36

[Black Pearl]

This spins off a thread on another forum where a member set himself a challenge.

 

Put your camera in manual, put on a fixed lens (or make sure you don't zoom) switch off the preview function (you can do this) so you can't see what you have shot and be tempted to chimp then go out to take pictures but stop at 36.

He put his camera into B&W but I get that that isn't everyones cup of tea. What I would say is you should do no processing or even better shoot jpegs and simply re-size them.

 

No time limit but if you fancy a go post your five best shots below - five out of 36 would be good back in the day and you could do little or nothing to them if you sent the negs to a lab.

 

I will try to do this at the weekend and put up my best five.

It will rely on honesty because the temptation to fiddle will be great but I guarantee if you stick to the rules you will learn something from it - either by your own results or from the fantastic feedback this forum can generate.

[annie]

Sounds a great little project...should I get the time I may give it a go this weekend too...

Edited February 26, 2014 by annie

[Leon]

I'm going to see if my old Praktika works this year and run a roll of proper film...one day!!

[NannyFerret]

I take it that we can change the manual settings as we go along.

[Black Pearl]

Yeah, anything you can do in-camera goes so exposure, iso, filters, colour, mono, styles but try not to process them on a computer.

 

Think of it as the ultimate "Straight Out Of Camera" experiment. The shot s might be terrible, they might be canny and you never know they might be great - be interesting and I think educating either way.

 

 

Its just a bit of fun and there's no time frame - just let the thread run and see what crops up.

[ChrisLumix]

Yeah, anything you can do in-camera goes so exposure, iso, filters, colour, mono, styles but try not to process them on a computer.

 

Think of it as the ultimate "Straight Out Of Camera" experiment. The shot s might be terrible, they might be canny and you never know they might be great - be interesting and I think educating either way.

 

 

Its just a bit of fun and there's no time frame - just let the thread run and see what crops up.

 

Since the name of it - "36" - obviously aims to recapture film days, it might be a good challenge to set the ISO from the outset and not vary it. After all, zooming long predates digital, but variable ISOs don't.

[NannyFerret]

It was only the speed and aperture that I was referring to.
I was going to leave the ISO. Too much hassle changing the ISO for so many shots.

[Denis]

I'm up for this too, by not processing it sounds like my regular everyday (or month) thing

D3000 with a 35mm f1.8 set at 200 ISO, Ok, done...out I go.....

[Denis]

Epic fail today, weather turned awful...another day soon perhaps.

[ChrisLumix]

Epic fail today, weather turned awful...another day soon perhaps.

 

Ditto - gorgeous yesterday but I had visitors, awful today.

[Black Pearl]

Charged the Nikons batteries, think I've settled on using my 35mm lens, going to use 400iso as I usually use that speed of film, jpeg's on the SD card for posting here and NEF's on the CF card....just in case I get a cracker that needs a bit of work....off down the the allotment later this morning with the boys so I'm going to try and document the day in 24 shots.

 

I've turned the image review off and I promise not to cheat.

Actually I'm excited to see what I end up with - hopefully at least 4 shots to post here.

[Barbara]

Well I gave it a go

Set on Jpeg  Manual ISO 400   F11( I knew most would be landscape) Daylight WB, Used 18 -270 lens but kept it at 35mm

 

Couldn't find where to set the sat & sharp etc (new camera) so just shifted from Neutral to which I use with Raw format to landscape.

Shot off 27, rather disappointed in the saturation in some of these and also wonder If I could have managed the shadows a bit better if I had the benefit of the histogram

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bfurphy/sets/72157642209096894/

Edited March 12, 2014 by blackrox