I like film...(open thread)

[robert blu]

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XP2 is indeed wonderful. It is very sharp, almost grainless, it has a long curve (close to impossible to blow out highlights), it is creamy smooth, it prints and scans exceptionally. I began years ago using XP1 which was exceptional, and the product has just got better. Not "really" a B&W film - nonsense. Might as well say that digital images are not photography - equally silly.

 

one more plus  in favor of XP2 is that being chromogenic you can scan with ICE which makes the process easier and quicker

 

I keep coming back to these extraordinarily powerful and dramatic landscapes, which are beautifully processed.  The original scenes and lighting must have been spectacular.

I'd love to see them in print.  

 

I've just bought some XP2 but I don't have any such landscape close by ;-).

 

Regards

Mark

 

Yes, the place itself was spectacular, not so easy to arrive there for us urban citizens! As photographer it was an easy work, just frame and shoot!

robert

[philipus]

Very interesting effect Gary. What filter did you use?

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Philip

 

I'm in scan mode again, sans Minolta, as explained these are with the T, and BEOON, plus Apo Rodagon.

These from old Hasselblad and Fuji RDP, beautiful film.

The two subjects are aged 35 and 31 now, so this was a "while ago".

Gary

[Bateleur]

Normally I don't keep a record of my film intake. Last year though I thought I'd keep a tally ...

 

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40 rolls of 120 format and 68 of 35mm format mostly Ilford but some exotics to keep life interesting.

[Suede]

wow, a double rainbow?  I can understand the hysteria!

As the old saying goes, "it is what it is."  In this case, it is pretty darn surreal, so you shouldn't expect less from your photograph, especially with the Ektar.

It appears that the Ektar has grabbed a hold of the red hues in your image and held them for ransom   This is quite common and easily fixable in both the manual scanning process (by making WB corrections when it looks way off) and/or in your editing software.

Your resulting image looks ok, but it renders more like an old polaroid.  The automated scanning process is the culprit, for sure.

Here is a version that (i) makes a quick and dirty WB correction (more tinkering could be made), (ii) makes a slight crop to remove the ugly truck from the far right and some of the dead space in the circular street (which also seems to make the primary rainbow frame the two trees to the immediate right quite nicely, along with the inverse circular row of hedge bushed in the foreground) and (iii) adjusts the luminance a little so the whites aren't so much brighter than the other light tones.

Is this more along the lines of what you saw?

Back over to you...

Adam, thank you for taking the time to so thoroughly addressing the issue of Ektar's rendition of reds. I'd read a lot eulogising Ektar so I decided to give it a try.

I like your treated image and also the cropping. From what I recall insomuch as reality is concerned, the sky might have been not as blue – it was, if anything, angrier, a more ominous grey. Other than that, I think it's good.

I personally prefer it when the colours are more muted, gentler. Ektar looks like a colour film on steroids, so far as red is concerned in any case.

I should stick to black and white, perhaps.

Any suggestions for a more normal colour film? I have something from Agfa – called Arista 400 – which I picked up from Berlin in the pipeline for trial. I'll see how that went by the end of the week. I liked the Fuji Reala 100 in the past but, alas, it's not available anymore.

Perhaps I should get a scanner and scan myself to have one more parameter under my control. 

Cheers.

[Alan Philpotts]

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IIIa, Summitar, XP2

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[A miller]

Adam, thank you for taking the time to so thoroughly addressing the issue of Ektar's rendition of reds. I'd read a lot eulogising Ektar so I decided to give it a try.

I like your treated image and also the cropping. From what I recall insomuch as reality is concerned, the sky might have been not as blue – it was, if anything, angrier, a more ominous grey. Other than that, I think it's good.

I personally prefer it when the colours are more muted, gentler. Ektar looks like a colour film on steroids, so far as red is concerned in any case.

I should stick to black and white, perhaps.

Any suggestions for a more normal colour film? I have something from Agfa – called Arista 400 – which I picked up from Berlin in the pipeline for trial. I'll see how that went by the end of the week. I liked the Fuji Reala 100 in the past but, alas, it's not available anymore.

Perhaps I should get a scanner and scan myself to have one more parameter under my control. 

Cheers.

For better overall balance in daylight negative film, try Fuji Pro 400H, Portra 160 and Portra 400.

And don't give up on Ektar just yet!!

[pico]

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Kodak's T-Grain film is good when using early lenses which tend to low contrast due to internal flare, poor coating.

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[pico]

Love the double rainbow picture. Here we joke that when there is a rainbow we know where our Irish residents will be, unless it is early in the morn'. (Me darlin is one of 'em.)

[philipus]

When I was in Stockholm in November I stopped by the "Fotografiska" photo museum. There were a few exhibitions on, including one by Magnus Wennman of the Swedish daily Aftonbladet. Called "Where the children sleep" ("Där barnen sover"), it shows the children's side of the current migration crisis. It is an extraordinarily moving exhibition.

 

Wennman's exhibition hid (inexplicably) in a small room behind the (very large) hall where Martin Schoeller's "Up close" was shown. This shows four of his series, including "Close up", the one with massive prints of famous people's faces. And there was some pompous irrelevant statement about how he has depicted these fortunate individuals to show that they actually look like everyone else (though I'm not sure if he actually means that most people run around with a straight-jacket like Tarantino or have blood on their face like Bale). As you can tell, I'm no fan of his photography, but what I found truly disturbing was that the museum had chosen to place the most important of these exhibitions literally in a corner.

 

Here are a few snaps from my visit (all M4, 50/2 v3 and Superia 400).

 

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[otto.f]

Very well done! What scanner do you use?

[Trev]

Shot this reflection and turned it upside down.

Agfa Vista 200. Developed and scanned by Snaps Photo of Bournemouth.

M6ttl, I think with 50mm Elmar M (must make notes)

 

Inverted reflection 2 by Trevor, on Flickr

[Trev]

@robert blu

 

Just been back to see the Dolomite shots on a larger screen.

 

DOUBLE WOW !!!!!

[gbealnz]

Very interesting effect Gary. What filter did you use?

br

Philip

Goodness Philip, given the time elapsed I'd be guessing, but figure it was an old UV with petroleum jelly smeared about the edges, not center. That's my best guess anyway.

Gary

[philipus]

Thank you Otto. I used my Coolscan 9000.

 

Very well done! What scanner do you use?

[philipus]

Really cool, the result is striking. 

 

Goodness Philip, given the time elapsed I'd be guessing, but figure it was an old UV with petroleum jelly smeared about the edges, not center. That's my best guess anyway.

Gary

[A miller]

And the same two, similar era, same camera, Kodak EPN.

Gary

love these two photos, Gary.  So very clean and crisp, with just the right colors. 

[A miller]

When I was in Stockholm in November I stopped by the "Fotografiska" photo museum. There were a few exhibitions on, including one by Magnus Wennman of the Swedish daily Aftonbladet. Called "Where the children sleep" ("Där barnen sover"), it shows the children's side of the current migration crisis. It is an extraordinarily moving exhibition.

 

Wennman's exhibition hid (inexplicably) in a small room behind the (very large) hall where Martin Schoeller's "Up close" was shown. This shows four of his series, including "Close up", the one with massive prints of famous people's faces. And there was some pompous irrelevant statement about how he has depicted these fortunate individuals to show that they actually look like everyone else (though I'm not sure if he actually means that most people run around with a straight-jacket like Tarantino or have blood on their face like Bale). As you can tell, I'm no fan of his photography, but what I found truly disturbing was that the museum had chosen to place the most important of these exhibitions literally in a corner.

 

Here are a few snaps from my visit (all M4, 50/2 v3 and Superia 400).

 

Flickr

 

Flickr

 

Flickr

very cool, Philip.  I like how you think outside of the box.  The last is particularly clever.

[A miller]

Shot this reflection and turned it upside down.

Agfa Vista 200. Developed and scanned by Snaps Photo of Bournemouth.

M6ttl, I think with 50mm Elmar M (must make notes)

 

Inverted reflection 2 by Trevor, on Flickr

Trev - very cool.  everything works well and it is very creative. 

[Doc Henry]

 

A couple more. Portrait(it) stuff this time.

 

Tri-X

 

 

Neopan 400CN

 

Ian lovely b&w pictures

Best Henry

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[Doc Henry]

I take my M6 everywhere, even work.

 

These are some co-workers clowning for the camera.

 

M6

Summarit 35mmf/2.5

HP5+ @400

HC-110B

 

That's I call a funny picture

Well done

Best

Henry