Filmwasters
Which Board? => Photo Essays => Topic started by: Scott McClarin on April 25, 2012, 05:17:34 AM
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Desolation as a form of beauty is a moment of perception where loneliness usurps the idea of companionship and replaces it with wonder in the silence.
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7044/6929677048_f07b63b807_c.jpg)
Pattern, Shadow, and presence are all that matter in a place where salt and wind prevail.
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5080/6929674924_531ae376f1_c.jpg)
One tiny cloud dares to block the mighty sun where seldom boats set sail
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5468/7075747259_f510c8866f_c.jpg)
where the sands are more wispy and vapid than the clouds that reflect between their pools
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7246/6917425032_7238e18976_c.jpg)
where long abandoned ties are cast like earthly jewels
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7243/6882577826_96d0e41fe9_c.jpg)
and perceptions like infections throw us into views...
the likes of which are sightly for even the unlikeliest of muse.
thanks for viewing and musing with me on this journey that is as much an introspection as it is an external observation.
Camera: Mamiya RB67 Pro-S
Lens: Mamiya Sekor 50mm C lens
Filter: Tiffen 25A except for the first image where a Conkin +8 Graduated Neutral Density Filter was used, my first time and the third frame on the roll.
Location: The great Salt Lake near Saltair, the Salt Palace, and the Audubon bird sanctuary on three different days within a single month in March 2012.
Film was digitized using a Nikon P5100 snapping 12MP images of Negatives backlit on a Chromega diffuser head inverted, focusing through the body of a Mamiya Waste level viewfinder to hold the negatives flat over the light unit.
Processing: Dust and fibers were removed from the images digitally, and in some instances lens flare was removed to equate to what the natural eye perceives as was with the first image in this series.
Silent_Soliquy April 2012.
I challenge myself to shoot on the same stretch of 50meters of beach to always find something different but constrained within the same time frame of sunset in black and white. I do this to show myself that no matter how many times you do a scene and location you always can find something new and interesting on good days and bad.
perhaps you can see why for me, film is an enigmatic mirror of perception and a suspension of disbelief for the miracles that happen every second of every day.
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Been looking through this a few times now.
I like it. A place frozen in a moment. Gives me a strong feeling of something I cannot quite place. Anxiety about eternity perhaps.
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I think I said before: I really like your skies. you're a real cloud catcher!
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thanks for the kind comments..."Anxiety about eternity" is about as accurate a reaction as I could ever hope to elate in both prose and tone! Sincere thanks for noticing!
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Wow! Love that grain... Skj.
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interesting shots here Scott. Shooting into the sun like that is a tricky game. I love how you've used the clouds to obscure the sun - works very well.
I bet these would be a pig to print ... those contrast levels must be way off the scale - lots of water baths and paper flashing required I'd say :)
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Beautiful work. A lovely series of photos.
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interesting shots here Scott. Shooting into the sun like that is a tricky game. I love how you've used the clouds to obscure the sun - works very well.
I bet these would be a pig to print ... those contrast levels must be way off the scale - lots of water baths and paper flashing required I'd say :)
Yes and a really difficult to replicate in digital even if using HDR techniques due to pixel binning which is reason enough to try VC printing this next year when I get the darkroom finished...by the way do you guys have a photographic paper wasters forum, I think I may have to join that one soon as well! LOL! Thanks for the comments and ideas on printing I am very grateful. some of these would be awesome to split tone with Gold / Selenium just to see the tone separation particularly the darker one.
SS.
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be prepared for some serious two-bath and water bath development and pre-flashing then to get these under control. :o
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Cracking my knuckles getting ready to launder my prints! And Flash them like a dirty old man.
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these are wonderful, I also like the way you have used the clouds to trick the sun a bit....