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14 hours ago, Kl@usW. said:

Cologne #6    Church Groß St. Martin 

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MP; 3,4/135; Acros II; D76

Very Nice. From what I have seen so far, I think I prefer Acros II over the original. I cannot say what it is, but it does not have to do with any improvement in acutance. If anything, to my eyes, there seems less of it. It seems easier on the eyes.

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The bargain hunter, antiques market, Barjac.   [Silvermax]

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M4-P  VC 15 iii Portra 400 converted to B&W in PS. 

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vor 18 Stunden schrieb Nachtmsk:

Early 90's

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Riis Park in Queens NYC

M4p probably.

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Lovely, Nachtmsk. There are few thing so nice as a giggling child. 

vor 9 Stunden schrieb Bateleur:

It is a lovely place and the atmosphere there is conducive to contemplation. This photo gives a unique view and mirrors that extraordinary feeling.

Thank you Charles. Its really a great place to retreat for a couple of minutes. Few people find the way in though its right in the middle of everything.... 

vor 7 Stunden schrieb John Robinson:

Fishing!

Leica M2, 35mm lens (probably Voigtländer SC 1.4), Kodak T400CN, Coolscan, Capture One.

Excellent photo, John. Had to look up in Google where "Deal" is. 7 hours by car from my place on the continent. 

vor 3 Stunden schrieb Wayne:

Very Nice. From what I have seen so far, I think I prefer Acros II over the original. I cannot say what it is, but it does not have to do with any improvement in acutance. If anything, to my eyes, there seems less of it. It seems easier on the eyes.

Best,

Wayne

Thank you Wayne. About the Acros II versus the Original: I don't know. Maybe they worked on the crystals, maybe not. The verdict on the acutance  is difficult: so many parameters....Exposure plays an important part,  what developer, maybe even water quality, and then the software part: scanner, format of the file... in the end I would judge on my gut feeling: the film is excellent, seems to harmonize to my workflow and is available.... what actually seems to be outstanding is the latitude. I´ll work on this, as soon as the other films have been used up.  

Btw: did you click on the photo as it appears in the LUF ? What appears in the timeline is only the preview. 

vor 17 Minuten schrieb JMF:

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Oh, to snooze like a cat... great photo, Jean Marc. 

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M6, Voigtlander 1:1.4/40, Kodak Double X 5222

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21 hours ago, Kl@usW. said:

the humble cardboard backside.... uncomplaining on duty on behalf of the shiny and spectacular frontside...  Makes my fingers itch to grab it and turn it around.  But...its all about impulse control... I like this collage, Rog, because it leaves so much open and space to phantasy. 

FYI: Jasper Johns and Frank Stella were interviewed  in the german newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung today. Not really an in depth interview, but interesting enough. Q:  You never felt obliged to a certain style, there were constant turns in your work...(....) .. are the pictures coming to you or do you have to work on them ? Johns: both. 

How do you experience the pandemy...(..) ?  Stella:   Everybody says: don't get mad ! I can go to the atelier once or twice a week, but when I'm at home, I make a lot of collages... a collage a day, keeps the virus away.. 

Just wondered, if that resonates with you... I for myself try to take a picture a day..🤔

What a banquet: Jasper Johns and Frank Stella at one sitting. There's a DVD titled Ideas in Paint with Stella briefly commenting on Johns's work. There's also some commentary on Fizzles, a collaboration between Johns and Samuel Beckett, whose five short texts were the basis for Johns's gravures. The cross-pollination of text and gravure images is provocative. Even at 88, Johns continues to be relevant and inspirational. The Menil Drawing Institute published Johns's The Condition of Being Here, and in the last year the Matthew Marks Gallery published Recent Paintings and Works on Paper that accompanied an exhibition of his new work in the last five years. 

Very interesting that the interviewer solicited Stella's response to the pandemic: "A collage a day keeps the virus away." I never would have thought that collage would be a medium Stella would use. I can certainly understand Johns with his centered but fragmented use of images as a provocateur. He uses real things as a point of departure. It's not just the thing in itself but the paradoxical questions at the core of everything that Johns does. His paintings ask questions rather than provide answers.

Your model of taking a picture a day in the face of pandemic is actually ambitious. We can translate it from Joan Didion's observation: "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." 

Nothing is at it is. I collect a palette of images selected for color, texture, and form. I can start with a single image, then surprise myself, previsualizing the path where it leads. I often work on two or three ideas, simultaneously. Some of it seems to work, and some of it has me against the wall pleading temporary insanity. 

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6 hours ago, Kl@usW. said:

post mortem

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Hasse, Makro Planar, Ektar 100

An astounding allegorical still life study in the face of pandemic, on crumpled butcher paper, no less.

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vor 3 Minuten schrieb Ernest:

Some of it seems to work, and some of it has me against the wall pleading temporary insanity. 

Well, that's  the way it seems to work for most of us. You mentioned HCB--how much of his mercurial picture taking made it to the enlarger ? Frank: 83 out of how many thousands ? An AP photographer once told me that National Geographic Photographers usually take about 20k pictures for one feature--and that was analog.  And, what I found--sometimes time heals the wounds we suffered  hitting the wall... have a look a the discarded work some time later- they might have changed, quietly and show a quality we didn't recognize because it was the wrong time. 

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vor 8 Minuten schrieb Ernest:

An astounding allegorical still life study in the face of pandemic, on crumpled butcher paper, no less.

Thank you, Rog. One of the pictures that started talking to me only when I got the scans the other day. The taking was more or less oblivious, done between breakfast and I don't remember what, not on my to do list anyway. . I think the Hasselblad called me and I just obliged.... 🤔

Ok, I´ll call it a day, I think my pillow is a better suggestion than my television....

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