roboticspro wrote:
Really nice job with this...
Thank you!
James Markus wrote:
#2 is my favorite type of photography - environmental portraits. Excellent work.
Thank you! That one is my favorite mine too.
kwoodard wrote:
These are great! I love the dimensionality of the last two!
Thank you! I wish now on the first one I had placed her in front of that table, to add more separation between her and the wall behind her. Another thing I'll try and keep in mind for next time.
Bruce Marriner wrote
I've been slowly scrolling through the last 100 pages or so of this thread over the past several days (I'm not done yet) and quite often I'll see a photo and say "Damn, that's a nice photograph." and then I'll look over at the poster and it'll be from you. It's actually got to where I can just immediately know it's one of your photos before looking at the name.
I really like all of your photos that I've seen here, they are fantastic.
I do hope you've kept up your project of taking pictures of locals and hope you keep sharing them here.
I've also recently bought my very first film camera and hope to contribute to this thread in the future. Though, I expect my first few rolls to be all black or all white since I've never used a film camera before and the one I ordered (Nikon S3) doesn't even come with a light meter. ...Show more →
Welcome to film Bruce! I was once a skeptic of this too but the "Sunny 16" rule actually works! I too just got a Nikon S3 and shot a roll of Kodak ProImage 100 using only Sunny 16. You set your shutter speed to 1 over your film ISO (so if you're using an ISO 100 film then the shutter is 1/100 or whatever is closest). Then you just adjust the aperture dial on the lens based on available light per this chart:
I just did this last week, basically for the first time, and also expected a bunch of over and underexposed misses. Nope, turns out I got 37 perfectly exposed frames! It really is much easier than I made it seem in my head.
Got back from Ireland last week and shot just under 20 rolls of film in a week. Mostly Ektar, with some Gold 200 and Portra 160 and a few rolls of B&W. Getting them all scanned now, slowly, and will be sharing the better ones with you as they come in.
So as to cut down on gear analysis paralysis and make this a purer photography experience, I only brought the Leica MP and Light Lens Lab 50mm "Elcan" lens.
icarus_ wrote:
Welcome to film Bruce! I was once a skeptic of this too but the "Sunny 16" rule actually works! I too just got a Nikon S3 and shot a roll of Kodak ProImage 100 using only Sunny 16. You set your shutter speed to 1 over your film ISO (so if you're using an ISO 100 film then the shutter is 1/100 or whatever is closest). Then you just adjust the aperture dial on the lens based on available light per this chart:
I just did this last week, basically for the first time, and also expected a bunch of over and underexposed misses. Nope, turns out I got 37 perfectly exposed frames! It really is much easier than I made it seem in my head....Show more →
Thanks Icarus! Your name looked familiar and I had to dig around and found the same name on Discord I'll give the Sunny 16 a try and see how it goes. I do have a couple phone apps I've downloaded that I can try to use too as light meters but it would be nice to learn to just gauge it with just my eyes I also found some hotshoe light meters that look nice that might be cool to use too, the voigtlander one looks pretty good.
I ordered 2 boxes of Fujicolor 200 off Amazon since it seemed not too expensive and a lens I bought off the Nikon Discord is coming with two free rolss of Kodak XX to try.
I jumped to the color film right off the bat without thinking but the more I think about it and after looking at a lot of photos here, I think I may want to just stick with b/w for the Nikon S3, it seems fitting, and will add into the totally "new thing" I'm doing here
Camera isn't here yet though. It should get to my house friday but I'm leaving kayaking all weekend so I probably won't get to play with it until next week.
On a related note - do any folks here have any recommendations for a mail in lab that isn't too expensive but also does a reasonably decent job? I think I'll eventually want to learn how to develop myself and maybe scan with one of my cameras but right off the bat it might be easier to just send the film off somewhere. Then I'll get to be excited when the mail comes back!
I had a star pf persia flower appear in my yard recently with a giant purple globe shaped flowerhead. Same combo as Toy Story. In the first one my monitor is only 8-10 inches behind the flower, but the separation is good - imo
Nikkor_O.C 35mm f2.0 wide open Nikon_F4_UXF-400-at-800_Xtol-1+1-16min-68-degrees
Near MFD Nikkor_O.C 35mm f2.0 wide open Nikon_F4_UXF-400-at-800_Xtol-1+1-16min-68-degrees
Took this several months ago, didn't really like it at the time, but it's not so bad now.
Loan. Loves plants. Her family smuggled her out of Vietnam when she was a child. She about had a heart attack when I told her I traveled to Vietnam as a tourist 10 years ago. She told me it's not safe there.
lifeandmylens wrote:
Loan. Loves plants. Her family smuggled her out of Vietnam when she was a child. She about had a heart attack when I told her I traveled to Vietnam as a tourist 10 years ago. She told me it's not safe there.
Given her back story, I can understand that concern. We adopted #1 daughter from Hanoi, so have been to Vietnam twice: 2007, 2017. I felt perfectly safe travelling up and down the country including the hinterland but, then, I'm from Chicago.
lifeandmylens wrote:
Took this several months ago, didn't really like it at the time, but it's not so bad now.
Loan. Loves plants. Her family smuggled her out of Vietnam when she was a child. She about had a heart attack when I told her I traveled to Vietnam as a tourist 10 years ago. She told me it's not safe there.
Chamonix 8x10
12” Dagor
Portra 400
Another excellent portrait. That childhood trauma will stick
Chamonix 8x10
Heliar 300mm
Portra 160 first two
Ilford FP4+ third
Great photos
I am curious about the first one. How is it the cupcakes on the left, the lamp on the right, and her face is in focus but many things in between are out of focus? I like it and it's interesting how it draws my eyes around the photo.
geekcop wrote:
Great. Now I want one - Nikkor-O.C 35mm f2.0.
Photos look great with this lens.
Here it is side by side 35mm 0C-35 AIS - 35 AFD. L>R. Being non ai I can only mount it to the F4 (sold my two FMs) However, with a dandelion adapter it works on all the EOS mount bodies.
Does anyone here have experience with home made NAS? My OpenELEC has been running for 13 or 14 years and the computer components are getting crispy. Is LibreELEC still as lightweight?
Bruce Marriner wrote:
Thanks Icarus! Your name looked familiar and I had to dig around and found the same name on Discord I'll give the Sunny 16 a try and see how it goes. I do have a couple phone apps I've downloaded that I can try to use too as light meters but it would be nice to learn to just gauge it with just my eyes I also found some hotshoe light meters that look nice that might be cool to use too, the voigtlander one looks pretty good.
I ordered 2 boxes of Fujicolor 200 off Amazon since it seemed not too expensive and a lens I bought off the Nikon Discord is coming with two free rolss of Kodak XX to try.
I jumped to the color film right off the bat without thinking but the more I think about it and after looking at a lot of photos here, I think I may want to just stick with b/w for the Nikon S3, it seems fitting, and will add into the totally "new thing" I'm doing here
Camera isn't here yet though. It should get to my house friday but I'm leaving kayaking all weekend so I probably won't get to play with it until next week.
On a related note - do any folks here have any recommendations for a mail in lab that isn't too expensive but also does a reasonably decent job? I think I'll eventually want to learn how to develop myself and maybe scan with one of my cameras but right off the bat it might be easier to just send the film off somewhere. Then I'll get to be excited when the mail comes back!
Cardinal Film Lab (www.cardinalfilmlab.com) has been good in my experience, very fast turnaround and reasonable prices.
Andrew's Analog Center (www.needfilmdeveloped.com) is even more economical but they take a little longer.
If you get into film more seriously I'd at least recommend setting up a home scanning rig. If you have an old DSLR or mirrorless camera and a macro lens you're most of the way there. Just need a copy stand and light source, or of course the all-in-one kits like the Valoi Easy35 are available to make it easier. It's a fun way to get more involved in the process!
Desmolicious wrote:
Another excellent portrait. That childhood trauma will stick
Thanks Huss. Definitely will.
Bruce Marriner wrote:
Great photos
I am curious about the first one. How is it the cupcakes on the left, the lamp on the right, and her face is in focus but many things in between are out of focus? I like it and it's interesting how it draws my eyes around the photo.
Thank you! I used camera movements, one of the big benefits of using large format cameras. On this one, I mostly used front tilt which changes the plane of focus more like a ramp than a vertical wall.
I'll give the Sunny 16 a try and see how it goes. I do have a couple phone apps I've downloaded that I can try to use too as light meters but it would be nice to learn to just gauge it with just my eyes 
