Jump to content

Recommended Posts

Advertisement (gone after registration)

14 hours ago, andybarton said:

Calanais Standing Stones, Lewis, 2012 Summer Solstice

Hasselblad 503CW, 80 Distagon Provia?

 

Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here…

Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!

 

Beautiful photographs, as always! 80 Distagon?

  • Thanks 1
Link to post
Share on other sites

Wonderful work Andy. I really like how the gray of the clouds both mirrors (in colour) and doesn't mirror (in shape, substance, texture) the stones. 

15 hours ago, andybarton said:

Same place, different day

Same kit.

 

Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here…

Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!

This is the kind of photo that makes me look twice if not more. I first thought it's just a photo of a beach and horizon and that's when I started seeing the little intriguing details, like that round dot; is it a ball, stone or even a...head? And the lines, look how the faint wisp of cloud follows the lines of the roofs and the rocks. Terrific stuff. 

13 hours ago, Gibbo said:

Deckchairs At St Ives, Cornwall, 2014.

M2, Summaron 2.8/50, Ilford HP5+

 

I like Rog's phrase the art of the overlooked. There's a lot of art going on everywhere that's not the fancy schmancy all lights on me kind. Sort of like the pretty-ish girl or boy in a movie who doesn't steal the attention but offers so much more than the vapid ones who do once you get to know him or her (I hate "them", incidentally). It takes a good photographer, I think, first of all to see a scene among the ordinary and then to visualise it in an artistic and also technically very clever way, just like you've done here Klaus. I very much like the perfect depth of field which I guess sounds like a preposterous thing to say because it's not really about the picture but more the mechanics of it. But it's very effectively applied here because it lets all those lines of the grass play an equal part to the leaves' broken lines. Look at those lines and you suddenly realise that there's also other music being played here, staccato and perhaps even sharp, in addition to the the leaves' harmonious melody.  

11 hours ago, Kl@usW. said:

At the canal #2 

( well it could be anywhere.... ) 

HB 503; Makro-Planar 4/120; Acros II, D 76

Really fantastic Steve, that is one very well behaved and perfectly placed rainbow. 

11 hours ago, Ouroboros said:

An hour after sunrise, a rain squall approaching the Ring of Brodgar, Orkney.  August 2020.

Fuji GX617

SWD 90mm

Ektar processed in Tetenal C-41

 

It does! One thing I'm often fascinated by in your images Rog is the different textures and how they relate to or jar with each other. This is a great example where the decaying human-made planks, dead material, dead wood even (haha), take the stage in front of the always-changing and always-refreshing smooth naturally beautiful water. It's like an allegory of the world as we know it, humanity's existence a controlling and occasionally destroying veil laid like bars in a prison cell across the natural organism that is all of planet Earth. James Lovelock would love this image, I think. 

8 hours ago, Ernest said:

Yes, I can see the silvery metal strips, which gets my vote for creative, but here's the reality. Ocean. Very intriguing, your notion of "haptic photography," non-language communication which conveys meaning through physical contact, according to the Oxford dictionary. Well, I had to look it up, and I am not sure how it would work, but I get buzzed by the idea of non-language communication. Doesn't this create its own language, though?

Pollock Planks No. 5
M-A Summilux-M 50 BC Fuji Natura 1600 

This is im-pressive Ken. Hard to believe that this is at 1600. Wow.

7 hours ago, bags27 said:

Mamiya 7 150mm handheld at 1/30th. Pushed HB5 to 1600 and really impressed at how clean it is (no denoising or sharpening). HC-110B.

 

I have to quote Calvin, o'boy o'boy o'boy o'boy o'boy o'boy o'boy o'boy o'boy o'boy o'boy o'boy o'boy o'boy o'boy o'boy o'boy o'boy o'boy o'boy! 

2 hours ago, stray cat said:

woolshed creek, 1980

canon ae1, fd 24mm f2.8 SSC, agfapan 25

 

  • Like 3
  • Thanks 1
Link to post
Share on other sites

14 minutes ago, philipus said:

I found a photo without trees! Well almost, I think there are a few in the far distance...

Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here…

Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!


Flickr
1N EF35-70 Velvia 50(EI100) X1

Great stuff, Phillip!!!

  • Like 1
Link to post
Share on other sites

Advertisement (gone after registration)

16 hours ago, philipus said:

Really cool framing, I think. A bit of humanity constrained in brutalist surroundings and by technology. I don't see the pixels myself but what about putting a slightly opaque sheet of overhead film or such (or even just piece of white cotton sheet) on top of the tablet? Or would that kill too much of the light perhaps. What extension tubes did you use with the (great) 55/2.8 micro?

Thanks Philip. You may have viewed this after I updated the Flickr file, having redone the digitization with the negative frame elevated with four 35mm film canisters. But I'm sure a diffuser would work too. I've got a set of three Nikon extension tubes. The largest is the PK-13 (27.5mm) and gives 1:1 magnification on 35mm full frame, so ideal for scanning/reproducing 35mm film or slides. The second largest is the PK-12 (14mm) which seems perfect for 120 film and i digitised 6x6 and 6x9s with it. The smaller of the three is the PK-11a (8mm). Perhaps this has a specific purpose too. All three allow Ai/Ais coupling and metering.

Oh, and spectacular street scene you posted above.

Cheers,

Edited by Xícara de Café
  • Like 1
  • Thanks 1
Link to post
Share on other sites

2 hours ago, Xícara de Café said:

And -  first attempt at a 35mm digitisation with the Nikon D610. I photographed the medium format transparencies in Nikon's Raw format "NEF" and Darktable seems to do a good job with D610 presets (tone curves, etc). Makes a mess of negatives however, so I photographed this 35mm neg as a Jpeg. Pretty straight forward to invert the image in Darktable. The next test will be a colour negative which may be more of a challenge. If anyone here uses Linux, I came across the following script that uses imagemagic to convert negatives in Tiff format to positives. Darktable did a better job of it for me but this might be really useful to batch process a whole stack of files for quick evaluation: https://github.com/chrishunt/negfix8

 

Leica IIIf, Summicron 5cm 1:2 collapsible, Kodak Tmax 100, Rodinal 1:50 12' 20ºC.

 

Have you looked at Vuescan?  It can read through a folder of raw files and convert them e.g. in my case DNGs from shooting negatives with a Leica SL converted to positive raw files in DNG format.  It does a reasonable job with C41 negs, especially if you have a blank frame to take a white balance from.

  • Thanks 2
Link to post
Share on other sites

Great relief as missing leader of famous "Ho" Trio found, disguised as round bale, in SE Indiana hay field. Just in time to participate in COVID-19 hampered Yuletide. Ho....."Hasn't Christmas been called off? "

Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here…

Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!

Minox Riga, 15mm 3.5 Minostigmat, Acros 100 (original)

 

Edited by Wayne
  • Like 12
  • Haha 6
Link to post
Share on other sites

44 minutes ago, Wayne said:

Great relief as missing leader of famous "Ho" Trio found, disguised as round bale, in SE Indiana hay field. Just in time to participate in COVID-19 hampered Yuletide. Ho....."Hasn't Christmas been called off? "

 

 

Minox Riga, 15mm 3.5 Minostigmat, Acros 100 (original)

 

Of course, in contemporary slang "ho" has a slightly different meaning.....

  • Like 1
  • Haha 2
Link to post
Share on other sites

Vlissingen 08/2020

Just another pic of my trip to Netherland. View to Sint Jacobskerk.

Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here…

Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!

Leica M4, Summaron 3,5/35, Ilford FP4+, orange filter

  • Like 15
Link to post
Share on other sites

Reflective 1.

Nikon FM2 / 55 1.2 / Delta 400 / Xtol

Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here…

Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!

  • Like 16
Link to post
Share on other sites

13 hours ago, stray cat said:

woolshed creek, 1980

canon ae1, fd 24mm f2.8 SSC, agfapan 25

Again, a watershed of focused art at Woolshed Creek. The juxtaposition of water blur with granite bedrock and the play of tonal range make this abstract realism a way of seeing the unseen. Timeless.

  • Like 4
Link to post
Share on other sites

The Alwen Reservoir, North Wales.  If you live in Birkenhead this is where some of your water comes from ...

Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here…

Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!

R4, Vario Elmar-R 21-35, Agfa APX 100

  • Like 18
Link to post
Share on other sites

Acers #2

Hasselblad 503cw

Zeiss 120mm makro-planar Cfi

Ektar

 

Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here…

Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!

Edited by Ouroboros
  • Like 18
Link to post
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
×
×
  • Create New...