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South Fork of the Merced River
I’ve been preparing some pictures from a recent trip to Yosemite, we hadn’t been in several years and i brought a couple of different camera systems with me. I’d also planned to shoot some color film which isn’t something I usually do. Most color negative film uses a developing process called C-41. I’ve never done…
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Finding a 120 Film Carrier
Since I knew I wanted to scan a lot of film, and I definitely didn’t want to screw around with cutting boards and securing them with rubber bands to make a negative carrier I kept trying to figure out a manageable way to do this. I also mostly had 120 film to scan: around 800…
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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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How it started… How it’s going
Testing my remote setup for basketball games. I’d lopped the end off of a Canon cable release and soldered it to a Radio Slave TS cable, I could fire it from almost anywhere in the arena. I still have the cables, connectors and case I made for it. The rest of it Radio Shack 2…
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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…
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Bernal Heights Victorian
Looking South from the Coso Avenue mini dog park. This was a quick snapshot that I was using as a test post but I kind of like it so i’m going to leave it here. You can see the dried up PhotoFlo along the frame edge.
