They get you on the "wire-tapping" it's not as constitutionally protected as photography.

http://www.aclu.org/free-speech/know-your-rights-photographers

Most of us aren't going to be paid for photography. It's more fun to have images used with credit given than to hide them away for nobody to see.

Unless a photographer is commissioned to take a picture, it's harder and harder to get paid for it.

I post everything I shoot in creative commons. As a result, my images are used, with my name attached, in blogs and on websites pretty regularly. Sharing, not stealing.

I learned on dry-mount presses. That's a GREAT process!

Not to mention schmucks on the street who think hasting a photographer makes them a hero.

Flickr offers several copyright and copyleft options. Ranging from complete creative commons availability to all rights reserved.

It feels safer to have everything locked up tight, but your images will be used much more often if you make them available for use with attribution.

I've got an upright fridge full of film. I don't shoot digital at all, so I've about 4-5 black and white emulsions and probably as many color emulsions that I use regularly. Each in 135, 120, some respooled for 620, even a little 110, FP100C FP3000b instant packs, and TriX super-8

There isn't a need for a terrorist to take a picture of a place they can just go. The entire concept is absurd. Hell, You could go down there with a tape measure and note pad. If you had a hard-hat the cop would never see you.

I'm disturbed that the safety of any people resides with this man and his gun.

The police don't have a RIGHT to do anything, they have procedures to follow to ensure public safety in keeping with law.

Do you have any film, film cameras, or darkroom supplies you'd like to part with? It's my sole medium and I'm always looking for new toys.

Is the first image cross-processed film?

I find it really helps to either use a small memory card, or ideally use film to practice composition. If forces you to slow down and think critically instead of just blasting away.

I disagree entirely. I have found shooting film to be much more affordable. The difference in price between a film camera that takes images you can make a living with and a digital of the same caliber buys a HUGE amount of film. Also, as film improves, and it is still improving, image quality improves without having to buy a new digital camera to keep up, which in turn buys a lot of film.

Processing at a pharmacy or lab can get expensive, but processing at home, the true parallel to post-processing raw files, is dirt cheap, easy and lots of fun.

You can't blast away and take 600 images in an afternoon, but you slow down, take time to compose, and shoot with a much better focus on composition and creative decisions. It's not a limitation so much as a creative decision and different process.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/burghex/sets/

I'm very proud of my portraiture. I'm thinking of starting on a project to take portraits of prisoners. I was inspired by a documentary about Harry Belafonte and his role in civil rights and current race issues. He talked about the "criminalization of poverty" and think it would make a moving and meaningful exhibition.

There is a lot going on here that isn't photography. Why did you make the decision to add two identical, smaller images of the car? Why the blacked out background? Why the reflection? Why the framing?

I'm not trying to bully you or anything, I'm just confused by the product, and curious about the process.

I can't help you. When I use 4x5 film I have to make contact prints and scan them, my scanner only goes up to 120 film, but the reflective scanning covers it. Doesn't sound useful for you though.

Maybe forget scanning and get a light-box or light table, take digital pictures of the negatives, and invert?

the regular grocery/drug store kodak 400? The "gold" film?

What made you chose that speed? It's probably best to have a wide selection of film speeds to choose from. Sometimes 50 is a great speed, sometimes 800, sometimes 3200. It really depends on what you'll be shooting.

I highly reccomend you order some Kodak Ektar or portra, they are brilliant color emulsions.

It's a little more expensive but these are some of the best films ever made.