I like film...(open thread)

[jmahto]

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It's been a while....really miss not being able to check in hear as often as I'd like.  Work has been insanely busy, fortunately this outlet exists to help keep my sanity.

 

Here is Winter's final parting shot from April 2018 - Jersey City, NJ Waterfront

 

Leica M6J / 50mm Elmar-M

Trix Shot at 800iso; Pushed 1.25 Stops

Hand Developed using HC-110 B @20c

 

2018-04-01-0008 by Marc Tauber, on Flickr

 

2018-04-01-0017 by Marc Tauber, on Flickr

 

2018-04-01-0003 by Marc Tauber, on Flickr

 

2018-04-01-0014 by Marc Tauber, on Flickr

 

2018-04-01-0016 by Marc Tauber, on Flickr

 

2018-04-01-0024 by Marc Tauber, on Flickr

Loved these...

 

Can you suggest which BW film to experiment with? I am planning home developing.

[philipus]

Excellent stuff Jayant, and welcome back to film. Following one of our members Chris Moss's testing some of us here shot XP2 and develop it in HC-110 with great results. It becomes a very versatile film with extremely subtle grain. Personally my faves are otherwise Kodak Double-X and Rollei Retro 80S. And T-Max. Oh and some Ilfords too. And Pan-F is nice as well. You get the idea

 

 

 

My first film post.

 

Konica Autoreflex T2 was my first film camera couple of decades ago. I used that to learn photography and shot mainly family and friends. This year, I caught the film bug again and got one in mint shape (with working meter) for USD20. I already had the hexanon lenses (35,57,135) that were being used on digital M.

I loaded it with XP2 Super 400 BW film (I still don't know which one I will like) and shot a test roll. Here is one using 57mm Hexanon f/1.4

In future, I expect to shoot BW film in M2 that I am eagerly waiting. I am sure I would love that but I still like my first camera.
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[philipus]

More London, same equipment and film as earlier.

 

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[MT0227]

Thanks for the kind words Jayant.  I use Kodak Tri-X and TMAX for my B&W photography.  Regarding developers, I've tried  D76 and currently use HC-110.    HC-110 is a great because you can mix as much as you currently need; with D76 you need to make a large amount of stock solution all at once.  If you are developing frequently, the latter may not be as much of an issue.  Enjoy

 

 

Loved these...

Can you suggest which BW film to experiment with? I am planning home developing.

[gbealnz]

Currently Delta 100 for me, (in both 120 and 35mm). Usually R09 (a Rodinal derivative), purely for the one-shot convenience and economy. I have a clone HC-110 to try soon though.

 

Any film is good film.

Gary

[Siffi]

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[jmahto]

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Wonderful tones. 

[A miller]

Ha Ha Ha, very funny.  Same effect, I'll give you that!!

Cool! Is this Manhattanhenge?

 

Oh know don/t remind me; just when it is starting to FINALLY get a little warm...

It's been a while....really miss not being able to check in hear as often as I'd like.  Work has been insanely busy, fortunately this outlet exists to help keep my sanity.

 

Here is Winter's final parting shot from April 2018 - Jersey City, NJ Waterfront

 

Leica M6J / 50mm Elmar-M

Trix Shot at 800iso; Pushed 1.25 Stops

Hand Developed using HC-110 B @20c

 

 

2018-04-01-0008 by Marc Tauber, on Flickr

 

 

2018-04-01-0017 by Marc Tauber, on Flickr

 

 

2018-04-01-0003 by Marc Tauber, on Flickr

 

 

2018-04-01-0014 by Marc Tauber, on Flickr

 

 

2018-04-01-0016 by Marc Tauber, on Flickr

 

 

2018-04-01-0024 by Marc Tauber, on Flickr

 

Very nice result from that camera and film!

Varmland, Sweden. Watching the sun go down from another island wild camp after another long day of canoeing and portaging. Forest, hills, lakes, rivers and wildlife.

Perfect peace!

Canon A-1 Sureshot waterproof p&s
Fuji Superia 400 color negative film

 

I agree, love the tones - what film?

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[A miller]

My latest from the Manhattan Bridge around dawn, capturing the fast moving clouds with a long exposure.  

 

Tmax 100 6x9, red filter

Linhof Technika Press 23, Zeiss Biogon 53mm

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[MT0227]

Need  to plan a DUMBO shoot, for real....wonderful stuff, love the clouds!  I've used a #8 yellow with TMAX and like it; may need to play around with Red ..#25?

My latest from the Manhattan Bridge around dawn, capturing the fast moving clouds with a long exposure.  

 

Tmax 100 6x9, red filter

Linhof Technika Press 23, Zeiss Biogon 53mm

manhattanbridgered filter.jpg

[A miller]

Need  to plan a DUMBO shoot, for real....wonderful stuff, love the clouds!  I've used a #8 yellow with TMAX and like it; may need to play around with Red ..#25?

 

would love it.  I was just there in Dumbo last night with Dirk Raffael who is in town for a few days from Zurich.  I left my camera in the car and assisted him with his shooting (we shot almost an entire roll of Ektar on his MP with a 6 stop ND filter up to 2:39 exposures! (he also brought along his MMv1 and M-P).     He is a very friendly and smart guy and it was a really fun experience.

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[DirkR440]

would love it.  I was just there in Dumbo last night with Dirk Raffael who is in town for a few days from Zurich.  I left my camera in the car and assisted him with his shooting (we shot almost an entire roll of Ektar on his MP with a 6 stop ND filter up to 2:39 exposures! (he also brought along his MMv1 and M-P).     He is a very friendly and smart guy and it was a really fun experience.

 

thanks a lot for showing me the best places! It was nice to meet you. I'm really looking forward to see the results from the Ektar.

[gbealnz]

These are the moments that make this forum special for me.

Not been to the US, but have met three or more members in Europe, great fun, and nice putting a face to the name(s).

Gary

[Ernest]

The more, I guess, we see our photography (our art) as a stylistic construct, the simpler it is to find photographs everywhere - at will. We might therefore think that there is no great art in it (because it's everywhere), but there is.

 

In the great movie (to my mind, the greatest I've seen) Lawrence of Arabia, In a quiet moment with a few soldiers in a room Lawrence extinguishes a match with his fingers without flinching. One of the soldiers looking on tries the same thing and exclaims "Oooh! It damn well 'urts". Lawrence replies "Certainly it hurts". The soldier then asks him "So what's the trick then?" to which Lawrence replies "The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.".

 

This of course has nothing to do with the discussion at hand.

 

Or does it?

 

Oh, you do like to tempt with the segue! Lawrence of Arabia had a profound impact on Spielberg, too, so you are hardly alone counting Lean's masterpiece as one of the top films, ever. Before I visit the scene you've chosen, let me echo in a way your point that if we reduce photography to a "stylistic construct, the simpler it is to find photographs everywhere--at will." A mindful characteristic we take for granted in that construct is the emotional connection. It is all in the editing, having a specific point of view. The viewer, after a fashion, becomes the doppelganger, the photographer's double, because in looking at the photograph, the viewer shares exactly the same unique visual as the photographer. It is all in the photographer refracting, editing the world through the lens, the mind, of a unique talent. I remember a comment that Ralph Gibson made in Camera magazine that I saved April, 1978:

 

"I used to stand around waiting for a picture to happen. Then about fifteen years ago, Dorothea Lange told me that you can never take photographs that way. Even though it will sometimes happen, the odds are stacked against you. You have to incorporate your life into the picture. Now I am always working from a set of concerns. It could be problems involving scale, volume, proportions, or surface. I perceive something and experience the urge to photograph it. I try to decide whether I've done the picture before. (I don't want to imitate myself.) If it's a step forward within these concerns, I take the photograph." 

 

Gibson's point may be elementary, but I enjoy his brevity and clarity. Still, he seems to have left out the emotional part of the equation. Ultimately, what does the photograph say? What's the issue? What's at risk?

 

It’s editing reality, which brings me to Lawrence of Arabia.  David Lean was first an editor with an eye for composition that informed how one shot cut to the next.

 

I could shoehorn an interpretation of the scene you mention into something that might be analogous to the challenges of photography or plight of the photographer, but taking such liberty would be presumptuous. As for the scene of Lawrence extinguishing the match with his bare fingers, it is directed to dramatize a facet of character. Moments later, Lawrence repeats the action, but instead of using his fingers to extinguish the match, he simply blows it out. Cut to: sunrise as the sun announces a new day against a stainless sky over an unspoiled desert. Visually, the match equates with the sun in Lean’s iconic cut, while metaphorically, it could well represent the flames of war, the igniting rebellion, which Lawrence is to extinguish.

 

I don’t remember that Lawrence shares this particular narrative in his Seven Pillars of Wisdom, but he does confess a slide towards the masochistic, which dramatically plays out later in Lean’s film, meaning that the "burning match" scene is hardly gratuitous.

 

Cheers,

Rog

 

[MT0227]

Big fan of night shots; love the lights and colors!

 

More London, same equipment and film as earlier.

 

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[Ernest]

My latest from the Manhattan Bridge around dawn, capturing the fast moving clouds with a long exposure.  

 

Tmax 100 6x9, red filter

Linhof Technika Press 23, Zeiss Biogon 53mm

manhattanbridgered filter.jpg

 

Getting out the green oxygen tanks! Totally, iconic!

[MT0227]

Looks like you had a blast; lets keep an eye on the weather and just make it happen soon.  

 

would love it.  I was just there in Dumbo last night with Dirk Raffael who is in town for a few days from Zurich.  I left my camera in the car and assisted him with his shooting (we shot almost an entire roll of Ektar on his MP with a 6 stop ND filter up to 2:39 exposures! (he also brought along his MMv1 and M-P).     He is a very friendly and smart guy and it was a really fun experience.

[A miller]

For sure, Gary.  Most of the time it is like a connection of kindred spirits

These are the moments that make this forum special for me.

Not been to the US, but have met three or more members in Europe, great fun, and nice putting a face to the name(s).

Gary

 

LOL, thanks Ernest.  It is an iconic bridge, indeed.  People will confuse the name, but they'll pretty much all say it is NYC.

Getting out the green oxygen tanks! Totally, iconic!

 

For sure, I am due to get back to Jersey City for another crack at the wave breaker with a ladder.  Will ping you...

Looks like you had a blast; lets keep an eye on the weather and just make it happen soon.  

[MT0227]

Leica M6J / 50mm Elmar-M

Trix Shot at 800iso; Pushed 1.25 Stops

Hand Developed using HC-110 B @20c

 

 

Subterranean Levitation.....

 

2018-04-01-0031 by Marc Tauber, on Flickr

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[MT0227]

I've been looking up toward the north end for some new spots to shoot,  I've found a few cool spots...I think you found one of them too

 

 

 

For sure, I am due to get back to Jersey City for another crack at the wave breaker with a ladder.  Will ping you...