safe haven for tiny formats

[Heroique]

Stray cats & autumn leaves have a habit of following me home.

This one hitched a ride on the side of my boot.

Nikon FM3a
Tamron 180mm/3.5 macro lens
Velvia-50

[Rick Rycroft]

Just got a scanner, still trying to figuring it out.

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[Randy]

I'm old enough to have grown up reading Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Livingston_Seagull), and this photo reminds me (in spirit) of the illustrations from that book. Not sure if this is a seagull, although it was taken at the beach.

Nikon F3, Kodachrome 64


http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/35mm---Bird.jpg

Jonathan

I think "Seagull" is a generic catch-all name encompassing the 50? some odd Gull type birds.

So, if you think this was a "Seagull", it definitely was not - or - if you think this was a "Seagull", yes, it probably was :)

Nice shot anyway. Reminds me of one I shot a few years ago, though not of a bird so much.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/52893762/UHFVHF.jpg

[Corran]

Still experimenting with some infrared film, I'm now also taking the digital along to "see' what it will look like. Haven't gotten anything worth posting on the film side yet, but hopefully today's images will turn out alright when I get in the darkroom tonight. Anyway, here's one of the snaps from Valdosta State campus, of Odum Library. D800E, 28mm f/2.8 AIS, infrared filter:

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/DSC_6227s.jpg

[goamules]

Trying out some Ektar 100, Canon RF 50/1.5 sonnar type.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8191/8139591269_d06e937d2b_c.jpg

[Ari]

A couple of family shots from this summer; these were in France.
I may have gone overboard playing with PS filters, I broke my hand and haven't done any work in almost 3 weeks.

http://i50.tinypic.com/14ttur.jpg

http://i47.tinypic.com/qpl8py.jpg

[austin granger]

Cape Meares Light, Oregon
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8055/8140504052_abc94bea8f_z.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

5x7 negative cropped to 6x6cm. I just couldn't stop hacking away at it. :)

[jcoldslabs]

Excellent 'hack' job, Austin. It looks great.

Jonathan

[jcoldslabs]

I sort of wish I had shot this in black and white. Next time.

Mamiya 7, 150mm, Provia 100F (cropped)


http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/M7---Sheet-on-Line.jpg

Jonathan

[goamules]

Ektar 100, Canon RF 50/1.5.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8185/8139598571_4dec9d840e_c.jpg

[Randy]

I broke my hand and haven't done any work in almost 3 weeks.
Ari, I have punched the wall in anger once myself. Spent 6 weeks with a cast up to my elbow. I didn't know Canadians had bad tempers like we do down here.

[Michael Cienfuegos]

Ektar 100, Canon RF 50/1.5.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8185/8139598571_4dec9d840e_c.jpg

That is one HOT photo. Love those reds! :)

[Ari]

Ari, I have punched the wall in anger once myself. Spent 6 weeks with a cast up to my elbow. I didn't know Canadians had bad tempers like we do down here.

Randy, take away our hockey, and we're no better than hyenas.

[rdenney]

http://www.rickdenney.com/Island/bigelowpoint2012.jpg
Bigelow Point in the Square, 2012
Pentax 6x7, 45mm, Ektar.

http://www.rickdenney.com/Island/bigelowpointintheround2012.jpg
Bigelow Point in the Round, 2012
Pentax 6x7, 35mm Fisheye, Ektar

Rick "who loves fisheyes" Denney

[rdenney]

http://www.rickdenney.com/Island/scruboak2012.jpg
Scrub Oak, The Island, 2012
Pentax 6x7, 75mm shift lens (unshifted), Ektar

http://www.rickdenney.com/Island/tree2012.jpg
Tree, The Island, 2012
Pentax 6x7, 45mm, Ektar

Rick "eaten alive by deer flies during both of these" Denney

[Corran]

Just bought my first few rolls of Ektar to try. I've never shot it. Now I'm wondering if I shoulda stuck with Portra...seems like it's got a nasty red tint in the shadows. Are you guys shooting it at 100 or less? I need to shoot some before I take it on some big trips I have planned over Thanksgiving/Christmas in the mountains, or maybe just shoot it right before/after the golden hour when everything is blue up there.

[Evin]

I like Ektar...don't shoot it too often, but like to keep some handy in the case of a good situation for it.

These are from the same roll of film and the first roll of Ektar I ever shot. 100 speed. Not sure where the red tint in the above shot came from...

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7009/6642771673_194a86f82d.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/atimelyexposure/6642771673/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/atimelyexposure/6642771673/)

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7147/6642772563_298f3b0903.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/atimelyexposure/6642772563/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/atimelyexposure/6642772563/)

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7013/6642774471_12b70d6de0.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/atimelyexposure/6642774471/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/atimelyexposure/6642774471/)


Just bought my first few rolls of Ektar to try. I've never shot it. Now I'm wondering if I shoulda stuck with Portra...seems like it's got a nasty red tint in the shadows. Are you guys shooting it at 100 or less? I need to shoot some before I take it on some big trips I have planned over Thanksgiving/Christmas in the mountains, or maybe just shoot it right before/after the golden hour when everything is blue up there.

[David R Munson]

Bought some FP-100c, put it in the Polaroid back for my 645. Same image twice, an experiment for a day off.

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View full size to see the difference. The cleared neg is grainy but has an interesting look, and it turned out better than I expected it to.

Edit: check it out full size here (http://www.photo-otaku.com/ref/comparison_p-o.jpg) (attached version kinda sucks)

[rdenney]

Just bought my first few rolls of Ektar to try. I've never shot it. Now I'm wondering if I shoulda stuck with Portra...seems like it's got a nasty red tint in the shadows. Are you guys shooting it at 100 or less? I need to shoot some before I take it on some big trips I have planned over Thanksgiving/Christmas in the mountains, or maybe just shoot it right before/after the golden hour when everything is blue up there.

Gee, thanks.

It doesn't look red on my calibrated monitor, which tends to emphasize red because of its extended gamut in that direction. But it looks different on every monitor I've viewed.

I'm not noticing any different color balance than what I see from the Fuji 160C 4x5 stuff I worked on at the same time, so maybe it's just the difference between your monitor and mine, or my monitor and everyone else's.

Rick "who made all these photos but the last one when the sun was fairly low in the sky" Denney

[Corran]

Wasn't trying to offend, just noticing. I think the photos are fine, I just notice a red/magenta in the shadows. It could simply be a scanning thing too, being a neg film. I'll have to shoot some and make my own scans and see. The images Evin posted do not seem to have the red shadows.

[Rick Rycroft]

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[goamules]

Yeah, don't trust my couple shots as benchmarks for Ektar, the walgreens butchered my scans, they were way green. It was so bad they agreed to reprint them, but still a green cast like you'd see if you shot in fluorescent lights. I just scanned the prints, not the negatives, and used PS to try to adjust. May have gone too far.

I tell you, for color, we're going to be in a world of hurt if know one knows how to do it. I should have gone for the more Pro lab in town, but they're 20 miles away, and Walgreens usually does pretty good.

[Roger Thoms]

Ektar 100, Canon RF 50/1.5.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8185/8139598571_4dec9d840e_c.jpg

Enjoyed this one, really like peppers. The cayenne in particular caught my eye, really like fresh cayennes. So what a surprise when I picked up our box of CSA veggies this afternoon and there were cayenne peppers.

Roger

[austin granger]

Rooftop Terrace, Oregon City
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8050/8140760251_0872176822_z.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[jcoldslabs]

Shadows on the side of the house.

Diana camera, HP5+


http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/Diana---Tree-Shadows.jpg

Jonathan

[Roger Cole]

Just bought my first few rolls of Ektar to try. I've never shot it. Now I'm wondering if I shoulda stuck with Portra...seems like it's got a nasty red tint in the shadows. Are you guys shooting it at 100 or less? I need to shoot some before I take it on some big trips I have planned over Thanksgiving/Christmas in the mountains, or maybe just shoot it right before/after the golden hour when everything is blue up there.

I like Ektar and never noticed this, nor do I see it in the shots here.

Many people say it has a blue tint in the shadows which it can, sort of. What it has is more color accuracy without a bias toward warmth for skin tones found in films like Portra. Shadows in open shade ARE blue, our eyes and our portrait films just compensate, but Ektar doesn't.

I haven't shot a ton of it but I've been really impressed with what I have shot. I shoot it at box speed of 100 though, like most color negative films, it doesn't seem to be hurt a bit by any reasonable overexposure and even benefits from slight overexposure.

[rdenney]

Wasn't trying to offend, just noticing. I think the photos are fine, I just notice a red/magenta in the shadows. It could simply be a scanning thing too, being a neg film. I'll have to shoot some and make my own scans and see. The images Evin posted do not seem to have the red shadows.

I see magenta in the shadows on my (uncalibrated) monitor at work. I didn't see that at home on my "calibrated and profiled" display. I put that in quotes because I'm beginning to not trust it for targeting to (supposedly) sRGB displays.

I'm really unhappy with the way the beach picture from the Water's Edge thread turned out on this display. The saturation is too high, making it look like it was printed in Life magazine back in the 70's.

I think I need a new spectrophotometer for calibrating my displays. I'm using X-Rite's software with a Gretag Eye-One Display2, and it can't even get the two monitors in my system to look the same. I'm beginning to think the extra gamut of modern monitors goes beyond its sensing range. I think I'll start a new thread on that.

Rick "not offended" Denney

[Peter De Smidt]

On my low end calibrated and profiled SPS monitor, I see a very strong magenta cast on Ricks pictures. More importantly, when I bring the image into photoshop, the eye dropper sees it too. (LAB readings are very helpful for seeing this.) Note, though, that the images don't have an embedded profile. They should be sRGB.

[Roger Cole]

I do see the magenta shadows now on a different monitor than I was on last night. It's really obvious on this monitor on the Bigelow Point shots.

[Scott Walker]

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg90/Beecool/Picture003.jpg
Hoar frost, iPhone

[andreios]

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8052/8145952708_1e7e0d9c16_z_d.jpg
Weltenburger Enge, Bavaria, Germany
River Danube making it's way to the sea...
Shot with Mamiya 645, lith print on Efke Varycon.

[Frank Petronio]

Don't worry Rick, loosing your Magenta perception is only the first warning sign of Perioccular Schsimagentoiditis. You can have a nice couple more years as a fine B&W photographer before the raspberries bloom out of your sockets.

[chassis]

Andreios, great photo!

[jcoldslabs]

Not hurricane related.

Nikon F3, Ektachrome


http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/35mm-Posts-in-Water.jpg

Jonathan

[Corran]

Nice silhouettes Jonathan :)

Here's a quick little portrait I developed today of my girlfriend. She had this colorful sweater on and a nicely contrasting scarf, and since I had my new favorite camera with me, a pocket-sized Bessa RF 6x9 (http://valdostafilm.blogspot.com/2012/11/bessa-rf-6x9-medium-format-camera.html), I snapped a photo. I shot it at f/8, 1/200, overexposing a little according to the classic sunny/16 rule. Developed in my darkroom using a new water pump/heater and Tetenal C-41 chems. I love this camera because it can fit in any pocket folded up and is easy enough to handhold even at relatively low shutter speeds when I need them. And it's a beauty too! Oh, and how's this for sharp? Not bad for camera almost 70 years old.

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/Untitled-5fsb.jpg

[Corran]

So I didn't mean to make a big hullabaloo over the Ektar photos posted earlier. I was just making an observation. But as we all know negative film is whatever you want it to be it seems so I decided yesterday morning to put my money where my mouth was and shoot a roll.

I developed it myself which means it's pretty much invalid as a test for serious users (this makes the 3rd roll of C-41 I've ever developed, though I've done numerous 4x5 sheets) but regardless, here's a shot I just scanned. I'm really liking the film, but, it definitely wants to be shot during golden hour and not before dawn, at least in my tests. Before the nice light the couple of shots I tried really sucked and were hellaciously blue. Anyway, I'll shut up now. You can make whatever observations you like in terms of color rendition. This is a straight scan at normal white balance. Mamiya 645, 80mm f/1.9 wide-open:

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/ektar1s.jpg

[rdenney]

I do see the magenta shadows now on a different monitor than I was on last night. It's really obvious on this monitor on the Bigelow Point shots.

I was thinking about raspberries, but not those blooming out of my eye sockets, heh.

I normally do not include a color profile in the files I post on the Internet, simply because that until VERY recently, few viewing the image would be able to gain benefit from it. Even now, IE does not do color matching well at all. Discussions of "should" and "should not" are perhaps based on assumptions about the control we do or don't have over those who view our images. But maybe the time has come to start doing so, with Chrome and Firefox newest versions having reasonable color management, even though most real people only upgrade their browsers occasionally. And even if their browsers are color-managed, they have turned the brightness and contrast settings on their monitors to the Peter Lik settings because they apparently want to tan themselves as they work. And the use of wide-gamut LED monitors causes those images to map to a wider gamut (just like "assigning" rather than "converting" the color space in Photoshop). That has made the problem much worse. I look at many of the scans I posted years ago, and over the years their saturation has increased to annoying levels. Looks like I have a job ahead of me to go back and correct all those images and include profiles, in the hopes of getting a bit closer on modern wide-gamut monitors.

But if my calibrated and profiled monitor is not seeing red correctly, then it doesn't matter whether there is a connected profile. But that is a conversation for another thread.

All I can say is that these pictures did not show the magenta shadows on my calibrated display when viewing them using the "Save for Web" dialog. I do convert them to sRGB as part of that process.

Rick "looking into profiling systems, again" Denney

[austin granger]

In the Corn, Sauvie Island
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8330/8148043211_56c288cc3a_b.jpg

Holgarama. The left and right paths are in reality perpendicular to the center path (they are the same path photographed in opposite directions). Imagine a lower case 't' shape. Oh, never mind, it doesn't really matter. Confusion is the point. :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[austin granger]

In the Corn, Sauvie Island
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8196/8148610855_3e3ea64f8c_z.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[Jay Decker]

Color or B&W?



http://monkeytumble.com/tmp/Pea_fall_color.jpg http://monkeytumble.com/tmp/Pea_fall_bw.jpg

[Greg Y]

BW definitely
:)

[jcoldslabs]

BW definitely.

+1

[Ian Gordon Bilson]

Oh Yes..

[Vaughn]

Either, but cropped to a square format.

[Randy]

Color!...and leave it cropped just as is :) And do not use any freckle removing software.

[Michael E]

I took a late walk in our former castle park the other night. It was after midnight, but the moonlight was so bright that I went back and got my DSLR.

[cjbroadbent]

A Monochrom digiroid. The real shot on 4x5 RetroTonal does not look as good. The MM seem to hang on to shades of white like nothing else.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-1tEbojJgCC4/UJgPtFrjxtI/AAAAAAAAMH8/Cqy7FjseExM/s800/eggcupagain.jpg

[Jay Decker]

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/data/500/LaurenSonnar.jpg

Exakta 66
Sonnar 180/2.8
Portra 160NC
Kennewick, WA

[jcoldslabs]

I've been scanning some old slides, and it's really making me miss Kodachrome.

Nikon F3, Kodachrome 64


http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/35mm-Kodachrome-Boston-Mao.jpg

Jonathan

[jcoldslabs]

And another.


http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/35mm---Red-Curb.jpg

Jonathan

[papac]

In lack of large format I´m scanning some 35 and 120. Here a playground in Gothenburg, Sweden where they use to have an old steam train when I was a kid. Still playground but with out a train.

Contax T2
TriX 400@400
Rodinal 1:50
Epson V750 Pro

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7114/8165038964_a9196d1d39_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/papac/8165038964/)
20120920_34 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/papac/8165038964/) by papac_1 (http://www.flickr.com/people/papac/), on Flickr

/c

[Rick Rycroft]

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[Frank Petronio]

Brockport, New York where I live. A few D700 and 50/1.4 G snaps made tonight while waiting for my kid. Love the new old obsolete DSLR.

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[Frank Petronio]

A few more. It's a small depressed Rust Belt college town with two Superfund sites and high taxes.

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[Peter Gomena]

I visited Brockport once in about 1977. I was a college intern for a weekly business newspaper in Syracuse. The old Brockport Truck factory had shut down and someone wanted to start an electric car business in the factory. The deal never flew, but I did get a Brockport Truck bumper sticker that's still on my old guitar case. "Huskietown USA, Home of Brockport Trucks." It was Rust Belt even then. Syracuse was not much better.

Peter Gomena

[Ron Stowell]

Peter,
Maybe Courtland, New York?

[Peter Gomena]

Umm, yeah, that was the place, and I think it was Brockway trucks. My memory fails me sometimes when I look back 35 years . . . I got all excited for nothing.

Peter Gomena

[andreios]

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7264/8167351205_6a6ff8f20d_c_d.jpg
Shot with mamiya 645, lith print on late efke varycon paper

[Peter De Smidt]

Terrific photo, Andreios.

[goamules]

Half-frame on old Kodak 200 with Pen-FT 38/2.8:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7139/8169833410_6eee04da5a_c.jpg

[Kav]

I was sent out to photograph the New York City area a few days ago, and was told; "photograph the damage, any clean-up efforts, and if you have time, try and get some cool photos too."

I was told I delivered on all counts:

http://kavanaughmp.smugmug.com/Category/New-York-2012/Squadron/i-gsrTkjk/0/XL/_DSC0139-XL.jpg

We were flying up the harbor and I saw this shot lining up. That is the new World Trade Center being built.

[C4D]

WOW that is an amazing photograph Kav!
Would love to see it in monochrome.

[bobwysiwyg]

Nice shot. I hope you were suitably tethered. :)

[Peter York]

Outstanding image Kav!

[chassis]

Kav that's one of the coolest photos I've seen. Great job.

[jp]

I was told I delivered on all counts:


That's a stunning composition and 3d look! I'm sure it'd be nice B&W, but I prefer the color here because of the little hints of green and yellow.

[papac]

An incamera triptych from my smallest format. Half frame Bell&Howell 35, US version of a Canon Dial.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8347/8172334718_cea7fd40b6_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/papac/8172334718/)
Incamera triptych 20120812_3 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/papac/8172334718/) by papac_1 (http://www.flickr.com/people/papac/), on Flickr

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[Frank Petronio]

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What's that smell?

[Peter De Smidt]

That's a fun one, Frank.

[Kav]

Thanks all. I'm glad you like them. It's been good working in NYC.

Two more:

Landing on the USS Wasp off the cost of New York City:
http://kavanaughmp.smugmug.com/Category/New-York-2012/Squadron/i-MZbwgwC/0/XL/_MPK3999-XL.jpg

Flying up the Hudson River today (foggy day today):
http://kavanaughmp.smugmug.com/Category/New-York-2012/Birthday-Flight/i-jTMTMkL/0/XL/_MPK5966-XL.jpg

I hope to develop the 4x5 negatives from today's flight later this week.

[mdm]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b1k-79Uv7lM/UJ8S3JS8F2I/AAAAAAAABkk/PUTzAmOshe0/s1600/P1000309.jpg

[Corran]

Super-cool shots Kav. Can't wait to see the 4x5 shots...

Here's two snaps before a masquerade ball that I shot this evening. Nikon D700/D800E, 17-35mm f/2.8:

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/masq01.jpg

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/masq02.jpg

[jcoldslabs]

I received a very stern reprimand from the railroad cops when I climbed down from the trestle after taking this shot. For all that trouble I wish the photo had been better. Admittedly I didn't expect a train to come by and it did catch me somewhat by surprise.

Taken north of Portland.

Mamiya 7 w/35mm panoramic adapter


http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/M7-PANO---Train.jpg

Jonathan

[Corran]

That's pretty awesome!

[rich815]

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8482/8174188622_dcc9fa2cd1_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/rich8155/8174188622/)
Devil's Tower, Wyoming
Tele-Rolleiflex
Ilford HP5+
HC-110 developer
Nikon 9000 scan
June, 2012 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/rich8155/8174188622/)
by rich8155 (Richard Sintchak) (http://www.flickr.com/people/rich8155/), on Flickr

[C4D]

amazing tones Richard... I especially enjoy the nice grain of the sky!

[SamReeves]

I received a very stern reprimand from the railroad cops when I climbed down from the trestle after taking this shot. For all that trouble I wish the photo had been better. Admittedly I didn't expect a train to come by and it did catch me somewhat by surprise.

Taken north of Portland.

Mamiya 7 w/35mm panoramic adapter


http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/M7-PANO---Train.jpg

Jonathan

You were lucky. The RR cops usually arrest, and ask later.

A few with Iantha this past week, when it was toasty at the coasty.

Canon Elan 7, EF 50mm ƒ1.8 lens, Kodak Tri-X.

http://www.samreevesphoto.com/posts/BW35121105_A13.jpg

http://www.samreevesphoto.com/posts/BW35121105_E6.jpg

http://www.samreevesphoto.com/posts/BW35121105_F4.jpg

[Ian Gordon Bilson]

8339983398

MUGSHOTS : pulled a mug from the back of the cupboard,added 2 teaspoons sod.bicarbonate to hot water (for upset stomach),over two days,this was the result..

[austin granger]

Thin Black Door, Beaverton
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7277/8168720335_b8750336dc_z.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[ian kraus]

http://www.iankraus.com/new/images/new/iankraus-735474.jpg

http://www.iankraus.com/new/images/new/iankraus-735836-3.jpg

http://www.iankraus.com/new/images/new/iankraus-735444.jpg

http://www.iankraus.com/new/images/ericam/20110615-ian_kraus_e7_384.jpg


New here, getting into LF here's some of my 35 and MF.

[jcoldslabs]

Fuji GSW690II, Velvia


http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/GSW690II-Parking-Lot.jpg

Jonathan

[Jim Jones]

Those taillights make all the difference. Did you have to stage that?

[austin granger]

Poplars, Oregon
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7116/8168573944_8cf2dfea1c_z.jpg

Under the St. John's Bridge, Portland
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8210/8182561414_0e28a23411_b.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[ian kraus]

love how the poplar shot almost looks like the base of a tree trunk. Superb.

[tuco]

Fuji GSW690II, Velvia


Jonathan

Interesting shot, Jonathan.

[ian kraus]

http://www.iankraus.com/new/images/places/ian_kraus-35671.jpgWindow Seat

http://www.iankraus.com/new/images/places/ian_kraus-35692.jpg

http://www.iankraus.com/new/images/places/ian_kraus-35690.jpg

http://www.iankraus.com/new/images/places/ian_kraus-35694.jpg

New York

all 35mm film

Rollei 35s and Contax 139

[Kav]

Watching a leaf go floating on by:
http://kavanaughmp.smugmug.com/StateSidePhotography/North-Carolina/Random-Photos/i-TF38nDr/0/XL/_MPK6565-XL.jpg

Nikon D7000 300mm f2.8 wide open

[tuco]

Don't laugh. I'm not very good at this and the machine doesn't do round things well at all (its built into the table - can't put things over the end of it). But here is a homemade case I made for my DSLR that is inside. I'm also going to make one for my Mamiya 7II.




http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8470/8140316288_164683bf8e_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/yo_tuco/8140316288/)

[jcoldslabs]

Interesting shot, Jonathan.

Thank you. I took it years ago out the window of our apartment when we were living in Spokane. I got lucky in that the car backed out and drove away during the 20 minute exposure. Without that it might have been a bit less interesting!

Jonathan

[austin granger]

Thank you. I took it years ago out the window of our apartment when we were living in Spokane. I got lucky in that the car backed out and drove away during the 20 minute exposure. Without that it might have been a bit less interesting!

Jonathan

This is a good one. Very cinematic. I like the way that it shows us not just a scene, but an event-just what that event was we have to decide for ourselves!

[jcoldslabs]

Those taillights make all the difference. Did you have to stage that?

Jim, I got lucky. If I had known that the taillights would add so much to the scene I would have parked my own car there and backed it out!



This is a good one. Very cinematic. I like the way that it shows us not just a scene, but an event-just what that event was we have to decide for ourselves!

Thanks, Austin. I have some other daytime shots from this same vantage point, but this image has the most mystery to it.

Jonathan

[Corran]

Testing my new YashicaMat 124G for John NYC.
Ilford Pan F+, rated at 25, stand developed in Rodinal 1:100 at 70F for 45 minutes, agitation for 30s and then 2 inversions at 30 minutes.

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/yashicamat101.jpg

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/yashicamat102.jpg

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/yashicamat103.jpg

[Roger Thoms]

Don't laugh. I'm not very good at this and the machine doesn't do round things well at all (its built into the table - can't put things over the end of it). But here is a homemade case I made for my DSLR that is inside. I'm also going to make one for my Mamiya 7II.

Tuco, looks great, nothing to laugh at, having sewed a few things myself, I'm quite impressed. Just curios, what did you use for padding? Is the case lined, and if so what kind of fabric did you use? I'm asking because I am thinking of making a couple of film holder cases.

Roger

[tuco]

Tuco, looks great, nothing to laugh at, having sewed a few things myself, I'm quite impressed. Just curios, what did you use for padding? Is the case lined, and if so what kind of fabric did you use? I'm asking because I am thinking of making a couple of film holder cases.

Roger

Thanks.

It has a fansy stack up of materials in that thing both for padding protection and shape. I cut the layers out and bonded them together with 3M Super 77 spray adhesive ( a rubber cement) to help hold in place while sewing.

The decorative surface is a version of CORDURA®. The inner surface is a foam pad material that is a tin foam on one side and a smooth texture on the other ( like in some camera bags). In between these layers was either flexible sewing plastic sheet, more - thicker - foam (bottom, lens and body part) or both (bottom, lens). When the stack up got too thick for the sewing machine to power through at joints with the black nylon webbing, I rotated it by hand. I have a carpet needle in the machine using nylon carpet thread.

[Roger Thoms]

Tuco, thanks for the info. Nice sewing machine too.

Roger

[Ari]

Family triptych, summer, southwestern France, DSLR.

[austin granger]

Church, Alameda
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8198/8186373765_e3a5bcc3a2_z.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[Rick Rycroft]

"Church, Alameda"

Lining up for the communion bread?

[Frank Petronio]

Scan of an old print, shot 6x9 on the Fuji rangefinder for Steuben Glass ~ 1991

Why we had to use chrome film to be professional was so f-ing stupid.

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[ian kraus]

C-41 film back then wasnt what it is today ...


Scan of an old print, shot 6x9 on the Fuji rangefinder for Steuben Glass ~ 1991

Why we had to use chrome film to be professional was so f-ing stupid.

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[Frank Petronio]

Eh I'll take VPS over EPP anyway, I am scanning stuff from the pre-digital times and it is comparable to modern Portra films. As for it's archival qualities, who knows but so far so good after 20-25 years.

The old workflow meant giving the client chromes and then hoping they came back in good condition after being mangled by the drum scanner technicians.

[Leigh]

Church, Alameda
Austin,
That is absolutely amazing. I don't know how you do it. (Did they get scale, or TFP?)

- Leigh

[ian kraus]

Hi Frank,

You where lucky if you got the chromes back at all many times.

in 35mm you could almost publish a single full page image from a chrome ( used to call them trannies back then ) but you would lose much more quality with c41.

epr epn pushed a stop but later Astia took over. everyone was shooting it so its what the AD's expected

[Richard Wasserman]

And some people calls us fossils...

[Frank Petronio]

Hi Frank,

You where lucky if you got the chromes back at all many times.

in 35mm you could almost publish a single full page image from a chrome ( used to call them trannies back then ) but you would lose much more quality with c41.

epr epn pushed a stop but later Astia took over. everyone was shooting it so its what the AD's expected

In hindsight I figured it was because of the drum scanners prejudice and lousy software, because you could make a fine enlarger print from a 35mm neg so the sharpness was there, just not the willingness on the prepress side. They really clung to their chrome workflow until the bitter end.

I used to try to get a good 4x5 interneg made before shipping the film off but time was never on my side.

Now I have several feet of notebooks full of 35mm slides, some are dupes, some are outakes, going back and figuring it all out is huge.

[austin granger]

Austin,
That is absolutely amazing. I don't know how you do it. (Did they get scale, or TFP?)

- Leigh

Thanks Leigh. I have a truck full of trained animals I employ for such photos. :) OK, I was just in the right place at the right time. What impresses me are the photographers who can make good, spontaneous pictures of humans. Geese are easy compared with that.

[ian kraus]

- Frank At least you'll always have them and not lose them to a computer crash.

One of the reasons for chromes was drum scanning like you mentioned.
You could get a decent print off of a neg, but when you drum scan you have to adjust the aperture to avoid grain aliasing, which would emphasize the grain greatly.
With chromes I drum scan at a f stop of 6 microns with color neg film its 13-19 microns. that has a considerable effect on the scan sharpness. hence the scanners could give a much better file from a chrome.
Also not having to do the neg conversion and additional color correcting was a big factor esp considering the computer power of the day. I would sometimes order 10x8 prints and have the print scanned if going big. I went from a crop of lips from a headshot on BW 35mm to a large shop window background from drum scanning a 10x8 print. color is off in this scan not the original poster, the shot the street taken with a perkeo, the lips a nikon f3. high st kensington london

http://www.iankraus.com/new/images/art%20direction/ian_kraus-34694.jpg
http://www.iankraus.com/new/images/art%20direction/ian_kraus-34695.jpg


- Austin. I agree with Leigh, that last shot is awesome.

[Leigh]

Geese are easy compared with that.
Yes, we all see gaggles of geese all the time. But a gap of geese at just the right place is awesome. :D

- Leigh

[austin granger]

Here are a couple of pictures of my father I made last weekend. I wish some things were different, and that I'd done them better, but it wasn't planned, and it was all very quick. If you're going to photograph my father you'd best be fast and be done with it. The first one is a little hard for me to look at, because he seems so weary and weighted down, but I think it's the stronger of the two. What do you think?

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8057/8188108321_526c0f3e7f_z.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8337/8188105455_2d8c78e4dd_z.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[austin granger]

- Austin. I agree with Leigh, that last shot is awesome.Thanks Ian. I'm enjoying the addition of your work to this great thread.

[Ari]

The first one is by far the better shot, Austin.
Great work, as always.

[Leigh]

I think the first one is by far the stronger shot, FWIW.

- Leigh

[tuco]

And another vote for the 1st one. It has emotion radiating from it.

[ian kraus]

Austin - Thanks and +1 first shot also.

[austin granger]

Thanks guys. I respect your opinions. The thing that bums me out the most is that I didn't get his hands in focus. My dad's been laboring with his hands for over fifty years and showing them properly would have better helped tell his story. It just kills me that this element was right there in front of me and I completely wasted it. I don't shoot open very often and I misjudged the DOF. Damn. Well, getting the pictures at all was a victory, and we had a good talk there in his kitchen besides. That's more important than anything and I won't forget it. Thanks again.

[Roger Cole]

I agree the first one is better, but he doesn't seem weary or weighted down to me, rather pensive, lost in thought, gazing away but his thoughts farther away than his gaze.

[rdenney]

In hindsight I figured it was because of the drum scanners prejudice and lousy software, because you could make a fine enlarger print from a 35mm neg so the sharpness was there, just not the willingness on the prepress side. They really clung to their chrome workflow until the bitter end.

Wasn't it that the pre-press guys didn't want to be responsible for interpreting color? The slide provided a reference for color (not always correct, of course, but always definite).

Rick "whose last magazine cover (from a 35mm chrome) was 1994 or so, but whose magazine photos since then have been supplied digitally" Denney

[Frank Petronio]

Yeah that was the rationale. In the mid-90s it was a battle for my business because they didn't want to give up the super-high rates they charged for scans and retouching, I was undercutting them at $400/hour. Those were the days but there were some harsh words exchanged and more than a little bullshit when I would give a printer a harddrive ready to output into separations. They would still find a few grand worth of things to adjust ;-p

Then around 1996 every damn Art Director got a copy of Photoshop and started doing it themselves, so I only had a 3-year window to rake in the dough ;-p Of course the ADs did horrendous work for the next ten years-plus.

Luckily the internet happened and people paid stupid money for websites that would be basically freebies now.

[austin granger]

Spent some time walking around my old home town last weekend.

Hallway through Weathered Plexiglass Window, Otis Elementary School, Alameda
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8062/8188952112_45d1744675_z.jpg

Units, Alameda
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8487/8191364956_02fc56c453_z.jpg

Seagulls, Early Morning, Alameda
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8343/8194131728_076e920d24_z.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[C4D]

That Plexiglass capture is pretty damn unique Austin!

[Alan Gales]

Yeah, it looks spooky!

[C4D]

Small set of images from my trip to the Missouri State Penitentiary yesterday:

http://markkarpinski.com/web/35mm/missouri_state_pen_doorway1.jpg
Leica CL
Leica Summicron 40mm lens shot wide open at f/2
Kodak Tri-X film stand developed for one hour

http://markkarpinski.com/web/35mm/missouri_state_pen_chair1.jpg
Leica CL
Leica Summicron 40mm lens shot wide open at f/2
Kodak Tri-X film stand developed for one hour

http://markkarpinski.com/web/35mm/missouri_state_pen_sink1.jpg
Leica CL
Leica Summicron 40mm lens shot wide open at f/2
Kodak Tri-X film stand developed for one hour

http://markkarpinski.com/web/35mm/missouri_state_pen_bounds1.jpg

[bobwysiwyg]

I really like #1 in this series, very nice image.

[SamReeves]

Spent some time walking around my old home town last weekend.

Seagulls, Early Morning, Alameda
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8343/8194131728_076e920d24_z.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

Ha ha! Great photo. Those guys wake me up every morning. They like my neighbor's roof. Might be time to get a pet hawk. ;)

Here's the Iowa Pacific rolling through Aptos, California this afternoon on its first passenger train to Santa Cruz. Hoping for more of this in the future!

Canon D60, EF 17-40mm ƒ4L lens, ASA 400.

http://www.samreevesphoto.com/posts/CRW12_5162.jpg

[Ivan J. Eberle]

In hindsight I figured it was because of the drum scanners prejudice and lousy software, because you could make a fine enlarger print from a 35mm neg so the sharpness was there, just not the willingness on the prepress side. They really clung to their chrome workflow until the bitter end.



Originally, chromes were requisite because of optical color separations, and color matching, this was a 40+ year regime in place for color printing before scanning came along. PMT scanners were originally built to use the same print conventions because they had to phase it in.

Until 16-bit (hardware level) scanning came along, it was almost impossible to get a decent scan of a color neg. No one much wanted to print a wet darkroom color print just to scan it, but that was what was needed with 8 bit scanners. Transparencies populated more of the dynamic range of the scanner. We're working with a much smaller portion of that scanner's dynamic range with color neg--in the film itself, there's far more dynamic range, but it's occupying less density difference.

[ian kraus]

C4D - That CL has an amazing lens on it, love mine. Nice shots.

Austin - Nice shots too. What are you scanning with ? Very crisp.

http://www.iankraus.com/new/images/places/ian_kraus-35669.jpg
Leica CL

http://www.iankraus.com/new/images/places/ian_kraus-35668.jpg
Rollei 35s

[ian kraus]

http://www.iankraus.com/new/images/places/ian_kraus-35688.jpg
Olympus 35RC

http://www.iankraus.com/new/images/places/ian_kraus-35679.jpg
Rollei 35s

http://www.iankraus.com/new/images/places/ian_kraus-35706.jpg
Yashica Electro35

[chassis]

Ian, great one of Lady Liberty.

[austin granger]

Austin - Nice shots too. What are you scanning with ? Very crisp.
I use an Epson 4990. It does pretty well, though I have to admit I only make small prints. I've been meaning to get a couple of good drum scans made from some big negatives to see firsthand what the difference might be, but honestly, I'm a little afraid the results might be TOO good-I can't afford drum scans! :) Cool shot of the statue of liberty.

[Corran]

I went through a phase where I shot nothing but really crappy, outdated negative film. This was before I shot LF or MF, I was just shooting some old 35mm cameras and developing at Walgreens. Everything sucked, but every once in a while something interesting would turn out. I found this random photo today, taken way back then, of a bridge near Brunswick, GA. I think it was with a Nikon N65 and probably a 50mm or close enough.

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/brunswickbridge.jpg

[ross]

Kind of a cool scene over the Summer Lake area in southern Oregon yesterday. The area was experiencing some mountain wave action and some of it was reaching all the way to the ground. Summer Lake is a mostly dry playa, and you can see the dust off the playa being sucked up into the bottom of the altocumulus lenticular style cloud over the dry lake. More lenticular clouds were stacked to the east for about a hundred miles. The winds at 39,000 were out of the southwest at about 150 miles per hour. It looks like "the bottom" of one of those waves contained a lot of velocity and was able to sweep dust up into the cloud over the playa. I wish I had a better camera with me than an IPhone.
83935
83936
83937

[jmooney]

Kind of a cool scene over the Summer Lake area in southern Oregon yesterday. The area was experiencing some mountain wave action and some of it was reaching all the way to the ground. Summer Lake is a mostly dry playa, and you can see the dust off the playa being sucked up into the bottom of the altocumulus lenticular style cloud over the lake. More stacked lenticular clouds were stacked to the east for about a hundred miles. The winds at 39,000 were out of the southwest at about 150 miles per hour. It looks like "the bottom" of one of those waves contained a lot of velocity and then swept up into the cloud over the playa. I wish I had a better camera than an IPhone.
83935
83936
83937

Incredible!

[austin granger]

Those are cool Jeff. I would have loved to have been down there on the ground for that.

[Frank Petronio]

Got bored, went fox hunting

84035840368403784038

[jcoldslabs]

These are from a snowstorm a few years back. Some of the negatives from this roll are so thin they start to look positive when viewed at an angle, like mini ambrotypes. I'm surprised they scanned in with any discernible detail at all.

Diana plastic 120 camera, HP5+


http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/Diana---Street-in-Snow-r2jp.jpg



http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/Diana---Swing-in-Snow.jpg



http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/Diana---House-In-Snow-II.jpg

Jonathan

[Uri A]

That's some doob!!

35mm. myanmar

[andreios]

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8346/8205686113_7c5734cd2f_c_d.jpg
Lith print form 645 negative on late Fotokemika Varycon paper. Comparison with the same image printed the same way on fomatone paper over in my flickr stream.

[tuco]

These are from a snowstorm a few years back. Some of the negatives from this roll are so thin they start to look positive when viewed at an angle, like mini ambrotypes. I'm surprised they scanned in with any discernible detail at all.

Diana plastic 120 camera, HP5+

Jonathan

Yeah, I know what you mean. I've seen some of my negatives that look like a positive when viewed at the right angle. Scanning is so forgiving. I once forgot to put the camera on bulb and shot 100ACR 6 stops under exposed. The negative was so thin that now way it would wet print well, I suspected. Yet it scanned reasonably well and I got a salvaged image.





100ACR accidentally shot 6 stops under exposed. I used a green filter on a red car to make it black

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4133/4984603363_e6c3d148ec_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/yo_tuco/4984603363/)

Stand developed in Rodinal

[jcoldslabs]

100ACR accidentally shot 6 stops under exposed. I used a green filter on a red car to make it black.

You salvaged yours much more successfully than I did mine! I never would have guessed it was so grossly underexposed.

Jonathan

[Scott Schroeder]

Choices

[goamules]

Canon 50/1.5 RF on Tri-X 400

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8344/8208111857_92894c6bf4_z.jpg

[Ari]

Is it wet plate?
Hell no, it's the Alien Skin plug-in.

Lumix camera, morning fog.

[austin granger]

Fence and Shrub, Beaverton
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8345/8182557824_9739ea7565_z.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[goamules]

Tri-X 50/1.5

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8201/8209202098_656aef92b4_z.jpg

[Corran]

Sunrise at Tallulah Gorge, GA, on Thanksgiving.
Nikon D800E, 17-35mm f/2.8 @ 35mm, toned in LR:

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/x1-7684s.jpg

Sadly, no LF because I forgot my freakin' tripod at home this trip :( :( :(

[Corran]

One more...shot out on the porch of the cabin I stayed at up in Clayton, GA. Two frames from my D800E and 85mm f/1.4D, stitched, along with another shot after the sun rose, edited in. Sorry, yes, I cheated. Sue me. Cropped to 3:1. I think I'll print this to 36x12 and frame it 40x16.

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/panorama02-7937_stitch2-print36x12SSS.jpg

[Jay Decker]

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/data/500/Scan-121125-0004.jpg

Isabella

Pentacon Six
Sonnar 180/2.8
APX 400 in XTOL 1+1
Burbank, WA

[Scott Schroeder]

Corran. I love that first one. Looks like a great place.
On this one I was drawn to the shapes and the mono blue

[Corran]

Thanks Scott. It honestly is a tough place to photograph, there isn't a lot of good vantage points or interesting scenes. The sun is never in the right place. This is the first time I've gone at sunrise though, and it was better than late in the day for sure - the rim lighting on the tree makes the photo, IMO.

[tuco]

This is suppose to be a picture of her Halloween outfit her mother made for her and not a portrait, per se. So I gave it go and this is what we came up with to send to her mother for better or worse. She wants a BW film version too which I'd rather do.




http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8065/8215735089_930c73a5ef_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/yo_tuco/8215735089/)

[rdenney]

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/data/500/Scan-121125-0004.jpg

Isabella

Pentacon Six
Sonnar 180/2.8
APX 400 in XTOL 1+1
Burbank, WA

There's just nothing that smooths out a background like that particular Sonnar. One of my favorite lenses, and for portraits just like this--catching people in the act of being happy, without any distractions from the subject (except for us'n photographers, of course).

Rick "who has used one of these for wedding portraits, adapted to a Pentax 645, for years" Denney

[Jay Decker]

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/data/500/Scan-121125-00051.jpg

You Suck

Leica M4
Summicron 50/2.0
T-MAX 400 in XTOL 1+1
Kennewick, WA

[austin granger]

The Point Reyes, Tomales Bay (November 2012)
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8486/8191273309_b599cea588_z.jpg

Similar view made in 2003:
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5096/5476890305_9581b59048.jpg

Eucalyptus, Point Reyes
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8061/8191270969_b878b51eaa_z.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[jcoldslabs]

Sometimes I miss California. (That shot of the eucalyptus doesn't help, Austin!)

Nikon F3, Kodachrome


http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/35mm---Surfer-Sunset-r2.jpg

Jonathan

[jp]

My eyes liked the color differences and composition (as best as I could with a prime lens and fast moving subject) as I was shooting. Later on, I like how the colors separate the past and the future. I'll be reshooting it square sometime with my TLR to get more composition options.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8069/8214663435_fbfa2ccd9d_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13759696@N02/8214663435/sizes/l/in/photostream/

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8197/8214664061_ea586fdb87.jpg

[SamReeves]

Iantha styling in the dunes a few weeks ago!

Canon Elan 7, EF 50mm ƒ1.8, Kodak Tri-X.

http://www.samreevesphoto.com/posts/BW35121105_A3.jpg


http://www.samreevesphoto.com/posts/BW35121105_A5.jpg

[t0aster]

Mamiya C330 w/ 80mm, probably f/2.8
HP5+ souped in HC110 (1+63) for 10 mins at 68F

My first attempt at scanning negatives on one of the scanners available here at school.

I was wandering around a trail north of Iowa City and found this 50gal drum randomly seated in the middle of a clearing, quite surreal.

[Ari]

Some shots outside my house today.
The adjacent lot is building a storage facility, they've left some heavy machinery lying about.

Lumix FZ-200

[jcoldslabs]

This was taken a number of years ago in Spokane. It doesn't snow like this very often in Portland.

Nikon 8008s, Ektachrome 100


http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/35mm---Window-and-Snow.jpg

Jonathan

[Ramiro Elena]

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/data/500/Scan-121125-0004.jpg

Isabella

Pentacon Six
Sonnar 180/2.8
APX 400 in XTOL 1+1
Burbank, WA

How do you focus with this? I can barely focus the Biometar 80mm with the ancient Pentacon screen.

[Tony Evans]

Ramiro,
I got a brighter screen for the P6 off Evil Boy. Makes a huge difference.

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[Corran]

A close-up picture of the moon!!

Just kidding. It's just a rock on the edge of Blackrock Lake in Rabun County, GA. Mamiya 645, 80mm f/1.9, Superia 100 film:

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/untitled-12s.jpg

[t0aster]

I like this one quite a bit. It really does have an extra-terrestrial feel to it, well done.


A close-up picture of the moon!!

Just kidding. It's just a rock on the edge of Blackrock Lake in Rabun County, GA. Mamiya 645, 80mm f/1.9, Superia 100 film:

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/untitled-12s.jpg

[Corran]

Thanks! It's not bad for cheap outdated color film developed at home either!

[austin granger]

Crows, Portland
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8200/8228198727_e23cec748f_z.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[mdm]

Have you ever seen The Solitude of Ravens by Masahisa Fukase?
Here is one crow but thay are mostly birds.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1B-Uz0Hxkus/Tfh63AEYtaI/AAAAAAAAAvM/2psuDc2VdvI/s1600/Fukase1.tif

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dpmCafVWiuw/TgWIURPwAgI/AAAAAAAAAxE/v4PFyvuBDDI/s1600/Fukase7.jpg

Then there is Ted Hughes poetry book Crow, extremely interesting.

The Kill by Ted Hughes
Flogged lame with legs
Shot through the head with balled brains
Shot blind with eyes
Nailed down by his own ribs
Strangled just short of his last gasp
By his own windpipe
Clubbed unconscious by his own heart

Seeing his life stab through him, a dream flash
As he drowned in his own blood

Dragged under by the weight of his guts

Uttering a bowel-emptying cry which was his roots tearing out
Of the bedrock atom
Gaping his mouth and letting the cry rip through him as at a distance

And smashed into the rubbish of the ground

He managed to hear, faint and far - 'It's a boy!'

Then everything went black


by Ted Hughes

My point is crow imagery is a very creative vein, but maybe its not a good place to be.

[civich]

Wow! I think a photo with poetry thread would be very cool...
Perhaps in the "Image sharing and discussion" forum to keep it LF?
-Chris

[Jay Decker]

How do you focus with this? I can barely focus the Biometar 80mm with the ancient Pentacon screen.

The Pentacon Six TL I have was recently purchased from the guy who runs the pentaconsix.com website and it came with a good focus screen. The focus screen has a split, micro prism around the split, and a bright Fresnel - it reminds me of the old Nikon SLR focus screens. It makes such a difference that intend to get one for my Exakta 66...

[Scott Schroeder]

Fog this morning - digital 84552

[rdenney]

The Pentacon Six TL I have was recently purchased from the guy who runs the pentaconsix.com website and it came with a good focus screen. The focus screen has a split, micro prism around the split, and a bright Fresnel - it reminds me of the old Nikon SLR focus screens. It makes such a difference that intend to get one for my Exakta 66...

Trevor's a good guy and he knows his stuff. If you speak to him again, tell him I said "hi".

Rolf Dieter-Baier and Hans Roskam both used to offer Rollei-type focus screens for Pentacon Sixes. The Exakta 66 Mk. III included it from the factory, near as I can tell. The Kiev 60 screen is just about as good, and really far better than any of the old Pentacon screens. It requires some digging around in the camera to change them out, however. On the Kiev 60, the top plate needs to be removed to remove the screen, and that's somewhat of a pain. I don't remember the procedure for the Pentacon.

Bill Maxwell has also made screens for Pentacon and Kiev cameras at times. But I have three Kiev 60's, a Pentacon Six, an Exakta 66-III, and a Kiev 88CM--Putting Bill's screens in all of them would take some provendar.

Rick "noting that Baier's adapter for a Kiev 60 prism on an P6 makes for brighter viewing and the ability to see the whole screen" Denney

[Ramiro Elena]

Are the ones you mention similar to this?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/270567954163?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649

I've been wanting to get one for a long time but wasn't sure they would make a big difference.

[rdenney]

Are the ones you mention similar to this?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/270567954163?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649

I've been wanting to get one for a long time but wasn't sure they would make a big difference.

Yes. This is the same screen used in ex-factory upgraded Kiev 60 and 88CM cameras. I have one like this in several of my cameras and it's similar if not the same as the one Trevor would have had in the camera he sold to Jay. I'd bet that Trevor got that camera from Hans Roskam back in the 90's, though Trevor has been using these for a very long time so I may be wrong. Dr. Roskam (who was also known for distributing Docter Optic lenses, but now mostly sells binoculars and microscopes) installed one of these in the Pentacon Six I bought from him about that time.

And Gevorg (who owns Araxfoto) enjoys a pretty good reputation among Kiev camera owners and users. A good reputation in that crowd is hard to maintain given the execrable quality control on Kiev cameras back when they were being produced.

Rick "who has an 88CM that Gevorg rebuilt and refinished to good effect" Denney

[Tony Evans]

Ramiro,

Looks identical to the one I got. Recommend.

[Corran]

Jazz concert...Nikon D800E, 85mm f/1.4D or 50mm f/1.2 AIS:

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/vsujazz01.jpg http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/vsujazz02.jpg

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/vsujazz03.jpg

[Jay Decker]

How do you focus with this? I can barely focus the Biometar 80mm with the ancient Pentacon screen.


Your Biometar is great lens and I hope that new view screen will allow you find out how good it is and that you will share your results here.

[austin granger]

Have you ever seen The Solitude of Ravens by Masahisa Fukase?

Then there is Ted Hughes poetry book Crow, extremely interesting.

The Kill by Ted Hughes
Flogged lame with legs
Shot through the head with balled brains
Shot blind with eyes
Nailed down by his own ribs
Strangled just short of his last gasp
By his own windpipe
Clubbed unconscious by his own heart

Seeing his life stab through him, a dream flash
As he drowned in his own blood

Dragged under by the weight of his guts

Uttering a bowel-emptying cry which was his roots tearing out
Of the bedrock atom
Gaping his mouth and letting the cry rip through him as at a distance

And smashed into the rubbish of the ground

He managed to hear, faint and far - 'It's a boy!'

Then everything went black


by Ted Hughes

My point is crow imagery is a very creative vein, but maybe its not a good place to be.

I have heard of Fukase's book, though aside from a few images here and there, I have not seen it. From what I understand I would be in sympathy with it, and with him. As for the crows, I think you might be right in saying it's not a good place to be, but it's not the crows that bring one there. That is to say, if one is filled with a sense of foreboding, or with despair or loneliness, then those are the things that one will find in the world, those are the symbols he will see. It is the crows that come to me! And on that cheery note :), here's another picture:

Finn, Portland
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8067/8229386035_ee3e002899_z.jpg

My boy here doesn't stay still for anything, so spontaneous, low-light photos can be challenging. I like this one though. I think it's the way the chalk patterns echo his hair. And of course those fingers!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[jcoldslabs]

I don't have kids but I have nephews, one of whom thinks he can hide from me behind a pole. There is no hiding from me and my all seeing cameras!

Tru-View plastic 120 camera, HP5+


http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/P-Niagara-Falls.jpg

Jonathan

[Corran]

This is as good as it gets for fall colors down here in the deep south. Too many damned pine trees. Taken at my favorite little park on campus. Yashica 124G, expired Superia 100 developed at home with a Tetenal kit. First is at f/4, second is f/22:

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/Untitled-8ss.jpg

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/Untitled-12ss.jpg

[Ramiro Elena]

Thanks Jay and Rick, got one last night. I have two Praktisix bodies and my intention was to find a short petzval to mount with extension rings. I got the Biometar with one of the bodies but the focusing ring is stiff as... very stiff. The Biometar is indeed a beatiful lens.

[rdenney]

Thanks Jay and Rick, got one last night. I have two Praktisix bodies and my intention was to find a short petzval to mount with extension rings. I got the Biometar with one of the bodies but the focusing ring is stiff as... very stiff. The Biometar is indeed a beatiful lens.

If you look at the design of the Biometar, it is almost indistinguishable from a Xenotar, and very similar to the 5-element Planar as used by Hasselblad and Rollei for decades. The two Zeisses and Schneider all came out with their double-gauss designs about the same time--a little after coatings became feasible in production. The Biometar had its design roots in the Planar, but it came out after the war when the Jena and Oberkochen works were separated, so the names didn't cross over like the names for production lenses that was already established before the war, such as the Sonnar and the Tessar.

But if you like that Biometar, grab a 180/2.8 Sonnar for your Pentacon when the opportunity comes. That is indeed a world-class lens. There are sharper lenses, but none have that wide, smooth brush look. Not like a Petzval, but lushly understated in comparison.

An easy way to mount barrel lenses is to get the Pentacon bellows. Then, get a body cap for a Kiev 60, and drill a hole in it for the lens. Mount the lens in the body cap, and mount the body cap on the bellows. It will focus lenses as short as about 105-110mm to infinity. A more polished approach is to get a 62mm reversing ring and one of those rear filter-stack caps with the female threads. Drill your lens hole in that, or better yet mount a universal diaphragm. Personally, I never made it past the body cap. The bellows give you a focusing mechanism so that you don't have to move the camera to focus, as you with extension rings.

By the way, NEVER let the film-advance lever spring back on its own with a Practisix. Ride it back with your thumb. Those finely machined brass gears are known to strip otherwise.

Rick "seeing prices on these go up" Denney

[Jay Decker]

O
If you look at the design of the Biometar, it is almost indistinguishable from a Xenotar, and very similar to the 5-element Planar as used by Hasselblad and Rollei for decades. The two Zeisses and Schneider all came out with their double-gauss designs about the same time--a little after coatings became feasible in production.

Have a late model Biometar and the Xenotar. I like both lenses. The Biometar is a little sharper than the Xenotar, but the Xenotar has little more color contrast. If I had to choose between the two, I would pick the Xenotar because it appeals more to my aesthetic sense, but I would not feel deprived if I only had the Biometar. The is One of those rare cases where it truly is all good.

If you shoot B&W portraits, I consider the 180/2.8 Sonnar a must have. It is out standing.

[austin granger]

Here is a good example of what happens when you (accidentally) advance your camera while the shutter is still open:

Court Three, Portland
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8061/8228192533_c248a10978_c.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[Myxine]

And it looks awesome.

It would have been on my camera, it would have looked like c...p. Talented even when camera fails :)

[Randy]

Here is a good example of what happens when you (accidentally) advance your camera while the shutter is still open:

Court Three, Portland
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8061/8228192533_c248a10978_c.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/I need an explanation. Assuming that the camera advances horizontally, like a 35mm, why would you have the intended exposure, which looks like the one on the far left, then 5 more kind of foggy exposures. Why would you not just have a blur (from the film being in motion during the advance) between the left exposure and the right exposure? Would it be caused by a florescent light pulsing as they do, which is undetectable to our eyes, but was recorded by the rapidly advancing film? I must know.

[Kav]

Here is a good example of what happens when you (accidentally) advance your camera while the shutter is still open:

Court Three, Portland
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8061/8228192533_c248a10978_c.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

I Like this a lot.

My son loves to grab any of my flashes and run off with them when ever he can.

http://kavanaughmp.smugmug.com/photos/i-whqJFrg/0/XL/i-whqJFrg-XL.jpg

http://kavanaughmp.smugmug.com/photos/i-Xs6sBZC/0/XL/i-Xs6sBZC-XL.jpg

And the easel for him and his cousins:
http://kavanaughmp.smugmug.com/photos/i-9qX7FXc/0/X2/i-9qX7FXc-X2.jpg

All shot with a Nikon F4

[austin granger]

I need an explanation. Assuming that the camera advances horizontally, like a 35mm, why would you have the intended exposure, which looks like the one on the far left, then 5 more kind of foggy exposures. Why would you not just have a blur (from the film being in motion during the advance) between the left exposure and the right exposure? Would it be caused by a florescent light pulsing as they do, which is undetectable to our eyes, but was recorded by the rapidly advancing film? I must know.

Randy, Yeah, it caused me to scratch my head a little too. I did flip the negative when printing it because I thought the clearest image (that was indeed the intended image) looked better on the left. Other than that though, this is the negative. I was using a GF670, which has the quietest shutter I've ever heard, or NOT heard really-sometimes it is so quiet that I can't tell if it has opened and closed, which is what happened here. I had the camera (on a tripod) set on aperture priority, not really paying attention to what shutter speed it picked. So I made the picture (that would be the first image on the left) and thought the camera had chosen a one second exposure and so began to advance the film. On the GF, the film advance is a knob that you have to turn quite a bit to get to the next frame. I believe what happened here is that the camera made a FOUR second exposure, during which time I was advancing the film. The brighter parts (my son in the doorway) are where I paused for a fraction of a second between individual winds, which let the exposure build up in that spot. At least, this is my best guess at what happened-I probably couldn't do it again if I tried. :)

[austin granger]

I Like this a lot.

My son loves to grab any of my flashes and run off with them when ever he can.
Thanks Kav. Those are great. I'm reminded that I should really take more advantage of the three wonderful little subjects that I have running around here every day.

[Randy]

Randy, Yeah, it caused me to scratch my head a little too. I did flip the negative when printing it because I thought the clearest image (that was indeed the intended image) looked better on the left. Other than that though, this is the negative. I was using a GF670, which has the quietest shutter I've ever heard, or NOT heard really-sometimes it is so quiet that I can't tell if it has opened and closed, which is what happened here. I had the camera (on a tripod) set on aperture priority, not really paying attention to what shutter speed it picked. So I made the picture (that would be the first image on the left) and thought the camera had chosen a one second exposure and so began to advance the film. On the GF, the film advance is a knob that you have to turn quite a bit to get to the next frame. I believe what happened here is that the camera made a FOUR second exposure, during which time I was advancing the film. The brighter parts (my son in the doorway) are where I paused for a fraction of a second between individual winds, which let the exposure build up in that spot. At least, this is my best guess at what happened-I probably couldn't do it again if I tried. :)Thanks Austin...mystery solved...well sort of...how come even when you screw up you get fantastic images?

Do you play the lottery?

[austin granger]

Thanks Austin...mystery solved...well sort of...how come even when you screw up you get fantastic images?

Do you play the lottery?
Thanks Randy, but what you don't see are all my screw ups (and there are a lot of them) that are just boring old screw ups.

I have to confess, I did play the lottery the other day for that giant jackpot (I was dreaming of drum scans), but luck was not with me. Or maybe it was, who knows. I hear a good portion of people that win the lottery wish they hadn't. My seven year old daughter told me that if we won, she didn't want to move into a mansion because she liked our house. In fact she said she liked her life "just the way it is." Wise girl.

[Corran]

I feel like I'm spamming this thread. Hope y'all don't mind.

My last shot of a disappointing roll. I shot too many stupid boring pictures with everything OOF and a screwed up the development and...well you get the point. But this shot turned out well I think. I used my new favorite camera apparently, the Yashica 124G, and Kodak Portra 160. Converted to b&w because the color sucked, and cropped.

Some fishers in a drained lake with a fish hatchery filtering in:

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/Untitled-12sbw.jpg

[Scott Schroeder]

I think this and all image threads should be spammed. They are the only ones I look at any more.....

[austin granger]

Truck Stop, Interstate 5, Oregon
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8201/8236922920_91f16c820b_z.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[Roger Cole]

I feel like I'm spamming this thread. Hope y'all don't mind.

My last shot of a disappointing roll. I shot too many stupid boring pictures with everything OOF and a screwed up the development and...well you get the point. But this shot turned out well I think. I used my new favorite camera apparently, the Yashica 124G, and Kodak Portra 160. Converted to b&w because the color sucked, and cropped.

Some fishers in a drained lake with a fish hatchery filtering in:

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/Untitled-12sbw.jpg

I like it Bryan.

I also love my Yaschicamat 124. It's a very appealing little camera to use, isn't it? (Mine's the non-G but I doubt that makes any difference. More chrome, no gold plated flash contacts, and a different sound when winding.)

[Corran]

Thanks. Yes, it's a great camera! Though the bokeh can be a little crazy.

[Michael Cienfuegos]

Trying to photograph a cat is a bit like trying to push a chain uphill. My girl friend wanted some Christmas photos of her two cats, preferably together. After a few hours on the floor I was nearly a basket case, but her Persian, Meggie had the ultimate comment for our efforts:

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Her other kitty just wanted to help:

84658

My cat was no better, :(

84659


I don't think I could have done this without a digital camera. I nearly filled up an 8 GB CF card on my D700. Probably got ten good images out of the lot. :(

[scm]

http://stevemidgleyphotography.com/Scan-110405-0002.jpg
Rolleiflex 3.5E Planar - HP5+

[Jody_S]

And now for something completely different:

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[ericpmoss]

84750 Moraine Lake from the rubble pile. Mamiya 7 II, 80mm lens, Velvia 50

[ericpmoss]

84756
Moraine Lake glacier, Mamiya 7 II, 80mm lens, Rollei Pan 25.

[goamules]

1931 Hektor 50/2.5. Exhibiting some Leica glow, for sure, I'll have to shoot some black and white with it, but I kind of like the look here.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8490/8246035194_49232a224f_c.jpg

[chassis]

ericpmoss, really nice shots.

[Corran]

I was finishing this roll of 35mm Tri-X in the mountains over Thanksgiving since I had shot only half elsewhere. The problem though was that I was shooting it at an EI of 1600. But, it didn't come out too bad considering! Developed semi-stand in Rodinal 1:100 at 68F for 1 hour:

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/10298s.jpg

[ericpmoss]

ericpmoss, really nice shots.

Thank you very much. I still have so much to learn. I would like to add one shot that shows the issue -- it's fun, but it's soooooo cliche -- only missing unicorns. I'm reading design books, but it's no substitute for experience in visualizing.

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[austin granger]

Woman posing with Japanese Tsunami Debris, Oregon Coast
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8478/8239495014_d91638d920_z.jpg

I made this photo awhile back but haven't shown it because of the processing problems. I guess I'm changing my mind. I like the fact that it shows two pictures being taken simultaneously, one as a memento (by the woman's unseen friend at left) and the other as 'art' (definitely need the quotes there) by yours truly. I think of it as a picture about humans as much as anything.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[Randy]

This is so funny it is ridiculous. It doesn't matter what thread I am in, I can spot Austins pictures immediately. It has become a game to me. I look at the pictures making sure not to look at the posters name. With out fail, if I think it is Austins picture...it is. (Please know that this is a compliment - for with out fail, I find all of Austins pictures mesmerizing).

Austin, just so I don't think you are a liar, please post one (1) of your "screw ups" that you claim to have made...I'll wait.

[Rick Rycroft]

Even Austin's "screw ups" are gems. Check out his "mistake" of advancing the film while the shutter is still open, post #4684. Freak (in a good way:))

[Scott Schroeder]

Saline Valley
84886

Death Valley
84887

[Scott Schroeder]

Big Bend
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[andreios]

Scott, these are excellent! Are they toned in PS or scanned prints?

[Scott Schroeder]

Thanks Adrej,
This is actually all digital and toned in PS. I do wet plates and love it's tone. So I try to get close. I 'embed' the tone as best I can. Here's the steps if your are interested:

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I see from your blog and flikr you do lith. I've been dabbling with it and love the results. I have some old negatives I contact print but mostly I use ambrotypes and contact print those. I've tried lots of different papers and chemistry dilutions. I played with lots of MGWT but it's pretty hard to work with. I did get a nice result from it on this print.

http://schroederworks.com/Lith/ChestandBookLith001.jpg

[andreios]

Scott, I really like the print! It shows some great tones! I am still discovering papers - until lately I worked mosly with local fomatone, now I am exploring different papers and playing with different dilutions/ratios of chemistry.. (Even at this moment I have a bunch of prints still washing..
Also, thanks a lot for the PS steps! Since my purchase of an Epson printer I am trying to explore the ways of digital processing, thisis very helpful for me. Thank you.

[jcoldslabs]

Saline Valley
84886

Death Valley
84887

The play of light in these is hypnotic. Beautiful stuff.

Jonathan

[Corran]

When I take photos I do of course try to envision exactly what I'm trying to get, and imagine the final print. This is one of those times where I actually hit the nail on the head - this is exactly what I was going for.

It will be an excellent addition to my Strickland Mill project. Mamiya 645, 45mm f/2.8, Portra 160NC 220 home-developed:

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/Untitled-11-14x18s.jpg

[austin granger]

Flooded Field with Cottonwood, Oregon
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8210/8254227274_9242cebeab_z.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[goamules]

Salvador Dali Manzanita:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8076/8258758205_e018361d16_b.jpg

[chassis]

Salvador Dali Manzanita:

Very cool.

[jcoldslabs]

The nice thing about plastic cameras is you can take them out in the rain and not worry about them. The not-so-nice thing about them is that their "look" has been appropriated by camera phone filters.

Tru-View plastic 120 camera, HP5+


http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/Diana---Puddle-03.jpg

Jonathan

[andreios]

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8482/8262524910_a9da3b432c_c_d.jpg

Lith print from 645 negative. One of my favourite location - trappist abbey Novy Dvur. I usually spend there at least a couple of days every year.

[Corran]

Out shooting with some friends. This historic bridge in Albany, GA is being deconstructed due to structural concerns.

D800E, 17-35mm @ 17mm, 2 stop GND, 5 images stitched together:

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/DSC_9084_stitch2xss.jpg

[Peter Lewin]

Out shooting with some friends. This historic bridge in Albany, GA is being deconstructed due to structural concerns.

D800E, 17-35mm @ 17mm, 2 stop GND, 5 images stitched together:
Bryan: That's beautiful. It also made me think about the old question of whether a bunch of stitched images made a "large format image," simply a great panorama. (And no, I don't want to re-open the debate!)

[Corran]

Thank you! Here's one more on the banks of the Flint River, a diptych of a nice cypress from two angles just as the sun lit it up with late afternoon light:

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/diptych-0ss2.jpg

[Peter Lewin]

Back to B&W: Two from the Freylinghuysen Arboretum in Morristown, NJ.

Rollei 6006, HP5+, PMK, negative scans Epson 4990

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8210/8263542383_d5098edeab.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterlewin/8263542383/)
img057 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterlewin/8263542383/) by Pete Lewin (http://www.flickr.com/people/peterlewin/), on Flickr

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8069/8263537545_820d02c2e5.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterlewin/8263537545/)
img052 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterlewin/8263537545/) by Pete Lewin (http://www.flickr.com/people/peterlewin/), on Flickr

[Scott Schroeder]

http://www.schroederworks.com/gallery/Fgallery4-6.jpg

mullein

[Corran]

Back to B&W: Two from the Freylinghuysen Arboretum in Morristown, NJ.

Rollei 6006, HP5+, PMK, negative scans Epson 4990

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8210/8263542383_d5098edeab.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterlewin/8263542383/)
img057 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterlewin/8263542383/) by Pete Lewin (http://www.flickr.com/people/peterlewin/), on Flickr


Wonderful tonality here Peter! I generally dislike HP5 but the feeling of light here is stupendous.

[austin granger]

That image of the porch is beautiful Pete.

Defaced Billboard, Portland
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8205/8249177642_e8bebcd620_c.jpg

While you might laugh, you should know that apparently the Freedom From Religion Foundation does not find this a humorous matter. They are offering a $1000 reward for any information leading to an arrest. When asked about the defacement, Freedom From Religion Foundation Co-President Annie Gaylor stated; "It is literally demonizing us."

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[Ramiro Elena]

You all live in such awesome places!

Here's the view from our window. A composite of birds that hang out in this tree.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8484/8264798468_b8646e6843_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/rabato/8264798468/)
Pájaros (http://www.flickr.com/photos/rabato/8264798468/) by rabato (http://www.flickr.com/people/rabato/), on Flickr

[Peter Lewin]

Bryan, Austin: Thanks for the kind words. Now I have to work on consistency, so that I get more kind words :) !
Ramiro: Another beautiful image, both colors and content. Very appropriate for Hitchcock, if you catch the reference.

[jcoldslabs]

I think this is the wifely gang sign for "Don't take my picture!"

Canon AE-1 Program, T-Max 400 (expired 2001).


http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/35mm%20%28TMax%20400%29%20-%2003.jpg

Jonathan

[Michael W]

That defaced atheist billboard is hysterical. Sounds like that group takes themselves a bit too seriously.

[Randy]

Vandalizing is a crime...at least in the US. What makes it funny is considering WHO the people were that probably committed the crime.

[Scott Schroeder]

Racetrack

http://www.schroederworks.com/gallery/Fgallery5-3.jpg

[Michael Cienfuegos]

Vandalizing is a crime...at least in the US. What makes it funny is considering WHO the people were that probably committed the crime.

They (the atheists) would probably want it tried as a hate crime. :(

[austin granger]

Rise, Point Reyes (2000)
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8223/8253160125_b5cd79054f_z.jpg

Fallow Field with Rain Clouds, Oregon (2012)
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8494/8268098975_64c01144f8_z.jpg

Twelve years on and I find myself in exactly the same place, photographically speaking. I'm not sure whether to be bemused or horrified.

“What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?” -Nietzsche

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[Ramiro Elena]

Nice photos, good question.

[mdm]

Maybe thats why Ansel Adams didnt do much in his later years. They didnt come out much different anymore, but not in any way inferior.

[Joseph O'Neil]

85350My wife in the kitchen the other day. Please don't tell her I posted this one, or she likely will use the knife on me.
:)
But seriously, I just love how it came out. The dark outline, the overall mood, the fact that the knife is just a bit blurry, etc. Raw file, unedited.

[Scott Schroeder]

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[bobwysiwyg]

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Nice tonal range. Really like the composition.

[jcoldslabs]

Two of my favorite shots from my sister-in-law's wedding in Las Vegas a number of years ago.

Rolleiflex 3.5F Planar, Portra 160 and HP5+


http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/TIff-and-John-Vegas-01.jpg



http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/TIff-and-John-Vegas-02.jpg

Jonathan

[chassis]

Joseph, I like it.

Scott, interesting lighting.

[Ari]

Two of my favorite shots from my sister-in-law's wedding in Las Vegas a number of years ago.

Rolleiflex 3.5F Planar, Portra 160 and HP5+


http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/TIff-and-John-Vegas-01.jpg

Jonathan

Jonathan, this one deserves to be put in a time capsule or something; fantastic.

[jcoldslabs]

Thanks, Ari. The sad part is their marriage is on the rocks these days. It's always bittersweet to have photos of people being happy together who no longer are.

Jonathan

[Scott Schroeder]

Backlit grasses

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[mdm]

Thats pretty, and whats really nice is the lens is not in the way of the picture.

[Peter Lewin]

A recent medium format shot I'm not sure that I like or not. On one hand I like the texture of the wood chip piles and the sky, on the other hand the image is kind of "blah." But then, that's what's fun about the forum, you can post stuff and see if anyone else responds or not! I did think of cropping the little bit of log sticking in on the left, but then decided that I would be "honest" and leave the 6x6 format alone.

Anyway, the township wood chip pile in Florham Park, NJ, HP5+, PMK, Epson 4990 negative scan:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8358/8273524044_8782cc0c0f.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterlewin/8273524044/)
img051 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterlewin/8273524044/) by Pete Lewin (http://www.flickr.com/people/peterlewin/), on Flickr

[Scott Schroeder]

Peter I like the composition and don't think it's blah. I do think the presentation should be boosted with contrast to show the details and those nice clouds. I hear what you say with staying with what you caught in camera, but pulling the left side in really helps the composition imho because it gives the tree more 'strength'.

[tuco]

Nice shots, Jonathan

I finally got to the BW version of that digital one I posted a few weeks back. She wanted to be more anonymous so I came up with this.




http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8503/8273580548_64d0f843fe_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/yo_tuco/8273580548/)

500C/M, Sonnar CF T* 150mm, YG Filter, 400TMY @ EI 50, PMK

[austin granger]

Inji, Oregon Zoo
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8205/8268106597_c8122fa03c_z.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

[jcoldslabs]

Mamiya 7, Portra 160


http://www.kolstad.us/ebay/M7---Flowers-in-Window-2.jpg

Jonathan

[Corran]

Jonathan,

I'm convinced you could make a lot of money doing weddings with just your Rolleiflexes, and/or Mamiya 7 of course. The Instagram "square-format" image is IN right now, and you can ALSO deliver 100x better quality images and you've got a good eye. Do some cross-processing and you'll be in demand every weekend.

Might not be your favorite work, but you can't balk at the pay sometimes.