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.

Frame-A-Day 100: Wassup!

100. Wassup!, originally uploaded by jeffrey_knight.

Well, here we are at the big 100. I've shot and processed and uploaded and blogged at a higher rate than I ever have before.

And I'm not really sure what I am supposed to be learning from all of this.

Frame-a-Day 98: Antique Shop

98. Antique Shop, originally uploaded by jeffrey_knight.

I mentioned earlier about my underexposing the portra by 1 stop. Here's an image where I did just that. Inside the little antique shop, I rated the film speed at 800. Because this roll was processed normally (not pushed), this frame was effectively underexposed by 1 stop. It looks just fine to me. The film's grain is a little more evident than in the normally exposed images, but it's not excessive and even tends to lend a pleasing texture to my eye.

Late March Snowstorm

Late March Snowstorm, originally uploaded by jeffrey_knight.

Winter's not quite done with us yet, though I am very much done with it.

Frame-A-Day: Plant, steel and brick

95. Plant, steel and brick, originally uploaded by jeffrey_knight.

I'm finally getting a chance to use the new Portra 400 film from Kodak, and I have to say that so far, it's living up to its awesome rep. I've got stuff from the same roll that was overexposed 1 stop, shot at box speed and underexposed 1 stop, and it all looks great.

They just put out an ISO 160 version of the same film. If they could pull of the same trick with Portra 800, I'd be one happy camper.

Frame-A-Day (Now in Color!)

84. Snow!, originally uploaded by jeffrey_knight.

Frame-A-Day continues, but I've changed things up for the next few weeks. The images have been shot on my Nikon f4 on Fuji Superia 400 film. Here's to hoping a splash of color helps Spring arrive quickly.

Like, tomorrow!

Frame-A-Day Catch-Up

75. Tomato Cage and Door, originally uploaded by jeffrey_knight.

I've been terribly neglectful of this blog as of late. Not so the whole 'frame-a-day' project, which continues over on my flickr stream. We're up to 75 images now, heading towards 100, which is a bit of a milestone I should think. There are a few change-ups in the project coming down the pike, but no thoughts of quitting yet.