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Arielle Lee, October 2002
(Camera: Casio QV-4000)

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I feel like the new film scanner is bringing me back in touch with photos that I took years ago. It’s like becoming reacquainted with old friends.It has even inspired me to revisit some of my digital photos, like this one, from 2002.This one was an experiment with empty space in the photo. I’m not sure how successful it is, but I do like the lighting and I like the look on her face.

For this I used the Casio QV-4000 camera, which was my first digital camera. It was a really nice 4MP point & shoot with some pretty advanced features, like an f2.0 Canon lens and a sync socket for external flash!! Try to find either of those on a point & shoot digital these days. This was lit with a couple of White Lightning strobes in shoot-through umbrellas.

By the way, I have started hosting my photos on flickr.

Mission Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
March, 2002
Canon EOS A2, Ilford HP5+

Monterey, CA, July 2005
Contax G1
Kodak Supra 800

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So this blog is presumably meant for b&w photography, but I’m so fascinated with my new film scanner that I can’t help posting some color photos.This one was taken on our honeymoon while we were visiting the Monterey Aquarium. We stopped in a little shop to buy a snack, and for some reason I found the counter area interesting.I love my Contax G1 for this type of photography. It’s small, very nice to carry around, nearly as simple as a point & shoot, and the lenses are beautifully sharp.

Just a couple notes from my first experiences with the film scanner:

Scanning slides was much easier than scanning negatives. Partly because my negatives are more dusty & scratchy than my slides, but also because I found it more difficult to line up the negatives on the negative feeder.

I spent about 20 minutes removing dust from the color photo of Julie in Photoshop. Not fun.

Not surprisingly, color scans look better than black & white scans. I need more practice with b&w before I really feel comfortable with it.

I have to refigure my workflow now. I can probably adapt part of my digital workflow, but I have to think about naming conventions. For digital, my files are named along the lines of [Description]-[Year]-[Month]-[Camera]-[Sequence]-[Version], but for film, I probably need to add roll# and frame# in there somewhere.

I am definitely more excited about shooting some film now.

And now a color negative test.

Model: Julie Simone
Contax RX, Carl Zeiss T* 135/f2.8
Kodak Portra 160NC