Things I’ve learned
1. Never trust the darkslide “lock”
2. If I’m going to shoot predawn, I need to start wearing a watch again.
3. If the darkslide hangs while trying to insert after a shot, just plan on repeating the exposure, because the film is now creased
4. There is a reason Mother Nature made dust, I just have to figure out what it is.
5. Just because the darkslide inserts easily after a shot, doesn’t mean you didn’t manage to originally feed the film into the slide track, you idiot, and now the film is above the slide
6. The difficulty of the composition and focusing is inversely proportional to the window of desirable light.
7. Make room in the bag for a bottle of tequila and a lime.
8. Creating a bellows extension compensation spreadsheet, and loading it into your PDA, means that you will drop the pda onto the only rock around , shattering it just when you are ready to calculate your first compensation
9. I have GAS, and there is nowhere to turn for help, as all the denizens of the LF Forum are a bunch of sick, twisted, bastards who have it worse than I, and only feed the fire
10. Getting one good image can make you forget all the above
Here’s a couple of my first shots. All you purists who disdain cropping/editing can move along now, there’s nothing for you to see here…
For the rest, not much here to brag about, I'm just trying to get the basics down. Pointers/suggestions would be welcomed.
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