Sunny 16 rule

I started taking pictures in the digital era so I never heard of the Sunny 16 rule. I probably never heard of it because I never took any type of class or workshop in photography.
It's the big advantage and the disadvantage of learning by yourself, you always skip to the part you really want to learn about!

I finally got the courage to go out and shoot 35mm but unfortunately I must have forgotten the light meter switch on and killed the battery I purchased for the Spotmatic.
So I said to myself "use your gut feeling, that should be enough" the result was 36 pictures with overexposure.
If I had known about the Sunny 16 rule this never would have happened...stay in school kids :)

It was a bit cloudy and I tend to underexpose all my pictures, not only when I use manual lenses but even with the modern electronic gear I've got, so my gut feeling was to let more light in than usual. 

They were not that bad and it even added an extra vintage look to them but it was not deliberate so it feels kind of cheating XD

I'll try to keep uploading photos on my 35mm set when I have some spare time for it and I bought a new battery and film, so I hope I'll get it right next time.

And, for all you purist out there, I edited them so they didn't look so bad...haters gonna hate...

Scanning 35mm with a DSLR

This week I had the craziest idea...well to be honest I have crazy ideas all the time!

"I'll use the DSLR with macro to scan 35mm film!"

At first I thought it was genius and a never attempted idea...but the internet proved me wrong once again: http://babryce.com/slidedigitizer.html

There are even guys who have created automated systems for it, but I decided to do something a little more low tech.

I used some paper clips, a paper support to elevate the film, desk light, tripod and a 50mm lens on extension tubes.

Post processing was just inverting the color, desaturating, adjusting levels and removed dust spots. I used a picture that had lots of sky on it because it was the best way to know how mutch dust I'd get on the process.

But after scanning the original print I realized that part of that dust was already from the picture itself.

What surprised me the most was that I got more with and height from my macro shots then the original printed picture.

I also found something in the back of the print that was quite common then and I kind of miss it in this new digital era, in the back of the picture was handwiten by my wife “Vila Praia de Ancora 14 Fevereiro 2003” it was only then that I remembered that beautiful sunny valentine's day.