So, I've been trying to make myself go out and take some real photographs with my digital camera. These few are, unsurprisingly, vertical and have a relatively similar composition. Upon closer inspection, they'd be really great cropped into a square but I feel dirty trying to make them into something they aren't. I've also been trying to figure out the color; a digital photograph will never replicate the intensity of chrome film. I'm trying to figure out how I want the color of these to look, as right now they're leaning towards pretty generic. With film, I worked at establishing a color palate that I really like and was also used to working with, as far as processing and printing goes. More, less saturated?
I think I need to avoid using the lens at 18mm. It makes everything feel tiny and I am not a big fan of the vignetting.
In other digital picture news, I ordered one a Panosaurus Tripod Head for experimentation. My problem with shooting digital is that it's so immediate and instant that it doesn't feel like it takes a lot of work. I know, that at the end of the day, I'm still using the same eye and sense of composition to make the pictures, regardless of the camera. I want to sort of challenge that expectation and work on using the medium to stretch not only it but the way I work.
In so many words, I'm starting all over again because I'm using an entirely different camera and thus medium. It's a bit like stumbling around in the dark in a room that you're not familiar with and stubbing your toe on the leg of a table. That said, I still think these feel very much like "my" pictures.
