Our photo challenge was “Summer.” Luckily I was in Jersey with a pool so I got some easy shots.
With the advances in digital photography and the cost of high quality cameras so low, everyone has become a photographer. However, few realize what it’s like to shoot with film and fewer still, to shoot with actual black and white film.
The development process was the best part because you didn’t get to see your photos until you hung up your role of film on the drying line. Often times, you’d forget you even took some of your shots and be pleasantly surprised. There was no looking at your LCD screen after every shot, there was no deleting bad pics so that you could shoot more on your already full memory card. Different films yielded different colors, grain and style, which can now be duplicated in a computer, but it’ll never be the same. This week’s photo challenge was an attempt to force everyone to think about shooting for a purpose rather than for an edit in Photoshop later.
Disrepair
Branches
Yoga
Sam and I started a photo project. It’s pretty simple: a theme and a set of photos (3-5) taken that week. This week’s theme was “After Hours.”
I always take photos, but rarely do I have time to post them. Since I have peer pressure now, it pushes me to go out, take some more photos with some thought behind it and finally post them.
Here’s Sam’s After Hours post.
A Tree Grows Through It
Night Frame
Light Streaks on Fairfax
Fairfax at Night
A Sleeping Petunia
Photos from our visit to Monaco and one photo from the skiing we did.
Phantom of Monte Carlo – 1/160 sec @ F/5.6
Sunny Side Down - 1/800 sec @ F/7.1
Monte Carlo Bay - 1/2 sec @ F/5.0
This week was a little busy, so out of the photos that I did get processed, here are two. Enjoy:
Lake of Clouds – Taken on our ski trip to Austria. This was over 1 800 meters (~5 900 feet) above the sea.
Straight Down – The edge of the ski resort, literally.
