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Just got a few pictures back from my trip to point of rocks. While i could clearly see the train in the viewfinder, in the finished shot all there is is glare.like it better this way.
Monthly Archives: August 2011
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Aug 11
Roddy Road River
Sorry for the late post today. You can probably guess where this picture came from
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Aug 11
Lake Elkhorn
Here’s a shot of Lake Elkhorn again, but with no lake in it. This is a very deceptive picture as from all sides there is a lot of activity. Behind the shooter there’s even a highway. However, in this one sliver of land there was a very tranquil spot.
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Aug 11
Don’t Feed the WaterFowl
This quaint picture looks like it could be from some eastern shore town but the sign gives away that it comes from a lake in Columbia. I was hoping to get away during lunch to go take some pictures of the setup for the Baltimore Grand Prix, but that will have to be next week. I did get away to the lake to take a few of these shots.
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Aug 11
Hippo Fountain
Today’s Hippo Fountain comes to us from guest photographer Killer MC, who took this shot in Cabin John Park in Montgomery county. There’s one other surprise in this park too…
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Aug 11
Feeder3
One last from the refuge. I like this picture a lot. It’s another film shot, but the film negative doesn’t have enough contrast for my poor scanner to read it with any meaningful detail. I’m told black and white negatives are the way to go here. We’ll see.
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Aug 11
Feeder2
Here’s part two of yesterday’s shot.
I thought I would join the growing trend of people doing these retro film shots. I tend to take my film camera to places where my other camera may be damaged or even stolen. It’s the camera I took in the snow and it’s the camera I end up taking to a lot of weird places. So this could be a cool series. (of note, the snow was not kind to the camera. Luckily, and this is another reason why I should continue doing this, a replacent film body was less than $30 on e-bay.) The series of shots will be on hold for a bit.
This picture isn’t run through a retro filter or anything like that, it’s a scan of the negative from yesterday’s shot that I’ve photoshopped as best I could to look like a real picture. I was hoping that this could be a recurring theme on the site, but I found out two things. First, my scanner is not capable of distinguishing the detailed colors of negative color film. Second, it’s not easy to take a scanned color negative and make it look like something that isn’t a landscape from a zombie movie. This was my best attempt, but you can tell that I lost a lot of the detail, including the words on the bird feeder and most of the color.