Sandokan Posted August 15, 2006 Share #1 Posted August 15, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) Flamenco show in Madrid. R9, 90mm f2 Apo, hand held. Thanks for looking Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted August 15, 2006 Posted August 15, 2006 Hi Sandokan, Take a look here Flamenco 1-4 . I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
andybarton Posted August 15, 2006 Share #2 Posted August 15, 2006 Very good - number 5 seems to be the best one from my p.o.v. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmr Posted August 15, 2006 Share #3 Posted August 15, 2006 Ravi, nicely done! Great shapes, movement and expression. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertwang Posted August 15, 2006 Share #4 Posted August 15, 2006 Smashing, baby! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
uulrich Posted August 15, 2006 Share #5 Posted August 15, 2006 Hi Ravi; Which one is your favorite? Is it XP2 and a commercial scan? A color film converted into monochrome perhaps..? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotografr Posted August 15, 2006 Share #6 Posted August 15, 2006 I'd have just posted the last one. It is by far the best and having the others mixed in detracts from it. The last one is a perfect composition and body position and if it were posted along and a bit larger it would be a very strong image. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgcd Posted August 16, 2006 Share #7 Posted August 16, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) I'm with Brent on this. The last image is indeed the strongest of the lot, very strong with a great deal of impact and great framing. Cheers, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandokan Posted August 16, 2006 Author Share #8 Posted August 16, 2006 Thanks everyone for your feedback on this - I am glad that some of my recent photos get praise - but then that is what learning is all about. Hi Ravi; Which one is your favorite? Is it XP2 and a commercial scan? A color film converted into monochrome perhaps..? Uwe - I am still trying to decide. Both XP2 were developed at same time at same photo shop (actually my Leica dealer) and both came out very different; the first photo lacks contrast and would probably look better after PS. I use print film as primarily I share photos of the sprog (maybe too Glaswegian a word for you in Edinburgh) with the family and friends. I am not happy with Fuji colour negative film as it is too green in cast (but I have several to finish). I will try Kodak next. From the results I have seen, I think I will buy my own film scanner and do it myself as I do not seem to save any time with the commercial people. I also have a batch of HP5 and will try this in a print shop in London. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chriisi Posted August 16, 2006 Share #9 Posted August 16, 2006 For me number five is the favourite, too.. How much do you pay for developing b/w films in england? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
semrich Posted August 16, 2006 Share #10 Posted August 16, 2006 Ravi, I admit I was back and forth between #4 and #5 with #4 winning out because of the composition, with just the single musician out of focus on the left and the dancer to the right with the sharpest of the focus on her face. #5 was out in the end (no pun intended) because of the other musicians head peaking out from her backside. Richard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
uulrich Posted August 16, 2006 Share #11 Posted August 16, 2006 Hi Ravindar; Yes, praise they get and they deserve it too. I enjoyed looking at all five. The reason why I asked you about XP2 is that I made out small white spots in all five files and it looked like you got a commercial scan/CD. Apparently my guessing was right since you mentioned you don't av. a film scanner yet. BTW, according to ILFORD you can print XP2 like standard black and white films, perhaps you consider your favorite shot to be printed in a b/w lab. After around five years I recently had to use color negatives again. Though I process monochrome entirely myself I decided to let the lab worry about my color work. In a shooting not more than two hours I burned six rolls of film and when I got the results back I needed to edit all of the scans to eliminate their rubbish. A pure time-waste and loss. A write off also. Perhaps I will never give labs another try. If your scans look aperture wise different, perhaps they did an auto exposure during their scanning process; this can spoil everything. But I am not experienced to give you some advice. I am very confident that your 'recordings that day are excellent but apparently the lab screwed up your work during scan. IMHO your choice of HP5 an excellent one. You should really try to develop film. It's easy, fast and no fuss at all. I use FP4, HP5 and Tri-X, sometimes PAN F w/ D76 or Ilfosol S. It takes only 4-10 minutes to develop. Putting drying time aside, the time almost equals to the time needed to copy files from any SD card to a PC. :-) As far as your sprog is concerned - thanks to redundancy in languages I got that phrase but I admit I did a research to rule out doubts. ;-) Perhaps you grab a small stainless steel drum and let your sprog worry about agitation for your monochromatic films. :-) Somewhere on our site William (lambroving) filed a list of two labs who do b/w processing, perhaps you can take the contact details of them from there...? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandokan Posted August 16, 2006 Author Share #12 Posted August 16, 2006 Gruezzi Christophe (I guess from your name you are Swiss), I used :- Kodak Express (Kodak Express Camden .com), and I will try them again with a couple of HP5 in the next few weeks. They charge £13.99 for develop and printing to 10x15cm, with £2.99 for standard scans and £9.99 for high res scans. And better still with a bill of £64 for 4 films, the Swiss customs did not charge me anything, but next time I will only send single films as the charge is CHF35 for the honour of processing the customs and about 11% duty. Richard - I didnt know that the singer had his head there Actually the singer on the left is one of the best in Madrid at this and all the singers and musicians were superb. None of the photos of them came out as the lighting was much dimmed for their performances and I had too much camera shake when hand holding at around 1/8" (this trip was the one that decided me to start using an M). Uwe - yes I will try my own processing and the sprog will give it a good shake if I put something inside to rattle The bathroom is totally black here (indoors) but at the moment my time is quite precious and so I would rather leave this to others - hopefully in the next few months as I get my new job under control I can relax again. The negatives for me would only be the start as I would then start to get a darkroom set up and an enlarger and ... then actually I would probably loose weight as I would be on my feet most evenings. Maybe I can sell that to the missus? Thanks to all and I shall post a few more from the Madrid trip. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
semrich Posted August 16, 2006 Share #13 Posted August 16, 2006 Ravi, I like shoting in low light hand held, with action in changing ligt condition you did exceptionall good. I liked #4 and #5 both almost equally as well, if forced to choose I would pick #4 because of its composition. Richard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
colorbox Posted August 16, 2006 Share #14 Posted August 16, 2006 one word: great shotings Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted W Posted August 21, 2006 Share #15 Posted August 21, 2006 Goddamnit! I was in Madrid last week and missed an opportunity to go to Casa Patas with my M6. You did exactly what I wanted to do! Excellent shots, btw, and I'm jealous that they're not in my portfolio instead. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bresson Posted August 21, 2006 Share #16 Posted August 21, 2006 Thanks for sharing these five wonderful images with us. Photo no.1, I think, shows the intensity of the dance in the dancers eyes and facial expression and the swirling effect in the dancers dress conveys the (E)motion of the dance. I also like the way that the image is all about the Dancer. Brian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertwang Posted August 21, 2006 Share #17 Posted August 21, 2006 Didn't care much for photo 1. Facial expression yes but no tension. The other ones show more movement. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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