Topic: The weekend starts today, March 26. What's happening out there?

[Jeff Warden]

I haven't started a weekend thread in ages, but this week I actually wasted a little film on a rainy day, from the shelter of my dining room. :-)

The old family toolbox, which originally belonged to my great-grandfather. It's still heavy with the tools of his trade.

[02Pilot]

[Indofunk]

Damn, a very very strong start to the weekend 😃 Jeff, your GGF was a watchmaker? 😮

[Jeff Warden]

Damn, a very very strong start to the weekend 😃 Jeff, your GGF was a watchmaker? 😮

Hey Satish, no he was a toolmaker and engraver, but that's the old man's watch. I keep it wound and it tracks the time quite well! He worked for a glass bottle manufacturer engraving logos and pictures inside the steel molds. That was in the 1930s as the first of four generations of my family (including me!) that worked for the same company.

[Kai-san]

Contax G2 / Zeiss Planar 2/35 / Kodak Portra 400

[irv_b]

That really is a cracking picture Jeff, surely worth printing and framing
A couple of shots from Chatham way back in 2018 HP5 in the Etsri

[LEAFotography]

I haven't started a weekend thread in ages, but this week I actually wasted a little film on a rainy day, from the shelter of my dining room. :-)

The old family toolbox, which originally belonged to my great-grandfather. It's still heavy with the tools of his trade.

I really like this image! What's the film and developer combination here please?

[Jeff Warden]

I really like this image! What's the film and developer combination here please?

Thanks! It's Hasselblad/TMax 400/TMax developer 1+4.

[LEAFotography]

I really like this image! What's the film and developer combination here please?

Thanks! It's Hasselblad/TMax 400/TMax developer 1+4.

Thank you

[Bryan]

Lots of great stuff this weekend! 

I had a lightbulb go off in my head and realized the best way to photograph the internals of this bulb without getting a glare on the glass would be a silhouette.  It’s a DDB 750 Watt Projector Bulb, you can see where one of the filaments is burned out.   Zeiss Ikon Ideal 9X12 plate camera with Fomapan 100 developed in Beer.

DDB Bulb by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

[Jeff Warden]

I had a lightbulb go off in my head

So cool!

[Indofunk]

I had a lightbulb go off in my head

So cool!

Agreed, that's an amazing picture!

[Francois]

I should go through my collection of oddities and photograph them...

[ManuelL]

Love the tool box and the light bulb. When I was a kid, I used to collect burnt out bulbs from a local air traffic beacon.

I have recently given the J.Lane speed plates a first try. They came out very contrasty and I think I underexposed them quite a bit (rated them at 12 ASA instead of 25, but with the light spectrum in Frebruary, that was probably still not enough light). Will give the exposure and light spectrum some more thought next time.


Goup of trees - J.Lane Speedplate 


Forest Floor - J.Lane Speed Plate

[leanne]

That really is a cracking picture Jeff, surely worth printing and framing
A couple of shots from Chatham way back in 2018 HP5 in the Etsri

I thought I recognised the locale. Great stuff.

And from everyone actually.

[leanne]

Mine is an old picture of the Skiba-Geo whalebone in Birsay, Orkney.  I only recently looked at it again. I guess it didn't really follow the style I was trying to produce at the tinme. I quite like it now. I wonder how many other negatives that I didnt keep back then would have made the grade today ...

[Francois]

That's pretty much why I won't throw away a negative anymore...
Besides, they take up so little space when compared to prints.

[Bryan]

I had a lightbulb go off in my head

So cool!

Agreed, that's an amazing picture!

Thanks for the comments!  In the past I've tried to photograph vacuum tubes but they never came out very good because of the glare.  The problem with doing a silhouette of a vacuum tube is they tend to have a lot of big pieces of metal that would just block too much of the insides.  I'll have to look through my boxes of tubes and see if I can find any that would work well this way.   

[Francois]

Also, they have a shiny layer of metal inside that is caused by the getter element (oxygen absorber) that is used to achieve a perfect vacuum. This really must make it hard to light properly without a full setup.

[Indofunk]

Ah, that's true, all my guitar amp tubes have a layer of metal somewhere or other (as I recall). Also, what does it look like when the tube is powered on? Does the light from the filaments blow out the photo?

[Bryan]

Ah, that's true, all my guitar amp tubes have a layer of metal somewhere or other (as I recall). Also, what does it look like when the tube is powered on? Does the light from the filaments blow out the photo?

I remember taking some shots like that several years ago but I don't remember how they came out.  What I did was shut off power to the tube just before clicking the shutter.  That way I caught the glow as it was fading away.  I did this as a long exposure in dim light to try to reduce the glare on the glass.  I could try that again using the back light.  I think it would look best in color to get the orange glow.  I wonder what a flash bulb would look like just after the flash?  That would require some precise timing. 

[Francois]

I think Edgerton must have found a way to achieve that feat.
The hard part is that the combustion of the magnesium is not instant, the amount of light produced incredibly high and the combustion speed is incredibly fast.
Short of using a Rapatronic camera, I'm not sure it can be done...

[Indofunk]

Ah, that's true, all my guitar amp tubes have a layer of metal somewhere or other (as I recall). Also, what does it look like when the tube is powered on? Does the light from the filaments blow out the photo?

I remember taking some shots like that several years ago but I don't remember how they came out.  What I did was shut off power to the tube just before clicking the shutter.  That way I caught the glow as it was fading away.  I did this as a long exposure in dim light to try to reduce the glare on the glass.  I could try that again using the back light.  I think it would look best in color to get the orange glow.  I wonder what a flash bulb would look like just after the flash?  That would require some precise timing.

I wouldn't mind seeing it in black and white either. What I'm saying is that I really really want you to do this 😁

[Bryan]

Ah, that's true, all my guitar amp tubes have a layer of metal somewhere or other (as I recall). Also, what does it look like when the tube is powered on? Does the light from the filaments blow out the photo?

I remember taking some shots like that several years ago but I don't remember how they came out.  What I did was shut off power to the tube just before clicking the shutter.  That way I caught the glow as it was fading away.  I did this as a long exposure in dim light to try to reduce the glare on the glass.  I could try that again using the back light.  I think it would look best in color to get the orange glow.  I wonder what a flash bulb would look like just after the flash?  That would require some precise timing.

I wouldn't mind seeing it in black and white either. What I'm saying is that I really really want you to do this 😁

I’ll give it a shot. 

[Francois]

To get this I believe you would need a camera with an electronically controlled shutter and some sort of device to either create a delay before triggering the camera or using a fast light detector for the trigger.
This might be another case of Arduino to the rescue.