In 2004 a group of us went for a camping trip on Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay.

For that trip I had along with me my point and shoot digital camera (at the time an Olympus D40) and my film camera (this pre-dated my digital SLR days).  Once I had a relatively reasonably reliable digital point and shoot it was pretty standard for me to shoot b&w film and use the point and shoot for color snapshots.

I later scanned this image in using my Nikon Coolpix film scanner.  And looking at this image, vs. digital images converted to black and white, there is definitely a difference.  I love the grain in the image.

After scanning the image in, I did some post-processing in Lightroom, including lightening up the faced of the girls a little and improving the contrast a little on this foggy day.  I like this picture as a simple portrait of my nieces.  They’re smiling and having a good time.

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