Topic: Windmills Anyone?

[Ed Wenn]

I just came across these snaps from April and finally found an hour to gets the levels/dust scratches/curves etc. done properly in PS. I remember being disappointed with the film when I first looked through it, but 3 months down the line I like these two a lot more than I did originally. What is it about that? Maybe I should wait a few months every time as a matter of course.

Anyway the windmill is in a little village called Brill, near Oxford. Diana clone + TMAX400.

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[gary m]

Wow, I really dig these. Love the lone figure in the last one. Good stuff.

[beck]

Ed, you definitely have nicer curves than mine. Those are really great pictures with teh toys. I seen the one at your blog a bit ago and thought it looked kind of big. Your picture, I mean.  More...

[tijeras]

Yessirree, Mr. Wenn, these are keepers.
 I don't know what it is either about not liking a photo right afterwards...
I think they have to ferment sometimes, or cure, or age, or whatever.
But I can say if these were mine I would have liked em' right away!

Good stuff!

 

[Skorj]

Ohhh... so nice. Second one looks glorious! Especially with the Ed-style artifacts.

[db]

Ahh Ed. Wonderful. #2 is the duck's nuts

It's not that windmills, in all their forms, are my favorite subjects. More that they exert some sort of power that
makes me photograph them..


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[LT]

a very nice pair Ed - and all nicely rounded off by a typically great offering from DB.


nice.

I have a problems with leaving my negs for any great length of time.  I'm quite ruthless - if I havent printed something within a year of taking it, more often than not the negs go in the bin. Unless they have some sentimental value.

[beck]

Sure, but, just think what you can do with those negatives after they've sat for a long time. I think the shelf life for windmills is about....oh, a year or so. Just add milk. 

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[Phil Bebbington]

Both beautiful but the second is a killer the Diana being use at it's crappy best!

MMmmm I have lost of windmill shots mostly derelict mind you...ok a little offering used for pumping water in Crete!

Funny how negatives often grow on one given the initial disappointment...but then the opposite can be true also.



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[moominsean]

i love windmills...these are a couple years old.


about once every six months i go through some old negs, and invariably find something i like that i hadn't previously scanned. part of it i think is the 'too much of the same thing at once' syndrome, so i just pick a few initially.

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[Ed Wenn]

Sean, I love that second one. Wind farms are wonderful places. Love them, but find them incredibly hard to photograph. I never get the image in my head to appear on the neg. Took some back in May that I have yet to scan. If anything good comes up I'll add it to this thread.