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<blockquote data-quote="Eye-level" data-source="post: 69083" data-attributes="member: 6548">Very nice Pete.I am sort of unhappy with all of my snaps from vacation.&nbsp; I had these grand plans to take tons of pictures but when I got there the whole experience was so overwhelming I think that I ended up taking a whole bunch of mediocre pictures.&nbsp; Which is about par for me a lot of the times anyways.&nbsp; None of my portraits were what I imagined them to be and I made so many little mistakes.&nbsp; I have put down the digital since I got home and picked up the film (I took the F2 and four rolls of film on vacation and shot exactly one frame with it!) and although I haven't developed them yet I have a roll of what I think will be good portrait snaps.&nbsp; I am sort of back in my own milieu and the film camera causes me to think a little bit more about what I am doing.Probably the best shot I made out of 750 on vacation was the second one of Evelyn in post #1.&nbsp; I was either shooting at funny angles and not getting down to eyelevel with the subject or I was focusing wrong or I was exposing wrong or I was to far or to short or just plain composing bad.&nbsp; I probably didn't interact with the subjects like I should have and I wasn't even thinking about lighting because I was sort of dumbstruck by everything.Alas I am still gonna work on being better especially with the portraits.&nbsp; I love learning all the little things as I go along but sometimes it is a PITA learning them because it costs you good kodak moments.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Eye-level, post: 69083, member: 6548"] Very nice Pete. I am sort of unhappy with all of my snaps from vacation. I had these grand plans to take tons of pictures but when I got there the whole experience was so overwhelming I think that I ended up taking a whole bunch of mediocre pictures. Which is about par for me a lot of the times anyways. None of my portraits were what I imagined them to be and I made so many little mistakes. I have put down the digital since I got home and picked up the film (I took the F2 and four rolls of film on vacation and shot exactly one frame with it!) and although I haven't developed them yet I have a roll of what I think will be good portrait snaps. I am sort of back in my own milieu and the film camera causes me to think a little bit more about what I am doing. Probably the best shot I made out of 750 on vacation was the second one of Evelyn in post #1. I was either shooting at funny angles and not getting down to eyelevel with the subject or I was focusing wrong or I was exposing wrong or I was to far or to short or just plain composing bad. I probably didn't interact with the subjects like I should have and I wasn't even thinking about lighting because I was sort of dumbstruck by everything. Alas I am still gonna work on being better especially with the portraits. I love learning all the little things as I go along but sometimes it is a PITA learning them because it costs you good kodak moments. [/QUOTE]

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