Polaroid 55 and the Slow Death of Film

I’m going to wax a little techie and a little nostalgic today.  So forgive me in advance. I started taking pictures just a handful of years ago, and only about 2 years ago with any seriousness so you could say that I’m a child of the digital age.  That said, I’ve got 35mm, medium format, and large format film cameras as well. Switching between formats and cameras really does help improve your eye, as I wrote about the other day. So last weekend my sister’s... Read More

Tools for Framing

Even though I finished the 365 Portraits project a few weeks ago, I’ve still been shooting a fair amount. Let’s figure half and half between the 5D SLR and the Leica I got on the 31st (I really can’t put it down.  Ask anyone who’s seen me in the last month, I’ve made them all try it). The thing that I’ve noticed is that my photos from the two are different, and I mean this beyond the differences between film and digital, or canon versus... Read More