Author Topic: Let's all post a .... Still Life. (Read 24973 times)

Juliet · « **Reply #50 on:** March 10, 2009, 11:57:20 AM »

Not sure if these apply...but I found these 20 year old prints. Shot with an Argus rangefinder.

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cmdrray · « **Reply #51 on:** March 11, 2009, 03:49:18 PM »

Here's one more, from a roll of Kodachrome taken last month with a Nikkormat FTN and a Nikkor 50mm 1.4 lens.
Ed, Skorj, et. al.: thanks for the kind words about my recent photos

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Francois · « **Reply #52 on:** March 11, 2009, 07:33:48 PM »

I know I don't post stuff too often. But since I had a roll to finish, I did a few setups. This is one for all the mono-maniacs out there... shot on color film

as usual.

Also one color shot...

Hope you enjoy.

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hookstrapped · « **Reply #53 on:** March 11, 2009, 08:20:35 PM »

LT · « **Reply #54 on:** March 12, 2009, 10:00:19 AM »

top notch stuff still coming in - keep it going!

francois. Excellent rare post by you. you should post your pics more often. The one with the insects almost borders on the surreal.

Francois · « **Reply #55 on:** March 12, 2009, 02:35:10 PM »

Thanks Leon...
I know I should post more often... but I have to keep the level up

As for insects, it's the second time I do something with them. For some odd reason, it always seems to work well for me. The first one I did years ago was using one giant spider... it made all the arachnophobes freak out

Ed Wenn · « **Reply #56 on:** March 12, 2009, 04:09:05 PM »

I love those 3 shots, Francois....you could take a similar setup to the insect photo and take it using a more grungy/low-fi process and more directly reference those Old School surrealist images; might be a fun (if possibly pointless project), but anyway, good stuff.

Hookstrapped: is that a musical score I see in yr photo? Are you a classical musician perhaps?

chricela · « **Reply #57 on:** March 12, 2009, 10:21:24 PM »

Here's one taken with my Greatwall.

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chricela · « **Reply #58 on:** March 12, 2009, 10:22:12 PM »

sorry for the dupes!

(Mod. - Chricel - I've removed the duplication - hope that was okay. thanks)

Andrea. · « **Reply #59 on:** March 15, 2009, 11:11:54 AM »

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Zorki 6 on Shiant Isles

SuzanneR · « **Reply #60 on:** March 15, 2009, 12:11:17 PM »

Great thread, there are some beautiful pictures here. I'm still life slug, and don't have anything to contribute at the moment. $:-\$

But I enjoyed browsing here!! Thanks!

russmorris · « **Reply #61 on:** March 15, 2009, 05:08:30 PM »

Top: Still life with yellow foam duck
Bottom: Not so still life
(SX-70 Model2 + 600 film, modified Hanft hack)

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vicky slater · « **Reply #62 on:** September 02, 2009, 10:07:54 AM »

This thread's worthy of a bump:)

Taken with the impossible great wall camera, so hit and miss but I love it.

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original_ann · « **Reply #63 on:** September 02, 2009, 12:36:45 PM »

gothamtomato, moominsean - wow, wow, wow. This is a gorgeous set of contributions, this makes me salivate! Hopefully I'll have time after work to share something.

original_ann · « **Reply #64 on:** September 03, 2009, 03:00:58 AM »

14 hours later... here are my bottles on chocolate (polaroid, that is)

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R3Ub3N · « **Reply #65 on:** September 03, 2009, 05:33:41 PM »

Polaroid SX-70, 600 film, Airplane Graveyard, Lancaster CA.

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cpierce · « **Reply #66 on:** September 04, 2009, 03:18:53 AM »

Speed Graphic, Polaroid 55 p/n used the positive rather then the negative.

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Photo_Utopia · « **Reply #67 on:** September 04, 2009, 09:52:28 AM »

I have one that was shot on Neopan 400 as a Trichrome (3 colour filters)

I moved the shadow in the B/G to give off register fringed colours.
Mark

LT · « **Reply #68 on:** September 04, 2009, 10:57:28 AM »

Quote from: Photo_Utopia on September 04, 2009, 09:52:28 AM

I have one that was shot on Neopan 400 as a Trichrome (3 colour filters
...
I moved the shadow in the B/G to give off register fringed colours.
Mark

Mark - can you explain the process here? I'm not sure I get it, but it sounds impressive

Photo_Utopia · « **Reply #69 on:** September 04, 2009, 11:20:19 AM »

Leon my full modus is here:
http://photo-utopia.blogspot.com/2007/11/colour-images-from-b-film.html

The way it works is based on the work of James Clark Maxwell in the 1860's
Three exposures are made on mono film one through a red one green and one blue, (I always shoot them in that order)
The three resulting exposures are combined to make a colour image in photoshop, although you could do it as three projected images with the same filters over the projectors (obviously you need B&W trans)
Lots of photographers use (or have used) this method Sergi Prokudin Gorskii is one well known one from the 1910 period and Henri Gaud has a Trichromie blog (in French)
http://trichromie.free.fr/trichromie/
Mark

Janet_P · « **Reply #70 on:** September 04, 2009, 01:59:44 PM »

So, after not posting for at least a year, here I am posting twice in one day - cheeky eh?
Thought this post would be the perfect way to catch up with what everyone has been doing and to show you what I have...

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Ed Wenn · « **Reply #71 on:** September 05, 2009, 08:48:13 AM »

"J to the A to the N. E. T!!"

Welcome back, Janet. I love these still lifes. They are a great mix of sharpness, grunge, lovely composition, stillness yada yada yada....anyway, I like them a lot. What's the process you've used on the 2 b/w prints?

Mark (Photo_Utopia): very intrigued by your process. Will read up on it and may get back with some questions.

Heather · « **Reply #72 on:** September 05, 2009, 09:32:11 AM »

Quote from: ed.wenn on September 05, 2009, 08:48:13 AM

Mark (Photo_Utopia): very intrigued by your process. Will read up on it and may get back with some questions.

It's basically the same as making colour photos for tri-gum/gum-over-cyanotype tri-colour. I've experimented with it with lighting gels over a box brownie and got a similar effect with a cloud to Mark's shadow... and weirdly I can't find my photoshopped example anywhere

You put a Red gel/filter over the camera, calculate for proper exposure, take picture, then put a Green filter over it, calculate for proper exposure take picture, then put a Blue filter (a very dark blue one, hard to find) and recalculate proper exposure and take a picture. Then that translates to CMY (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow) So you print the Red as Cyan, the Green as Magenta and the Blue as Yellow.
Trust me, this does all work out apparently.

Most gum printers these days use digital negatives though. Doing colour separation is a bit easier that way...

And it's something I've wanted to do for a long time but I'm starting to think I don't have the patience for.

Janet_P · « **Reply #73 on:** September 05, 2009, 10:24:51 AM »

Ahhh, lovely to be back Ed. Glad you like the still lifes, I'm working on a whole set. I've been taking them on my Rolleicord then scanning the neg to produce digital negatives on OHP sheets. The top, brown, image is using Argyrotype and the blue one is cyanotype. I got both solutions from fotospeed and they're really simple to use. The part I love is being able to paint the solution onto watercolour paper, I've always wished I could paint so it gives me the illusion that I am. I love the randomness of the brush strokes. These scans don't really show the prints off properly, they're only 4 by 4 inches and the texture of the paper really adds to them.

LT · « **Reply #74 on:** September 05, 2009, 10:29:54 AM »

HI janet - good to hear from you again, and some great pics too. How's the freelance work going?

Francois · « **Reply #75 on:** September 05, 2009, 05:15:37 PM »

Quote from: ed.wenn on September 05, 2009, 08:48:13 AM

Mark (Photo_Utopia): very intrigued by your process. Will read up on it and may get back with some questions.

The process was used for a long time by newspapers. They used to have special process cameras with mirrors and filters built-in that would simultaneously expose three sheets of film. They were used extensively for offering their readers color pictures of their favorite artists that would pose in the studio. The cameras were big and heavy so there was no possibility to use them elsewhere. The big advantage was they offered instant color process separations which was greatly appreciated by the printers.

I first saw this in the old Time-Life encyclopedia... quite an interesting process.

Mike (happyforest) · « **Reply #76 on:** September 05, 2009, 10:40:05 PM »

Vicky thankyou for resurrecting this thread.

It seems that there are a lot of gems hidden within this web site, that we need reminding of.

I did see this first time round but didn't have the courage to post anything at that time.

The attached was taken some 10 years ago when the company I was working for decided to close the office I was working for down. I was involved in closing it and collecting and disposing of the redundant equipment. I cannot help but think that the must be parallels occurring today in the current econmic climate.

Mike

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sapata · « **Reply #77 on:** September 07, 2009, 12:50:56 AM »

So many excellent pictures... !

Here is my cotribuition... taken with my Smena Cosmic in Portobello Rd years ago...

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calbisu · « **Reply #78 on:** September 08, 2009, 02:32:32 PM »

Well, I lived for one year in Cambodia, and I saw many of these, now I have one at home.

Bring me luck, bring me luck, bring me luck...

Canon A1

C.

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calbisu · « **Reply #79 on:** September 10, 2009, 07:19:48 PM »

Ok here is one more image, I just received my first developed roll of 35mm black and white...

Canon A1, Kodak Tmax 400

C.

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Janet_P · « **Reply #80 on:** September 10, 2009, 10:39:49 PM »

Hey Leon,
Freelance is going well thanks. Mostly digital but I do get to do some black and white film work so it's all good.

cwilk · « **Reply #81 on:** September 14, 2009, 07:57:36 PM »

A pair of dice on the beach, Ilford film and a Canon EOS5.

Ken B: eyes, I just do eyes. · « **Reply #82 on:** September 16, 2009, 07:53:35 PM »

Well I finally did a still life, I was keen to use the LF camera at work and the day I was shooting it was pouring with rain so I used the studio. I have become a non fan of flash but had to go with it as the studio is in the basement.

You can also tell from the image that I wasn't sure what I wanted from the image. Well on on on to the next try

Aline · « **Reply #83 on:** September 19, 2009, 04:57:09 AM »

Just for fun...

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snewbery · « **Reply #84 on:** September 30, 2009, 10:02:29 PM »

There's some nice work in this thread---particularly like your pears and pomegranate, Julie_P, and your trichrome, Photo_Utopia. Will contribute some (declining) tulips as soon as they're scanned. ---Sheila

LT · « **Reply #85 on:** October 01, 2009, 09:59:04 AM »

a good excuse to drag out some of my old flower pics:

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snewbery · « **Reply #86 on:** October 07, 2009, 04:16:59 AM »

Here're the tulips, as promised... ---Sheila

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original_ann · « **Reply #87 on:** October 07, 2009, 12:46:01 PM »

Leon, that first tulip is a DREAM!!! Fabulous flower photography, all of it!

les dix · « **Reply #88 on:** October 20, 2009, 11:06:50 PM »

I call this 'the quantity surveyor'

Les

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Pitxu · « **Reply #89 on:** October 22, 2009, 04:44:11 AM »

In an abandoned railway station.

Rollei 35B.

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Author Topic: Let's all post a .... Still Life. (Read 24973 times)

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