I like film...(open thread)

[Ramesh]

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My favorite aspect of this thread is the ability to obtain numerous sounding boards and sincere constructive feedback from friends who share the same passion.  

This photo is a (rare) repost of an initial draft version that I shared this past summer.  I was in love with the uber dramatic sunset and thought I had some good negatives but was convinced - largely from the (direct and indirect) feedback here - into being unsatisfied that I had really executed on my vision.  After about 7 months of toiling and running test prints on Fuji Flex high gloss photo paper (which has a slightly warm base) I think I have finally come to a resting point.  Thought I'd share it!

 

 

Ektar, SWC

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Adam, This is really a very very nice image. It conveys a sense of serenity in one of the most vibrant and busy metropolis of the world. I like it a lot and congratulations on constantly pushing the boundaries.

Cheers,

Ramesh

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[Guest Nowhereman]

Agree entirely. Also when responding to a post immediately before the current one is writing, as I am right now responding to Becker'spost, there is no need to quote the preceding post.

 

Edit, even when a post ends up being posted simultaneously, as in the case of Ramesh's post an instant earlier.

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[philipus]

Really nice Pritam. I'm about to go through old films too, though i sort of dread the endeavour since it's a bit of a mess...I'll see what I can dig out.

 

Accés. Romans-sur Isère, France.

 

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Taken a couple of years ago when I didn't care to keep track of what film I used.

 

I think this is superb, Adam. It's not easy to retain the blue in the sky in a photo like this - in my experience it can go magenta or green when one gets the other colours rights - so very well done indeed. The print must be spectacular.

 

My favorite aspect of this thread is the ability to obtain numerous sounding boards and sincere constructive feedback from friends who share the same passion.  

This photo is a (rare) repost of an initial draft version that I shared this past summer.  I was in love with the uber dramatic sunset and thought I had some good negatives but was convinced - largely from the (direct and indirect) feedback here - into being unsatisfied that I had really executed on my vision.  After about 7 months of toiling and running test prints on Fuji Flex high gloss photo paper (which has a slightly warm base) I think I have finally come to a resting point.  Thought I'd share it!

 

 

Ektar, SWC

June 8 sunset revised.jpg

 

Very nice Wayne. It reminds me of one of those very earliest photographs. I can't remember who took it but it was of a forest like this but with a small body of water as well. I remember it sold not long ago for a large sum of money. Does this ring a bell for anyone?

 

Boo

 

Boo by W P_, on Flickr

 

IID, 28mm 5.6 Summaron LTM, Svema Fn-32

 

Terrific Chris, it's really obvious how happy you are. Must have been a great day.

 

10th July 1977, it was Pippa's birthday, so we skipped lectures and dissection and I took her boating at Regent's Park. K1000, Fujichrome 100.

 

1977 by chrism229, on Flickr

 

I've wondered about this too but concluded that I don't mind the repetition. In fact it is often helpful to see the photo again together with the members' comments. There's also a difference depending on whether the photo is linked to or attached. Attached photos don't show up in quoted posts, I believe.

 

Think its better not to quote including showing the pictures again again and again, I think this is  reasoned by the technique  one uploads his posts, as well it pumps up the thread too unnecessarily and makes it slow, what do  You think ?

[stray cat]

Very nice Wayne. It reminds me of one of those very earliest photographs. I can't remember who took it but it was of a forest like this but with a small body of water as well. I remember it sold not long ago for a large sum of money. Does this ring a bell for anyone?

 

 

 

Good call Philip - I think it'll be this picture: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/33.43.40/

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IIIa, Summaron 3.5/35 [A36], Delta 3200

 

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[Wayne]

Good call Philip - I think it'll be this picture: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/33.43.40/

1904. Imagine the wonderment of his contemporaries.

 

Charles Caffin;

 

"It is in the penumbra, between the clear visibility of things and their total extinction into darkness, when the concreteness of appearances becomes merged in half-realised, half-baffled vision, that spirit seems to disengage itself from matter to envelop it with a mystery of soul-suggestion."

 

I figure it sort of goes to what I wrote about the infinite a couple weeks ago. You can feel it when your mind sort of takes off on you. I think of Paul Strand's Wall Street. The longer I look at it, the more I feel like one of the individuals captured. It has to do with disengagement, but not of the subject matter, but me, from where I am at the time.

 

Steichen and Caffin. How great would it be to have a couple of beers with those two?

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[Doc Henry]

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A little busy theses times but I continue to watch your nice pictures ...

I'll reply soon on my post above about Tiff size versus DNG  , the "can's worms"

as said someone here , and I maintain what I wrote , according to the documents

in my possession and comparisons of the same images taken with film and digital

I say the same images as evidence.

 

"The freedom begins where the ignorance ends"  (Victor Hugo)

... and my thoughts to all contributors

Best

H

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[A miller]

Wow, really great photo, Jean Marc.  Very dramatic and the plane wing looks like something fro a science fiction movie!

 

 

 

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Ramesh - I think Chris is the subject, and we are complimenting his wife on framing him so excellently

Lovely composition. I like the way you have framed the subject.

Cheers,

Ramesh

 

Thanks very much!

Adam, This is really a very very nice image. It conveys a sense of serenity in one of the most vibrant and busy metropolis of the world. I like it a lot and congratulations on constantly pushing the boundaries.

Cheers,

Ramesh

 

Sincere thanks, Philip

 

I think this is superb, Adam. It's not easy to retain the blue in the sky in a photo like this - in my experience it can go magenta or green when one gets the other colours rights - so very well done indeed. The print must be spectacular.

 

 

This is beautiful, congrats!

IIIa, Summaron 3.5/35 [A36], Delta 3200

 

 

 

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[philipus]

Fantastic Phil, that's exactly the one I meant, thank you.

 

Good call Philip - I think it'll be this picture: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/33.43.40/

 

This is a really lovely shot. Excellent depiction of the three-dimensional space I think.

 

IIIa, Summaron 3.5/35 [A36], Delta 3200

 

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Very moving photo; made me almost tear!

 

 

 

Thanks Adam.

 

I had to think about this experience for a long time.

[philipus]

This is Cos d'Estournel which is in the Saint-Estèphe appellation. It's not very far from Pichon Baron and Pichon Comtesse. The buildings have an interesting design I think and really stand out from the other more traditional-looking châteaux.

 

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[mikemgb]

In fact interesting. Which dilution, dev. time, temperature and film speed?

 

ISO 400, Ilfosol 3 dilution 1:9, 21 minutes at 20C.

 

Chrism gets amazing results in HC-110B but I haven't done well with this. I don't much like it in C41 either, I think I can rule XP2 out in my search for the perfect 400 film.

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[Beresford]

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The first roll of film put through my new (to me) Leica IIIF. The lens was a 5cm f3.5 Elmar. This was Portra 160 (turned into a B&W at the scanning stage).

 

Henry's advice is good: Do your own developing. I sent it at enormous expense to be developed by a lab in London. I think they must have washed it in the Thames... The good thing is I have found out how to use the "Heal" tab in Photoshop. 

[chrism]

ISO 400, Ilfosol 3 dilution 1:9, 21 minutes at 20C.

 

Chrism gets amazing results in HC-110B but I haven't done well with this. I don't much like it in C41 either, I think I can rule XP2 out in my search for the perfect 400 film.

 

I think it is the perfect ISO 100 film....

[chrism]

Another occasion when Pippa turned my camera on me:

1979 by chrism229, on Flickr

[Wayne]

This is Cos d'Estournel which is in the Saint-Estèphe appellation. It's not very far from Pichon Baron and Pichon Comtesse. The buildings have an interesting design I think and really stand out from the other more traditional-looking châteaux.

 

Flickr

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This is great. How considerate to post signs reminding photographers to watch their horizon.

 

Thanks.

[edwardkaraa]

This is Cos d'Estournel which is in the Saint-Estèphe appellation. It's not very far from Pichon Baron and Pichon Comtesse. The buildings have an interesting design I think and really stand out from the other more traditional-looking châteaux.

 

Flickr

80 Planar Ektar 100

 

Great perspective and colors, Philip!

[edwardkaraa]

Another occasion when Pippa turned my camera on me:

1979 by chrism229, on Flickr

 

Very nice Kudos to both photographer and model

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[mikemgb]

I think it is the perfect ISO 100 film....

 

Funny, looking at my results from yesterday I was thinking of shooting the next roll of my remaining stock at ISO 800, I blew the highlights at ISO 400.

[Guest JMF]

IIIa, Summaron 3.5/35 [A36], Delta 3200

 

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Very nice !