Miami Beach in Black and White
PerezDesignGroup
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These are the first shots I got back from my Canon EOS 35mm Camera. It was a very fun and educational experience. 3 things I noticed right off the bat.
First...you only got 24 pics. You better think about the shot pretty hard. Then check your settings and think some more.
Second, I actually felt like a semi-professional wanna-be pro as opposed to a hobbyist. The camera just seems to give you more credibility. It also attracts a lot more attention.
Third, the smell of fresh film by your nose and the feel of the shutter are *very* addictive. I really enjoyed shooting in film.
Can't wait for the color pics to come back. I'll be heading out again later this week with B/W film and my new red filter.
The shots...(which are very poor Snapfish scans. I'll pull out better negative scans later)
First...you only got 24 pics. You better think about the shot pretty hard. Then check your settings and think some more.
Second, I actually felt like a semi-professional wanna-be pro as opposed to a hobbyist. The camera just seems to give you more credibility. It also attracts a lot more attention.
Third, the smell of fresh film by your nose and the feel of the shutter are *very* addictive. I really enjoyed shooting in film.
Can't wait for the color pics to come back. I'll be heading out again later this week with B/W film and my new red filter.
The shots...(which are very poor Snapfish scans. I'll pull out better negative scans later)
Canon Digital Rebel | Canon EOS 35mm | Yashica Electro GSN | Fed5B | Holga 35 MF
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Ha Ha,:D how well I know the feeling, even with all the advantages of digital my first love is my old ('69) Nikon Ftn, heavy as hell and completely manual, yet the very bulk feels SO right, and the distinctive clack of the shutter and mirror says "got it!" every time you take a picture, you _know_ you've taken it. the digital just says "zip" or something and that, in a sense, seems artificial since you can turn off the "sound effect". It's much the same sort of feeling I have about my motorcycles, both of which are vintage, ('73 and '78) yet they serve me well, even for every day use, (I ride WAY more than I drive my car)! Sometimes simple really is better, not that I’m against modern technology mind you as I am most definitely a technocrat, it’s just nice to “step back in time” on occasion. And I too, somehow feel more like a “real” photographer when I'm using it. Funny, I can’t really explain it,
RM
"It's better to bite the hand that feeds you, than to feed the hand that bites you" - Me
My question is.. what is a snapfish scan...
When I had my Nikon, the latest, biggest, most advanced, SOB, well, I could get all the film I wanted as the studio where my husband worked gave it away to the schools. And they gave me free printing. So I was set up for digital from the start. I would hate to go back to "counting" every shot. That is one reason I hate a tripod so much.
I had another pro type Nikon for years. I wouldn't go back, love the digital era, knew I would. But there is a nostalgia. Mine is for the smell of the darkroom. Loved that smell. My husband was a medical photographer in the Navy, he says he hated the darkrooms. The smell was the worst thing for him, and one of my fond memories.
Also, I loved "giving birth" to pictures. That was the feeling I had, actually. And I should know, got my darkroom,with my first experience in one, when I was almost 9 months pregnant with my fourth child. He now designs webs..........always was creative. Maybe it was that darkroom smell.
I can relate to the clunk. Yes, that brings back memories, too.
Enjoy your camera, use photoshop to get some contrast into the photos.
ginger
g (I really do think those photos have possibility, ask Andy or someone if they need contrast, or if it is just the lack of deep blacks. ????? I don't want to steer you wrong.)
As soon as I get the negatives, I'll scan them and pull out some better range.
Thanks again!
I know exactly what you mean. I took my new Holga on the road. Only 12 frames per roll, at medium format size. I really had to consider each shot carefully before taking it. Would that I applied the same discipline to shooting with the digital - I'd make far fewer bonehead mistakes.
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Reading the magazines from the shooting pros, present and past, I read both theories.
I am used to, even before digital, long before digital, taking different views and exposures of my subject (s), then I actually feel that some of the skill is in the editing and shot choice from what was shot.
Other people have everything set............ used to be a bigger camera, often, and it is one or two shots, max.
I shoot to warm up. Kind of like warming up in a sport, the more I continuously shoot the better my shots seem to get. I am not alone in this, we all have our different styles. I have been comfortable with mine. It is difficult to change. For many reasons: one I don't know what I am doing.
So, if restricted, by film I had to pay for, or by not having enough memory, I would definitely end up with a picture missed, maybe my best picture. Of course, I wouldn't know that, would I.
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It really bothers me that someone wouldn't take care of their lens. Ah well. Even more surprising is that the prior owner used to store the camera in a bag upright with no lens protector. I'm a noob and I even know it goes 'lens down' with the cover always on. No?
Thanks for the comments guys. Hopefully I'll be able to rescue those pics via the negatives. Glad I didn't blow more film on a bad lens.
Time to get the 50mm 1.4 Prime methinks