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Rebuilding My Old Website
I had an old website for several years. I talked about it here a little bit already but for a little more context I used it up until around 2009 or so and then it hung around for another year or so before it was repeatedly hacked and I took it offline. I eventually let…
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Building A New Website
As I was discovering that my scanning project was working exactly the way I intended I started to think about what the next project would be that I could follow this up with. It had been a while since I had a website. I’d tried posting pictures on Facebook or Instagram in the past but…
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Final Post: Scanning Summary
This project was a whole lot of work and much more physically demanding than I thought it was going to be. Had I known that I would have purchased a dedicated camera for scanning that had an external monitor output of some sort. I also would have sourced a more robust copy stand. I had…
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Scanning New Work
I’d thought this through as part of planning on how to complete this archive scanning project: how would I incorporate my new film scans into this archive and keep everything well organized. It was actually pretty easy. Remember the twin-check numbering system I was using to keep track of all of my negatives? Since I’d…
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Final Equipment Setup and Scanning Starts (And Ends)
So with all of this set up and my camera tethered to the computer my office room was almost completely consumed with this project. I started with a dry run of a single sheet of negatives and went through the entire workflow: scanning, file name changing, importing to Lightroom, converting to positive, and tagging images.…
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Incorporating Computer Organization
I’d been using Adobe Lightroom Classic for the last few years and couldn’t find a reason to switch to something else for this project. I also tarted using the excellent Lightroom Plugin Negative Lab Pro, without which I wouldn’t have been able to do all of the bulk conversion. A key component of this though…
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Flatbed Scanning Negatives
The dust though… I tried a lot of different ways to prevent it: from cleaning the scanner and negatives between each scan, to spraying my whole desk down with a mist of water before every scanning session. The scanner seemed to attract dust like nothing else. It was easy to spend 20 minutes or more…
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Accumulated Mess
As a long time film photographer in both the pre-digital and digital camera eras I eventually came to understood that having a reliable end-to-end developing|scanning|printing workflow was key to my enjoyment of photography. It sounds like boring monotony to put it that way but the fact of the matter is that when shooting pictures and…
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Welcome to vaguetrac.es
The tl;dr of the whole thing is that I had a ~20″ tall pile negatives sheets spread out all over the house and garage that I needed to wrestle control of, and I mostly wrestled control of them. That lead to this website, my enjoyment of photography again (after being kind of frustrated with it…