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9 hours ago, A miller said:

One from our 30 minute vortex blizzard this past Thursday 😁 vs 🤨

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Portra 400 

M7, 28 elmarit pre-asph

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Another signature shot Adam. This is amazing and a beautiful capture. What technic did you apply on this? Is it zone focusing or you adjust the focusing instantaneously on every shot ( and that is what I do. I can't cope with zone focusing/ You don't have to answer. I am just talking to myself.🤔

On 1/31/2019 at 11:12 PM, benqui said:

First time that I used the Cinestill 800 for a daylight portrait shooting. I I have to say that I like it a lot! With M4 and Apo 50

 

 

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This is a fabulous photo benqui :) I have heard about this film before it was to be introduced and the photos and the colors were very different. I highly believe the lens you used is  also  contribute to  a greater effect as far as the quality concern. I love this colors.

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4 minutes ago, Cyril Jayant said:

 I like this as it gets the eye to scan all around the environment where he is attached and find the whole story. The lighting you have selected is very interesting :) Stray Cat.

Thank you so much, Cyril. It IS an intriguing workspace. This man (I think he was introduced to me as "fuzzface") is the specialist at restoring railway lamps. It was hot, dark and smelly (that pervasive industrial solvent stench) and he is working in a cramped, messy environment. Yet the calibre of the work these guys were producing was astounding. I wish I could claim responsibility for the light - it is what it was - but it was the rimlight on his face, and the glisten from a thin veneer of sweat, that got me excited to take some pictures of fuzzface in the first place.

5 minutes ago, Ernest said:

Just a little late to the party, but the hors d'oeuvres look delicious. I am piling on with comments from Gary, Christoph, Adam, et al, because they catch the industry of man at his work, and there is that invitation to participate in the reality of the milieu, ping-ponging back and forth between his eyes and hands, discerning what he's doing. What intrigues even more, though, is the definition of the man in the flotsam and jetsam that surrounds him. It's not a photograph most would take, a cinematic medium shot even though it's a 28mm, but it illustrates perfectly the play of negative and positive space. An object can be defined by its surroundings, as writers often do by the choice of selective details to define a character or a narrative. Watercolor artists do the same when they use the white of the Arches paper for white passages in a painting, rather than use the gauche technique of using white paint. This makes watercolor challenging in the play of positive/negative space because there's no going back when the painting decisions have been made. What immediately flashed for me, though, was the sense of 17th century lighting, the window, the highlights on the profile, and the kind of psychological portrait that calls to mind Vermeer. In Vermeer, even a woman who is seemingly doing nothing, sitting with her eyes closed, perhaps dreaming, there's a kind of magnetic pull of the composition, the lighting, the palette, the objects as a mirror of psychological moment. In your "Railway Workshop," even the man's chair is a tool rack. There's no question this shot cannot be sentenced to the editing floor.

Cheers,
Rog

Rog, what can I say? Thank you so much. As usual with your thoughtful, expansive and generous comments, there is so much to learn. I am intrigued by your mention of the interplay of positive and negative space, and perhaps the divergence from cinematic conventions - concepts I'd never have considered but will now look forward very much thinking about. Your mention of Vermeer makes me ponder that 17th century Dutch houses, rooms, kitchens, workshops and so on were lit similarly - ie with a large, main window light and the placement of various ancillary lights (candles in the 17th century, small electric bulbs in 21st century Queenscliff) to chase the dark from those corners that missed out. Photographically, I find these discoveries irresistible - the link to classic portraiture lighting, almost anachronistically (though incredibly commonly) found in smelly, hot, cramped workshops today. As to the human element - fuzzface betrays in the picture that he is able to concentrate strongly - singularly - on his task at hand, while things that might make his tasks more comfortable - getting rid of some of that flotsam and jetsam that you mention - well, that's just not even on his radar. Who can say when he might be in need of whatever's in those plastic bags or ice-cream containers?

I want to also thank you very much for mentioning, a few posts back, Robert Frost's extraordinary little poem, Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening. A poem that existed way back there on the periphery of memory that I was able to delightedly reacquaint with.

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This is one of my favorite films Fuji Velvia 50.   

This film is very vibrant through Hasselblad lenses. It of course if you use it with right lighting and subjects to go with. Blad 203Fe  / 60-120mm Monster lens 

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Rails 2019

M6TTL, 28mm Elmarit, yellow filter, Adox Silvermax 100

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2 hours ago, Cyril Jayant said:

 I like this as it gets the eye to scan all around the environment where he is attached and find the whole story. The lighting you have selected is very interesting :) Stray Cat.

This interests me. My choice was the second/other photo. I just goes to show the value of photography. My choice was not so much based on the environment, but on the man. I am certain he WOULD fit right in with my crowd. In the second photo, its the open face. Being pulled out of his concentration. A welcome break brought about by an interruption from a friend, or somebody showing interest......At any rate, a fellow traveler. His face is so open. It's like you can know him.....Even from the other side of the world. A shipmate. 

They are  both great photos. Testimonial to the photographer.

 

Best,

Wayne

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1 minute ago, Wayne said:

This interests me. My choice was the second/other photo. I just goes to show the value of photography. My choice was not so much based on the environment, but on the man. I am certain he WOULD fit right in with my crowd. In the second photo, its the open face. Being pulled out of his concentration. A welcome break brought about by an interruption from a friend, or somebody showing interest......At any rate, a fellow traveler. His face is so open. It's like you can know him.....Even from the other side of the world. A shipmate. 

They are  both great photos. Testimonial to the photographer.

 

Best,

Wayne

Thank you so much for these thoughtful observations, Wayne. I can imagine the conversation - the technical/mechanical know-how you've accumulated over the years and this man and his project - the workarounds, the lateral thinking to get things the way they should be. A case in point: the man who showed me around (Ken) showed me some old, broken pieces of structural timber recovered from the carriage they were working on - Australian Red Cedar. He said it doesn't exist any more - beautiful timber, light and strong that out forebears in their wisdom used for firewood until it became extinct. Now, rather than throw it out, they recover what they can and use it for louvres or window frames or whatever else they can think of for the current project. As fuzzface's workbench testifies - nothing is wasted.

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12 minutes ago, gbealnz said:

I was going to ask with the first and notice this one to, why the yellow filter? Inside I mean?
Gary

Sprung! It was on the lens and I was too lazy to take it off. Its presence in the interior photos adds nothing, of course, except to rob me of an f-stop - the photos shown were taken at 1/30, f2.8 whereas I'd have had a nice comfortable 1/60 without it. Thanks so much for noticing, Gary 😧!

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More Ektar with the R6. 50 Summicron and 90 Summicron.

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vor 9 Stunden schrieb philipus:

Lovely light and colours, Jörg.

Thanks a lot, Phil,

I love the morning light at the beach. Here on my favourite northsea island Texel. It is never the same, sometimes cloudy, sometimes clear. In every time very special. Espacially on film

Regards Jörg

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These two are sublime Phil. What wonderful light exciting compositions. Btw, I see Adox has been bought by Silverfast :D 

3 hours ago, stray cat said:

Carnival 2019

M2, 50mm collapsible Elmar (from 1965), Adox Silverfast 100

3 hours ago, stray cat said:

Rails 2019

M6TTL, 28mm Elmarit, yellow filter, Adox Silvermax 100

It's a lovely island well worth visiting. If you ever venture further south and happen to be in The Hague do let me know.

19 minutes ago, joergel said:

Thanks a lot, Phil,

I love the morning light at the beach. Here on my favourite northsea island Texel. It is never the same, sometimes cloudy, sometimes clear. In every time very special. Espacially on film

Regards Jörg

 

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I know there are a few petrol heads among us (Eoin, are you back from your trip?) so here's one for you, again from Fårö last summer (same roll as earlier, with the 55 Micro).

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vor 1 Stunde schrieb philipus:

It's a lovely island well worth visiting. If you ever venture further south and happen to be in The Hague do let me know.

I will, Phil :)

Regards Jörg

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Grottaglie, old town.

Nikon F, Nikkor 50/1.4, Kodak Colorplus 200

20190122-DSC02130 by antoniofedele, on Flickr

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A breakfast re-scan from 2017 (I'm bored I guess)

M6, Summicron 35 asph, HP5@1600

20190202-DSC02172 by antoniofedele, on Flickr

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Leica M6 - Summicron 2/50 - Koadcolor Gold 200

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12 hours ago, stray cat said:

More testament to the dynamic capabilities of Adox Silvermax 100. On the scan there is good detail in the deepest blacks and also in those patches of sunlit chair/handle:

 

Phil, I'm curious what developer you are using with the Silvermax film. The Silvermax-specific one or some other?

James

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