Christine indulged me with a new telephoto lens. I shot a couple rolls to get the hang of it.
Roll2005-04: very old film! TMX-36 100 speed B&W Kodak TMAX
Christmas Day and the Day After Christmas road trip (Niles to Sunol to Sunol Regional Wilderness)
I’ll get Wolf to develop these without making prints.
Roll2005-05: Fujicolor Super HQ 200 24 shots (bought in Nov 2005)
Sunol Regional Wildenerss, Camp Ohlone Road to Little Yosemite
Of these, i’ll get prints.
Lessons: batteries seem to not last long in storage. Fiddle. That or we went through a new pair pretty quickly. I assume they’ve been sitting in storage since our trip to Mono lake.
From the pool shoot this morning, even though the linear polarizer interferes with the auto focus, i need to keep it. The circular polarizer seemed ineffective on the reflections in the pool.
Fujicolor Super HQ 200, very recently purchased, eight rolls for ~$9.50. Threw our one test roll.
Roll2005-01 Hwy 1: Moss Landing (Christine shot second power plant), Pacific Grove, Nepenthe, sunset at Point Piedras Blancas (Christine), 2005-11-18
Roll2005-02 Morro Rock, 2005-11-19
Roll2005-03 Climbing Black Hill & Morro Bay surrounds, 2005-11-19; pool shoots, 2005-11-20, with polarized filters
Vista Print The folks who bring you those free business cards — also free postcards — 100. A little smaller than standard — 5.47″ x 4.21″ — upload image for front and back. Probably higher S/H, but still, free 100 cards….
USPS Much cheaper than Kodak, can get with return address imprint & postage.
http://www.cardstore.com/asp/usps/index.cfm?page=photocard
1-9 $1.09 each 4�x6
Cafe Press (now has “create & buy,” skipping making one’s own store)
http://www.cafepress.com/cp/customize/product.aspx?clear=true&no=77
Custom Greeting Cards (Pkg of 6) $10.99 5″ x 7″
12pt single-side coated glossy paper. image inside & outCustom Postcards (Pkg of 8) $5.99 6″ x 4″
12 pt paper
Kodak
http://www.kodakgallery.com/CardStoreLanding.jsp?
1 – 9 $2.99 each
Apparently the folks at http://www.psprint.com/index.asp have good pricing: 150 for $30-some (the smallest order) — 2005-11-14
http://www.zazzle.com — no postcards (yet)
In the past few weeks, i’ve mainly been using our digital camera. I regret that i did not pack the camera accesibly on our flight east, because the views from the plane around Houston at sunset were magnificent. (I would have likely taken some of those blue-cast photos of Lake Powell, too.)
Once we were in North Carolina, i was almost obsessive. I took almost two hundred photos of the preparations for Laura & Todd’s wedding. Thirty document Mom’s work on their wedding cake. In the math of photography, quantity eventually begets quality, and there are some well done photos. The album retains many photos of less than ideal quality, though, for their documentary value.
I also shot a round of photos when i walked home, my first day back to work. The fennel, cat tails, and thistles were lovely; the snowy egret was not cooperative. I restrained myself from picking a bouquet for my dining room and made up for it with photos.
In the past few weeks, i’ve mainly been using our digital camera. I regret that i did not pack the camera accesibly on our flight east, because the views from the plane around Houston at sunset were magnificent. (I would have likely taken some of those blue-cast photos of Lake Powell, too.)
Once we were in North Carolina, i was almost obsessive. I took almost two hundred photos of the preparations for Laura & Todd’s wedding. Thirty document Mom’s work on their wedding cake. In the math of photography, quantity eventually begets quality, and there are some well done photos. The album retains many photos of less than ideal quality, though, for their documentary value.
I also shot a round of photos when i walked home, my first day back to work. The fennel, cat tails, and thistles were lovely; the snowy egret was not cooperative. I restrained myself from picking a bouquet for my dining room and made up for it with photos.