Sunday, May 16, 2010

Preparations



I've noticed that many photographers are trying their hand(s) at making videos.  Too many.  I am not a fan. Surely it is a financial consideration.  I don't want to remember the world in video.  I want to remember it in pictures and words.  One frame per minute.

Here is another of the Fuji experiments.  I have more.  They are getting worse instead of better.  But when I return from Europe, I am going to renew my skills with the collodion process with Jody Ake.  I wanted to go to New York City anyway.  This time, I am coming home to most of the equipment I need.  I will finish getting what I don't have and begin on that long, slow process.  But it is better.  It is better to make fewer images rather than more.  I like my digital camera, don't get me wrong, but it gets too close to shooting video.  There is no reason to take so many pictures.  A few photos a day.  That is more than you need.

Yesterday I bought some very cool travel stuff.  Today is for packing.  And panicking as I think of what I have forgotten.  Then there will be the mad rush.  That is what I get for not traveling this year.  There are trips in the offing.  And that is the very good thing.

1 comment:

  1. I like this picture...not the same magic as the first one but there is something about it I like. I've been toying with the idea of finally entering the digital world...but I think I'll stick to film for awhile.

    Have fun, don't panic! It's travel and that's the good thing.

    We'll miss you... :)

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