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Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« on: February 23, 2012, 05:02:52 PM »
Well, here in Sudan the weekend (Friday and Saturday) starts on Thursday, so... here it comes  ;D

I am working in a Book that it will be named, People of Khartoum, Yes, title is not very original. The book will be divided in two, People of Khartoum with a polaroid and People of Khartoum with a Rolleiflex. The goal is to have 80 pictures, 40 from each camera. Polaroid shots will be color, Polaroid 108, for the Rolleiflex, Kodax Tmax 400. You will be able to start the book from one side with the Rolleiflex, flip it down and the book will start with the Polaroid.. Usually I shoot the same scene, person, with two different cameras (Polaroid and Rolleiflex), so I think it can be ¨curious¨ to see the same object with different cameras. Pursuing this project has helped me to have a goal when shooting, shooting with specific film and cameras, as well as focusing on same theme, portraits. I will be in Khartoum until the end of October. After that I guess I will need few months to finish the project, so I envision the book in little less than one year  :'( Well this is it!

Two Polas, with expired 108 and Rolleiflex kodak Tmax 400
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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2012, 05:53:38 PM »
Carlos, those are great.  And I wish you luck in completing your project book.

I got quite used to the Fri/Sat weekend in Oman so here's a couple of reminders from a few years back ...









The echoes across a valley could sometimes be astonishingly beautiful, but the one thing I won't miss is the tannoy from the mosque at five in the morning.

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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2012, 07:39:24 PM »
Sandeha, nice ones, specially the 3rd one, love the colors..

Yes, the mosque at 5.00am is quite revealing. I had been in other arab countries and the difference here is that sometimes they just not make the call but the whole praying that can last up to one hour, and that is quite a thing... :'(

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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2012, 07:51:16 PM »
calbisu: love the second image.
Sandeha: Beautiful portrait of the three boys.


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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2012, 08:39:31 PM »
Nice work and liking the shadows in Sam's second shot....
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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2012, 08:41:44 PM »
Polaroid SLR680 first flight...
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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #6 on: February 23, 2012, 08:52:26 PM »
Had half an hour to spare in Norwich this week after a visit to the dentist - just time to finish a roll of FP4.
Rolleicord/FP4+/Moersch Finol.
Happy weekend to all.

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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #7 on: February 23, 2012, 10:02:47 PM »
Gosh., it's almost the weekend!

Liking Miller's pola a lot!

Here's another long exposure solargraph from me.  This one was started in January and ended this afternoon. It looks like I need to tweak the angle just a bit higher and more west to capture a full 365 day cycle...


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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #8 on: February 23, 2012, 10:45:49 PM »
Last solargraph I tried, the camera got completely snowed-in and frozen... oops! :)
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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2012, 10:51:49 PM »
just cleaned up this neg, hot off the scanner. oxford high street.

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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #10 on: February 23, 2012, 11:43:29 PM »
Hasselblad SWC/M Fuji 160C Crete after all the tourists have gone home.

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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #11 on: February 24, 2012, 04:12:03 AM »
some portra 800 that i shot a couple weeks ago..







excuse the dirty dirty dirty scans.

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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #12 on: February 24, 2012, 04:51:38 AM »
Just a few shadows on a wall....  Hasselblad 500cm with 80mm Planar. Ilford FP4 developed in ID11.

Have a great one!

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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #13 on: February 24, 2012, 09:56:38 AM »
love those polas calbisu - great start !

what great portraits sandeha especially the last, you captured great expressions there!

nice mono's sam, love the middle one.

nice pola millar!

nice shadow work nick

lovely sola. astro - very nice even with the skewed angle

nice one thil!

Phil - usual standard - very strange sign?

i like the first one sprayNpray but they seem to be blurry?

very nice post lawrie - like that a lot!


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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #14 on: February 24, 2012, 04:43:11 PM »
Boy has it been a long time since I posted anything here!
Here are some shots from the Diana Muti Pinhole Operator.
I must admit I'm quite impressed by the results.


sized_6x6B&W6 by Flaver-D, on Flickr

sized_6x6B&W8 by Flaver-D, on Flickr

sized_6x6B&W7 by Flaver-D, on Flickr

sized_6x6B&W9 by Flaver-D, on Flickr
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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #15 on: February 24, 2012, 05:19:41 PM »
quite a treat to see photos from you Francois!   :)
I like the first and third one.  The third one has that wild sun flare zapping business going on that I like.

 :)

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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #16 on: February 24, 2012, 05:29:53 PM »
Thanks Becky!

The one with the cat that says mi-août (a wordplay between the the words mid-August and a cat saying Meow!) has so much grain on the original scan you'd think somebody at Fuji sprinkled pepper on the film...

What I like is that on the negative, you can see some interference patterns in the flare... very geeky :)

The grain seems amazingly large for some Acros 100 processed in HC-110 dil.B for 5 minutes...
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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #17 on: February 24, 2012, 06:10:23 PM »
Miller, I love your shot! Amazing. And the rest is ofcourse great as well.

A Holga pic from me. Not very, but a little bit Arabic, I think....

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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #18 on: February 24, 2012, 06:15:16 PM »


Here's another long exposure solargraph from me.  This one was started in January and ended this afternoon. It looks like I need to tweak the angle just a bit higher and more west to capture a full 365 day cycle...



Sooooooooo gooooooood! Love it!

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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #19 on: February 24, 2012, 06:17:41 PM »
Hi all, great images to enjoy as usual.  I particularly like Becky's solargraphs because they aren't stopping time like photographs usually do.  It's so interesting to see what happens with the sun's arc.

Here's one of my kid running for the waves around Jan 1.

Cheers,

Jeff




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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #20 on: February 24, 2012, 06:28:42 PM »
Another Holgashot from Barcelona in May 2010

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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #21 on: February 24, 2012, 07:10:12 PM »
A couple more.  The roll lost in the post for a while, or these might have come up sooner ...







Two 4x5 rail cameras, (one portrait, one landscape) and an RB67 back with Fuji 160ns.  And my crappy old scanner that does weird things.

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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #23 on: February 24, 2012, 09:09:16 PM »

Two from Glencoe last week. 127

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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #24 on: February 24, 2012, 09:12:27 PM »
From today walk in a gale on the moor. The sun came despite the high winds and hail-showers. Wrestled the OM-1 with Delta100 rated at 400 [because that's what I thought it was]. Sloshed in Rodinal.

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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #25 on: February 24, 2012, 09:36:11 PM »
thanks aoulain. i dont know why they are like that.. i think Walgreens might have something to do with it. I shot at f/16 ish the whole time. i don't understand where all that dust came from either since i scanned a roll of self dev'd arista premium and there was hardly any dust on them at all.

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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #26 on: February 24, 2012, 10:46:52 PM »
Gosh., it's almost the weekend!

Liking Miller's pola a lot!

Here's another long exposure solargraph from me.  This one was started in January and ended this afternoon. It looks like I need to tweak the angle just a bit higher and more west to capture a full 365 day cycle...



I love this ,it reminded me of the cover of the first chameleons album.which is a good thing

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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #27 on: February 24, 2012, 10:54:37 PM »
Ive been attempting to post a 365(plus one) on flickr.And attempting to use a different camera every week or two.these were taken using a fujica ax and xp2.
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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #28 on: February 24, 2012, 11:22:32 PM »
Two from Segovia.  Holga loaded with Orwo film and set to bulb mode.

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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #29 on: February 25, 2012, 12:19:02 AM »
Another Saturday afternoon at the local apple orchard.  The old faithful Exakta loaded with the equally faithful (expired) Portra 160NC.

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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #30 on: February 25, 2012, 05:00:52 PM »
working on my new year's resolution... slowly ;D  ::)


mamiya 645 & new portra 400
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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #31 on: February 25, 2012, 09:48:53 PM »
Just when you think Spring is in the air. You enjoy the unusually warm weather. You hear the birds chirping. Yellow grass is showing through the last little bits of snow left. Plop! the big one falls down. Cute but...
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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #32 on: February 26, 2012, 09:46:18 AM »
All just wonderful  :)

Great start by Calbisu and Sandeha. Becky's solar graph wonderful! Other favourites are Miller's polaroid, Nick' cathedral shots, Andrea's rusty car, Jeff's kid and Axia's Holga snap :)


I've been dancing again this weekend, the waltz this time. Andrea came along too. It was all too much for some people. OM10, HP5 @800, developed in LC29.


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Too tired to dance by windy_, on Flickr
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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #33 on: February 26, 2012, 06:06:04 PM »
Nice one Mr. Windy! I like the second one, it has an ¨Hungarian¨ mood...

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« Reply #34 on: February 26, 2012, 06:12:00 PM »
Here's Mr Windy  after the waltz. OM-1n Rollei400s rodinal

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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #35 on: February 26, 2012, 07:05:32 PM »
This is a great one, Andrea

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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #36 on: February 26, 2012, 07:11:20 PM »
Fantastic solargraph Becky! Really inspiring. I must try this sometime...
Come to think of it, feels like solargraphy is an area where digital is never going. Just think of all those batteries that would need changing  :o

From my darkroom this week. Two prints, both printed on Fomatone MG Classic paper (Matt 132).


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Lith print. I find it really hard getting a good representative scan from a print like this. The print doesn't quit fit in the scanner so the discolouration (a real word?) at the top is the scanners fault.


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Holga print. Done with split contrast printing (after reading about it here on FW)


 
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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #37 on: February 26, 2012, 11:12:45 PM »
great stuff as always! jojonas' cat, miller's pola & terry's greenhouse are my faves.

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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #38 on: February 26, 2012, 11:53:37 PM »
Phoenix Matsuri was this weekend, so just took my Snappy as it is small and easy to use. Self-developed Ektar.
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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #39 on: February 28, 2012, 07:03:03 PM »
I know, I know, late for last weekend, early for the next, but here it is anyway..shot with my vintage Bencini Comet S & 127 film..my brothers 51 Mercury..

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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #40 on: February 28, 2012, 07:26:42 PM »
Diane, late, but, so damn sweet!

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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #41 on: February 28, 2012, 07:55:16 PM »
Thanks Phil!!

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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #42 on: February 28, 2012, 08:17:07 PM »
Cool!
Diane you and your family could have your own "Antique's Roadshow"  :)
Love old cars!

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Re: Arabic weekend, 25-26 February
« Reply #43 on: February 28, 2012, 08:45:09 PM »
not sure if thats a good thing or a bad thing :) :)..My brother has even more treasures in his garage..including a 1946  Harley..I think he has it insured for 100 grand due to the paint job and all the work he has done..he has even shipped it to Alaska when he works up there!! strange man!! :) :)