Bloody Teenagers

50% crop from 110 negative, scanned with Canon LiDE 600f and

converted to BW. Picture was taken using my little Pentax Auto 110.

This picture makes me smile as I remember the happy moment :)

Comments on image quality appreciated. Considering this is just half

of a 110 negative, would you say it looks quite respectable? I'm

pleased, and having fun with the camera.

You made her wear that didn't you.

This is the look I get from my son in almost all my pictures.

I do love the feel of it.

I wish I could see it in print. Was the grain on the print?

Micki, thanks for your comments on this. There's a good story behind this picture. We were on an activity holiday a few weeks ago. On each day (7 in all) we took part in 4 activities lasting about one and a half to two hours each. Lots required the wearing of helmets, which of course had been worn by lots of sweaty people previously. For this particular activity, the helmets stank to high Heaven. My daughter got the right strops and told the leader of this activity that she refused to do it if she had to wear a stinky sweaty helmet. She then went to stomp off but I refused to let her go until I had taken a picture of her beautiful smiling face. She soon got over it - well, after about 5 hours! Kids - despite arguments and stropping and being teenagers, they're still a part of us and we still love 'em don't we? Wouldn't be without them for the world though.

You mentioned the grain in the photo - yep, that's there on the negatives. This is one of the things I like about using the 110 film in my little Pentax. It adds what I think is a great feel to some pictures that is so easily lost when shooting with some films and with digital cameras. It seems a lot less "clinical" if you know what I mean. I've been taking quite a lot of pictures with this film and camera and have a lot that I'm really fond of. People often mention the really poor quality of 110 negatives but I'm liking them more and more!

Thanks again. I'll be popping over to you pictures and also giving more response to the CG ones over the next couple of days. I've just been so busy and should be sleeping at the moment, but wanted to comment here first.

Man! if looks could kill you'd have died on the spot.

Better cameras don't take better photographs, better photographers do. I have seen some truly amazing shots come out of pin-hole cameras. You know the old cliche " it's not what you've got, it's what you do with it " :)