Sunset in Bohol
This is from the western side of Panglao island. I’d forgotten my meter and the M7’s batteries finally died, so I had to guess the exposure. The sunset was even more amazing in real life.
This is a good shot because I spent time making it. Had I been using my D3 I would most likely have fired off a few quick shots, chimped a few times and never looked back. Instead we spent an hour on an old pier, looking out at the South China Sea. My D3 crashing into the cold hard stone floor of Kuala Lumpur’s otherwise excellent Islamic Arts Museum and subsequently freaking out during heavy rains in Bohol, then, was a good thing.
In addition to making lots of great film shots the D3’s incapacitation helped me avoid what the BlogHer audience discussed and Danah Boyd nicely summarized as Obsessively recording and sharing our vacations.
Film shots are more social. No, really, they are, because you’re not continuously sucked into an LCD screen or a computer monitor, nor are you obsessed with finding good wifi so you can upload your shots. Social, as in, you know, hanging out with your wife and getting to know new people and places. Social.
Also, developing film costs NOK 10 in the Philippines. It doesn’t matter if it’s 135 format or 120 format: NOK 10. Here in Oslo, the cheapest alternative is six times as expensive. You don’t even want to think about the cost of scanning 