Photography Experiments

Another post about my attempts at black and white photography.

I learned something today: I finally got around to developing the 6 rolls of film I took while visiting my college and watching friends graduate.

When I looked at them on the computer however, I was upset to see that nearly every shot I had taken indoors was grainy. Not blurry, grainy.

I asked my nearly all knowing Uncle Arthur why, and he said it had something to do with the speed of film I bought. The faster the speed, the larger (or was it smaller?) the crystals in the film at that "melt" when hit by light.

If I bought a high speed film (which I did thinking it would be better), indoor shots would be grainy because the shot was exposed to less light. Huh.

But back to the picture above: I love architecture, and this is, I think, one of the most interesting buildings in Salt Lake. This is our public library. I took this shot wanting to capture the play of reflection on the glass. I think I did an okay job. I wish the background were less busy (what with the billboard and the umbrellas), but all in all, I am rather happy with this picture.

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Photography Experiments

This is one of the first pictures that I took. I read a blog somewhere that mentioned when taking photos of people, to not have them centered.

Centered photos were like mug shots. So I played with taking this shot of my mom as we were out to breakfast off center.

I should have listened to my camera however. The flash popped up, but silly me thought it would wash out the photo.

The only thing that really worked I think, is the background. I wanted the foreground to be in focus and the background to be slightly out of focus.

Still, I wish I knew why the image was grainy though...