Picktours

I've been teaching myself about manual non-digital photography. My friend Alan lent me his old camera(Olympus) that he no longer uses and my friend Dan lent me his grandfather's old camera(Canon), so I've been alternating taking photos with each camera using cheap Kodak color 200 film, to get an idea of how the cameras work and how the different settings effect the image. I write it down in a list. I've been really enjoying using the Canon, it has such direct and simple functions, the Olympus has a couple added features which I don't entirely understand yet. Once I get the photos developed I'll have the sheet to compare to and I plan on writing the settings under which each picture was photographed on the back of each picture, so I have a reference for what settings achieve what.

I took a few pictures around the neighborhood, biked around a bit. But it will be much better once I can adequately choose what camera to leave the house with, because having the two swinging around my neck is a bit of a hinderance and distracts from the search for pictures. There is a building near here I really like, at the bottom it is a laundromat, but the top is apartments and it's painted a neon green, the building connected to it with the same layout is painted a deep burgundy. They look nice, I took a few pictures of that.

I biked through the park that's a few blocks from here, it has a baseball field, I photographed that. But I assume the park will be much more aesthetic at a different time of year, the grass is turning brown and the trees have no leaves. I'm not a winter person.

(don't pay too much mind to the quality of the digital pictures here, the digital camera I have is pretty crappy and is total hit or miss on picture quality being almost completely automatic)