As promised here is my latest megapost. (there's another in color coming up )
These are all my (decent) images that I haven't posted here yet (i.e. not really part of any set).
They're all film from I think 8 different cameras. Honestly I think everyone should shoot some film.Not so much for the film, but for the different cameras and formats available. With digital all the cameras are pretty much the same (2x3 format, slr or rangefinder, shooting at eyelevel…). With film you have twin lens, waistlevels, 645, square, 6x7, 6x8, and each system makes you see the world a little different, and you find yourself shooting differently.
My first film camera was a Hasselblad with a 50mm (wide angle) that I bought on a whim. I didn't give it too much of a chance (it was hard to focus. I had the very old lens which were a pain to focus and a pretty crappy ground glass. I didn't know those could be changed). And I always shot it wide open (@f4) because I was a newbie photographer and thought that everything should be shot wide open). I sold it for a Mamiya 645 with an 80 which was much easier to focus. Anyways I now have a Mamiya RZ67, Contax 645, Mamiya twin lens, Pentax 67, and a whole bunch of 35mm slrs.
I absolutely love the RZ67, I wish I still have the Hasselblad + 50mm lens (something about the wide angle square crop. I shot more interesting photos with it). And I'll probably get the Mamiya 7 soon (6x7 rangefinder with ridiculously awesome lenses available).
Anyways, as usual I'd love some C&C, but I don't expect it on such large posts...
Zalmy,
This is one of my favorite sets that you've posted. You're probably getting a bit of an unfair mental bump from me for b/w film shot wide of family, but this is a terrific set with tons of great images. I don't have time to critique all 744 photos, but maybe I'll do it in chunks. Of the first 10 photos, 2/3 (pushed?)/4/10 are my favorites. I'll try to come back for the next chunk sometime soon. Hope all is well buddy.
Dave
Really enjoyed looking at them and I'll probably come back and look through again. Wish you had broken it up into several posts. There doesn't seem to be a cohesive story so it would have been easier to absorb them in several smaller posts. Too hard to critique this many but the lack of a story or flow would be my critique. As they are now, it's a huge set of great images, but no logical flow.
Dave, I'll take the mental bump . I agree with your selection of favorites (though I wish I stopped down on the outside ones). 3 isn't pushed, it's delta 3200, but I sent it to walmart. They just do a generic processing, and delta 3200 shot anywhere near box speed has to be pushed (the official developing actual calls for pushing). I didn;t know that though so it's severely underexposed.
Eric, the story is "these are all the (decent) unposted b/w photos of my family from the past year and a half that don't belong in any sort of set"
Hey Zalmy, not a whole lotta time, but I wanted to mention some of my favs.
25 tops the list for me. Big time.
really like 26
Really like the connect four series in 28-30. Coolness with different angles
31a - aww man, I feel for him.
32 - that's great, I think I've put my daughter in the same huggies box.
20 - something about this one, I really like
35 - something looks familiar about this one ;-)
41 - pure joy
43 - OOF really works here.
51 - nice inclusion of everybody, plus bonus motion
I'm sure there are more that I like, but I'm kinda being lazy.
I like seeing all the happy children's faces. For some odd,unknown reason,I keep going back to #51 and the girl in motion. It feels like I really am looking at a moment happening before my eyes. I am very curious as to what ind of van and kid's seating that is. Along with the armchair in #31, I have never seen such ong arms on a chair or van seats! Interesting!
Wow it's been a crazy week for me (stuck in New York, I've spent at least 2.5 hours a day since Sunday on the phone with united thing to get home...)
Thanks David!
That's so funny about 35. I was trying to figure out what you meant and then I remembered that tooted a very similar photo. I think that's where I got the idea...
About 43. For some reason oof shots are much more presentable with film. I'm not sure why.
Thanks for your comments crabcakes. I think the long arms and seats are just distortion from using a wide angle... And I love the motion shots also, it's one of the unique capabilities of photography that really adds life to a photo..l
that's a very nice set of images... #25 is a wow moment... i'm out of my league to critique any of the images shown... but just want to mention all the motion blur and soft focussed shots... they are all very enjoyable to see... and i kept wondering, how does he do that... i think i'm going to experiment with slower shutter speed after this for my own family pics.. thank you for the inspiration
Lots of really good stuff here. I agree that its cool to see you use blur effectively. I think some of hte best shots here combine some subject that are blurred contrasted with more static (ie non moving, non blurry) subjects. This is something I am inspired. y in your work and hope to try an incorporate mysefl!
Thanks again guys. Honestly most of the slower shots are because I had slower film and needed the extra light but after I saw what happened I started doing it more
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