One toe at a time

I did some street photography yesterday. It was rather late though, and the light was dark and falling quickly. I am excited to get them developed, however, and see if I can find anything I like as it was fun. I also picked up some fine grain, low speed film today for when I am out shooting on a tripod with a cable release. I've tried the film before, but never when I knew what I was doing (not that I necessarily do now) and not when I felt I could utilize the added resolution (maybe I WILL blow one up to 30x40, gosh).

But the images! Here are some images I finally scanned from the period of time where I was still shooting film but had no scanner. They were taken from a car window and for the sake of the title of this post, I will consider them my first step towards street photography. I know I shot them with my dad's Nikon FM on Kodak Ektar and since I've scanned them with my new scanner and software that allows for film profiles, the colors should be good... Except the company doesn't have a profile for this type of film yet...

Sometimes Digital Just Wins

For instance, take today. I've begun working for the school newspaper and today went out to take photos for three assignments at 5 locations. Indoors, outdoors, outdoors, outdoors, and indoors. One camera, 4 lenses, 0 rolls of film. White balance, ISO, adjusted for each place and edited once I returned home. Definitely gives digital an advantage. But I'm not that good at shooting sports indoors (yet, hopefully) so today when I shot the Gonzaga Tennis team indoors, I may have gone overboard. I shot 680 images in an hour (averaging over 10 a minute). Do you see the advantage yet? Also, with my camera set to take the second to largest file size, I can shoot 8 frames a second almost indefinitely (hence, 680 images).

So, in conclusion, please enjoy some of the photos I took while camping last Fall on film!