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Rebuilding My Old Website

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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…

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Building A New Website

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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…

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Final Post: Scanning Summary

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I’ve spent too many words rambling on about this already so here’s the last bit on this larger scale (to me) scanning project: This project was a whole lot of work and much more physically demanding than I thought it…

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Scanning New Work

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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…

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Final Equipment Setup and Scanning Starts (And Ends)

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While I was organizing the negatives I also got the rest of my equipment together and Negative Supply delivered on their 120 carrier via kickstarter. Here’s everything I ended up using: Camera: Fuji X-Pro2 (24mp APS-c mirrorless digital camera) Lens:…

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Incorporating Computer Organization

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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…

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Building an approach

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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.…

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Weekday Morning Hill Hike

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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…

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Ocean Beach SF, CA

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Pentax 67 Takumar 6×7 105mm f/2.4 6×7 100TMX HC110-b Pelicans making their way South © July 31, 2021 Still testing things out here. I went through my photo catalog looking for pictures from Ocean Beach and pulled this small set…

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Finding a 120 Film Carrier

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Over the course of 2019 I finally decided I wanted to try out camera scanning. I wasn’t in a hurry, I figured I’d spend a couple of months figuring out a plan and then try to get everything together in…

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