I like film...(open thread)

[Doc Henry]

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Thank you very much for your kind comment, Henry!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gentelmen,

thank you for your advices ... and for your comments. GN you have really good eyes .... respect!

 

Best

Gregor

 

PS. I will take a look to the other videos in the evening.

 

The eye of the master

Best

Henry

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[Ratzfatz]

R9, Elmarit-M 28/2.8, Fuji Superia 400, Argentix presskit, Hasselblad X1 scan:

 

Lillies by chrism229, on Flickr

 

Not helping! Simply clicked on B&W and then split-toning. Looks like alien life-forms, says Pippa. Looks like plastic to me.

 

C.

 

Chris, I like it. This photo has something ....surreals, I guess. Very interesting. Did you do it LR and/or PS?

 

Best

GRegor

[Doc Henry]

I don't know about the R9, never had one, but the R6 has interchangeable focus screens so you can experiment to see if one makes it easier? I'd imagine the R9 must do also?

 

I like the split-image on R6 but then it's not a camera I'd use in anything but good light. Ease of focus is why I like rangefinders and not seeing the world in yellow/orange etc. when using filters.

'WYSIWYG' is a good light thing to me, since you are seeing what you'll be getting with the DOF preview lever.

 

The 90 Summicron-R - 'E55' version with the pull out hood is about my favourite lens of all time. I adore the ergonomics and the results it gives, especially with colour. If the setup doesn't feel right with that, I'd definitely consider a different body or system. I hope you figure it out, for me personally buy/sell just sucks some of the joy out of photography.

 

A couple of random, older shots with 90/2-R and Portra 400 by way of example. Good luck with yours...

 

 

Well done Richard and superb color

Thank you.

 

Leica abandon now SLR but tried at the period when Minolta get out the SRT ..

I think R6 or R9 are goood cameras it's heavier than M but pictures through the camera 

and R lens series are superb , color as b&w !

Best

Henry

[Doc Henry]

Chris, I like it. This photo has something ....surreals, I guess. Very interesting. Did you do it LR and/or PS?

 

Best

GRegor

 

Yes I like too , I agree with Gregor , but Chris has certainly PP ! It's fine like a painting

or a vintage picture of our grand parents.

 

If you like plastic aspect please look at some pictures of MM it worse 

I said "synthetic" image , fully coming from one robot camera , with lines and edges "cutting

like a rasor" (accentuation of the structure and squarred pixels smoothed) it's horrible !

Best

Henry

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[Ratzfatz]

Well, it works not always and not fp

 

Yes I like too , I agree with Gregor , but Chris has certainly PP ! It's fine like a painting

or a vintage picture of our grand parents.

 

If you like plastic aspect please look at some pictures of MM it worse 

I said "synthetic" image , fully coming from one robot camera , with lines and edges "cutting

like a rasor" (accentuation of the structure and squarred pixels smoothed) it's horrible !

Best

Henry

 

Henry, I think it works not always and not for all motives. What do you mean with PP?

Best

Gregor

[Doc Henry]

Not strictly a seagull, Henry - in fact the Australian pied cormorant according to my research on Wikipedia.

 

Also known as a shag to the non-ornithologists among us.

 

 

 

My Mum used to use that expression, Dan - "sitting there like a shag on a rock" - in other words, mindlessly doing nothing. Would make a great avatar as you suggest, but I think I'd feel compelled to use it as my own!

 

 

 

Now that you mention it Henry, a stray shag wouldn't go astray.

 

Phil, you must change now your pseudo name

[stray cat]

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Maybe not, Henry - I don't think my wife would approve of any stray shags.

[wattsy]

 

Ian - crossroads are interesting places.  I visited your website.  Your “commissioned-recent” are remarkable exposures on several levels - I was most taken with the level of exposure itself in the images (the clarity of the light), and the way you nailed focus on the critical item.  Were these all taken on film? and with manual focus?  If yes, I hang my head in shame   

I’ve clicked through the others.  You do it all the time; the light suffuses the image. Think all you like.  Just keep doing it.

 

 

Thank you, Dan, that's kind of you to write that. Just to answer your questions, all the photos in the 'commissioned' and 'recent' sections were taken with digital (sorry Henry ) – mostly Leica M9 (so, I guess, manual focus to answer your second question) – but the first 9 in the 'recent' were taken with a Nikon DSLR (mixture of AF and manual).

 

My current thoughts are not really about equipment (I have no appetite or budget for switching systems or buying anything new) but more about how I can better translate my intentions (the kind of photos I have in my head) to the results I obtain. I have a bunch of new film scans to look at later today which will be interesting.

[Doc Henry]

Well, it works not always and not fp

 

 

Henry, I think it works not always and not for all motives. What do you mean with PP?

Best

Gregor

 

Gregor , "PP" I mean Post-process

I did it with Color Efex "stylizer" , a vintage side

 

 

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Best

Henry

[wattsy]

Hi Ian, I've also gone through periods like what you're describing and, well, it's frustrating. It seems, to me, that there are two schools of thought regarding how to overcome this, perseverance and idleness. Put another way, one can follow the dictate of "when going through Hell, keep going" (then again there's that other saying that "doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity"...) or, which I have found more helpful, one can take the idle approach. I highly recommend Tom Hodgkinson's book How to be idle and in it he observes that “Long periods of languor, indolence and staring at the ceiling are needed by any creative person in order to develop ideas.” This is what I usually do (though I realise as a happy amateur I have the 'luxury' of not photographing), just leave the camera(s...) on a shelf and instead walk around not looking for things to photograph. After a while, and it can really take quite a while, I usually start noticing things that could be interesting to photograph. Eventually, this will turn into a desire to photograph. And then I'm again stuck with a massive pile of negative sheets which need to be scanned    

 

 

Thanks Philip, that sounds like good advice but, in truth, I'm not in a photographic funk. I don't have any shortage of subjects or photographs that I'd like to take, I'm just thinking through my recent approach and becoming more selective or, possibly, proactive (or even reactive). In short, I think I have become a bit too lazy.

[Doc Henry]

Thank you, Dan, that's kind of you to write that. Just to answer your questions, all the photos in the 'commissioned' and 'recent' sections were taken with digital (sorry Henry ) – mostly Leica M9 (so, I guess, manual focus to answer your second question) – but the first 9 in the 'recent' were taken with a Nikon DSLR (mixture of AF and manual).

 

My current thoughts are not really about equipment (I have no appetite or budget for switching systems or buying anything new) but more about how I can better translate my intentions (the kind of photos I have in my head) to the results I obtain. I have a bunch of new film scans to look at later today which will be interesting.

 

Thanks Philip, that sounds like good advice but, in truth, I'm not in a photographic funk. I don't have any shortage of subjects or photographs that I'd like to take, I'm just thinking through my recent approach and becoming more selective or, possibly, proactive (or even reactive). In short, I think I have become a bit too lazy.

 

Ian it's the wisdom way and you are modest about your pictures color as b&w

I like your pictures in contre-jour. It shows the search of the beauty

Thanks for sharing with us

Best

Henry

 

About your links Flick or Instagram or your personal site  color in film is the best specially contre-jour.

Some landscapes I think are in digital ... line and edges too perfect too net IMO , not natural , sorry for

my frank opinion...

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[gbealnz]

Thanks Henry. The atmosphere of the moment is all I'm looking to capture with moments in (my) time like this, so film is perfect, with all its limitations with distortion and ISO and so on.

I have a little video from that exact moment (climbing a small hill in Wales to visit that War Memorial) from my phone that has colour and sound but it brings me less to the moment than these fuzzy little pictures. Vive le film!

 

That's a nice little house you have there in Paris, I must visit some day

Ha, Henry's house.

Sacre Bleu', LOL.

Or Sacre Coeur?

That would be the question.

Gary

 

[Doc Henry]

Ha, Henry's house.

Sacre Bleu', LOL.

Or Sacre Coeur?

That would be the question.

Gary

Sacre bleu Gary sacre bleu  (2)

or "damned" !

Gary I listen at the present time La Traviata of Verdi ...as I see you like Italie

it's sublime ...

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[Doc Henry]

Who said 100 Isos are not enough to photograph and needs isos race

For me it's fine and enough !

 

Look at this picture taken the last day of my humanitarian mission during a break

and a ballad at 8 pm and almost in the dark

 

 

 

Leica MP-Kodak TMAX100-50 Summilux Asph

 

Danang , river Han

Sept 2016

 

 

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You said film is not sensitive ?

 

Best

Henry

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[Keith (M)]

Gosh, this thread proceeds at quite a pace!  I was out & about with my M240  (shock, horror!) + 1967 Summaron 35mm f2.8 yesterday but to make up for that I received today the scan files from Canadian Film Lab from my MP with the same 1967 lens & Portra 160.  Two frames taken at the National Trust's Kingston Lacy last month.

 

 

[Doc Henry]

Gosh, this thread proceeds at quite a pace!  I was out & about with my M240  (shock, horror!) + 1967 Summaron 35mm f2.8 yesterday but to make up for that I received today the scan files from Canadian Film Lab from my MP with the same 1967 lens & Portra 160.  Two frames taken at the National Trust's Kingston Lacy last month.

 

Nice color Keith ,  I see it's Portra 160

 

... here another picture of Castle of Fontainebleau in KP 160

I have made any modification directly from my Nikon Coolscan 5000

 

Leica M7-Kodak Portra 160-Summicron 35 Asph

Kodak Portra dev myself in Tetenal

 

 

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and in b&w

 

Kodak TX400-Leica MP-35 Summilux Asph

dev in Kodak D76

 

 

 

A little stream in foreground very nice place

 

Best

Henry

[Ratzfatz]

Gregor , "PP" I mean Post-process

I did it with Color Efex "stylizer" , a vintage side

 

 

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Best

Henry

 

Henry, thank you for your information. I didn't use the Nik-Filter for many years ... I am surprised now what is possible with this tool.

 

Great photo ... btw. Really impressive your work!

 

Best

Gregor

[Doc Henry]

Henry, thank you for your information. I didn't use the Nik-Filter for many years ... I am surprised now what is possible with this tool.

 

Great photo ... btw. Really impressive your work!

 

Best

Gregor

 

Thank you Gregor

I do now photography with a great pleasure and I appreciate what I do like time to compose , take time

for framing , less pictures, about "shutter syndrom" it's finished for me , since I abandon my 2 digital M cameras

Best

Henry

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[Doc Henry]

I  begin to like this film , nice contrast  and nice black too

like a little Fuji Acros 100

 

 

Kodak TMAX100-Leica MP-Summilux 50 Asph

No correction

 

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Henry

[chrism]

The peculiar picture of the lilies looked like this when imported into LR:

 

 

Not particularly interesting. Looking at the develop actions in its history, I cropped, tweaked the clarity, converted to B&W and decreased the blue and aqua to darken the sky, then did the split toning. I don't really know why it ended up looking so over-processed, but it took on that appearance when I set the amount of highlight saturation for the split-toning. I guess the lesson is do to as little as possible to film scans.

 

C.