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Wednesday, August 17, 2005

A quick snap

I don't seem to be able to sleep, so I am blogging. I can't really think of anything to type here at the moment, so here's a photo instead. This was taken last year. (I've only just got round to scanning it).

autumn light
Dull technical details you probably aren't interested in: Nikon F80, 28-100G lens, Fuji Provia 100F transparency film. Camera supported by handy nearby tree. Idle conjecture I'm not going to attempt to justify with science: digital SLRs (much as I love my S2) just don't seem to do this glowy stuff quite so well. When shooting with transparency film I seem to gravitate in a McLuhanesque fashion towards translucency and filtered light; there's something about holding the result up to uneven window light afterwards that makes the subjects more attractive. Transparencies have a magical quality. The slide is both the recording medium and the final product; it was there with you in a way that a print of any kind was not. For some reason, more of that quality makes it onto a computer screen from scanning a slide than if you just capture it digitally in the first place. If I thought this was going to be the last time I went on the light-through-leaves goosechase, this would be a fairly good point to end on. This and the half-dozen others on the roll, that is.

posted by Michael at 8/17/2005 02:54:00 AM  

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