response 1 of 28:

Aug 1 01:40 UTC 1996

Denise, do you do Black and White Photography?  If so, there are lots of
things which could be challenging for your creative side.  Super high contrast
shots (which resemble india ink drawings), Solarization, Portraits, super fast
shots at night (I have shot at 12,000 ASA - makes a cheap telephoto work
well), Oil coloring of B&W shots, antiquing using bromide papers & selenium
toning.

I haven't done much more than snapshot stuff in color, but double negative
prints could be fun.  Double exposures - #1=moon at tele, #2=landscape at WA.
Unusual angle shots (camera on floor, etc)

Have you ever entered photo contests?  That brings out a lot of creativity
and is a lot of fun.    

Back to B&W - special filters are fun - I made some great photos of weathered
doors and windows using a deep red lens.

How about infrared B&W film.  I shot a roll of it once and had good results
and I saw one booth of mostly infrared B&W prints at the Art Fair.  

Projecting color slides onto B&W sheet film and then making contact prints
gives stunning results, also.

response 3 of 28:

Aug 14 11:50 UTC 1996

Hey... I know I haven't checked here in a couple weeks or so... The same
evening that I entered this item, my computer crashed--and I lost the
HD and everything on it... :-(  Just got the computer back yesterday 
and am still trying to reinstall everything!

Anyway, I've done a little bit with B&W though its been awhile./ Once
I get my "good" camera back out again [the pntax with all of my
variuos lenses], then I'll see about trying newlenses, colors,
whatever.

Overall, with either of my cameras, I tend to just take pictures--of
candids, general nature things [some closeup but usually not], and have
done a few sporting events.  A couple times, when out on trips, I've
come up with various 'themes'--like one trip, I took a lot of pictures
of interesting fences--wood fences, rock fences, etc.  

I guess I'm primarily looking for ways of getting out of my rut!

response 5 of 28:

Aug 14 22:40 UTC 1996

#3 - One of my constant theme has been interesting doors, arches, and windows.
This subject still intrigues me and has endless possibilities.  Especially
when taken from unusual angles.  I have one of the cascading arches under the
Broadway street bridge in A^2 (by the Gandy Dancer) that I am particularly
fond of.  Others are collages of doors with cactii next to them in Tucson,
Old weathered paint peeling doors, etc.

#4.  I am going to Hungary and will sneak time for a lot of film.  I also am
going to as many sights as I can accomplish in Utah, Nevada, Southern Calif,
Arizona, New Mexico, and possibly West Texas in October. 

Perhaps we could get a group together for a dinner one night and each of us
show our 10 best snapshots (or enlargements, or whatever).  If we discussed
why we like others' pictures, how they were composed, etc. it may be a
learning experience.

??

response 7 of 28:

Aug 15 20:35 UTC 1996

#4:     If shooting toward the sun, try to compose your shot so that something
        blocks the actual ball of light from directly hitting your lens...a
        tree, bush, leaves, bldg, cloud, etc.  If you can set exposure
        manually, set it with the sun blocked from the camera, even if the 
        object blocking it is in the shot, then recompose the shot and use
        the exposure you just took.  If a little light gets directly into
        your lens you might get a halo effect which you could use as a
        compositional element as well.  

        If the sun is high enough, or to one side far enough to be out of the
        shot, use a cardboard, hat or even an umbrella to shadow your lens
        as you take the shot.

response 9 of 28:

Aug 18 00:56 UTC 1996

I like the idea of getting together sometime to show off our best
photos and perhaps a critique session--I'm sure we can learn from
each other!  Though I'm sure y'all won't necessarily want to wait
for my next trip to MI--since I haven't a clue as to when that
will be!  Though if any of you are ever passing through NC,
do let me know!

MArc, I bet some of your window/archays/etc photos ARE interesting!

Omni, I have a couple interesting photos with the sun... One of which
I used a tree--in the wintertime [with no leaves...] to block the
sun itself but had the interesting lighting effects... [And I think
I might have one of them witha lake in the background. I'll have
to go through those photos again sometime!]

response 11 of 28:

Oct 16 17:46 UTC 1998

been awhile since anythings been entered here...so here goes...

Lately, with the expolsion of fall colors, I've been doing some
landscape/nature photos.  Last week (or so) I happened to be driving eastbound
on Plymouth road at about 8+pm and was inspired by the view of a huge, orange,
full moon rising just above the horizon.  Naturally I didn't have my camera
with me, so I rushed home, got the camera and raced to Gallup Park to try and
catch that moon with some trees/water in the compositions.

I used a tripod (d'uh) with 100ASA Kodak gold, and varied both wide and narrow
f stops as well as timing.  I also used the full range of camera meter
settings (average, center weighted, spot).  within about 45 minutes I shot
most of a 24 exp roll.

A couple of shots came out well enough to tell what i was trying to do, but
most look like a sunrise or sunset, with dark backgrounds.  I even did a few
with forced flash to illuminate trees/leaves in the foreground but to no real
avail.

anyone have thoughts on how to capture that erie full moon glow, and even some
of the details of the craters, etc, while still getting a silouette (at least)
of background for composition (I can get decent pics of the moon only, but
they're not visually appealing without taking them through a telescope)?

(btw - my next roll, not yet developed, is early morning and late evening
close-ups of unique flowers, weeds, grasses, leaves, etc.  The colors should
be great, and close focus with narrow depth of field usually helps me in
making appealing compositions).

response 13 of 28:

Oct 20 01:26 UTC 1998

Yeah, I thought of 'dodging' out the moonlight, but, I was rushing to get my
camera and still catching the moonrise before it got too high in the sky (and
too small to tell it is the moon).  I think if I were to plan the dodging
method I might use a pane of glass with an opaque circle (or irregular round
shape) painted on it.

The other idea I had was to do a double exposure on one frame, one of which
with the moon blocked by some device similar to the above.

response 15 of 28:

Apr 27 14:53 UTC 2004

There's something wrong with your URL.  I'm getting 'the domain name
does not exist.'

response 17 of 28:

Apr 27 19:06 UTC 2004

Cool.

response 19 of 28:

Jun 21 04:04 UTC 2004

I recently found out about cross-processing slide film (E-6) as color 
negative (C-41). The lab technican at Rite-aid refused to process it. 
I doubt a single roll of film is going to "ruin your film and ruin 
our chemicals" as she claimed. So anyways, I went to Walgreens and
they processed it.

Heres a link to some of the pictures (the bottom 5 pictures).

http://www.livejournal.com/users/eprom/7864.html

response 23 of 28:

Feb 2 00:21 UTC 2007

Ok, I'm going to put my digital camera to rest for awhile and get back into
film photography again. So while I was out today, I brought some batteries
and some 400 speed film [I was disappointed that the drug store no longer
carries Fuji film, though].  I'll have to take my camera with me again and
see what will inspire me...