I like film...(open thread)

[Steve Ricoh]

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Another from my 'test roll' put through the Pen F 40 f/1.4

Tri-X Plustek Scan

 

Bit of a Cliche shot or what!

 

Cliche Shot by -Steve Ricoh-

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[Doc Henry]

 

Hi,

I’m new to this forum and this is my favorite topic (I’m actually new to posting anywhere in general).

 

These are from the first roll of film I’ve shot in a couple of decades. The film was processed by a lab in San Francisco called Photoworks (these are low-res scans). I’ll get a scanner and process film eventually, baby steps for now though.

 

Happy New Year and thank you for the great posts.

 

-carlos

 

M4, 35 Summaron, Ektar 100 (At and near Pacifica, California).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Superb color in these pictures .... I see it's Kodak Ektar

... and Welcome Carlos

Best

Henry

Lab digitalize a bit when they scan ...

Edited December 31, 2017 by Doc Henry

[Wayne]

Wishing everyone a healthy and happy new year, filled with success, good times and good photography!

 

Here is one of my favorites from 2017.  I shared a version of this last Spring, but I managed to go back before the sculpture was taken down for a proper "blue hour", which I think works much better than my first attempt :)

Park Avenue, NYC

Ektar (6x9)

Linhof Technika Press 23

53mm Zeiss Biogon

Happy New Year.jpg

I have come back to this one quite a few times. Did not understand why such an attraction. I think I have figured it out: it is not so much what it is, but rather, where it is. I recall a photo posted a few weeks (months?) ago taken somewhere in India. Same effect.  It was of a statue of a guru that had been positioned next to a curb. It was a great photograph and statue, but its location made me think of things that folks dispose of by simply placing them on the curb.

 

Oddly, your photo, and the other as well, caused me to reflect a bit on my own attitude toward art. I think I value it to a greater degree when I encounter it in an unexpected manner/place. Is it possible that all of the typical effort and fanfare that goes into the presentation of a great work actually detracts from its impact, i.e the thing itself,  rather than enhancing it. This photograph, as well as the sculpting, itself, jarred me. I would think that that response, above all else, is what the creator was hoping for.

 

Thanks for bringing me along.

 

Best,

 

Wayne

Edited December 31, 2017 by Wayne

[Wayne]

 

Hi,

I’m new to this forum and this is my favorite topic (I’m actually new to posting anywhere in general).

 

These are from the first roll of film I’ve shot in a couple of decades. The film was processed by a lab in San Francisco called Photoworks (these are low-res scans). I’ll get a scanner and process film eventually, baby steps for now though.

 

Happy New Year and thank you for the great posts.

 

-carlos

 

M4, 35 Summaron, Ektar 100 (At and near Pacifica, California).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to the forum. The photographs are beautiful. I see these were taken in California, and that the kids are wearing heavy coats. So, it must be, what....50 degrees?

 

Best,

 

Artic Wayne

[Wayne]

 

In this thread has been discussed quite often, whether rather digital images on the one hand or negatives, paper prints and slides on the other hand will be preserved for generations to come. I think we all agree that film images will have a greater chance of remaining for decades and centuries. Even more interesting, however, is the question of which images our posterity will want from us. I do not think that pictures of beautiful landscapes or holiday pictures will be asked first and foremost. Rather, it will be impressions of our everyday lives. Our homes and facilities, towns, streets and cars, but also our food and clothes will most likely be of great interest. So I consider it just as a film photographer our duty to capture our cultural assets and our way of life as diverse as possible in pictures and keep safe.

 

In this sense, a few pictures from the previous century.

 

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To your point:

 

Long before I ventured back into film, I noticed that photographs of typical, every day life from previous decades, the sort you might find on the walls in town hall as you wait for your appointment with the assessor, fascinate me. Typically I reflect on how mundane the photograph must have seemed to the person behind the lens.........Not even worth taking. Yet, there I am, 80 years into the future, finding the photograph to be one of the most interesting things I have seen that day.

 

Wayne

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M6, 50mm Summilux v.2, Fuji Velvia 100

 

 

 

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[chrism]

Thanks, Chris. I have a friend with a few Intrepids. As it happens, I have a Shen Hao passing through Anchorage on its way to me. Not the lightest of 4x5's, but that just means I'll have to be a bit fitter.

 

For what it's worth, this is the general area of interest...

http://www.david-noble.net/NZ/Jan86/Cameron/CameronTraverse.html

That looks like Bessa III/Fuji 667 country to me! I can get all my 4x5 gear into a Crumpler Sinking Barge, with a tripod strapped on the side, but even then I'd need new lungs before I climbed those trails!

Edited December 31, 2017 by chrism

[AntonioF]

Another shot from the Central Station of Milano.

 

Leica M6, Summicron 35 asph, HP5 @ 1600

20171208-DSCF0644 by antoniofedele, on Flickr

[EoinC]

That looks like Bessa III/Fuji 667 country to me! I can get all my 4x5 gear into a Crumpler Sinking Barge, with a tripod strapped on the side, but even then I'd need new lungs before I climbed those trails!

I think it's actually Minox B Country, but nobody said I should be sensible..

[EoinC]

Another shot from the Central Station of Milano.

 

Leica M6, Summicron 35 asph, HP5 @ 1600

20171208-DSCF0644 by antoniofedele, on Flickr

Very nice, Antonio.

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Nikon F3 / 55mm 1.2 / Kentmere pushed 2 stops. 

 

[AntonioF]

Very nice, Antonio.

 

Thanks!

[Activatedfx]

Nice work, Activatedfx, and welcome to the forum.

 

I hope you managed to hang on to the Kowa Six. It is a wonderful camera. Mine got passed on to my daughter, who is learning the wonders of the square box...

(503 CXi w/ 80mm Planar - Neopan Acros 100)

A001 by Eoin Christie, on Flickr

 

Thank you! Unfortunately, the Kowa was sold on. I do most of my photography while walking around NYC and Brooklyn. The Kowa was too limiting due to the size and weight. Much prefer my new M7... almost unnoticeable when slung over my shoulder!

 

That said, one day I may get another MF camera - but this time it'll be a 500 C/M.

 

Great shot of your daughter with the K6!! Makes me miss it! haha

[STK]

A very thoughtful piece! Allow me to add that this important thread should focus on film photography in your writing's spirit rather than on film technicalities. Thank you for sharing these thoughts of yours with us!

Sorry, I do not understand your objection to my previous statements.

[christoph_d]

It’s New Years Eve so perhaps you’ll bear with me. There’s a little story behind this picture…

 

 

This portrait was made during the incredible workshop that I attended back in 2011, which was conducted by Mary Ellen Mark in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Mary Ellen gave us some options of places to shoot - places she’d sent attendees in the past, knowing they came back with good pictures. For me, it was a choice between the town dump and the slaughterhouse. I chose the dump. She told us we’d need gumboots, as we’d be walking in trash, so the girl I went there with, Ari, and I got our taxi to stop at a shoe shop en route. I couldn’t buy gumboots anywhere near my size so I bought the only things I could find big enough - some cheap tennis shoes.  There was a fruit shop next door to the shoe shop so we also bought water and oranges.

When we got to the dump Ari and I separated and went trudging in different directions through mountains of trash. Eventually I met this man and, as we walked, we conversed - not that I could speak Spanish, nor could he speak English - we communicated by gesture. He lived with his dogs (there’s one behind him) in a hut at the edge of the dump and worked there every day, filling large bags with stuff he might be able to sell. He graciously agreed to let me take his picture. He was (and hopefully still is) such a dignified man. I gave him my oranges and, noticing he had none, my shoes, ending my trip to the dump barefoot. Later, on hearing of this, people thought I was either crazy or incredibly kind and generous, but I just felt manifestly inadequate having made such a small gesture - it was the very least I felt I could have done. The experience of meeting this man was a very powerful one for me - he never asked me for anything - and he lived with the dignity that is so evident in this picture even though, by any standard, he had so very little.

The picture also involved technical challenges. I was using Ilford XP2 Super film, which is nominally 400ISO but can be successfully overexposed to some extent (and underexposed according to ChrisM’s fascinating experiments). It was incredibly hot and bright at the dump, and I wanted to use some fill flash so as to get some light to his face, which was well shaded by his hat. Leica M’s having just 1/50 sec as a maximum sync speed meant I had to stack the only two colour filters I had with me - a green and a yellow - on the 28mm Elmarit lens and I still had to use the minimum aperture (f16). Even then I was overexposing the box speed by two stops - effectively 100ISO. Setting my Nikon SB25 flash to half power I hoped it would all work out - and this time, fortunately, it did.

What this story illustrates perfectly to me is that photography enables us to experience so much that maybe we wouldn’t otherwise. If it weren’t for the workshop I’d probably never have gone to Mexico, and certainly never to the town dump. I’d never have met this man whose quiet dignity will forever stay with me - not just in a picture - this was a real, live experience and I can still recall us talking, and even remember the heat and the acrid stench of the dump; can almost still feel the slimy rubbish oozing through my toes after I’d passed on my shoes. I’ll never forget the lessons my short encounter with this man taught me in acceptance, dignity and humility. Hell, I’d never have met my valued mentor Mary Ellen Mark or some of the wonderful people I still maintain contact with.

It taught me why I love photography so much - working out solutions to problems, sharing unimaginable experiences with other photographers. Being IN the world and experiencing its delights, its vicissitudes and having the opportunity to come away with something tangible, personal and meaningful. A photograph.

Have a happy, healthy and fulfilling 2018.

Thank you

 

C.

[A miller]

Thank you, NYC is a candy store for photography for sure.  San your camera just about any place and show it to the world and they can talk your ear off about how they ere there once and wish they could go back.  That's the somewhat of a unique emotion that NYC photography elicits from people.   It's a crutch for the photographically challenged - and I milk it for everything I can

I love this shot. Anyway, their NYC pictures are always a treat. I was in NYC 6 years ago. Wonderful photogenic metropolis. I'm jealous of you.

 

Hey Carlos - great bright, crisp photos with lovely Ektar colors.  Keep up the great work and hope to see more of your photos here!

 

Hi,

I’m new to this forum and this is my favorite topic (I’m actually new to posting anywhere in general).

 

These are from the first roll of film I’ve shot in a couple of decades. The film was processed by a lab in San Francisco called Photoworks (these are low-res scans). I’ll get a scanner and process film eventually, baby steps for now though.

 

Happy New Year and thank you for the great posts.

 

-carlos

 

M4, 35 Summaron, Ektar 100 (At and near Pacifica, California).

 

 

Thanks, Henry.  I am in agreement with you not he Ektar!

 

One of my favorite film and your picture makes nicer Adam

 

 

Thanks, Philip.  Once case in which persistence paid off

 

This is great, Adam. I remember the other versions you showed but I think this is my favourite because it shows the enormous size of the statue without exaggerating the perspective. And the blue hour and long exposure are icing on a very delicious-looking cake.

 

 

 

Very interesting, Wayne.  Thanks for sharing your thoughts around this.  Park Avenue between the upper 40s and the lower 60s showcases outdoor art pretty much all the time.  The displays rotate every few months.  This sculpture was featured during the Spring months of last year.   My sense is that this type of art is made to be showcased outdoors and there really aren't that many prominent outdoor "art galleries"  - Park Avenue is up their on the top of the list!  Just think about the volume of views from all of the hundreds of thousand tourists, not to mention the saturation of "top 1%'er" that trek Park Avenue every day.  Like that famous Sinatra song, "if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere...it's up to you New York. New York..........."

I have come back to this one quite a few times. Did not understand why such an attraction. I think I have figured it out: it is not so much what it is, but rather, where it is. I recall a photo posted a few weeks (months?) ago taken somewhere in India. Same effect.  It was of a statue of a guru that had been positioned next to a curb. It was a great photograph and statue, but its location made me think of things that folks dispose of by simply placing them on the curb.

 

Oddly, your photo, and the other as well, caused me to reflect a bit on my own attitude toward art. I think I value it to a greater degree when I encounter it in an unexpected manner/place. Is it possible that all of the typical effort and fanfare that goes into the presentation of a great work actually detracts from its impact, i.e the thing itself,  rather than enhancing it. This photograph, as well as the sculpting, itself, jarred me. I would think that that response, above all else, is what the creator was hoping for.

 

Thanks for bringing me along.

 

Best,

 

Wayne

 

Mega good, Patrick.  You might consider the leveling; on my screen it looks like it could benefit from a slight tilt to the right.  But really love the shot!

Nikon F3 / 55mm 1.2 / Kentmere pushed 2 stops. 

 

 

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Contax IIa, 1:2 f=50 mm Sonnar, TMax 400

 

 

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a few more from London, April 1984 -- Covent Garden has changed, all Kodachrome, scanned with my plustek 8200i and pp in Capture One 11 --

 

 

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and Big Ben under wraps -- a big disappointment for me, as this was the first time I was in London and wanted to see Big Ben in all its glory ...

 

 

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