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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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Building an approach
I was pretty excited that there was what appeared to be a viable 120 film carrier coming my way but this is the meant that I was going to need to figure out a bunch things that I was dreading. Before I could start scanning I knew I needed to develop a workflow. To do…
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Weekday Morning Hill Hike
It’s definitely a bit exceptional (in the strict definition of the word) for us to be up on the hill around sunrise during a normal weekday morning. It’s kind of nice though as it provides a different perspective to something we’ve done a few hundred times under mostly different circumstances.
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Ocean Beach SF, CA
Still testing things out here. I went through my photo catalog looking for pictures from Ocean Beach and pulled this small set over the last year. During the COVID lock down we came out here several times at the end of a weekday during the summer. If you’re not familiar with the weather here the…
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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…