DP

#11
#14

#3
#22
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“The photographer first sees and feels a moment in time and life, then quietly tries to draw it from the world around it.”

It was more humbling than I thought it’d be, which is (hard to admit) a good thing.

Today I picked up my first two rolls of developed film. Although the lab did a great job, I’d like to develop my own film now. UW Photography darkroom, lets you and I become friends.

Part of me feels that I shouldn’t ever post only one or a few photos, as a musician may want an album to be kept whole. Being picky about that is something I’ve got to earn; I’ll wait till I’m better at photography to place/show each roll of film only whole.

The first roll is Ilford HP5+; the second is Kodak Tri-X 400. All were shot through a great 50mm f1.4 with a Nikkormat, both on borrow from my Dad (thanks pops!).

I’m not at all well versed in b&w filmstuffs, but I think I like the tones of the Ilford film.

Without further ado, here are a few that’re alright.

Roll 1, #6
Roll 1, #8
Roll 1, #13
Roll 2, #23
Roll 2, #18
Roll 2, #24