I like film...(open thread)

[Keith (M)]

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All tied-up & going nowhere...  Looking back at some of the different films used over the last few years, this one is from a roll of Kentmere 100 developed in Ilfosol 3.  After using the initial batch, I switched to Acros 100 which I have come to prefer despite the cost difference.   M7 + ZM C-Sonnar 50mm.

 

PS - sans vignette  

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Edited December 18, 2015 by Keith (M)

[Doc Henry]

I had a wake-up moment when I read this line:

 

"Digital capture quietly but definitively severed the optical connection with reality..."

 

From an article at Time, here.

I like that "two thirds of the digital photo are coming from digital processing"

I now understand why the digital images are "flat and soulless"

Soon it will not be the picture that we have but a kind of approximate image , coming from a

"computer robot camera".

I understand now why there are distortions since it is through electronic circuits

You said : 1,2,1,2.....

It's therefore no longer the picture as we know , but something that looks like

Fortunately, the film is not subjected to the invasion of computer

Best

Henry

Edited December 18, 2015 by Doc Henry

[philipus]

Btw, has anyone figured out an easy way to post images from flickr using tapatalk?

[A miller]

For my British friends, I will share some photos of the opening night of Far From the Madding Crowd in 1967 at the Plaza Hotel in NYC...

These are of famous British actress Julie Christie, who co-starred in the movie along with fellow British actors Peter Finch and Alan Bates (more from them later...)

The movie was nominated for an Oscar and two awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts

Kodak safety film (that's all I know)...

Does this jog any memories, or is it too long ago...?

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Btw, has anyone figured out an easy way to post images from flickr using tapatalk?

Yep. I posted the steps a few pages back. Search on Flickstackr.

 

Ric

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For my British friends, I will share some photos of the opening night of Far From the Madding Crowd in 1967 at the Plaza Hotel in NYC...

These are of famous British actress Julie Christie, who co-starred in the movie along with fellow British actors Peter Finch and Alan Bates (more from them later...)

The movie was nominated for an Oscar and two awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts

Kodak safety film (that's all I know)...

Does this jog any memories, or is it too long ago...?

j christie-1.jpg

 

 

 

j christie1-1.jpg

Julie Christie jogs something, but it ain't my memory... Beautiful woman.

 

Oh and the film was good, but Thomas Hardy never translated well to the film viewers imagination.

 

Ric

[sblitz]

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Adam -- I was soooooooo in love with Julie Christie!. This isn't the Plaza, however. The background is the Winter Garden Theater which is on Broadway and 51st Street. My guess is that they are going into the Capitol Movie Theater (now the Paramount office building across Broadway from the Winter Garden) are going to eat at Lindys (now the Mcdonalds across the street) or Jack Dempsey (now an electronics store for tourists). Keep them coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Doc Henry]

For my British friends, I will share some photos of the opening night of Far From the Madding Crowd in 1967 at the Plaza Hotel in NYC...

These are of famous British actress Julie Christie, who co-starred in the movie along with fellow British actors Peter Finch and Alan Bates (more from them later...)

The movie was nominated for an Oscar and two awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts

Kodak safety film (that's all I know)...

Does this jog any memories, or is it too long ago...?

j christie-1.jpg

 

 

 

j christie1-1.jpg

Very nice shots and beautiful color

Thanks Adam for posting

Best

Henry

[Doc Henry]

I just need scanner to post the photo in Jpeg, but no need sensor
So color without "robot process" as said above Chris link

 

 

The pleasure to see the "natural" colors

 

Street photos Queen's Walk

London

 

 

Kodak Portra 400

M7-Summicron 28 Asph

 

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Henry

[Doc Henry]

Street photos London

Covent Garden

... when we look  eyes are fixed

Guess who looks at me when I took this photo ? 

 

 

Kodak Portra 160

M7-28 Summicron 28 Asph

 

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Best

Henry

Edited December 18, 2015 by Doc Henry

[A miller]

Adam -- I was soooooooo in love with Julie Christie!. This isn't the Plaza, however. The background is the Winter Garden Theater which is on Broadway and 51st Street. My guess is that they are going into the Capitol Movie Theater (now the Paramount office building across Broadway from the Winter Garden) are going to eat at Lindys (now the Mcdonalds across the street) or Jack Dempsey (now an electronics store for tourists). Keep them coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Steve - Glad I was able to make a connection.  I do not know her, but she sure was beautiful!  And you are right about the venue.  Thanks for pointing that out.  More to come soon!  Best, Adam 

[sblitz]

Hi Steve - Glad I was able to make a connection.  I do not know her, but she sure was beautiful!  And you are right about the venue.  Thanks for pointing that out.  More to come soon!  Best, Adam 

 

Spending an evening at home with your wife and watch Dr. Zhivago -- she is Lara, and set many hearts aflutter

[Ramesh]

Street Scene

M6TTL, 35Lux, Portra 160

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[rpavich]

Ok...enough of the exciting destinations and exotic locales, famous beautiful people, and things like that.

Now for some mundane images from my latest roll of Cinestill 800.

I went to Ohio to get some lasik so i could see my 35mm frame lines without moving my head around so I thought I'd celebrate by busting out the Cinestill 800 instead of the old Kodak Gold $1.99 per roll

We stopped to eat at White Castle (I'd never been to one) and of course after the surgery, I had to go into the restroom at the Doctor's office and take a selfie without glasses just to see if my focusing got better!

Then, unfortunately, I got shingles, and man does it hurt!

The last picture is a shoot-from-the-hip shot at the pharmacy getting my medicine.

 

 

 

 

[chrism]

Dull and foggy today, but since Henry has shown us fog is beautiful (MP, 35ASPH, XP2, HC-110):

 

Fog at Barrachois by chrism229, on Flickr

 

Foggy pond by chrism229, on Flickr

 

Not taking risks today by chrism229, on Flickr

 

Not Potable by chrism229, on Flickr

 

Chris

PS Loved Julie Christie!

[gbealnz]

Man, those fog shots are nice, well done.

Gary

[Ramesh]

Festival Hindu Temple

M6TTL, 35 Lux FLE

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[christoph_d]

I like that "two thirds of the digital photo are coming from digital processing"

I now understand why the digital images are "flat and soulless"

Soon it will not be the picture that we have but a kind of approximate image , coming from a

"computer robot camera".

I understand now why there are distortions since it is through electronic circuits

You said : 1,2,1,2.....

It's therefore no longer the picture as we know , but something that looks like

Fortunately, the film is not subjected to the invasion of computer

Best

Henry

 

Henry,

 

The article describes quite well what I see is happening with "Digital" photography. While it is probably true that photography by nature does not depict reality, but an interpretation thereof, at least until recently it was substantially an impression of the actual light emitted at a scene. That link is increasingly lost. Laws of nature are violated in search for a perfect picture, whereby the definition of perfect may change according to taste. With analog photography I see an image of a scene. With digital, I see a picture that may or may not have some resemblence to (elements of) the scene. 

And the ease with which those manipulations can be applied facilitate an abhorrent deluge of, at best mediocre misrepresentations of ... I better stop and go for a walk and take some nice images 

 

Have a good weekend everyone,

 

C.

[Doc Henry]

All tied-up & going nowhere...  Looking back at some of the different films used over the last few years, this one is from a roll of Kentmere 100 developed in Ilfosol 3.  After using the initial batch, I switched to Acros 100 which I have come to prefer despite the cost difference.   M7 + ZM C-Sonnar 50mm.

 

PS - sans vignette  

Nice contrast in this picture Keith

Best

Henry

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London by -Ric Capucho-

 

 

Delta 100 again.

 

Seems to me that digital does have a rightful place in photography, just not the type of photography I want to do.

 

Many years ago I got to "play" with an early VHS video system. Amazing technology for the early 1980s! I noticed that when it played normally the picture was almost as good as broadcast, but when on fast forward the picture somehow became "over real" even if the characters were racing all over the screen. I really didn't like the look of that enhanced reality a bit.

 

Years later and I hear that the video people are aware of this problem and purposely reduce the frame rate (in camera, or during post) to ensure things look more normal. Fast frame rates look weird.

 

For me digital photography has a similar problem, especially after someone's spent a few too many hours in post processing... the pictures have so much detail, the slightest flaws magically removed, and any compositional errors cropped or brushed out. And the result? Something that looks (to my eyes) so damn real that it starts to look unreal. Many many people love that look, and a brief gance at Flickr's latest crop of Explored photos tells you that's where the times have got us. Admittedly the bokeh whores at least break up the over reality a bit, but then they still post process whatever's in focus until that part's over real.

 

Me? I do crop occasionally, but zero post processing. I often slow down the shutter to find that ghost look that's currently my thing. I use b+w fim because the world doesn't look like that, and anyway the grain removes yet another layer of over reality. I look for sub reality, not over reality. I rarely get even that right, but it's a direction at least.

 

Ric