Max wrote:Digital is easy, but not always as good as film was. Nothing still compares with the color saturation from the old Chrome films that Kodak and others used to make. It's ironic that I became a photographer because I was born in Rochester, NY and part of my family worked for Kodak, one Uncle being the curator of the Eastman Kodak museum for many years. His father pioneered Die-Sublimation printing among other things. We have some incredible photos of our family growing up just because of the type of equipment that everyone had and the film they were using. Trying to outdo each other also helped. I'm still blown away by the quality of the old slides and B&W prints we have tucked away.
Just a comment from a picky photographer, not meant to disrespect what digital can do these days.
Cool story! I agree, film is still king in terms of image quality, and I think it'll still be around for a while in some form. I fired off a few shots with my old Ricoh SLR the other day. My DSLR is awesome, but there's just something about the mechanical feel of an aperature ring and manual film advance lever.
Cory, I looked it up and "A" is indeed aperature priority mode on your camera. That's a good mode to use as you still have control over your ISO setting. As Max pointed out earlier, a low ISO and slow shutter speed works wonders on night or low-light shots.
Your latest image is much cleaner. My one suggestion would be to crop it in a bit tighter on the family so they're featured more prominently. You've got some cool stuff going on with the shed and railroad crossing sign, but I think croppng out some of the sky and foreground would make the family more of a focal point.
Mike, in a similar vein, I think you could crop yours in a bit tighter on the trucks, and lose the date stamp in the lower right-hand corner (you should be able to shut that feature off in your camera). Cool shot though!
