Up and Running

It's official, both the start of 'cross season and the launch of new webspace http://omphotos.jessicagreenberg.com/

Last weekend was the Richmond festival of cyclocross. I raced collegiate men's A Saturday and again Sunday. I won both. I'm pretty sure I placed 7th and 4th in the pro 1/2 field, but was only scored/registered for the collegiate race. It's nice to know I would have been in the money though.

http://omphotos.jessicagreenberg.com/

Giana and I took some pictures at the race. The colorful digi pix are hers and later this week we'll have scans of real photos made with film. Enjoy.

http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/10/news/north-carolina-state-dominates-atlantic-conference-collegiate-cyclocross-opener_146022

Test Prints

Chemicals are cool. Making prints on real paper is cooler. The best part is that it only takes 30 seconds to scan prints from a whole roll of film from a contact print, but to scan the negatives themselves takes an hour.

I made my own negative carrier and cut the hole slightly larger than usual so the border and sprocket holes show through.

Most of the images on these rolls were tests like the series of folders each a different color. I took that one a few times with a few different filters, same with the ball. The blank ones are plain objects and different lenses and f stops. Eventually I hope to learn something from these rolls.

Proof

It's been a while since I've worked in a darkroom. I started using the one on campus and now get to make 8x10 prints of my negatives. These prove I took pictures. The really cool part is that unlike with digital you can see how I composed the images in the camera (no cropping) and also what my success rate was.




I plan to scan and post all the 'cross season pics this way. You can always right click to save the image then rotate and modify using your favorite image editing software.

Projects

A year ago I posted Rally pictures. These were to be the images that remind me of Raleigh. Well, like my graduate studies, I still have some work left to do. I'm restarting project Rally and plan to make a more complete set of reasonably aesthetically pleasing images in and around Raleigh, NC.

Project dos will be Project Operation ACCC 'Cross Season 2010.

Sister bear

The lil'est competed in her first triathlon last weekend and won for her age group. She was one of the slowest swimmers of all time, then rode her bike faster than half of all the competitors, and ran faster than 75% of participants. Nicely done. She averaged just shy of 20mph for 14 miles - without the use of those funny looking aerobars.

http://www.coolrunning.com/results/10/ma/Sep5_Inaugu_set6.shtml