Topic: JEAN MICHEL BERTS - worth a mention

[Alan]

Happened accross this photographer a couple of years ago
in an inflight magazine of I cant remember what airline?

Anyway his work stood out to me from an interest in architectural
photography.

Over the last number of weeks I have been trying to track his site
down - couldnt remember his name  

I just knew he shot Kodak Technical Pan so after I aquired some
rolls with the technidol developer a few weeks ago I wanted to get
some inspiration !



Image from www.artnet.com

Site here > http://www.jeanmichelberts.com/

Enjoy

[Francois]

That's the Flatiron building.
There is/used to be a camera store there.

[Alan]

yes its an iconic building for sure.

[Late Developer]

I didn't know Technical Pan was still available. I had a dabble with Kodak 2415 in the 1980's and used Tetenal Neofin Doku to develop. The negs were so low contrast I couldn't get a result I was happy with even by using a high contrast paper.

All that said, as much as I like this chap's work (at the risk of being severely castigated) it does look a bit like digital HDR in some ways. Maybe that's just down to viewing the shots on a monitor.

[Francois]

Kodak pulled the plug on Tech Pan a few years ago if I remember. But there's probably some left at that online place...

Agfa also used to make some APX 25 which I heard was quite amazing.
Then, there's also Gigabitfilm... though I don't know if they still produce.

[Alan]

Francois is correct, tech pan has been discontinued all right.

The stuff I got is out of date by now.

There is a guy on THAT place selling bulk rolls of it, if you are into
tech pan in a big way.

On the above image and regarding late developer's comment
I think there is a bit of photoshoppery done. the halo around the
flatiron building gives it away, but for me still some amazing images.

didnt know about the APX 25 . . . when does the learning curve end
in relation to everytthing analogue photography - - - probably never!

[gothamtomato]

@Francios: When was there a camera store in the Flatiron? Must have been decades ago.

[gothamtomato]

All that said, as much as I like this chap's work (at the risk of being severely castigated) it does look a bit like digital HDR in some ways. Maybe that's just down to viewing the shots on a monitor.

I was wondering how he was getting that look as well. I looked at his site, and his images are beautiful, but I was wondering about digital manipulation. Looking at the image above, and how the light is hitting different sides of different buildings has me curious as to how he gets the look. On his site it says he uses a 'Norma room' - what is that? - and a Sinar with Tech Pan.

[Francois]

@Francios: When was there a camera store in the Flatiron? Must have been decades ago.

Probably was... I have a picture of the building somewhere with a kodak sign on it