Out and About — Donna Hopkins

I struggle to see pictures in black and white. I use my iPhone camera, set to black and white, taking snapshots to help train my eye, hoping to get a feel for which scenes and subjects will make for moving and evocative images. Landscapes are also not my strength, so this roll of film was a challenge—black and white and landscapes, mostly. I have some questions about tones, preferring the softness of a gentle sepia color to the starkness of straight up black and white. But I don’t have a consistent workflow to process film scans to produce those tones. At least not in the same way, with the same tones, so as to create a body of work with consistency and flow. So much to learn . . .