Landberg Posted June 5, 2013 Share #1 Posted June 5, 2013 Advertisement (gone after registration) Welcome to my new site called ”The One Year Project”! The One Year Project is a project where i will shoot only with film cameras for one year. It all started during my latest trip to New York when the only camera i took with me was a Leica M2 with a Summicron 35 along with a couple of rolls of Tmax 400. I liked the feeling and the results so much that i sold all my digital camera gear when i came back home from my New York trip. During the period from April 17th 2013 to April 17th 2014, I will only use analog cameras. Follow this site to see all the photos from this project. Rikard Landberg | Photographer What do you think? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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gberger Posted June 6, 2013 Share #2 Posted June 6, 2013 I've got you Bookmarked. Have Fun! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
plasticman Posted June 6, 2013 Share #3 Posted June 6, 2013 During the period from April 17th 2013 to April 17th 2014, I will only use analog cameras. What do you think? Why stop on April 17th 2014? Just kidding. Lycka till! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
philipus Posted June 6, 2013 Share #4 Posted June 6, 2013 Nice Rickard, well done. What platform did you use for the site? And I agree with plasticman, why stop after a year? philip Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPerson Posted June 6, 2013 Share #5 Posted June 6, 2013 Good luck Rikard. I will follow with interest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landberg Posted June 6, 2013 Author Share #6 Posted June 6, 2013 Why stop on April 17th 2014? Just kidding. Lycka till! Hi! I think i will go on for as long as film is sold for a reasonable price! The idea is that if i do this for a whole year i can justify to my self to buy a NEW Leica MP. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landberg Posted June 6, 2013 Author Share #7 Posted June 6, 2013 Advertisement (gone after registration) Nice Rickard, well done. What platform did you use for the site? And I agree with plasticman, why stop after a year? philip Wordpress was used for the site! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
india Posted June 6, 2013 Share #8 Posted June 6, 2013 I really like your style of photography. I wish you all the best in your fantastic venture !!! Keep up the good work. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landberg Posted June 13, 2013 Author Share #9 Posted June 13, 2013 Just tried color film for the first time, www.rikardlandberg.se Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axot Posted June 14, 2013 Share #10 Posted June 14, 2013 Did you use the Summicron 35 in all NYC photos? Any crops on those pics? I ask because I will buy 1 lens only with my first rangefinder camera (dreaming with an MP like you) and am undecided between 35 and 50 mm... Congratulations for the project. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landberg Posted June 14, 2013 Author Share #11 Posted June 14, 2013 Did you use the Summicron 35 in all NYC photos? Any crops on those pics? I ask because I will buy 1 lens only with my first rangefinder camera (dreaming with an MP like you) and am undecided between 35 and 50 mm... Congratulations for the project. Yes! All new york pictures are with the summucron 35. No crops! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruhayat Posted June 17, 2013 Share #12 Posted June 17, 2013 Good luck. This should be a blast. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landberg Posted June 17, 2013 Author Share #13 Posted June 17, 2013 New post with the Nikon 35ti! HERE! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kb7001 Posted June 23, 2013 Share #14 Posted June 23, 2013 Bravo for selling your digital. I have been toying with getting a digital camera for color images due to the ever growing likelihood of the complete demise of my favorite color films. However, your action has bolstered my resolve to hold off another year. You can't go wrong with the MP by the way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landberg Posted June 24, 2013 Author Share #15 Posted June 24, 2013 New post! David vs Goliat! David vs Goliat Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landberg Posted June 25, 2013 Author Share #16 Posted June 25, 2013 Another new post! On my way Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250swb Posted June 26, 2013 Share #17 Posted June 26, 2013 Excellent Rickard! Although my heart did sink with another title of 'Leica Photo Blog'.... Your images are better than just to typecast them as 'Leica' images. Well done. Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landberg Posted June 27, 2013 Author Share #18 Posted June 27, 2013 Excellent Rickard! Although my heart did sink with another title of 'Leica Photo Blog'.... Your images are better than just to typecast them as 'Leica' images. Well done. Steve Thank you! Hmm, maybe you are right.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalArts 99 Posted July 1, 2013 Share #19 Posted July 1, 2013 I found it very pleasant to look through your images. And especially the ones under the heading New York 2013 part 1 04.06.13. They remind me of those images that I really enjoy looking at for some reason, i.e., the B+W images of the 1950s-60s-70s which was such a great period of B+W small frame photography (Frank, Friedlander, Lyons, Klein, Gilden, DeCarava, Papageorge, Winogrand, Davidson, etc..) Maybe it's just nostalgia (and I also realize there's no real logic behind it) but looking at B+W film images like those goes beyond the surface of the image for me. It reminds me of the effort made by the author when using film: that uncertainty of the result; that temporal break between releasing the shutter and finally seeing the result**, the careful editing after reviewing the results. And then there's the surface itself: the grain and that 'imperfect' film look (in respect to that clean, high resolution 'perfectness of the digital image' that we now have come to expect.) And of course there's the content and context of the images themselves. With those NYC photographs of yours there is an uncanny solitude and emptiness in the images despite being in a city of 8 million inhabitants (e.g., unlike Gilden's images of Coney Island where he confronts us with the density of the population.) You seem to have the right tools already (including that blob of gray matter that sits between your ears.) Maybe instead of spending that kind of money on a new MP perhaps spend it on traveling, film, processing, and making prints. Cameras come and go, but it's the image that we are left with forever and that's all that really matters when the day is over. ** which I personally feel can allow the author to concentrate and engross themselves in the scene they are photographing, knowing that they will only see the results after the fact instead of stopping to check as is often practiced with digital capture. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landberg Posted July 3, 2013 Author Share #20 Posted July 3, 2013 I found it very pleasant to look through your images. And especially the ones under the heading New York 2013 part 1 04.06.13. They remind me of those images that I really enjoy looking at for some reason, i.e., the B+W images of the 1950s-60s-70s which was such a great period of B+W small frame photography (Frank, Friedlander, Lyons, Klein, Gilden, DeCarava, Papageorge, Winogrand, Davidson, etc..) Maybe it's just nostalgia (and I also realize there's no real logic behind it) but looking at B+W film images like those goes beyond the surface of the image for me. It reminds me of the effort made by the author when using film: that uncertainty of the result; that temporal break between releasing the shutter and finally seeing the result**, the careful editing after reviewing the results. And then there's the surface itself: the grain and that 'imperfect' film look (in respect to that clean, high resolution 'perfectness of the digital image' that we now have come to expect.) And of course there's the content and context of the images themselves. With those NYC photographs of yours there is an uncanny solitude and emptiness in the images despite being in a city of 8 million inhabitants (e.g., unlike Gilden's images of Coney Island where he confronts us with the density of the population.) You seem to have the right tools already (including that blob of gray matter that sits between your ears.) Maybe instead of spending that kind of money on a new MP perhaps spend it on traveling, film, processing, and making prints. Cameras come and go, but it's the image that we are left with forever and that's all that really matters when the day is over. ** which I personally feel can allow the author to concentrate and engross themselves in the scene they are photographing, knowing that they will only see the results after the fact instead of stopping to check as is often practiced with digital capture. Thank you! I'm not gonna stop using the M2 i just want a second Leica body so i can use different film speeds. So i would like to buy a brand new one that i can keep for ever. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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