Jon Buffington wrote:
I am so used to seeing delta3200 shot at 3200 with compressed tonal range and no shadow details that it is refreshing to see it shot at an iso it was intended to. Shows what a fantastic emulsion this is.
I should have mentioned that while I shoot at ISO1600, I always develop one stop more at ISO3200. The film is low contrast by design so adding one stop to development gives a more normal looking image. It's a great film that I shoot with when high ISO values are needed, which can be often in the medium format world (my fastest lens is f/3.5).
Jon Buffington wrote:
From an off trail hike to a wet weather falls that comes from a seep in the side of the mountain. Milk Sick Creek Falls, Nikon FM, series e 28/2.8 w/ yellow filter, hc110 dil H, kentmere 100, pakon, lr5
I posted these over in "People". They called Keith Emerson the Jimi Hendrix of the keyboard and going back and listening to some of the ELP stuff, it's really true. I shot these for Keyboard Magazine sometime in the 90's. These, in my opinion, are the two best shots from the shoot. Also trying an experiment to see if adding a small dot of color to an otherwise black and white image will keep this site from converting neutral sRGB files to untagged RGB, which may or may not display correctly, depending entirely on the monitor being used.
Is it possible to have a light leak through the lens? The first photo was taken pretty much into the sun. The next photo was taken directly after. Horizontal curtain shutter.
mjbetch wrote:
Is it possible to have a light leak through the lens? The first photo was taken pretty much into the sun. The next photo was taken directly after. Horizontal curtain shutter.
dswiger wrote:
If you're talking about the lower left corner white "string", it looks like it's on the negative. But that's just a guess
Dan
No, not that. I'm not worried about that. Theres a red tinge coming from the bottom of both frames. Those are the only to frames affected on the roll. I'm pretty sure it's a light leak, but is that possible coming just from the lens?
mjbetch wrote:
No, not that. I'm not worried about that. Theres a red tinge coming from the bottom of both frames. Those are the only to frames affected on the roll. I'm pretty sure it's a light leak, but is that possible coming just from the lens?
My experience is that it's the mount area that's leaking. Go into your darkroom with camera, mounted lense, and a flashlight. Shine around the lens with the film door open...look for leaks.
While going through old boxes a few weeks ago, I came across this shot I took in 1974, about the time I graduated from high school. I can still remember actually taking this over forty years ago, probably because it's the very first image where I directed the people into position. It still hold up pretty well today. Shot on Kodachrome with a Minolta SRT-101 and more than likely a 50mm 1.7 lens.
Peter Figen wrote:
While going through old boxes a few weeks ago, I came across this shot I took in 1974, about the time I graduated from high school. I can still remember actually taking this over forty years ago, probably because it's the very first image where I directed the people into position. It still hold up pretty well today. Shot on Kodachrome with a Minolta SRT-101 and more than likely a 50mm 1.7 lens.
Dang, if I took that now I'd be really happy with it! And to think it was taken by some snot nosed kid straight out of high school!
Here's my attempt from nearly the same spot, taken years ago when I was experimenting with Ilford SF2 film.
Contax RTS and I think a 24 2.8 Zeiss.
Krosavcheg wrote:
Haven't been very active recently.
Here is from October last year, temperature here is above 25 centigrade until about November...
Fuji Velvia50
Love the lighting treatment. Okay, the hot model doesn't hurt the image
rico wrote:
Love the lighting treatment. Okay, the hot model doesn't hurt the image
She is close to you now - traded Japan for suburbs of Detroit and frequents Windy City...
Cheers mate. Sunlight only shot which I hoped to underexpose and forgot...
Peter Figen wrote:
... They called Keith Emerson the Jimi Hendrix of the keyboard and going back and listening to some of the ELP stuff, it's really true.
You have a trademark look to conveying dynamics and fluid surroundings—and no Photoshop! Good stuff. You just have to sit up and notice an album called Brain Salad Surgery with early Giger art on front: my fav track is "Toccata" (adapted from an orchestral piece).
rico wrote:
You have a trademark look to conveying dynamics and fluid surroundings—and no Photoshop! Good stuff. You just have to sit up and notice an album called Brain Salad Surgery with early Giger art on front: my fav track is "Toccata" (adapted from an orchestral piece).
Thanks Rico. It's weird when you go back and examine images from a quarter century ago. I remember fairly well shooting the black and white images of Keith at the piano, but hardly at all the color images of him with the Calliope. Maybe because the piano images, even though they were simple and a bit blurred, distilled Keith down to his core. I just re-purchased the ELP record in order to play Lucky Man for my girlfriend but the whole record is quite amazing. The end of Lucky Man has sub bass notes that you used to only be able to hear on headphones, but now we all have subwoofers that can shake the house, and that song does at the end. I can't remember which of their albums I have on vinyl and will get BSS this week as well. I think it's interesting how we miss certain people in different ways when they pass. Keith was like Bowie in the way that his music and sound was woven into the everyday fabric of our aural lives - so much so that you don't realize it until it's gone, even if you don't listen directly as often as you used to.
Desmolicious wrote:
Dang, if I took that now I'd be really happy with it! And to think it was taken by some snot nosed kid straight out of high school!
Here's my attempt from nearly the same spot, taken years ago when I was experimenting with Ilford SF2 film.
Contax RTS and I think a 24 2.8 Zeiss.
Huss - Yes, that's exactly the same tree. That's always been a favorite spot of mine, growing up in Monterey and going to Carmel Beach almost on a daily basis back then. Back then, I think I was still experimenting with some basic compositional ideas that my father had taught me when he first showed my how to use a Weston Master III meter. He was big on the whole framing the scene with a tree theme, and come to think of it, that may be the ONLY compositional trick he beat into me. But this is also why it's important not to throw out old images (and to keep looking for them) because they provide clues into who you might become as a photographer later in life. And, btw, I do like your black and white more mid-day interpretation of the same area. What I can't remember is if I took more than this one frame. It's the only one I've come across so maybe that's it. Film was a big expense for me back then, so that might be.
mjbetch wrote:
Is it possible to have a light leak through the lens? The first photo was taken pretty much into the sun. The next photo was taken directly after. Horizontal curtain shutter.
If this is a 35mm camera, it looks like the light seal has failed on the rear film door. Try using black tape along the top edge (and other sides) and going back out into bright light hitting the top of the rear door. It's not likely to be a light leak from the lens mount unless the camera was seriously dropped and the mount been bent.
I have enough unsharp lenses collecting dust around here.
