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New October Afternoon

I had a box arrive on my doorstep with another new range of papers from October Afternoon called Hometown, it is very cool and i shall be having a play with it this weekend at the retreat.

Here is a little sneaky peek

 

Old School

When i started my photography business (if you could call it that back then PMSL) way back when i was fresh out of TAFE i was still using film. After 6 months i realized that there was no way i was going to be able to keep up with my peers, or make a decent income if i didn't commit to changing over to the digital world. So in October 05 i purchased my Canon 350D and went onwards and upwards from there. I was so emersed in practically relearning everything over again in the digital world that my poor old film SLR was put on a shelf in the cupboard and has barely seen the light of day since.

Last week a fellow photographer announced a challenge to all who would like to be involved to dust off our old SLR's, buy a roll of 24 film and go old school. So i did. It was really fun and exciting to have to wait for the photos to be printed before seeing the results. And with only 24 shots i really had to concentrate on what i was doing with my settings and framing, and making sure that everything was right technically before snapping away...i couldn't of course control my somewhat less interested models though...so out of 24 shots 4 were unuseable because of blinking and blur...not bad odds really. Now i'm not pretending that this is the best work i have ever done, but i was presently surprised (and relieved) when i looked at the photos. The exposure was great, a touch under exposed but i shoot like that normally so old habits die hard as they say, i even managed to capture some sun flare and everything is back-lit (again which i normally do anyway).

Here are a selection of the best, all i have done to these besides scanning them is to add a touch of contrast because my scanner tends to bleach out the shadows a bit and i also resized them obviously. Typepad is still adding a nasty sharpen thing to the images too, so ignore that.

 And i shall also add in the disclaimer that i went against my better judgement and had the film processed and printed at the dreaded Kmart one hour printing service which explains the slightly green tinge over the photos...i wasn't really expecting great things so decided to go for the cheap option PMSL

If you have an old film SLR i challenge you to go and pick up a roll and dust it off, it was fun and i'm gonna do it again as soon as i get the chance.

In two more sleeps i'm heading to the Scraptacular Retreat, i'm all packed up and ready to go so i'll give you a full report on Monday.

so you want to be a photographer?

just some food for thought for those budding photographers out there who also send me numerous emails asking for advice....

Thanks to Susan for directing me to this great blog post ;-)

Elli - the eyeless elephant

This was my first attempt at knitting with double pointed needles in the round, and i am quite chuffed with it. She has no eyes because I'm not entirely sure what i am going to use for eyes yet...the pattern that i followed had one made with a light blue colored wool and had black embroidered eyes, but i think black would be lost against the dark purple i have used, but i think white will look kinda strange, so for now she is eyeless... not that Charlee minds much..

If you want to make one for yourself then you can buy the pattern from here.

Only six more sleeps until the Scraptacular Retreat, i am SO looking forward to this. Three whole days of scrapping, and chilling out with my EB girls, and drinking up a storm. I an getting a bit behind with my editing over the holidays but i am determined to get a good chunk of it done over the next couple of days so i don't have to stress over it on the weekend. I'll be showing some more sneak peeks on here in the next day or so, so if you have had a session with me recently keep your eyes peeled for some of your shots ;)

Right now i need to get my banana bread out the oven..mmmmmm