Some Random Dude

This photo was the first picture I took where I actually felt comfortable taking a person’s picture with their consent. I know, that does not seem like a very big deal, but it was huge for me. I shot this in color slide film and converted it to black and white with Photoshop. I wish there was a black and white slide film on the market, but no such thing exists. I liked the process and results so much that I am mulling a permanent change in that direction.

Johannes Jarolim’s Wordpress photoblog plugin is now working absolutely beautiful over at 36clicks and so I will most likely start taking the images straight from my photoblog in order to have more integration and cooperation between both of my blogs. At this point, I have done a horrendous job of integrating the two blogs to work together - and it shows in the lack of subscriptions. Still, it is coming together slowly.

After some significant talking and planning, we picked up our first digital SLR. My wife wanted to have the chance to experiment without the expense that film can bring. Considering the cost of high quality film added to the price of developing, being “trigger happy” with the camera can begin to rack up money. Ironically, our desire for a digital SLR was for both of to have a set of training wheels for our film cameras. If we wanted to experiment with a new type of shot, we could try shooting it with the digital and then go back for the final shot with our film cameras. Sure, there are going to be differences, but the ability for a dry-run with even remotely similar results is priceless.
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