mcdermott photography: June 2009

6.15.2009

Photo Challenge Images (Part 1)

I shot the images in this series on Monday using my challenge guidelines (if you didn't see my challenge scroll down a few posts or go here). My settings were ISO 400, Cloudy White Balance, Black and White, and I shot 36 frames.

On both of these photographs I adjusted the white point just a little in Photoshop to bring out the clouds.

6.14.2009

A photo challenge.

I just had an idea. It might not be the first time this idea was thought of, but I have never heard of it being done before.

Last summer I sent my Nikon D40 to be cleaned and was left to shoot with an old Nikon FM2 film camera. This wasn't my first experience with a film camera, but it was such a difference in shooting when you don't know what the frame you just took looks like until the film is developed.

So my challenge is to turn the image review setting on your camera off, change the mode to the manual setting (putting faith in the light meter) decide whether you want to shoot in black and white or in color, pick an ISO, pick a white balance and go out and take 24 or 32 photographs. And look at them when you "develop" them on your computer. (These settings should not be changed during each "roll", only the aperture and shutter speed can be changed during the "roll")

Make sure you don't cheat and review your photos before you are done or change the settings mid "roll" and if you are having a good time, make a new folder on your camera and take another "roll".

If you want to get a little more of the feel of it being a film camera, take the memory card and get the images printed before you look at them.

If you end up doing this and have fun with it, post a link to some of the photos in a comment so I can take a look at your photos.