shadowfox
Darkroom printing lives
Doug, you have a Leica S2?
ath
Well-known
I do and I always did. Every film gets a number and is entered in my self-designed notebook.
This way every single frame is defined.
This sounds pedantic but in reality it simplifies life - when you find something in a photo and ask yourself "did I use a fliter?" or "why is this not really sharp?" or "this is slightly underexposed. What ec did I set?" and of course when you are experimenting for a specific effect: when you found it you probably want to know how to repeat it. Or someone asks for a print ... search the negative...
When in a hurry I do not fill in everything but at least date, camera and lens are recorded. When enough time is left all details can be recorded. Taking pictures always has priority.
When on a trip I simply take a single sheet of this as sketch and transfer it to the proper notebook when at home.
When traveling this notebook is also handy in case I want to write down additional information, e.g. what I had for lunch, the name of the nice young lady or the name of the village I just came through.
This is a sketch sheet from a three weeks vacation:
This way every single frame is defined.
This sounds pedantic but in reality it simplifies life - when you find something in a photo and ask yourself "did I use a fliter?" or "why is this not really sharp?" or "this is slightly underexposed. What ec did I set?" and of course when you are experimenting for a specific effect: when you found it you probably want to know how to repeat it. Or someone asks for a print ... search the negative...
When in a hurry I do not fill in everything but at least date, camera and lens are recorded. When enough time is left all details can be recorded. Taking pictures always has priority.
When on a trip I simply take a single sheet of this as sketch and transfer it to the proper notebook when at home.
When traveling this notebook is also handy in case I want to write down additional information, e.g. what I had for lunch, the name of the nice young lady or the name of the village I just came through.
This is a sketch sheet from a three weeks vacation:
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Steve M.
Veteran
Just the usual lens test stuff. Now that the scanners are sold and I'm going to a darkroom only, there are going to be a LOT of notes.
Well, I didn't at the time I made that image of my records; that was from my brief opportunity to use one at the Leica Roadshow event. But I did get one a few weeks ago.
shadowfox
Darkroom printing lives
dct
perpetual amateur
Most of the information is obvious from the subject and the image data is well stored in EXIF tags with digital. But even in digital I do mostly some speech comment in a actual mobile phone for scene and lens changes. For film I replicate that into an Excel sheet for each roll or shooting, adding a few more information.
Hi Will -- the three most recent in this gallery are from the S2: http://www.dslrexchange.com/photopostdslrx/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=622 One's a pretty crappy pic, but then I'm still working my way through the manual.How about some pictures then?
back alley
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i barely took notes in school...