Thursday Feb 08, 2007

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i bought an old school polaroid camera today. i love photography... love love love it. i don't get to do it nearly enough, and admittedly i've got tons to learn. i am a lover of film vs. digital... perhaps i'm a bit tradition... perhaps i'm just not up on the digital camera technologies... mostly i think i'm just cheap! i have an super fun & rad 35mm camera (canon EOS), that i picked up for $350 because no one wants to use film anymore! The digital version of the same camera was over $500 more.

hey... if anyone has some suggestions for my expiremental style, lemme know! i'd love to take another class, but i just don't have time. i take decent pictures, but i feel like there is so much more i could be learning.

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kittyvalentine:
I'd love to get back into film photography again. Actually, scrub that, I'd like to get back into photography overall, again.

But I miss the smell of the developing chemicals. Digital is fun too, I love the flexibility of Photoshop.

I'm not sure what to suggest you learn. Different processing techniques are a good starting point. It might be worth seeing if there's any classes that run covering that locally.
shadowslightness:
SERIOUSLY. I never owned a cell phone until about 2 months ago. It's in my nature to pointlessly rebel against things that become social norms and dependencies (which I'm sure can be fairly annoying to others). I very unhappily caved and got a cell phone after living here and being completely unreachable for a few months. It has made some things much easier, but I never want to be someone who can't just sit still for a few minutes without the distraction of technology. So far, I think I'm doing pretty well with that (though it's always easy to distract myself by looking up some band's live performances on YouTube).

Jeff Buckley has been in my head for months. I can't get "Lover, You Should've Come Over" out of my head. Really, it won't stop. Such a beautiful song.

Thanks for all the comments, always glad to hear I'm not alone in my thinking, and you pretty much summed up everything I felt about the subject. Totally cool. smile

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