Ah, the good old days of film.
No, wait, I hate film.
The good old days of film annoyed me so much that it took me a year or two to shoot my way through a single roll of film... plus, often, another several months before I got my act together to go get it developed.
Last summer, I took a photography class. The first time I tried to get my film onto the film reel (for film developing), I was trapped in that pitch-dark closet for nearly an hour 'cos I couldn't get the damn film on the damn reel. I was near tears.
Eventually someone noticed that I'd gone missing. The aide knocked on the closet door and asked if I needed help.
"No!" I said, all choked-up and weepy and clearly just hanging around in a tiny pitch-dark room because I enjoyed it. "I need to learn how to do this myself!"
Things are always funny in retrospect.
P.S. This is how all my negatives are transferred onto the computer. I don't have a scanner, so I just have to hold the film up to light, macro-photograph the images, invert them in GIMP, and mess with levels. Usually I try not to get my fingers in the shot, though.
Date: August 2008
Where/What: Look, that's me with my white eyebrows in the rear-view mirror!
Camera: Fuji S700
Shutter: 1/250
Aperture: f 4.0
ISO: 100
Listening to: Green-Eyed Lady (Sugarloaf)
Thankful for: cool shade on a summer day
5 comments:
shockingly, i find this image interesting...
Even more shockingly, so do I.
And what I'm sure is simply impossible to believe, I love the commentary that goes with it.
I JUST got my grandpa's Nikon FE repaired (it's like 30 years old) and "developed" (aka sent to Walgreens...) my first roll from it as a test to see how it worked and I must say the results (of the camera, not the cameraman) were impressive.
Though not having a scanner seems quite a big pain. Did you ever end up liking your film class? I have one coming up this semester which I've been pretty excited for.
m- My original plan for the commentary was something along the lines of "I'm turning into mgilpin and putting my fingers in every one of my photos." :)
John- Will the shocks never cease?!!
Adam- Awesome about your grandpa's film camera!
Don't be scared. The closet story was the one issue I had with the technical bits. Overall, I liked the CLASS. I just didn't like taking that many pictures in that short a span of time.
(lol)... seriously... out loud...
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