This blog entry amends “My Image Coding System”.
Cropped Naming (Multiple Orientations of Same Crop): DSC_9999-8×10L.jpg or DSC_9999-8x10P.jpg
Due to a client specifically requesting 8×10 format, I have found myself in a situation where I will attempt crops multiple ways, since the low ratio 4:5 lends itself to taking things either direction, compared to something like 2:3 where there is often only one “right” way to show an image.
Spider lilies are really neat looking, especially close up. I haven’t done many photos lately, so I’m looking for subjects to get me back started.
It has been almost a year since I started project 365, but unfortunately, I abandoned it around day 120. Now that it is coming back around to that time of year again, I’m considering trying again. I have been pretty lame at the whole photo thing lately, not really doing any for fun, just when they were needed. I have too many lenses and too much photo equipment to be this lame. I don’t know when I would want to resume the project, but it would seem almost appropriate somehow to start over on the day I started the initial attempt. This will give me about three weeks from this point to get back in the habit of doing a photo each and every day. I know some days I am less inspired than others, or some days I am inspired differently. I am going to consider carefully my themes and how I want to go about this. I do know for certain that I liked the idea of doing the notebook, both physical and electronic. No more sticky sheets and printed labels though, I will be printing my photos for the project myself and trying to update the notebook about once per week (last time I did a month, that was painful).
I would on this attempt appreciate any peer support I can get. If anyone wants to join me and try to do the project with me, it starts on September 25th. Let me know if you want to join me and I’ll set up a site for multiple people on the same project. BTW, I don’t care if I don’t know you, or if I know you and haven’t spoken to you in years, if you want to attempt to take a photograph every day for a full year, I want to hear from you.
I am seriously liking my new 60mm Macro lens. My only complaint so far is that I had to get way too close at 60mm to this creature to get this shot.
I have just done something that I don’t know if it is silly or not. I have just purchased a Nikon AF-S 60mm f/2.8 lens. The lens is intended for macro. Until now all of my macro shots have been done with my standard lenses using a close-up/macro conversion kit. Now I will have native macro in this lens. I can also go to the full range, going to infinity as well, but its all in one little lens. 60mm is hardly a normal focal length for me, but I assume I will adapt well to it. I haven’t been doing a lot of macro lately because of the difficulty with using the filters with the lenses (picking the right diopter, humidity causing them to fog, etc). I am hoping this will renew my interest in the topic and allow me to explore it further.
I will return to the world of the detailed and tiny, and perhaps remind myself how to actually manually focus (since I am too wobbly for AF to matter at that size). This is the lens that I have been considered for a while now and I finally just decided to crack and get it, especially since yesterday I really wanted it in my aunt’s yard. Every decent flower photo of mine, macro or not, has been taken in her yard.
Tuesday I guess I will get the chance to see if I still enjoy macro as much as I think I do. Might just have to grab Chris’ SB-900 and see what the two do together 
This roll is certainly more fetish inspired, but I tried to work with aesthetics while doing so.
I have developed my 4th roll of film, but I have made a slight change in one aspect of the process, I have switched to Kodak’s D-76 developer from the generic Adorama developer. This developer takes longer to work (meaning also its less harsh and allows for more flexibility). From analyzing the negatives this time I feel like things are more evenly developed, there are no strange spots on the film and in general the contrast of the images is more pleasing. This certainly inspires me to continue shooting on film, at least in part. That being said, I reloaded my camera with Kodak Plus-X 125 film this time, not Neopan 400, so I am shaking things up a bit there as well.
My third roll of film. These shots are just as haphazard as before, but I let myself go a little more wild and actually do more subjects that interest me. The scanning process didn’t go too well for this roll and some other factors seem to have made the grain pretty intense. None of these have been retouched or edited yet, so there is still hope for them. Obviously there was some fetish influence on some of these images as well.
This is the 2nd roll. Nothing fancy here, just playing around and learning the camera and film in general.
First roll of shots. I’m going backward and catching up to current on my rolls of film.
