I am getting too anxious to get through this week, I am leaving for Los Angeles this Saturday, 7/26/08. And it looks like I will be caught up with quite a bit of work ahead before my last day this Friday, a new design client came in for an initial design consultation that could be a very exciting project. It will for sure keep me busy and not think about the trip too much!
Oh well.... this trip is quite fun since we will be passing through South Dakota to see Mount Rushmore and on to Salt Lake City, Utah then Las Vegas and final destination Los Angeles. Most of my travels have been a bit more local and to get a chance to see new places is always a treat. The last couple of weeks we ventured to Rushing River in Ontario and Clear Lake in Manitoba.
Too excited and confused on the equipment to bring, I am planning to shoot mostly film for this trip but my Nikon lens line up is not as good as my Zuiko/Leica glass for my Olympus... But I was also planning on bringing along my Nikon D2Xs to accompany my Nikon F5 film body...but I just hate cleaning my D2Xs' sensor. I am settling on bringing my Olympus E330's instead for this trip. I will still bring my Nikon F5 for my film shots...still thinking if I should. ;-)
Getting too stuck up on gear seems quite confusing at times, I started to shoot 35mm film again just quite recently due to the fact that I am getting too backed-up with all the albums I have to edit and post on the web. It's too much work to shoot digital, it was suppose to be convenient but trust me with my 10 albums delayed(all personal shoots around Winnipeg), it doesn't look too convenient at all. Sure you can be all relax and keep taking shots and delete bad ones but in my opinion film is a saving grace... I go to Photocentral and drop off my roll and the next day I enjoy my photos...simple! Scan then post on the web.
One thing that I always taught myself is that I always make all my shot count, digital or film... with film with the 36 exposures I have(I use consumer films...I don't shoot for anyone so consumer films are more than what I need), I end up with 20-24 really good ones, since I plan my shots ahead of time and tend to be more careful and not waste a frame. Actually a very good waste of my F5's 8 frames a second and high speed auto focus...since I manual focus most of the time and always a single shot at a time.
Oh well.... this trip is quite fun since we will be passing through South Dakota to see Mount Rushmore and on to Salt Lake City, Utah then Las Vegas and final destination Los Angeles. Most of my travels have been a bit more local and to get a chance to see new places is always a treat. The last couple of weeks we ventured to Rushing River in Ontario and Clear Lake in Manitoba.
Too excited and confused on the equipment to bring, I am planning to shoot mostly film for this trip but my Nikon lens line up is not as good as my Zuiko/Leica glass for my Olympus... But I was also planning on bringing along my Nikon D2Xs to accompany my Nikon F5 film body...but I just hate cleaning my D2Xs' sensor. I am settling on bringing my Olympus E330's instead for this trip. I will still bring my Nikon F5 for my film shots...still thinking if I should. ;-)
Getting too stuck up on gear seems quite confusing at times, I started to shoot 35mm film again just quite recently due to the fact that I am getting too backed-up with all the albums I have to edit and post on the web. It's too much work to shoot digital, it was suppose to be convenient but trust me with my 10 albums delayed(all personal shoots around Winnipeg), it doesn't look too convenient at all. Sure you can be all relax and keep taking shots and delete bad ones but in my opinion film is a saving grace... I go to Photocentral and drop off my roll and the next day I enjoy my photos...simple! Scan then post on the web.
One thing that I always taught myself is that I always make all my shot count, digital or film... with film with the 36 exposures I have(I use consumer films...I don't shoot for anyone so consumer films are more than what I need), I end up with 20-24 really good ones, since I plan my shots ahead of time and tend to be more careful and not waste a frame. Actually a very good waste of my F5's 8 frames a second and high speed auto focus...since I manual focus most of the time and always a single shot at a time.
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