Ed wrote: >My Nikons are in danger of seizing up! >The winter is well and truly here in the UK, and apart from the odd >bright frosty morning, when I'm hurrying to work and don't have time >to take photographs, I just don't get inspired. >I like to shoot colour slides on sunny days near the sea. I love >sunsets and sandwich them with other slides to make new pictures. To >make things even worse I can't get to the camera club meetings because >I'm too busy at work on Thursday evenings. >So what should I shoot in the time I've got available, when the days >are short and cold? >I wouldn't mind shooting some black and white. I haven't done any for >years. >So here's the question. >What do you all shoot in the winter? >Get me inspired, and be happy to know that you got a fellows Nikon >functioning again. Ed, Here're a few suggestions: For color, try to find bright spots of color that stand out against Winter's dull, gray background. Use Fuji Velvia to enhance the contrast of the color against the neutral background. Look for unusual snow scenes. If you're forced indoors, shoot table-top scenes or still lifes. Experiment with lighting for them. For black and white, I'd suggest that you try some of Kodak's T400CN film. It gives you a bit of extra speed for those cloudy gray days, yet has extremely fine grain characteristics, so it retains the ability to be enlarged to a high degree without becoming blotchy. T400CN processes in C-41 chemistry like standard color negative film, so you can have it processed almost anywhere. It can be printed to conventional black and white paper, or to standard color paper, on which it is capable of producing a black and white image, or one that has an overall color tone, which effect can be achieved by shifting the color correction printing filters until the desired effect is reached. If you have a web site, please post some of your best winter shots. Good shooting, and best regards, Stew
