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sure, there are a lot of beautiful photogrphs posted on this website in these threads
but i'd like to see something completely different than what is in your comfort zone.
you like photographing rocks and trees? how about uploading a portrait?
you like photographing nudes? how about an architectural photograph
still lives? how about an a abstract ..
you like portraits? how about a landscape ...
you know, something that stretches you, was difficult for you to do, and maybe, you'll do it again.
The most difficult thing for me to photograph was some weddings -- and no, I will not do it again. I suppose something in a pictorial style would be the biggest stretch for me...don't hold your breath waiting for it!
Since I have been photographing for 40 years, I have been doing a lot of stretching to keep limber. Including color work.
I would not call this stretching, just have a lot of fun. Polaroid image transfer -- self-portrait with a couple of enlargers I hauled out of the darkroom for some maintenance (back before my beard turned white!)
Andrew O'Neill
17-Oct-2016, 19:42
Don't really do the soft focus thing, but I do have a Wollaston meniscus. Sitting bored at home last August, thought I'd play with it. Waterhouse stop was not inserted all the way, and got this interesting effect. On Green double-sided, x-ray.
https://c5.staticflickr.com/9/8608/30101080260_cb16f36454_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/MRVUsq)WheelBarrow (https://flic.kr/p/MRVUsq) by Andrew O'Neill (https://www.flickr.com/photos/62974341@N02/), on Flickr
Pictorial style is not really just soft focus, but now that I think about it, I did try a cheap magnifying lens on a Speed Graphic (first two)...and solarizing a Type 55 negative.
Kirk Gittings
17-Oct-2016, 20:49
sure, there are a lot of beautiful photogrphs posted on this website in these threads
but i'd like to see something completely different than what is in your comfort zone.
you like photographing rocks and trees? how about uploading a portrait?
you like photographing nudes? how about an architectural photograph
still lives? how about an a abstract ..
you like portraits? how about a landscape ...
you know, something that stretches you, was difficult for you to do, and maybe, you'll do it again.
go for it :)
i don't really ever photograph using color film, or flowers
so for a while there i used up all my velveeta and proveeta
and shot a bunch of things i never photographed
and haven't done it since. it was kind of fun i guess
i learned a lot about how HARD doing things you take for granted are
and how having color 4x5 film processed at a lab is not for the faint of wallet.
John, I don't know if I know how to do this. I like photographing everything, old cars, abandoned buildings, close-ups of wild flowers, portraits. Perhaps my comfort zone ends at approaching complete strangers and asking if I can take their picture. I have done it before but it has been many, many years. Perhaps I'll try that. I had to do it back in the early 80's as part of a photojournalism class. Shooting 35mm we could only use a 50mm lens and the portraits had to be head & shoulder shots (forcing us to get intimate with the subject). It was a wonderful experience and I got some great shots.
edit - I love your blog and visit often.
hey randy,
thanks for visiting my blog and the kind worlds; i appreciate it !
your portraits sound great, that is the sort of thing i was talking about... if you can't find photos
that's ok, if your "archives" are like mine ... good luck !
i know exactly where you are coming from, i also have to push myself to photograph people like you described.
its really hard, especially if you don't make a habit out of talking to strangers &c rewarding when it works out !
john
Good question (/challenge...) John! After doing 35mm and medium format for some 40 years I stepped into large format (4x5) a couple of months ago. Now that I've familiarized myself with the gear and materials I'm struggling with the question: what am I going to photograph with this stuff? I'm not interested in landscapes, still lives, architecture or photo's of "things" (cars, trains, ships etc.). For portraits I find 4x5 an overkill and unpractical, though I will give it a try one day. So I decided to give street photography a try. So far, I like it!
My first results:
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Seems like this thread is dying..... Does that mean that everybody prefers to stay in his / her comfort zone, shooting the same LF photo's we've been doing over the past 50 years? That worries me: my fear is that too few young photographers will feel attracted to the traditional LF photography style and as a result LF film ptotography will die within decades. I would love to see more innovative and exciting applications of LF!
Seems like this thread is dying..... Does that mean that everybody prefers to stay in his / her comfort zone, shooting the same LF photo's we've been doing over the past 50 years? That worries me: my fear is that too few young photographers will feel attracted to the traditional LF photography style and as a result LF film ptotography will die within decades. I would love to see more innovative and exciting applications of LF!
i think you are right ... oh well, i tried..
Tin Can
26-Oct-2016, 18:12
i think you are right ... oh well, i tried..
Hang on thread. I'll shoot to order.
Soon.
I've had some ideas in mind for this before you even suggested it. Appreciate the encouragement and adventure suggested by the thread. It's overdue. Just posted in the November portrait thread.
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One of my first Mordancage experiments!
Bipin, interesting! Can you please tell a bit more about the Mordancage idea?
Thank you! Mordancage is a process in which a developed print or negative is exposed to a chemical bath that allows you to peel the emulsion off of the base and mechanically manipulate it by hand, with tweezers, etc. It's not too difficult, and the results are pretty unique - I'd encourage you to give it a try! :) http://www.alternativephotography.com/wp/processes/mordancage/the-mordanage-background-and-process
CassJohnson
19-Oct-2017, 21:20
This was WAY out of my comfort zone when I did it. But I did it because I had never tried it before. I took two different images with my Crown Graphic then sandwiched the negatives together for this. Did a little dodging and burning of course. Its on fiber based paper and toned with what I think was sepia, but I'm not sure. I normally like landscapes because they don't move.
CassJohnson
19-Oct-2017, 21:29
This was WAY out of my comfort zone. I normally like landscapes. they don't move and can't talk back. But I had this idea and had to try it because I had never done it before. I took two different images with my Crown Graphic, then sandwiched the negatives together for this image. On fiber based paper and sepia toned. Took some dodging and burning.
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jon.oman
20-Oct-2017, 08:22
This was WAY out of my comfort zone. I normally like landscapes. they don't move and can't talk back. But I had this idea and had to try it because I had never done it before. I took two different images with my Crown Graphic, then sandwiched the negatives together for this image. On fiber based paper and sepia toned. Took some dodging and burning.
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Well done!
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4450/38167329121_1f5e525ec8_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/219HxdD)Cascade (https://flic.kr/p/219HxdD) by moe.randy (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tincancollege/), on Flickr
Merg Ross
4-Nov-2017, 11:34
Gravestones, Sonoma, CA, 1967
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Jerry Bodine
4-Nov-2017, 15:39
Good question (/challenge...)
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First time into this thread. Looks like you caught Wonder Woman at a peak moment! :D
here's something else ...
it's a cyanotype
I was thinking of this place down the road from me
sand and stone breakwater, a tidal pool/the bay ... and this happened
I didn't add any colors with a computer they are in the print.
ic-racer
19-Nov-2022, 18:12
Minox lith print.
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cyanotype
colors not added by me, they are in the print
John Layton
1-Dec-2022, 10:39
Group of kids (all orphans) living by themselves (no adults) in the village of Dembidollo, Ethiopia - circa. Jan. 2001:
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(Leica M-6, 50mm Summicron)
Extremely difficult light...very low shutter speed wide open so a bit blurry - but still one of my favorites from my eight trips to that country providing documentation for a foundation.
Martin Aislabie
1-Dec-2022, 10:52
Group of kids (all orphans) living by themselves (no adults) in the village of Dembidollo, Ethiopia - circa. Jan. 2001:
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(Leica M-6, 50mm Summicron)
Extremely difficult light...very low shutter speed wide open so a bit blurry - but still one of my favorites from my eight trips to that country providing documentation for a foundation.
I wonder what happened to them all and what they are doing now ?
Martin
John Layton
3-Dec-2022, 10:28
Martin...these kids lived in two rows of small huts with a footpath in between. On my second visit a year later I took a number of prints to give to them - and on yet another visit I noticed that all of the huts had been decorated with these prints!
And while these kids were essentially living and caring for themselves with no adults present - there were indeed a few adults from a nearby village who would occasionally check up on them.
My last visit to Ethiopia was in 2006...and I also wonder how these kids (now adults - all of them hopefully) are doing.
But as for wondering how Ethiopians are doing - I think back to my first visit in 1999 to the border of Tigray and Eritrea during a horrible conflict...and then how in the following years things settled out and some very real progress was finally being made, with people and families beginning to thrive and sustain themselves...very often with minimal to no outside "help."
Then last year it all fell apart again...at least in Tigray - which breaks my heart.
was sweeping the floor and re-found this book.
sculptural form thoughgram
filled with 18 images
climate change as depicted from 17,500mph on the ISS
and a dream
Tin Can
20-Dec-2022, 08:19
imprint (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/imprint)
remember
Tin Can
20-Dec-2022, 11:53
Shot 1985 at my direction with old Leica, by my best deceased friend.
Skip, miss you!
We lived in adjoining Chicago storefronts in the pic, Skip was an old school hustler, making jewelry on orders he got from the bar customers.
I could walk out my back door and be inside the bar in 5 steps.
This was the first of 11 Dragon sculptures I made, NOGARD
His penis flashed red
3 baby Dragons survive
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51002091940_f5e8ef0095_b.jpg (https://www.flickr.com/gp/tincancollege/iNS7g374aZ)Birth of NOGARD 1986 (https://www.flickr.com/gp/tincancollege/iNS7g374aZ) by TIN CAN COLLEGE (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tincancollege/), on Flickr
Just stumbled on this thread- most creative line going!
Please keep posting!
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John Layton
22-Dec-2022, 07:02
Bread and Puppet Theater...lifesize stationary paper mâché puppets in their exhibition barn in Glover, Vt. One second handheld exposure by twisting Hasselblad/80mm during exposure, with directional light through door causing streaks, with simultaneous flash:
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Tin Can
22-Dec-2022, 08:16
John, I used window screen on armature covered in free paint
Designed to mount on car in 2 pieces
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52381681172_22973303e3_b.jpg (https://www.flickr.com/gp/tincancollege/6D5RZ2Lqgw)NOGARD Lives! (https://www.flickr.com/gp/tincancollege/6D5RZ2Lqgw) by TIN CAN COLLEGE (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tincancollege/), on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51062603453_99c9dde5d7_b.jpg (https://www.flickr.com/gp/tincancollege/31c586c2f4)Baby (https://www.flickr.com/gp/tincancollege/31c586c2f4) by TIN CAN COLLEGE (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tincancollege/), on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51402527629_b745a56940_b.jpg (https://www.flickr.com/gp/tincancollege/D9Da75i7g2)Baby Dragons Seven (https://www.flickr.com/gp/tincancollege/D9Da75i7g2) by TIN CAN COLLEGE (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tincancollege/), on Flickr
ic-racer
22-Dec-2022, 17:03
This was a on-off. I taped nine instax films to an 8x10 film holder.
After exposure in the film holder, I re-loaded the films in the cartridge and used the plastic instax camera to spit out (process) the films.
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Tin Can
23-Dec-2022, 10:26
Beat me to it!
I have been mounting Instax Wide on 4X5 DDS centered
Using small mounting corners
This was a on-off. I taped nine instax films to an 8x10 film holder.
After exposure in the film holder, I re-loaded the films in the cartridge and used the plastic instax camera to spit out (process) the films.
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https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52600653749_f825acf546_c.jpg (https://www.flickr.com/gp/tincancollege/YRn60isFv9)red 1 (https://www.flickr.com/gp/tincancollege/YRn60isFv9) by TIN CAN COLLEGE (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tincancollege/), on Flickr
John Layton
2-Jan-2023, 07:38
...a couple of dead seagulls:
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https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50792786186_ddc7e88969_c.jpg (https://www.flickr.com/gp/tincancollege/M44p4LD24V)1-Bird (https://www.flickr.com/gp/tincancollege/M44p4LD24V) by TIN CAN COLLEGE (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tincancollege/), on Flickr
We could just photograph a bit of dust
as in 'Dust to Dust'
I consider our planet a huge graveyard
I used to use velvia4x5 in a graflex slr
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