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Last week I made a quick run down to Colonial Beach to get some snow photos. The first photo is taken of Monroe Bay from Colonial Beach. If you look to the left of the picture on the far side of the bay you see some houses. That is where I lived from 15 till I left home. My parents lived there for 30 years.
The next picture is the Colonial Beach Yacht Club. It caught fire a few years back and burned to the water line. These are new docks and covers for the yachts. It was a big blazé I remember watching it on TV.
The Hunan Diner. No takers for an outside lunch. I took a shot from both directions of the takes. This one seemed to be the best.
I have been trying Caffenol CM(rs) in lieu of my usual Caffenol C-L to get better contrast. These pictures were taken with Arista.EDU ASA 200 (generic Foma). Developed for 14.5 minutes with agitation first 30 seconds and once every minute thereafter. I also added Kbr to the mix. Seems to produce more grain that Caffenol C-L.
The next picture is the Colonial Beach Yacht Club. It caught fire a few years back and burned to the water line. These are new docks and covers for the yachts. It was a big blazé I remember watching it on TV.
The Hunan Diner. No takers for an outside lunch. I took a shot from both directions of the takes. This one seemed to be the best.
I have been trying Caffenol CM(rs) in lieu of my usual Caffenol C-L to get better contrast. These pictures were taken with Arista.EDU ASA 200 (generic Foma). Developed for 14.5 minutes with agitation first 30 seconds and once every minute thereafter. I also added Kbr to the mix. Seems to produce more grain that Caffenol C-L.
Curating Your Work
I got this idea from someone on YouTube and I apologize to him because I don't remember who it was. He suggested if you want to build a portfolio of your best work to pick a category such as cars. His suggestion was the first roll of cars select the best five images and copy them to a separate folder. The next roll you pick the best five images and copy to this folder and then delete five images. Over time you should build a group of really good images. You can vary this to suit your needs. Let's say you want to make a photo book that contains 20 images. You do same thing except you keep 20 images in your folder. I plan to do a slight variation of this with the diptych photos I post here and on Instagram. After each roll is edited I will pick what I think are the best five and copy to a post folder. After image is posted I will delete from post folder. This will save time scrolling through computer looking for photos to post and wondering did I already post this
Inexpensive Color Film???
I thought I might try some color film and was shocked at the prices of color film and processing. Looking around I did find a place with some inexpensive film at $5.76 a roll it is a bargain compared to most color film. Fujifilm 200 35mm | Bay Photo Film I ordered five rolls for a which came out to $7,27 a roll including tax and shipping.
365 Project 2024
The last couple of years I become bored with photography. Too much the same stuff the same look. Last year I decided I wanted to shoot film, again and took trips to Colonial Beach to take photos. That kind of fizzled out too much traveling. Too much other stuff going on. I am hoping the 365 Project for 2024 will motivate me to photograph more. I am changing the way I photograph. 365 Project for 2024 Plan (the plan is still evolving): Half frame cameras only Portrait format only Photos to be in diptych format Minimum one diptych each day Photos of something in my life I bought two half frame 35mm cameras that are point and shoot. These cameras have one f stop, one shutter speed and no focus. One meter minimum focus distance. This reduces photography to the essentials. Since these are half frame cameras you get two exposures in the same space as one 35mm negative (hence half frame). I intend to try and make as many diptychs as possible using adjacent
Matt Marrash - Youtube - large format
If you are considering getting or using a 4x5 camera. Matt Marrash's youtube channel is a good place to start and in my opinion of the best. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnNpToTfpj8
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great shots...and interesting combination - like AfricanObserver pointed out 
