great thread and great shots, everyone. here are a couple from my busker "collection," first is tri-x and second is delta 100, zm planar 50, on an M4-P, at detroit's eastern market:
Todd I see you're already enjoying your "new" camera. I checked it up online. Seems like quite an interesting camera. Is yours converted to accept 130 film?
stedge wrote:
just snapshots of my youngest, but I figured I'd throw some up here. Please ignore the backgrounds, I took what I could get.
This is the first roll I've shot in decades. Also first time with a rangefinder (focusing is interesting), and first time with a RF without a meter (an M4 - hence first time with a meter!). Not sure about the local lab and scanning...
Wow this thread doesn't stay still!
Great family portraits Zalmyb, I like the presentation/juxtaposition as well.
Nice shots of the lake c00kiem0nster
I like your portraits of a very pretty model stedge, I also like the grain
Martin, excellent abstract/detail shots, your film shots always look really good, which scanning software do you use?
Jon, amazing landscape shot of Watchman at sunset, great colours.
More good xpan shots Nate, I really like the man repairing/building the roof shot, and the composition of the last shot with the fence on the right.
Excellent atmosphere photosmart42, is the high-key look deliberate? I'm very jealous of your scanner
Vibrant colours at the market praktinafan, nice
Alkanphel, I'm really interested in your shots since I have a 500CM on its way. Which lens are you using there? Just the 80 planar? How do you find it?
Great busking shots Mike, really excellent.
Todd, I have yet to try double exposure, it works well in your shot, gives the eye a lot to look at!
Dan, beautiful black & white shots. I particularly like the one of the Good Dog
I just developed another 12 sheets of Velvia 50, most of these going much better than my previous efforts, I think I need to process it a little hot to get bright enough results, but in many cases I accidentally underexposed anyway
Here's an example of the intense cyan/green shift of Velvia with long exposures, here it was 2~3 minutes. Doesn't help that it was quite blue in the atmosphere as well.
And here it is 'fixed' to the best of my abilities.
Here is another mistake, no idea what I did wrong here, but I think it's darkslide related. I was playing with swings and tilts to get an artificially shallow DOF Worked alright considering it was an ultra-wide angle lens.
Here are a couple more that make me dream of owning a scanner that can see into these shadows (I can against a bright light). All Velvia 50, Ebony 45s and Nikkor-SW 75/4.5
thrice wrote:
Here are a couple more that make me dream of owning a scanner that can see into these shadows (I can against a bright light). All Velvia 50, Ebony 45s and Nikkor-SW 75/4.5
I am digging the last one here, Dan. You seem to know how to get the best out of the superwides!
What are you using to scan these - a V750? Doesn't it have a multi-pass mode where it can push the blacks a bit?
Also, regarding a previous post, have you ever thought about using Provia instead of Velvia for your long exposures? Even if you are capturing shadow detail with RVP, you may have better luck with regard to your color shifts... and you'd be able to be more economical with time (it looks cold where you are).
Thanks Corposant, I'm in Western Australia (big desert with nice beaches ) the waterfalls were in the mountain ranges in Melbourne though so that was certainly cold (1C). I do shoot Provia as well, and I now have magenta colour correction filters for when the exposures get long with Velvia I still have quite a few Provia sheets to develop but they were usually architectural subjects. I have some Velvia 100 to try as well! That according to the data sheets is almost as good as Provia 100f for reciprocity characteristics.
I use the V700, and have it pushed as hard as possible when scanning positives. I have no problems scanning negatives.
Nate: The Harrison pup tent is what I use for all my 4x5 duties (holders, tank etc).
Daniel, really gorgeous work. It's making me think I should not have sold my 4x5 kit last year just to acquire yet a couple more 35mm lenses ... 'course it's not the gear that makes those images
