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Hasselblad XPan, Portra 160, N-1

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M6, Voigtlander 1:1.4/40, Kpdak Tmax 400

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Tabula No. 6
M-A APO 50 ADOX Color Implosion

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On 4/23/2021 at 11:07 AM, Kl@usW. said:

What a pleasure to see the chaos of the scene framed and thus put into order: the zig-zag of the pallets leading the eye to the strange and forlorn pole, more pallets suffering in their apparent uselessness carrying nothing, and then the center of the picture: a wild mixture of signs, witnesses of a time that is undoubtedly gone, only to be overwritten by even less important information, altogether merging into a cacophony screaming at us, but with a hoarse and exhausted voice not really getting to our ear. The eyes already have embarked on another round, pallets, pole, more pallets.... 

Ready when you are C.B.! Dr. Klaus! The ambiguity of the textual in the face of the visual, or is that backwards? And that deafening cacophony screaming, hoarse and exhausted. For crying out loud, give Dr. Klaus a green light! Whatever he wants, just put it into the contract so there's no pulling back on distribution! Will critiques argue the gory of allegory? Whose idea was it to place two letter L's in parallel, perhaps typographically warranted by the meaning of two parallel stories, one stated, the other unstated? The doubleness of pallets (parallelism of parallel?) at once for loading cargo and then disallowing trespassing as a fence. 

The underlying fugue of indeterminacy Phil defines in this parched construction is certainly informed by an awareness of wariness. Medical mask, or is that masque? The pandemic pageant?

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vor 17 Stunden schrieb Bo-Sixten:

So well done again bengui. Not only is it a very beautiful portrait, but so well executed. I like her position and expression and your framing. The bw work is excellent - the light skin tones and the nuances of dark tones in her hair are perfect. A pleasure to look at. :))

 

vor 14 Stunden schrieb r+m:

Very stylish! Perfect picture!

Thank you very much for your kind words! Your comments are really much appreciated!

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Having given up on Adobe, I have lost the use of the ColorPerfect plug-in for PS. Affinity Photo has only a rudimentary invert command, so I have been trying to find my best way of dealing with colour negatives in the future, assuming I bother with them as I do prefer B&W. This was an Ektar 100 shot, developed in a Unicolor presskit, and taken with the Rolleiflex before the great camera sell-off. This time I scanned it as a raw file with Vuescan and the Nikon 9000, inverted it with Graphic Converter, then tweaked it with Apple Photos and Nik's Color Efex Pro 4 and Viveza 2. This is about one quarter of the original negative, so it's a bit soft, but it didn't come out too badly, given the awkwardness of Ektar.

 

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Antarctica
Fuji GS690III
Fujicolor PRO 400H

 

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Shadows in the woods.

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Leica R5, Summilux-R 50 (I), Fuji Superia 400.

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7 hours ago, chrism said:

Having given up on Adobe, I have lost the use of the ColorPerfect plug-in for PS. Affinity Photo has only a rudimentary invert command, so I have been trying to find my best way of dealing with colour negatives in the future, assuming I bother with them as I do prefer B&W. This was an Ektar 100 shot, developed in a Unicolor presskit, and taken with the Rolleiflex before the great camera sell-off. This time I scanned it as a raw file with Vuescan and the Nikon 9000, inverted it with Graphic Converter, then tweaked it with Apple Photos and Nik's Color Efex Pro 4 and Viveza 2. This is about one quarter of the original negative, so it's a bit soft, but it didn't come out too badly, given the awkwardness of Ektar.

I installed Vuescan on a Windows 10 PC then installed the last version of Nikon Scan (the one issued for Vista) without installing the Nikon scanner drivers.  Nikon Scan then runs quite happily using the Vuescan drivers and has been giving very good results from a Nikon CS5000ED and an older 8000.  The colour management with the Nikon software is much better than what Vuescan produces in the absence of complicated profiles.  I haven't tried this on a Mac however, if that is your platform.

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Sydney, 18 years ago...

 

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On 4/23/2021 at 11:23 PM, Kl@usW. said:

Crash barrier, vineyards, train and river 

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HB, Distagon 2,8/50 FE, Yellow, HP5+; Atomal 49

Lines to delight the eye as the Neckar Valley entertains thoughts of spring. 

On 4/24/2021 at 12:24 AM, benqui said:

Leica M-A, Ilford 400, Apo Summicron 2/50

 

Lovely expressions and a shallow depth of field... Your trademark Marc and the sign of a distinguished craftsman.

On 4/24/2021 at 9:51 AM, MarkP said:

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Fuji GS690III
Fujicolor PRO 400H

Sublime series Mark, but for me there is an air of melancholy. I'll steer clear of controversy but I feel sad. 

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Rolling fields at the foot of the North Downs, Kent.

Leica M3 and Summilux-M 50 ASPH on Fuji Superia 400.

Gentle rolling hills and subtle colours, I love this photo.

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Fuji GS690III
Fujicolor PRO 400H

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1 hour ago, Bateleur said:

Sublime series Mark, but for me there is an air of melancholy. I'll steer clear of controversy but I feel sad. 

Thank you.

These are very different to my digital photographs from the trip, even those taken at the same time and place (digital vs film comes up again).

These were extraordinarily barren, stark, lonely and majestic places. Most humbling and privileged to be able to witness them in person.  
No photograph (certainly none that I could possibly take 🙄) can truly do them justice.

I've intentionally tried to give them this subdued, painterly and perhaps ''melancholic' tone to them.

Didn't mean to depress you 🙂

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Long pathway with shadows.

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Rolleicord, Velvia 100

 

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5 hours ago, John Robinson said:

I installed Vuescan on a Windows 10 PC then installed the last version of Nikon Scan (the one issued for Vista) without installing the Nikon scanner drivers.  Nikon Scan then runs quite happily using the Vuescan drivers and has been giving very good results from a Nikon CS5000ED and an older 8000.  The colour management with the Nikon software is much better than what Vuescan produces in the absence of complicated profiles.  I haven't tried this on a Mac however, if that is your platform.

I don't think that's an option on a Mac, as Nikon Scan won't run at all on any recent version of the OS. I once went to the bother of making a VM in Parallels to run macOS X 10.6, which was the last version able to use Nikon Scan, but VM's don't recognise or interact with Firewire ports, so the scanner could not be seen. It seems the two best ways of inverting scanned colour negatives are both PS plug-ins (ColorPerfect and Negative Lab Pro), and neither works in Affinity Photo's basic support for plug-ins. I don't find it at all easy to get decent colour from Vuescan, although I was usually very happy with the output from FlexColor before I sold the X1. There's an idea—I could make raw scans in Vuescan with the Nikon, chnge the suffix to .fff and see if FlexColor would invert them for me. Bet it would!

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