Tag Archives: Self-Developed
Abstract II
Photography is disassembly. One of my favorite things about the infamous shower scene in Psycho is the way that Hitchcocks’ careful camera work literally cuts Janet Leigh (as Marion Crane) into pieces. The audience goes from visuals of the rising … Continue reading
Filed under Black and White, Film, Self-Developed, Street Photography
Attitude
Photography is personal. Good photographs distill the essence of something into an instant. Be it a person, an animal, a car, or a building, the photographs that stick in the memory tell us something about the subject rather than just … Continue reading
Filed under Black and White, Film, Portrait, Self-Developed
Lately Thomas II
Photography is sporadic. Shooting with any sort of discipline does not come naturally to me. Like everything I do, it starts and stops, sometimes gushes, sometimes trickles. sometimes ceases to flow at all. For this reason, I am glad that … Continue reading
Filed under Black and White, Film, Self-Developed
Land of Lincoln III
Here’s the third of the Lincoln series. This one is my favorite, but I am not exactly known for my taste in my own photography. I tried more “artistic” crops, but this is the one I like best. I have … Continue reading
Filed under Black and White, Film, Self-Developed, Street Photography
Land of Lincoln II
Photography is subjective. One of the great “knocked down to size” experiences for a photographer is to show work he or she is proud of to someone who isn’t “into” photography and to have it flatly rejected. I asked a … Continue reading
Filed under Black and White, Film, Self-Developed, Street Photography
We the People
Photography is . . . . Sometimes historical. Sometimes, one finds oneself capturing a historical image using a historical process, and the resulting image looks so bad some might assume it is, in itself, historical. Also, photography is sometimes frustrating. … Continue reading
Filed under Black and White, Film, Self-Developed
Land of Lincoln
D.C. III. Something about the focus and depth of field of this one is very appealing to me. Is it a little bit funny to you? It is to me. It never ceases to amaze me how much I can … Continue reading
Filed under Black and White, Film, Self-Developed, Street Photography
Tribute II
Washington D.C. in July number two, a crop from the Vietnam memorial. While the bright sunlight really wreaked havoc on some of my other photos, it did make for fantastic reflections here. This is colored and processed in an attempt … Continue reading
Filed under Black and White, Film, Self-Developed, Street Photography
Capitol
The set of Washington, D.C. images to which this belongs is actually among the first few rolls of true black and white I’ve shot (in fact, the second and third rolls, not including C-41 black and white films). I was … Continue reading
Filed under Black and White, Film, Landscape, Self-Developed
Algernon
Another fun title. The more I look at it, the more I like the results from my Tri-X roll from early in the summer. The images aren’t fantastic, but I like the character of the film. I’ll have more to … Continue reading
Filed under Black and White, Film, Landscape, Self-Developed
