I meant to post this last week, but I don't think I got around to it ...
My ex-housemate hasn't removed the last of his stuff, and he said I
could use his computer & scanner until he takes them away (my scanners
don't have transparency adaptors, his is a Canoscan LiDE 600F) so I've
been scanning lots of old negatives and the occasional unmounted roll
of slide film and burning things to CD, not particularly prioritising,
(beyond reaching for rolls that I'd only ever gotten contact sheets
made from before ones that I've already had printed), just getting
through as many rolls as I can manage to do before I run out of time,
momentum, or blank CDs.
Consequently, I've been looking at a lot of images from 1997-2004,
and although (or maybe because?) I'm flipping through the scans
relatively quickly, I'm starting to note patterns in which of the
things I tend to try really work, and which I should remind myself
not to do any more.
The biggest lesson I've learned from this exercise so far is more
obvious than any other pattern I've noticed, and a very simple, if
not inexpensive, adjustment to my shooting style:
I should really use infrared film a lot more often.
(Hmm. While I was writing this, there was a zzzZZZIIIP*THUD*, the
rather distinctive sound of a two-car collision on a rain-slick
street. The police showed up a lot more quickly than any of the
other times I've called 911. Both drivers are ambulatory, *whew*.
This has, of course, nothing at all to do with the rest of this
message.)
-- Glenn
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