Frame-A-Day: A farewell to color

128. Forest Park, originally uploaded by jeffrey_knight.

Well, it's been a good run, but this is the last color frame-a-day image for a while. It's back to black and white!

I started using the color film a while back first as a camera test, as I wanted to familiarize myself with my Nikon n90s. After that, it was a couple of rolls for film testing, the new Kodak Portra 400 and Ektar 100. Now that all those tests are out of the way, I can get back to my black and white film.

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Frame-A-Day: Forest Park at Dawn

124. Forest Park at Dawn, originally uploaded by jeffrey_knight.

As much as I enjoy taking landscape photographs, I've never really done the whole 'wake up and get to your chosen spot before sunrise' thing. I know about the soft 'magic light' in the time surrounding sunrise and sunset, but I've never had enough discipline to act on that.

Recently, however, I've been thinking I need to take a more considered approach to my 'frame-a-day' project. Random snapshots of various things can be fun, but if I want get anything out of this project, I need to be putting more into it.

That is not to say everything I post from here out will be nothing short of a masterpiece. As I said above, random snapshots are fun, and they do really help when it comes to photographic dry spells, but there are times I will have to give my photos much more thought than I have been in recent weeks/months. The discipline of shooting and posting more often must now tighten up into shooting and posting more deliberate subject matter.