the diligent dilettante

This morning I headed straight to Brooklyn Bridge instead of work, and missed a meeting with my manager in the process but it's all good. In the afternoon I crossed Manhattan Bridge and headed to the lab to pick up my negatives from my first roll and drop off this second roll. So this second roll is exclusively Brooklyn and the area near the two bridges! Don't remember the precise type of film but it costed 7.99 and it's C-41 black and white. Highlights: I'm really happy with the sharpness of these shots compared to the first batch. I think the sharpness of these shots were an improvement over the last because this batch was mostly taken in daylight, whereas the last batch was mostly taken during the nighttime. Honestly, I feel like shooting at sunset or later is a huge risk since I tried yesterday at Washington street and the results (without tripod and night flash) were truly awful. With night flash, nighttime pictures defin...

Like I mentioned in my previous post, I had some extra film left for today but I ended up using it on random shots in Brooklyn as opposed to the bridge due to time limitations. Once I filled up my first roll I got them developed at Accurate Photo Shop. Film used is Kodak Ultramax 400. If $10 is the cheapest per-roll cost for high quality development, my hobby will soon cost more than a fancy digital camera... Here are my favorite shots (the first one is my first ever!) The biggest takeaways I got from this roll are: Drop the habit of taking the photos of the same thing 50 times - every shot costs $$$ so it's wasteful to take many similar shots. Thankfully I applied this lesson when I went to Brooklyn today. Shooting in the dark with no flash is less auspicious than you think. While shooting in daylight, try to capture dark and light in the same shot. For example, a shot becomes significantly more interesting if it includes so...

When I came home from work last Friday, this camera was lying on the ground next to the elevator. There is only one other room on my floor, and I know it's used as a short-term hotel type of deal so I assumed someone staying in that room, maybe the kids I saw fucking around in the hallway on Wednesday, had left it behind by accident. I left the apartment to run some errands and when I returned, I took a photo of the discarded camera so I could google it and ascertain its value. Once I realized it was a very celebrated point and shoot analog camera, I took it and made it mine. Right away I wanted to power it on and see what it was capable of, and also view previous photos to get an idea of who its former owners were. But there was no battery or film roll inside, and it's not possible to view past photos on an analog camera anyway. I was tempted to read more about the camera and watch videos so I would be better equipped to use it once I got batteries, but I held off because...