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22 hours ago, stray cat said:

bodie, california 1996

hasselblad, 80mm, agfapan 25

 

 

4 hours ago, stray cat said:

Another from Bodie:

 

They're both great! They have a sort of FSA Collection feeling!

 

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vor 18 Stunden schrieb Sparkassenkunde:

Good to hear from you, Christoph! 

I could bring some more flowers but don't want to bore you all too much 🙂 I saw a nice old car lately:

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Leica R7 - Summicron-R 50 - Kodak Portra 160 (home developed in Cinestill C41 developer)

 

Looks very coolJames! And the colors fit perfectly!

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Another one from the same roll:

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Jerusalem, Coptic house, 2021

M2-R | Summaron 35mm f/3.5 | TMax 400, TMax 1:14

 

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vor 22 Stunden schrieb stray cat:

Thank you so much Klaus. I’m glad that you got to at least stand in Penn’s corner - and in doing so became as one with the other people who have appeared in his wonderful photographs. 
Yes, revisiting the refuse pictures has, for me, brought up all sorts of questions such as you ask here. Photography is great that way - it doesn’t begin and end with the picture - it stays with you in your mind.

‘Thank you sincerely regarding the Bodie picture. Taken on a tripod, which is where I found the Hasselblad most comfortable due to its form factor. I tried it with a metering prism finder, too, but just always found it just that bit too “clunky” for my liking. Which is to say I liked it a lot but I didn’t often enough get too excited picking it up to walk around with. I’ve recently acquired a Rolleiflex 6008i which is, admittedly, heavy (2kg with 80mm) but it has a wonderfully designed outboard grip, everything is automated, bright, bright screen etc etc etc and I am very very happy with it. To me, it addresses enough of the things I was a bit lukewarm with on the Hasselblad to indicate that it will be a camera that I will thoroughly enjoy using.

And your new(?) acquisition- an OM4 - a stunning camera! Your last couple of pictures indicate, in the words of “Casablanca”:  I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

 

Thank you, Phil. I'm glad to hear that the Rolleiflex is to your liking. One of the cameras I always felt it was a shame it didn't get the market response it deserved.  And  it seems to be the beginning of a beautiful friendship too...   About the OM 4: great metering system, sharp little lenses, very nice indeed. But I'm still in stage I of a  relation: everything new and exciting. So far more a fling than a real competition for the MPs 

vor 8 Stunden schrieb Sparkassenkunde:

Another one from my beaten and bruised Leica R7 setup:

 

Leica R7 - Summicron-R 50 - Konica Centuria Super 100 (home developed in Cinestill C41 developer)

James, tell me: what do I need to do to my camera exactly, to get such results ? " Beating and bruising "  is way too unspecific.... 😇

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Morning light ( on the riverbank ) #2;  Black Alder Catkin 

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OM 4ti, 3,5/50 Makro; Delta 100, Xtol

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10 hours ago, Sparkassenkunde said:

Another one from my beaten and bruised Leica R7 setup:

 

Leica R7 - Summicron-R 50 - Konica Centuria Super 100 (home developed in Cinestill C41 developer)

Outstanding photograph, James. 

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Mamiya 7 80 mm red filter. HP5 in a mixture of HC110 and Rodinal standing 42 min. this isn't great with the shadows. Maybe longer?

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Pushing
M-A Thambar-M CS ADOX Color Implosion

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2 hours ago, bags27 said:

Mamiya 7 80 mm red filter. HP5 in a mixture of HC110 and Rodinal standing 42 min. this isn't great with the shadows. Maybe longer?

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Hmmm... I think photographic lore would suggest a slightly longer exposure time. Longer in the developer won't bring out more detail in the shadows, which are the first areas to develop fully, but it will in the highlights. "Expose for the shadows, develop for the highlights" is what I was always taught.

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8 minutes ago, Ernest said:

Candy, No
Rolleiflex Planar f/2.8 Portra 800

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These are really hitting the mark, Rog. Focus, out-of-focus. Pushing and Candy, no. A command, an observation or a warning? Thinking caps on, not compulsory but a good idea. The colors, or hints of them, are striking.

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22 minutes ago, stray cat said:

Hmmm... I think photographic lore would suggest a slightly longer exposure time. Longer in the developer won't bring out more detail in the shadows, which are the first areas to develop fully, but it will in the highlights. "Expose for the shadows, develop for the highlights" is what I was always taught.

Thanks, Phil. I shoot almost a full stop over, so maybe I metered wrong on this one or it was just too contrasty. It's helpful not to experiment about further shadow development via chemicals. Thanks!

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1 hour ago, bags27 said:

Thanks, Phil. I shoot almost a full stop over, so maybe I metered wrong on this one or it was just too contrasty. It's helpful not to experiment about further shadow development via chemicals. Thanks!

If you habitually shoot HP5 one stop over you might be in constant danger of overexposing the highlights. If so, those highlights will never come back with development. The scene above has, after all, a very small shadow area, so you could almost happily let that shadow go. The red filter might be throwing things a bit, too. The Mamiya 7 has a good meter, although from memory it's not TTL, so compensating for the red filter might throw the exposure off. The highlights on the rocks/clouds in your photo look pretty good, so I would't think the development time is a problem. The scene does look to have a huge dynamic range, so it might just be that and, unless you revert to the dreaded zone system trickery, compensating developers etc, you might find there's not much else you can do about it. Not with stand developing in HC110/Rodinal, anyway. I don't know, I'm certainly no expert in developing, but I think the result you got is pretty damned good, all things considered. Some more playing around with photoshop could perhaps net you some more tones but you've conveyed the sense of a sunny day well in this picture as it is.

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Thanks so very much, Phil. I've been experimenting with standing strategies, and this is the latest. I just figured if I mixed 2 classic standing developers, I might get the best of their qualities. I'm not sure I have, which I mean, I don't think it worth the trouble. I've developed  some rolls with various times/agitations, and think they might tend to the too constrasty, too sharp. Something like this, which I find a little scary. 😀

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On 3/12/2021 at 1:20 AM, stray cat said:

bodie, california 1996

hasselblad, 80mm, agfapan 25

 

Naughty, naughty, the Bad Boy from Bodie with a Blad that means business. The "Boy" can leave Bodie, but Bodie never leaves the "Boy." 

Honest, ma'am, I was just takin" Lizzie out for a . . . okay, I know yer not buyin' it, but lemme work on an alibi" (The Boy with the Alibi Blad got the boot in Bodie?) From the look at dem shadows, I'm guessing High Noon.

23 hours ago, stray cat said:

Another from Bodie:

 

With all this wood, I'm wondering where is the forest? A wooden waystation for Mondrian?

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16 minutes ago, Ernest said:

Naughty, naughty, the Bad Boy from Bodie with a Blad that means business. The "Boy" can leave Bodie, but Bodie never leaves the "Boy." 

Honest, ma'am, I was just takin" Lizzie out for a . . . okay, I know yer not buyin' it, but lemme work on an alibi" (The Boy with the Alibi Blad got the boot in Bodie?) From the look at dem shadows, I'm guessing High Noon.

With all this wood, I'm wondering where is the forest? A wooden waystation for Mondrian?

Wal, mister, ya should worry 'cos Sheriff Alliteration's on yer tail. Ya'd be best to hightail it outta dodge in dat rusty... er... dodge before he reckons to fill ya fulla lead or hang ya sorry ass high on whatever tree he finds ya by, not that there's that many out bodie way. But he'll find yer one, by gum! . Y'all thought livin' in one dem cabins in a nice cozy square photo was easy, now - wal ya'd best think again, muchacho.

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