Just some shots I took with my EOS Elan film camera. I bought it because the guy was asking a reasonable price for it plus the two lenses it came with, and since I really just wanted the EF 75-300mm USM lens he had, I figured I wouldn’t bother haggling and just pick it all up as a set. Film is a bit trickier than digital, since it seems if I’m off just a bit with my aperture or shutter speed, I get a completely useless frame. It’s also a bit of a thought process because the 28-80mm lens doesn’t auto-focus correctly, so I have to manually focus, which takes time. I got these developed at Walgreens, and paid the extra 3 bucks for the CD. Not really feeling like I’ll use it too much longer, or at least not without swapping out for a lens with functional autofocus. The resulting prints are a bit of an anachronism given my being otherwise completely digital, and the associated CD is really a rip-off, as I would get better ‘digital copies’ of the prints by laying them on a desk and taking pictures of them with my T1i. That they’re scanned at 2.1 megapixels is pretty sad, really.
Resa and the boys:
This one turned out ‘old timey’ and slightly over-exposed, but still nice. Can’t really do much without my own darkroom, and I’m definitely not up for that. Especially considering I can fix even this photo with some exposure, tone, and contract corrections, and with the digital camera shooting RAW, I have even better access to digital wizardry (especially considering the massive increase in pixel density). And yes, those are horseshoes stuck in the gate in front of the house:
Now if I had been going for the ‘slightly washed out’ effect, it would have been cool, but if I was after a more ‘realistic’ vs ‘artistic’ composition, having the digital correction is a big help:
Sequoia and his cow, Roxie. She’s the mascot for Shamrock Farms Dairy where Kelly takes some of her Pima College Vet-Tech students on field trips, as well as where she will be doing some of her PhD research. Again, because of the film (did I get it right?) vs digital (Yep, I got it right.) ability to check an image, I didn’t realize the entire background was so dark. The built-in flash on the Elan is very harsh, and without switching to full manual control, there’s not very much adjustability for aperture and shutter speed when it’s engaged. Despite the harsh flash however, Quoia’s still very fond of Roxie:
A tiki-head from the rock wall around the yard here at the house. The one of the rabbit and duck heads nearby didn’t turn out, and that I think was a better composed image… of course when it doesn’t come out, that’s irrelevant. Again, digital wins for checkability:
Lastly, a sunrise. Landscapes and sunrise/sunsets are one area I think film still has it over digital. Yes, you can do HDR photography and stitch beautiful compositions together using exposure bracketing, but I’m still not good enough with the equipment for the color-depth and detail to turn out as nicely with electrons as it tends to on film:
Lot of talk. Hay does the dairy have any bottles????
Yeah, I guess that was a lot of talk given the number of pictures, especially considering the number of pics in the baseball post. I’ll ask about the bottles.