What you guys think of this series... Thoughts/crit/first impressions welcome. You're also welcome to guess how they were made (I'll give you a big pat on the back if you guess right ).
Cheers,
Scott
No guess on how you made them, but I think they're interesting. The dust and scratches are identical so either you shot through something or added these in post.
As a series, I feel like less might be more here. I'd prefer to see, maybe the 4 that you find most interesting.
Way too many to critique other than to say it is an interesting treatment.
I'm thinking these were taken aiming at mirrors.
IMO, less is never more.
Maybe there is some obscure mathematical equation involving irrational numbers where less actually is more, but I don't have the math skills to know for sure.
Sometimes less can be better though.
Thanks for the input guys! Wasn't really looking for critique on specific images...more what your overall impression of them or the feeling you get from them was.
These were actually the result of a failed experiment that ended up being something pretty different...
Here's the story--I've got a '60s vintage Olympus Pen FT half frame camera, but don't have a lens for it. Well, I really wanted to try the thing out, so I grabbed the first lens I had handy (an OM Zuiko 50/1.8) and decided to shoot a roll through it just freelensing (holding the lens up in front of the camera). Film was some expired Agfa Vista 200 ISO. I loaded it up and took it for a hike... Meter in the camera is dead, so I was shooting sunny 16--which I do all the time in summer...I shoot a lot of film and half my cameras don't have meters. By my in-brain meter, they should have been f5.6 to f8, 1/500th. So, I went around snapping pictures, enjoying the easy tilt you can get when hand holding a lens. I tried to keep the sun off the front of the camera, as there was nothing to block it out since I was holding the lens out there. Didn't occur to me until the end of the roll that the lens didn't have an auto/manual switch...I'D BEEN SHOOTING EVERYTHING AT F1.8 . So, I used the DOF preview button to stop down on the last few, but the damage was done. I had the film developed and the negs were so dense the lab wouldn't scan them . They were just too overexposed.
So, anyway...to digitize these I used a '60s vintage Pentax slide copier and a White Lightning flash as a light source. My 1Ds took the pictures. You get two pictures to a frame because it's a half frame camera . Took a lot of work in PS to pull an image out of them, but there you go... I added the sepia tone because in pure black and white they were a bit too foreboding...and that's not what I was going for when I took them. They have a much lighter feel in sepia.
Anyway, that's the (long) story...
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. So, I used the DOF preview button to stop down on the last few, but the damage was done. I had the film developed and the negs were so dense the lab wouldn't scan them 
. Took a lot of work in PS to pull an image out of them, but there you go... I added the sepia tone because in pure black and white they were a bit too foreboding...and that's not what I was going for when I took them. They have a much lighter feel in sepia.