{"id":89,"date":"2007-01-27T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-27T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/?p=89"},"modified":"2026-06-15T01:33:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T01:33:49","slug":"new-years-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"New Years Resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Last year’s new year’s resolution for photography was that “I would take a much larger number of photographs of people in all types of settings”<\/span>. I thing I have been very successful.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This year I gave my self possibly a harder to keep resolution. My resolution for 2007 is: “put more mood into my photographs.”<\/span><\/p>\n

First step in my half baked plan is to figure out what mood really is I don’t mean the text book definition provided by our learned experts.<\/p>\n

Foolish me my first thoughts are maybe the media makes a difference so when someone offered me a canon film body compatible with my lens for next to nothing I jumped at the chance. Back in the old days I shot holiday and travel photos without any skill or desire so I do know a bit about shooting film but not much.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Anyway I digress more about modern film cameras in a later blog.<\/p>\n

My next thoughts was that maybe a vintage camera will give a vintage feel and mood to my shots. So I purchased this 1956 made in the USA Argus C44 range finder camera. The C3 the forefather of the C44 named the brick (shown in the Harry Potter Movies) sold 3 million copiess and established 35mm as the major film format, but the c3 has a cheap lens system and is quirky.<\/p>\n

Besides the fact that people don’t believe its 50 years old the 50mm f2.8 lens is not bad and the pictures it takes do seem to have a vintage feel maybe because of the lack of ease of use, you can be the judge. You can even with great difficulty swap lens in the field.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Three rolls later and its up for sale as I brought a new \/old vintage camera a German Zeiss rangefinder this time and I am thinking two vintage cameras makes me a collector. But I am having second thoughts its too shinny maybe I will keep it.<\/p>\n

So, so far I feel a vintage camera does alter the mood of the photographs. Only slightly because of the camera but more so because I am associating the experience using the old camera with the vintage periods of the 40s and 50s.<\/p>\n

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Last year’s new year’s resolution for photography was that “I would take a much larger number of photographs of people in all types of settings”. I thing I have been very successful. This year I gave my self possibly a harder to keep resolution. My resolution for 2007 is: “put more mood into my photographs.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metrix-x.rraz.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}