Photo a day #216

I think I would have enjoyed this photo more if it'd been darker when I happened to drive past this fountain, but beggars can't be choosers.

Photo a day #215

Photo a day #197-214

Almost three weeks AWOL this time ... besides these 18 daily photos (up to yesterday) I've got photos from two car shows and one late-night, insomnia induced, walk that still need to be posted.

August 10 2011, Photo a day #197

August 11 2011, Photo a day #198

August 12 2011, Photo a day #199

August 13 2011, Photo a day #200

August 14 2011, Photo a day #201

August 15 2011, Photo a day #202

August 16 2011, Photo a day #203

August 17 2011, Photo a day #204

August 18 2011, Photo a day #205

August 19 2011, Photo a day #206

August 20 2011, Photo a day #207

August 21 2011, Photo a day #208

August 22 2011, Photo a day #209

August 23 2011, Photo a day #210

August 24 2011, Photo a day #211

August 25 2011, Photo a day #212

August 26 2011, Photo a day #213

August 27 2011, Photo a day #214

PS3 Surgery: Photo a day #196

My PS3 started suffering the "Yellow Light of Death" and I disassembled it so I can hopefully fix it ... fingers crossed.

Photo a day #190-195

Daily photo fun!

August 3 2011, Photo a day #190 - St. Barbara's Church

August 4 2011, Photo a day #191

August 5 2011, Photo a day #192

August 6 2011, Photo a day #193 - Hummingbird lamp

August 7 2011, Photo a day #194

August 8 2011, Photo a day #195 - Biological Sciences Building

Ten days in Quebec

As I mentioned earlier, I went to Quebec on vacation at the end of July. In addition to the daily photos I posted here are a few more from Old Montreal, St. Joseph's Oratory, and out in the countryside. Enjoy!

Old Montreal:


















In and around St. Joseph's Oratory:








Countryside:

An evening on film

I found a little gem in a storage closet at work back in June, a Canon FTb with 50mm f/1.4 and 28mm f/2.8 lenses.


I burned off the film that was in there (it was decade-old slide film and didn't develop properly) and picked up a roll of ISO 100 black and white. One evening I headed to campus, both D80 and FTb in tow, and took some shots. I brought the D80 along to use as a light meter, since the FTb's meter battery died. Overall I ended up with shots that were over-exposed compared to what I'd normally go for with digital, but I'm pretty pleased with the results.













As much as I'm pleased with the pictures, I found the whole process to be somewhat "disconnected" (for lack of a better term) compared to shooting digital. Maybe it's simply because my ideas aren't well-formed enough when I shoot, but I usually do a lot of iterative shoot-review steps to see what works, and the review step is missing on film. I enjoy similar guessing and testing when I do post-processing, but for these shots I just got the lab to scan them and that was that. Maybe I just need a darkroom ...