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Which Board? => Main Forum => : ChristopherCoy January 07, 2013, 05:04:30 AM
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It's up, and I don't quite know how I feel about it yet. Not that I'm anyone to write home about, but putting your work out there for all to see is a little nerve racking. I mean I've done it before, when I had a pet portrait business, but those were images I created for someone because they paid me. These are images I'm creating for myself, and there's a lot - A LOT - more thought that has gone into them. Even more then I realized. And now I realized how simple and lacking they are.
Anyway, week 1, roll 1, blog 1 is up. I'd love your opinions, just don't laugh too hard. www.coyimages.com (http://www.coyimages.com)
I've also updated the header with my own images. I'm trying to make the header images an assortment of things that make up "me". The accordion is because I love cajun music, the city sign is in my small hometown, the Cafe Du Monde sign is an iconic New Orleans thing. I'll be adding more as soon as I schedule more time to sit down and scan some more images. I've got a lot of blog updates to do.
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the first steps on a long journey~ ;)
inspiring setup for photographing the cameras btw! I want to take time to do some of that this year
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A great start Christopher! Send me a PM if you're interested in posting on http://52rolls.net (http://52rolls.net), too.
Urban
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Great shots and lovely gear Christopher! I'm going to try and keep up with your progress over the year. Two questions though:
1) which camera took the shot of your Hasselblad?
2) which film and development process did you use for Roll1?
Apologies if I missed this in the writing, I was distracted by your images :P
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I used the F100 to shoot the Hasselblad. It was photographed too, I just haven't scanned it yet.
Everything was shot on HP5+ (120 and 35mm) and processed in Ilfotec DD-X, Ilfostop, and Ilford Rapid Fixer.
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Thanks for those extras Christopher! I'm hoping to learn lots here, it seems like the right place to grow in all manner of ways as a filmwaster :D
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The Hasselblad is my favourite pic Chris, keep on! :)
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Yes lovely set and a good project . . .will need a fair bit of commitment
I like the brownie pic the best ;D.
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Thanks y'all!
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Week 2 is up, but I warn you. It isn't pretty.
www.coyimages.com (http://www.coyimages.com)
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Chris, you might consider posting one of these in the Meet the Filmwaster thread? http://www.filmwasters.com/forum/index.php?topic=3299.0 (http://www.filmwasters.com/forum/index.php?topic=3299.0)
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I like the first one the best.
Here's a tip for shooting self portraits: Shoot through a two-way mirror. You set up a two-way mirror and with an assistant to stand in for you, looking through the camera side and some fiddling, you can mark on the mirror (with tape) a guide to what will be in the frame. Then you set yourself down where the stand in was and shoot yourself with a cable release.
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Where does one find a two way mirror? LOL I would also assume that a two way mirror that large would be rather costly.
One of my goals of this project is to use the equipment that I have, and refrain from buying anything significant this year. I went quick, down, and dirty with these... simple set up, simple pics. I wish I would have had something like a reflector to kick a little light back etc, but eh... they are what they are.
It's amazing how much these little personal assignments make you think.
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Where does one find a two way mirror? LOL I would also assume that a two way mirror that large would be rather costly.
You can usually get them at places that specialize in selling glass. I used to have one for shooting still lifes. It wasn't that expensive.
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These mirrors are often used in stores to hide the back office yet still allow the people to watch what's going on in the store.
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Week three... which is lackluster but, hey - its up.
http://coyimages.com/52-rolls-roll-3/ (http://coyimages.com/52-rolls-roll-3/)
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Roll 4 is up. My study of my sunny 16 knowledge.
http://coyimages.com/52-rolls-roll-4/ (http://coyimages.com/52-rolls-roll-4/)