Flowers Anyone?

[Marvin d martian]

It was lit from high and left with a Nikon sb800 in a 40" parabolic umbrella, metered with a sekonic flash meter but at iso 50 rather than 100. Just a trial realy but liked the result. Should be scanning a few more later today.

Thanks,
Mart

[Marvin d martian]

And a landscape version from the same session.

[IMG] sunflowers2 LF by Marvin d martian100, on Flickr[/IMG]

Mart

[mdm]

Pulled it out of the bin and cut it up for the scanner. Efke IR without filter in D23.

[jchesky]

I couldn't resist.

Dan V, exquisite

[jchesky]

lbenac,. the lens certainly looks like a winner to me.

[jchesky]

Unique!!

Nasser, this is very nice.

[jcoldslabs]

So I have the Century 10A set up finally, and I've been using it this week for all kinds of stuff. Lots of failure going on, but I'm learning quite a bit. Some friends were visiting from out of town yesterday and kindly brought us some flowers. Since I never have flowers on hand I thought I would try a few shots. Not my area of expertise, but whatever. (Let me say that, as with landscapes, doing this kind of work gives me renewed respect for those who do it well.)

I ended up racking the camera out to 37" (didn't know it could go that far) with my 19 3/4" Copying Ektanon. Trouble is, the film I'm using has an E.I. of 1.5, and shooting at f/22 became f/45 with the bellows extension factor. This led to a twenty minute exposure. No joke. I had to pull the dark slide and walk away into the office for twenty minutes. This didn't even account for reciprocity, but I have no idea what factor to use with this film so I just gave it extra development instead.




Jonathan

[Fourtoes]

Black glass whole plate....

[Ramiro Elena]

I'd like to see that better, looks pretty freakin incredible as is.

[jcoldslabs]

Today I was futzing around shooting flowers again, mostly with non-instant film. As I was about to tear down I saw a sheet of type 55 that was lying on the table nearby, shot it for the heck of it and pulled it through the rollers not expecting much, mainly because material this expired is so unpredictable.

When I peeled it apart and cleared the negative I was surprised to see a severe case of solarization with a gilding effect that I've never seen before. (The only way I can show this metallic sheen is with a crappy snapshot of the negative in the wash. See below.) I was hoping to be able to capture some of this glowing look in the scanning process, so I first scanned it as a negative as I usually would, but then scanned it as a positive transparency and then on the flatbed like a print. Each version scanned in completely differently on its own, and since I couldn't really decide on a favorite I ganged them all up. Only the last one required significant post processing. Scanning breakdown is as follows:

Upper left - Negative scan. The colors came in like that when scanned RGB.
Upper right - Transparency scan. I expected this to simply look like an inverted version of #1, but that's not how it came out.
Bottom left - Flatbed reflective scan. Again, totally different. Colors left as they scanned in.
Bottom right - An inverted version of #3. On this one I had to severely crunch the levels to get it to work.

Anyway, weird stuff, but I am both surprised and pleased with the result. I wish I could count on it happening again!

Toyo 45A, Sironar-N 210mm @ f/11, Polaroid type 55 P/N film (expired 1981), three minute exposure.







Here's how it looked in the wash:




Jonathan