02-12-13 Back In the Days of Film

Here's a photo that was taken with my Canon film camera 12 years ago. Yes, film! If you look closely, you will see white specks. Those are dust specks on the negative. And if you look closely again, you will see film grain. Holy cow!My workflow for this photo was as follows

Visit the Como Park Conservatory in Minnesota

Take the photo

Go home

Develop the film in my makeshift darkroom

Scan the negative with my very slow high resolution film and slide scanner

Put the scanned file in a folder on my Mac

Burn the folder to a CD (yes, a CD)

Put the CD into a CD case

Put the CD case in my very crowded closet

Forget about the CD case for 12 years

Look for a shirt that fell off the hanger in my closet

Find the CD case

Forget about the shirt and everything else

Post the photo after minor retouching in Aperture

There you go. And, if you ask me, I like the photo but it's not all that special. As if no one else ever stood here and took the exact picture. . . .

05-05-12 Sunken Garden

Here's another quick shot taken with my iPhone and processed with Instagram. The location is the sunken garden at the Como Park Conservatory in St. Paul, Minnesota.

05-04-12 Conservatory

In an Instagram photo a "real" photo? Of course. This is a quick shot I took of the Como Park Conservatory in St. Paul, Minnesota, while waiting for my photo students to finish their own photographic enterprises.Here's another "real" photo, taken by one of my second year LATI Photo/Media students, Kelly Ortmeier.

Orchids on the iPhone

This is the third in the series, once again captured at the Como Park Conservatory. This photo is a bit blurry, but it beats the blurry blizzard photo I considered posting today.iPhone 4 1/15s f/2.8 ISO100 3.85mm

Big Green Leaf on the iPhone

One of the problems with the iPhone is that you need to touch a spot on the back screen to take a photo. Thus, you can only really use one hand to hold the camera. In the case of the "Big Green Leaf," found in the Como Park Conservatory, the camera used a pretty slow shutter speed, and it was hard not to have a shaky camera. I'll figure this out, I'm sure.The lines on the leaf are what begged me to take this photo. Do I really hear things talk to me when I'm out taking photos? Yes. In fact some times they shout.iPhone 4 1/15s f/2.8 ISO160 3.85mm