In Processing
I have sent off the first 2 rolls of film. I do not know how long it will be and I am in no rush for the results, but I am beyond excited to see what happens.
Many takeaways in this process. Feelings, experience this far, price and anything else I can think of while typing. I do not think these out and make a scripted Blog, this is all my true thoughts and feelings I think about often and while typing, that why things are always so scattered.
First of all price, I can’t stand when people put what others are most interested in at the end it’s annoying and I am not trying to build the suspense.
Break down.
Film: Fuji 400 - $24.99
Processing: Least Camera - $70 (process 3 rolls of film in high resolution .tif format)
Shipping: $15 ($5 was for bubble wrap and it wasn’t even a lot.)
Total: Roughly $105 + some tax.
I had 3 rolls processed, 1 roll is from a disposable camera and is about 2-3 years old.
Again this was for high resolution scans in .tif format and a fee for me to receive my negatives back so that added some extra costs.
This photo above is taken from the same lens I took 85% of both rolls on my Sony A7RIII body.
Also taken with with the Nikon lens I have used the most on my Sony A7RIII Body
Overall, I don’t really mess with my Sony anymore. When I do it is nowhere near the extent that I would. I don’t feel the need to edit as soon as I take a photo. I went an entire week before I looked at and edited some photos I have taken.
I think waiting to see if I fucked up is the most anxious thing. I don’t know if my settings could have been better, oh everything was shot in manual in both rolls of film.
Not knowing everything I shot, I have forgotten most of what I captured. One thing I did was if I took a photo of something with my film, I did not with my digital. I can remember some that I took, but mostly I can’t remember them all and that is so exciting.
I am most excited to see how the colors turn out.
I don’t want to get ahead of myself on any of this, but I will be having my first film session soon, with special ordered film and I can not wait.
Karmic 160 ISO is the film I will be using for my first session, the colors are so beautiful and I can not wait. I think using it in the winter in some snow will be amazing, but let’s not rush.
It’s safe to say that so far using film has been very beneficial to me. I am just really hoping that I did not mess up on the two rolls I sent in. I know I have a few photos that have potential to make me cry and I am just very excited to see how they turned out. I will update with a blog and in there Film Portfolio section the DAY I get the results!
Also, Presets are half off, Stickers are in Apparel Shop, New prints have been added to the Print Shop.
My First Print
I really didn’t imagine this actually becoming something. I never think highly in anything I do. I always get carried away with the thought into the future of what I am doing and usually no matter what I do it never works out the way I had hoped.
I have said a lot through out my life that I am successful at being unsuccessful.
My eyes have been very watery multiple times already over the fact that I have sold 1, 2, 3 prints yesterday. I just can not believe it and I am so grateful and thankful. I appreciate the hell out of amazing friends that support what I am doing. I can not wait for the photos of these prints.
I really can not describe how happy this website has made me, I am not sure if it is just clarity of being off of social media, or just the fact I have this space to create and do whatever I want or maybe both. Making Blogs and Portfolios and Presets and Prints it is just crazy going from nothing 5 weeks ago to this. It seems it has all gone so quick and it has just started.
It has really made me appreciate what I am able to do so much more. Having the equipment that I have and all the hours I have spent crafting my editing and shooting and just always learning more and more it has all been worth it.
I just can’t believe it and I love it.
I can not say thank you enough Chris. So much love to you and Big Murph.
Incomplete Preset Pack!
8 Beautiful cinematic grunge Presets
Well I managed with the help of Reddit to code some before and after sliders, but unfortunately without paying for a plugin I am limited to one slider per page because the slider will crash when coding a second one into the page. Stinks, but is better than nothing for now.
Anyways, a new preset pack is available in the shop!
So below will be Before & After slide shows, Great Value Sliders hahaha
This preset pack has 8 custom presets.
I love these so much, I have used them a lot on mobile when editing iPhone raw images. They just look so perfectly balanced with cinematic/grunge.
I hope you enjoy these, I would love to update this blog and share others photos with these presets! It would be so cool to include a gallery of how these turned out for other people.
If you purchase these and would like to do that I will send you a 20% off coupon!
Email them to: jonharderwork@gmail.com
Anyways, thank you so much! I will start the gallery below!
These are all I have that have been sized down to work on the website haha!
Remember when using presets to adjust the exposure and the strength of the preset to your image until you find something you like if it is not 100% once applied!
I am also working on a new preset pack and have been for about a month now, I am not sure when I will release it yet or if it will even be this year. It has been fun though. You have seen a couple of photos with them used too!
1 Month
Yesterday made one full month being off of social media. In this time I have had many positive reflections of that, I have also had few negatives.
On the positive side of things I have most importantly spent less time on my phone. I have been more engaged with my family and that is the most important aspect to me.
There has been less bullshit in my life. I do not care about politics, or celebrities. TikTok and Instagram are the worst when you ask to not be suggested a category of shit they make sure to push more of it into your ‘‘for you page‘‘. That and the annoying Blue Chew advertisements. We will see an entire generation 10 years from now with major erectile dysfunction issues in men in their late 20’s, good luck guys.
I created a fucking website! I have sold 3 hats! I have started a Print Shop on my website!
I think in the last month alone my photography has changed. My style, my technique, my editing process. I am still watching Youtube videos and learning as much as I can, not shorts. Actual videos that you have to pay attention to and can’t soullessly scroll.
I am happier with what I am doing and capturing. I know the analytics of this website, they could be better, but I don’t fucking care. This is my space, and to me it is amazing.
Oh I also inspired someone in to photography and that is something I can’t even wrap my head around.
On the not so great side of things.
I don’t hear from people as much. I never realized the amount of conversations I started. That part does hurt a little.
I don’t see pictures of my best friends kids anymore. Used to I would see them posted almost daily, and now I have not seen anything since leaving social media.
I didn’t realize the amount of money Squarespace was going to be, to do what I want to do. I loved the newsletters, but I refuse to fucking pay $80 a month to be able to annoy 3 people when I post a blog.
I think that is about it, honestly.
So, one month without social media. I created a website, inspired someone into photography, sold hats with my brand on them, created a Print Shop, started shooting film thanks to an amazing fucking person, and this was only in 1 month.
I can not say thank you enough.
Roll #1 DONE
Roll #1 of Film is Done!
As you can read Roll #1 is finished and while typing this Roll #2 is also almost finished.
Roll #1 is complete and I am looking more into my options of getting it developed, unfortunately I do not have anyone local to help me out so I have to have the terror of mailing, travel, and heat.
With that aside, I would like to talk about my experience shooting film so far. I also would like to make more in depth YouTube videos and I do plan to so subscribe it is free.
I have taken 5 total photos with my A7RIII in the last 3 days. I have taken more time with each shot and making sure it is something I really want to capture, for the most part. I have been doing a lot of testing to see how something might turn out so we will see.
I have enjoyed the process so much and haven’t even gotten very far yet. This Nikon FG body is great I love the shutter sound, I love the way it feels, everything has been so perfect.
I am learning more about light and setting myself to a limit, especially with the Fuji 400.
Roll #1 I have strictly used the Nikon AF Nikon 50mm f/1.8 with a UV filter. It will be really interesting seeing how the images turned out with it. I did manage to shoot in a lot of different environments.
From using the edges of the lens in almost direct sunlight to create flares in the photo to shooting outside at night with one of my Viaper-1000 studio lights and capturing sparklers. I did everything I could to test the first role. I have only watched one YouTube video of someone shooting with the same film. I don’t know anything about this film like I do others. After the video I watched I have a very slim idea of the colors I can expect and let me tell you, these photos are fucking beautiful. Expect to be able to buy prints on a few of them too haha. I shot at home, on the boat at work, even ended the roll at a gas station.
All I can do now is wait to make more money and be able to send this roll off to be developed and processed. I am going to go all out on this one and have them done in the highest quality and .TIF format. I have been reading and watching a lot on the entire process. I developed film and even created prints in high school but 15 years ago is a long time ago and I don’t remember a damn thing. I also didn’t create digital scans of negatives.
The few days I have spent away from my camera have made me think more about what I am doing. I am not just racking shots, I am trying to think more even though I am shooting .RAW about the moment of the shot and not so much what I can fix when editing, this was a thought before just sometimes I knew I could rely on after the shot. I am really excited for a long term experience. It would be super cool to get the things and do all of my own development and scanning at home, but that is a pretty big dive and I don’t make enough money to support digital and film photography.
In time, anything is possible.
I can not wait to share these photos with everyone. Those moments are something I very much look forward to. I will have another Blog about just overall how I feel about film compared to digital. Even with how short this has been, I have already seen a big difference with myself and even people around me like my daughter who I have also influenced a love for photography with.
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I.. Messed Up..
The first film camera I decided to try and use today and will be sticking to for the duration of this first role of film (obviously) is the the Nikon FG.
New batteries: Energizer 357/303
Film I am using: Fujifilm 400
Lens: Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8
Side note - This is an expired film preset I am working on and I love it, also in this photo is the camera body and lens I am using for shooting this role of film.
I ALSO ordered an adapter for my Sony A7RIII so I can use the older Nikon Lenses on my e-mount body.
Anyways, on to the issue I had.. I did not at all watch a video on how to roll my film into the camera. I did it and it worked and was no issue, until I thought about the direction I turned the internal little wheel. I turned it the wrong way and shpuldn’t have even touched that part.
I went out walking and did about a mile just taking a photo here and there. I did however stumble onto this old Chevrolet 3100 (not sure the year). I was using my light meter on my phone and everything even though the FG has one built in just using my own as a backup to be safe. I want everything about this role to be the best its can be. A manual lens on a film camera and manual adjustments. I loved my Sony a5100 with my manual lens. Anyways I am getting side tracked.
I had the thought that I might have rolled my film into the camera wrong.
I came home, shut the blinds in my bedroom, turned every single thing off, turned my light red and as low as it could go, opened the body and nothing had chanced.. It wasn’t rolling right. I had done it wrong. Huge upset right at the start. Great learning point and a good time to learn it, but all the photos I had taken of my daughter and nephew, and that truck. Gone.
We ran back outside once it was rolled correctly and I snapped a couple of my daughter again, nephew said hell no to going back out, we walked down the street to the church where the truck was and they had just let out. Everyone was standing around it admiring it as they should. I just did not have the courage to ask if I could try and photo it really quick and just took it as a loss this time.
The sun was setting, I was making super slight flares into the lens for the photo, the manual lens adding more depth and bokeh, it will forever be a photo I can only explain and never show and it was so beautiful.
Holding a camera body from 1982, seeing through a lens from 1986 and seeing a truck from the 1950’s or a little later was so satisfying and really just something I can’t even fully express. I am beyond grateful to even have this opportunity and chance for something like this and I still can not believe it. Having the photo of the camera and the truck and me thinking I will be able to show the photo I took on the camera is hilarious. I am a little hurt, but it is all about learning. Sometimes it is about the moment, this time turned into that. Here is to being forever worried that I did not roll/rack mt film correctly.
Oh and I guess don’t subscribe for fucking newsletters because Squarespace costs for the domain, costs monthly for the features, costs for the features that you really want, pay for external plugins, pay for marketing newsletters and sending emails to people who want to enjoy my website. I wish I had known how much this shit was going to cost before hand because it is fucking insane.
f/ilm
Shooting film has been a huge interest of mine for the last couple of years and I just have not done it.
What got me hooked into photography to begin with was a disposable camera in 2003.
I have looked into film cameras for a few years at least and just never made the purchase. I have been to busy upgrading my camera equipment and learning all of it.
I was gifted a bunch of film cameras from an awesome person and I plan cleaning them up, ordering film, and shooting a lot on them. The most basics you can get is shooting film. No .RAW format, no going back and having full control over fixing your images. You have to be ready, be perfect for what you are shooting, and get the shot you want in the moment without any type of after process or corrections.
I have also done a lot of research on film and I think what I am going to go with is Portra 400, at least for the first 5 rolls. I love the colors and contrast in any sample image you see with this film.
I was given such an assortment of lenses as well and I think for at least one roll of film I am going to leave the ages dirt on the lens for shootings too add texture and character to the image.
This is a ‘‘Portra’’ Preset I am working on, really excited for the final end result and I will also have it in a Preset Pack available soon. I want to get more samples and examples using it, plus I need to create and do the same with more. I really want a film stock preset pack. It would be beautiful.
I can not wait to share the experience of 1. Cleaning the cameras, 2. Learning to really use a light meter, 3. Learning the cameras in general, 4. The end fucking result.
It has really made me appreciate so much getting these cameras. It has meant so much to be the person who received them and I can not wait to see through time when using the camera bodies and lenses.
Some of the cameras are from the 1980’s, 40 year old cameras. Lenses from the 60’s, that is 60 years ago! Seeing through glass that old has given me such a high hope feeling on the potential of these photos that I haven’t even taken yet.
I have a few already planned out and what I imagine in my head is more beautiful than I can create with my A7RIII. Some things just can not be replicated or created no matter how much you try. You can mimic very close, but you can not truly achieve it. The experience alone is something you definitely can not create on a new camera, no matter how new or expensive.
The YouTube channel I have told no one about will be getting a lot of ‘‘ASMR’’ videos of me cleaning the camera bodies and lenses and that is going to be a lot of fun to do and make!
Preset Pack Testing is going to be a Blog I make at some point too. Just showing examples of the same preset on a range of photos and how to best utilize that one preset across multiple images differently.
I have a lot planned out, it has been a lot since making this website not even a full month ago but I am here for it!
Thank you again Justin, it has been very appreciated and will continue to be!
Tanner
It’s not often to actually talk to someone about the settings and editing side of photography. It is not really a question that I am asked about.
Tanner and I however spent an entire day discussing cameras, and where to start with what camera. My suggestion was what brand do you want to start with.
I suggested the Canon 80D, the first DSLR camera I started with coming from digital cameras and .3 MP cell phones.
I also suggested the Sony a5100 the first mirrorless I started with and my switch to Sony camera.
So after talking an entire work day Tanner decided to go the canon direction, which is really good in my opinion for starting out and getting a feel for taking photos.
My main suggestion when looking into cameras was just being able to shoot in RAW.
Having the option to shoot .RAW is very important in my opinion. Controlling the Shadows and Highlights after the fact is really useful for many reasons.
With my Sony A7RIII a lot of times when even reading my histogram and seeing my screen when I import into Lightroom my images are still slightly under exposed and being able to use the .RAW image to counter that has really helped.
Running through the starting up process with someone who was genuinely interested was really cool.
So, shoots in .RAW, watch your histogram, pay attention to your exposure meter I think the most important thing though is to not compare yourself. Being off of social media has helped a lot with not comparing my work or my accounts performance to others. It is all about learning, having fun, and capturing.
I will compare myself to myself, but I won’t compare myself to someone else anymore. I will look back at something I captured a year ago and think what settings I would use now versus what I used at that time, or how I would color grade something now versus how I did at that time.
I have also talked about in other Blogs challenging yourself. I think starting out is challenging enough with everything you have to get used to and what you are learning. YouTube is your best friend but also having someone you can talk to is something I didn’t think of because I didn’t really have it. Being that person for someone is pretty fucking awesome even though sometimes I don’t feel I know as much as I would like.
My next day of shooting for fun will be shooting wide without my CPL filter
I have an event coming up in tight areas shooting and focusing on people and I need to be more ready for that than I am now, so I need to challenge myself to use this lens more than I do.
Super awesome lens for being ASP-C (Advanced Photo System type-C) on a full frame. ASP-C is also known as being Crop, so Crop Sensor Lens on a Full Frame Lens so I am having to use Crop mode on my camera to keep from having black borders and losing just a touch of quality. It still produces beautiful colors and captures so much information in one photo.
Back to the topic though, being apart of someone starting photography and wanting to learn more about creating photos and editing them has been really nice. I have enjoyed it a lot being able to be a geek about it. I also can't wait to see what all Tanner learns on his own and when he develops his own shooting and coloring style(s). It’s going to be pretty awesome!
Shot from Tanner’s Canon Rebel t7!
We all have to start learning somewhere.
Love
Engagement session for Levi & Bailey
Seeing two people happy together is so special. Sometimes we have to go through so much that in that moment doesn’t make sense, one day we will get to think while looking into the eyes of the person you want to see every second the rest of your life and realize all those times that hurt or didn’t make sense was all worth it.
Having your best friend miss you every second you are apart. being able to make fun of each other and have fun.
Planning your future together, piece by piece.
Being goofy together and having fun is something a lot of people forget you can do.
I couldn’t be happier to see two peoples future together.
Congratulations to both of you guys!
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Happy
Well, a lot has happened since my last Blog. It seriously has been amazing.
It has been hectic but it has been worth it. Taking more photos at work for a little bit, getting more people involved in the photos, peaking others interests in photography, inspiring people to pursue photography, creating future opportunities, and upgrading equipment. I couldn’t say anything less than just the best.
I am just blown away by the last week alone. Anytime I have a chance to share my photography in the work place I am going to take it. Sharing with the industry I work in is really important to me. Someone 20 years from now will probably see my photos and have the same feeling I have always had seeing what it was like years and years ago, fingers crossed at least haha.
I am still looking back at the photos from this previous week and I am still just in amazement in quality and color. The amount of people that showed excitement seeing some of my photos for the first time and the compliments I have gotten has really been more than expecting. People talking to me about their interest in photography and just being that person someone can ask questions to has been so fucking cool. Showing someone how to do basic edits in person and helping them build that knowledge is just a feeling I can’t even describe.
More Blogs are coming based off a a lot of the things talked about in this one but I just needed one where I could talk (type). It has just been so much all at once it is crazy. Also thinking about my editing and shooting from 1 year ago versus now, I think I have learned and adapted so much. Again, a thought I decided to put down because when I read this again tomorrow (Monday) it will remind me I want to make a Blog about that too.
The new drone has been just a huge thing for me. I can do so much more with it even though the top video is the new drone but I forgot to change it to 4K and I recoded such an amazing video in 1080p! Still the clarity is unreal compared to my old drone.
Anyways, I can not wait for these days off and everything I have planned. I am going shooting tomorrow with a friend from work who just bought their first DSLR camera. Being able to walk around a town I have never been to and photo with someone who is not used to cameras is going to be so much fun. I will have a Blog 100% dedicated to ‘Tanner”.
What a damn week. I seriously could not complain, it has been perfect. I am so happy and excited and content. I can not wait to write more Blogs about it all.
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My Color Correcting / Grading
The steps I follow when Color Correcting and Color Grading
I say my color grading because this is what I like to do when not using a preset or having one in mind to use.
With a lot of my photos I can visualize my presets when taking and know for the most part how I need to expose for the preset to work best. When I shoot to shoot though I like going in and giving most of my photos their own personalities and like I said in my Blog Basics Over & Over keeping your mind sharp and challenging yourself helps you improve.
Just a side comment pressing Y in Lightroom Classic and monitoring areas during or even just after editing and making sure you are not loosing details helps so much. Checking your shadows for grain you might have caused helps so much too.
Above is the photo edited in the video I added. This was just simple Color Corrections I made in the photo. I could have went into the colors and changed more and given it a style, but I wanted something simple on this.
I made the sand have more of a darker contrast against my daughters hand, I brought out a more true skin tone in her hand and arm.
So Color Corrections is where Color Grading should start. Correct the image to the closest your eyes have seen; at least this is what every YouTube video has said and so far it has worked.
The next step if you want to move past Basic Color Corrections is to play around with the Color Mixer, sometimes I skip that and move onto the Calibration setting though. It can make ‘Cinematic Color Corrections’ at least that is what I like calling it.
I am adding a bit of a look to the photo but I am barely doing anything past the Color Corrections and sometimes such as in the photo below in my opinion it works very well.
Now I will Copy and Paste those settings onto one or two more photos and see how they turn out on them.
So we have some very yellow, yellows and some very blue, blues. Not bad for making some small corrections and tweaking a couple calibrations on one photo because now we have 3 edits from taking our time on one photo.
Now the car isn’t my ideal look that I had or would have with what was captured but it still works, it still looks really good.
This is more ideal for my preference, but this is more time consuming and more extensive with tweaking colors. It all depends on your preference. I think the steps I have come to follow have worked very well for me and might for someone else too, or maybe you will take something from this and create your own steps based off of it.
I need to find out how to add a comment sections to these, it would be super cool for people to comment their thoughts and ideas and helpful tips!
Again I am not as professional, I am not better than any other person. I have just tried my best learning so much and am still trying to learn and share knowledge at the same time.
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Basics Over & Over
Allowing yourself to learn, and relearn, and refreshing yourself is a good thing.
I know for myself personally I never want to get to a point that I am not learning. I always progress in some way.
I also want to share my experiences and knowledge with others because seeing someone else learn is so much fun.
Eventually I will get to a color grading Blog, I have said it in the last two or three I have just shelved it, many reasons but mostly being back at work on days. It is hard to type these out with more thought and care when working. So much on a daily bases trying to get used to and learn on top of long drives I just want to give each thing I do my 100% effort, so it is coming but I won’t rush it.
until then here I can focus on basic things I do to help keep my mind clear and thinking.
I owned and operated my Sony A7RIII (A7R3) for one entire year. Before I was rocking the Sony a5100, with a manual lens I will find the info on and add in. This was seriously a $40 manual lens at the time.
Lens: Tycka 25mm f/1.8 Wide Angle MF Lens
Camera Body: Sony a5100
I will post sample photos below.
This was a very cheap manual lens, a camera body from 2014, I wanted to use a lower budget Sony setup when switching from Canon before making my mind up to stay and invest or go back to Canon. Clearly I chose to stay ( for now) and after 2 years shooting with the a5100 and learning the basics and interface I finally invested into Sony.
I think learning the basics of your camera over and over is good. Going through your settings, follow a YouTube video and see if their setup works for you, make changes you want to see. Make things difficult on yourself by challenging yourself.
Take a day and only shoot in jpeg and not RAW, see how that does for you on really watching your exposure. Learn your camera and all the meters to the fullest. Get an app on your phone for light metering and play around with it to make sure you expose correctly, or correctly for you.
It’s ok to mess up, as long as you correct it in the future. I had an issue for a while with over exposing. I wouldn’t pay enough attention to the entire screen and would think oh it is RAW I will just fix it later, it affected the quality without me realizing. This is something that should be basic knowledge and I was not doing it correctly. Basics over and over and over. Practicing common things, with exposure learning your cameras limits sometimes something as simple as using lower screen brightness can help so much.
I am rambling so much and I apologize, I feel I did not touch on anything other than exposure, I am very sleepy and really wanted to post something. I think this is more for a me reminder. I have spent hours digging through my camera settings time and time again, or going on shoots running different settings. Having these things in mind are really helpful.
One last thing is the Sony a7RIII has color profiles where I can customize and turn the screen Black & White which when shooting in RAW does not affect the RAW image, but will affect only the screen. I think this would be fun to shoot in and see the Color and Exposure results when going to edit. I am not an expert, I am not a professional. I have just been testing and challenging myself for a very long time and I think sharing that is amazing. It is so much fun.
One day I will start a Blog with intentions of what to type and stick to an order. Until then, thank you for you patience.
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Presets
Created with and intended to be used with Adobe Lightroom Classic (Desktop)
Have not tested with Lightroom, Lightroom CC, Lightroom Mobile
Square Space does not allow me to setup sliders for before and after presets.
I am not paying $40 for a plug-in to allow me to setup sliders, so every Page, and Blog post will have a link to here.
Welcome to my Colors.
BRWN01
BRWN02
BRWN03
BRWN04
BRWN&W
These are the presets I have mostly been working on and using in my photos.
Adjusting temperature, exposure, shadows, highlights, blacks, and whites as needed!
This preset pack will be available in the shop and I will have a button linked to it in this Blog!
I Guess This is Learning
Switching from social media to just a website, hell leaving social media all together has had its challenges so far. It has only been (as of typing this) 6 days.
I don’t really mean challenges its pretty easy, it has just had some differences I guess.
It'‘s funny the amount of people I had on social media that ignored everything I posted. The analytics showed, that is what really did it for me with leaving.
A post would have 30 views on Instagram with 0 interactions. 80% or higher from followers (103 was the highest follower count with more than half being bot accounts)
I am already starting to feel the same with this website. I didn’t really share much with anyone about this other than 2 close friends and my wife when I started this.
It wasn’t until my second Blog that I actually texted the link to people. The first time a few responses about how amazing or cool it was. By the time I shared the second link, a lot of no responses or left on read. I don’t get it.
I am not sure if I am just over sharing or if I am asking too much just wanting to share. I don’t know. I know based off of Instagram and Facebook yeah, people are just over it. I suck and I am fucking annoying. That’s what I have gathered.
Close friends, people I sometimes talk to. It just does not seem to matter.
I think that it is time for me to really just focus on what I am doing and let whatever happens happen. Other people have their own lives just as I do mine. Just because I want to over support someone in what they are doing doesn’t mean that I will get the same back.
Just because I do sessions for people doesn’t mean they are required to share. Seems odd but it is what it is.
I have a subscribe for updates option in the about. If someone wants to know what is going on with this website enough know about it they can visit the link or get email notifications when I update on here. I think I have done enough pushing with people.
This was really supposed to be a Blog about camera settings and color grading but I think that learning about the differences of leaving social media is an important thing to update on, plus this morning really just put me in a mood. It is crazy the amount of people that won’t even text you anymore. I have texted 4 people in the last week and I have started every conversation.
Anyways these are some of the photos that I will be using in the Color Grading Blog, I might work on that today, I just wanted to make this and talk to myself a bit. I will share a few bellow.
Progress
Progress
So a lot of my old photos I won’t use for this site. Reason being is that I can’t pick through them and decide which ones I want to downscale. That means I have to get out and capture more.
This was actually captured in the video above. I am going to try and get more small videos for the site depending on how well they load for my mom. If they can manage to load for her they will load for anymore.
A few things to add here, please ignore the tilt in one of the drone video clips. It has smacked a tree and a boat in its life, I would love to upgrade it but there is no demand for video at the moment and I mostly have used it for photography also no demand at the moment. I am trying to learn Final Cut Pro on the trial version because I do not want another subscription to add to the list with Premier Pro that I have always been used to editing with.
It is really nice getting to layout everything like this. It was also awesome just watching this kid play and taking photos of it. Going without social media has been the best.
I think the next time I do one of these I might actually do a blank text over a video and see how that plays for the title. The idea is cool, but I will really have to figure out Final Cut Pro!
I think next time I am going to focus on a Blog for my camera settings, and color grading. I will also probably have samples from Delilahs camera, and my iPhone. It is an idea, nothing is set.
Old Cars & Rust
Old Cars & Rust
A happy accident; Would be a good title for a future blog..
Sometimes not having anything in mind at all can be a good thing.
I am really enjoying this aspect of things. I feel like by the time I really start sharing this site with people it will have a lot of good things.
I was on my way to get a camera bag today and happened to see both of these cars. My wife was driving and I had may camera up front!
The rust and blue together are beautiful
I have no idea what kind of car this is, I am normally really good at telling what is what and being close to the year but I have not a single clue.
The headlights, grill, the contrast with the rubber mat on the tow truck, the chains. It all is to perfect.
On to the second vehicle find of the day is this Volkswagen from the 1960’s (I believe)
1960’s?
Cars are something I really enjoy shooting. I have only done some, but I love all the little details you can get. Bad example of the little details because this is some random car and I didn’t want to get all up on it.
The soft top being tore really gives this character.
The gloss paint, and the mate from fading against each other is awesome.
I should have and probably will now do a Black & White of this one!
I am so glad I did!!
I couldn’t do much with this one because it was surrounded by homes and a business. Last thing I want is the cops called because I am being weird.
Creating a website
Creating a website without any clue
Deciding to leave social media and create something on a website without any idea how to manage or do any of it is insane, right?
I have no idea what to write about on a blog, but I feel if someone is going to actually come to this site and take a look I might as well have something to share.
We made Newburgh Lock and Dam Northbound today with the M/V Ohio River Pride on our Port Side headed to Rockport.
I decided I wanted to try and make a website for a photography portfolio and try and have a place to stash all (most) of my photos.
I think doing this weekly maybe would be nice. Updating what I have done or what I am trying to learn with photography.
90% of my photos are work (river) related.
I also have to go back and downscale a lot of my photos to work with this website (20mb).