Author Topic: Halloweekend thread (Read 1999 times)

astrobeck · « **on:** October 31, 2020, 02:29:12 AM »

What? It's late Friday and no weekend thread?

Mine's from today with the Pentax K1000, which I think has started acting up a bit....not sure, but maybe the curtain has an issue. If anyone recognizes this malady, let me know.
Anyway, I hiked some little volcanoes earlier today that are on the west side of Albuquerque.

grit · « **Reply #1 on:** October 31, 2020, 02:48:13 AM »

I went to Capitola this week with the Intrepid 4x5! This is the first time I've shot color sheet film since lockdown began, since I don't have color chemistry at home, I didn't want to mail holders in, and I didn't want to leave the house unnecessarily, but I did take a trip up to my photo lab in San Francisco to get these developed.

Bryan · « **Reply #2 on:** October 31, 2020, 02:53:45 AM »

It does look like the shutter curtain is getting hung up Becky. I was able to diagnose a shutter problem by filming it with my iPhone on slow motion mode, then scroll through the video frame by frame.

Nice colors Grit!

Ricoh Diacord L with CatLABS X FILM 80 developed in Beer. More roaming around the Palouse with a camera.

Wheat Harves 2020 by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

Straw Roll by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

Kai-san · « **Reply #3 on:** October 31, 2020, 12:27:17 PM »

Deep within the forest........

Nikon F3 / Nikkor 20mm f3.5 Ai / Rollei Retro 400S in HC-110

EarlJam · « **Reply #4 on:** October 31, 2020, 01:03:20 PM »

A "found" picture from me this week from a batch of negatives I discovered this week, tucked in one of my dad's WW2 correspondence folders. Piccadilly Circus, early October 1945, as the Ernie Pyle movie was released in the UK on September 28. The scan's from Agfa Superpan Press, in 4x5; unfortunately, I don't have any notes on the camera or lens used.

Francois · « **Reply #5 on:** October 31, 2020, 01:43:53 PM »

That old photo is really lovely.

Bryan · « **Reply #6 on:** October 31, 2020, 01:46:26 PM »

Quote from: EarlJam on October 31, 2020, 01:03:20 PM

A "found" picture from me this week from a batch of negatives I discovered this week, tucked in one of my dad's WW2 correspondence folders. Piccadilly Circus, early October 1945, as the Ernie Pyle movie was released in the UK on September 28. The scan's from Agfa Superpan Press, in 4x5; unfortunately, I don't have any notes on the camera or lens used.

That's an awesome photo Earl! Plus, Guinness is still good for you.

Blaxton · « **Reply #7 on:** October 31, 2020, 02:58:04 PM »

The photo of Piccadilly (thank you, Earl’s dad) made my day. I keep coming back to the gentleman with hat (bowler?) and stick, hand on hip, strutting through the circus. What style! Missing the statue of Anteros, I had to look it up: the Shaftesbury memorial had been removed to storage during the war and not returned until 1948.

EarlJam · « **Reply #8 on:** October 31, 2020, 04:19:17 PM »

Thanks, all. It's one of my favorites from the wartime photos my dad managed to bring home. The camera angle is somewhat perplexing, somewhat above street level, so I made a Google visit to the area. As best I can tell, he must have shot it from a balcony in the building on Regent St James that houses the N. Peal shop. Also, to my eye, there's a bit of foreshortening in the view, so he may have had a short telephoto lens of some sort to use with the camera, whatever it was.

In a later letter home, sent from Paris in December '45, my dad references pictures of Notre Dame and Montmartre "shot with a French plate camera, on German plates, developed in English developer, and timed with a Swiss stopwatch". Not sure that's the combination he used in the UK; I've been digging through his and other family photos for 10 years now and the Paris photos have never materialized.

astrobeck · « **Reply #9 on:** October 31, 2020, 05:28:24 PM »

Wow!
That Piccadilly photo gets my top pick for the year here in the weekend threads.
There's just so much to look at and study, even the clock showing the time of day! That's really incredible.
I love how we used to dress nice back then. Style in clothing and just how our posture was back then. And the cars! Real metal in those things.
Thanks for sharing this one.

Oh and whatever camera, it's just a lovely shot and composition all round.

jharr · « **Reply #10 on:** October 31, 2020, 08:51:42 PM »

Had to stop and 'ooh and awe' over the Piccadilly pic. It sure does keep your eye moving around the frame!

Bryan, your shots of the Palouse always make me a little homesick. Hopefully we will be moving back to the area in the not too distant future.

Here are a couple from my new favorite combo (gifted Nikon F2 with a Nikkor Micro 55/3.5 mounted).
The film is GAF Type II Class N (x-1968)
EI 50
Parodinal 1:100 x 40min semi-stand

Foxtail Fern by James Harr, on Flickr

Bird of paradise by James Harr, on Flickr

Skorj · « **Reply #11 on:** November 01, 2020, 01:24:54 AM »

Quote from: Francois on October 31, 2020, 01:43:53 PM

That old photo is really lovely.

Indeed!

Skorj · « **Reply #12 on:** November 01, 2020, 01:25:45 AM »

Sometimes, you get the exposure and subject just right.
No art here, just a nice snap.

Blaxton · « **Reply #13 on:** November 01, 2020, 01:52:00 AM »

Three verticles.

Praktica MTL5, 50mm Industar lens, Fomapan 100, Caffenol C-L, 30 minutes, semi-stand

Providence, Rhode Island by William Blackstone, on Flickr

Yashica TL Super, 50mm Yashinon DX, Fomapan 100, Caffenol C-L, 30 minutes, semi-stand

Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary, Lincoln, Massachusetts by William Blackstone, on Flickr

Vivitar 400SL, 28mm Vivitar lens, Fomapan 100, Rodinol, 1:100, 18 minutes, 4 inversions every 3 minutes

Lincoln Woods, Rhode Island by William Blackstone, on Flickr

Francois · « **Reply #14 on:** November 01, 2020, 02:20:36 PM »

Quote from: Skorj on November 01, 2020, 01:25:45 AM

Sometimes, you get the exposure and subject just right.
No art here, just a nice snap.

This one's got me a bit perplexed.
What the heck is that for?
Tree decorating? Trunk dusting?
A really inefficient way of chasing squirrels?
A witches'broom storage?

Skorj · « **Reply #15 on:** November 01, 2020, 11:44:18 PM »

Ha!
Yorishiro are objects of the gods details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorishiro
Notably straight cedar trees...

This pair add a great feeling to our local shrine.

Moto-uno · « **Reply #16 on:** November 08, 2020, 03:33:42 PM »

^^^ What is a "verticles" ? Peter

Pete_R · « **Reply #17 on:** November 08, 2020, 03:50:18 PM »

A misspelling of verticals?

As in a vertical picture as opposed to an horizontal picture.

02Pilot · « **Reply #18 on:** November 08, 2020, 04:15:47 PM »

Quote from: Moto-uno on November 08, 2020, 03:33:42 PM

^^^ What is a "verticles" ?

The Greek god of good posture, I believe.

Indofunk · « **Reply #19 on:** November 08, 2020, 04:18:15 PM »

Quote from: 02Pilot on November 08, 2020, 04:15:47 PM

Quote from: Moto-uno on November 08, 2020, 03:33:42 PM
^^^ What is a "verticles" ?

The Greek god of good posture, I believe.

Francois · « **Reply #20 on:** November 08, 2020, 10:31:23 PM »

Quote from: Indofunk on November 08, 2020, 04:18:15 PM

Quote from: 02Pilot on November 08, 2020, 04:15:47 PM
Quote from: Moto-uno on November 08, 2020, 03:33:42 PM
^^^ What is a "verticles" ?

The Greek god of good posture, I believe.

Moto-uno · « **Reply #21 on:** November 09, 2020, 12:43:45 AM »

To save my life , I was sure there was something else in the pictures I was supposed to look for ?
As my daughter used to say " not the brightest crayon in the box "

. Peter

Blaxton · « **Reply #22 on:** November 10, 2020, 01:28:24 AM »

Quote from: Moto-uno on November 08, 2020, 03:33:42 PM

^^^ What is a "verticles" ? Peter

I never have been a competent speller. I meant to write 垂直