Author Topic: Apocolypse.  (Read 3284 times)

Skorj

  • Global Moderator
  • Self-Coat
  • *****
  • Posts: 1,901
  • the black cat
    • Filmwasters.com
Apocolypse.
« on: September 29, 2009, 11:35:36 AM »
That damn German, he's always taking me to places where it looks like the world will end. This was last Wednesday:


With meteors falling from the sky The German and I took cover under an abandoned boat.

this was a while ago:


With ash from the volcano falling all around we stopped for gas and a quick drink.

Story - sort of - HERE.


Ken B: eyes, I just do eyes.

  • Sheet Film
  • ****
  • Posts: 491
  • In email, no one can hear you scream
Re: Apocolypse.
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2009, 12:01:03 PM »
this is why I come to FW's, for very good well thought through images like this, well done Skorj
Age can weary me when it can keep the hell up

http://www.kensphotoblog2013.com/

http://www.artybollocks.com/

Ed Wenn

  • Global Moderator
  • Self-Coat
  • *****
  • Posts: 4,300
  • Slowly getting back into it. Sometimes.
Re: Apocolypse.
« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2009, 11:01:37 AM »
Lovely stuff as always, Skj. What's the story behind the meteors? Are they marks on the film or were things really falling from the sky?

The second shot is one of my fave Skj photos and also one which inspired Sean to comment on your ladder technique in a way that I remember had me quite literally in fits of laughter.

Ed Wenn

  • Global Moderator
  • Self-Coat
  • *****
  • Posts: 4,300
  • Slowly getting back into it. Sometimes.
Re: Apocolypse.
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2009, 11:02:55 AM »
Scratch that...I just read Juergen's post. I thought your 'story about that here' link was about the second photo, not the first.

astrobeck

  • Guest
Re: Apocolypse.
« Reply #4 on: September 30, 2009, 07:52:30 PM »
love them both
 and now am enamored with the meteors falling from the sky photo.


 :) :) :)

Karl

  • Sheet Film
  • ****
  • Posts: 613
    • Photographic Works
Re: Apocolypse.
« Reply #5 on: September 30, 2009, 08:46:43 PM »
really great photos Skorj
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." Louis Hector Berlioz

http://www.adayindecember.wordpress.com

sapata

  • Self-Coat
  • *****
  • Posts: 2,079
  • "I want to be plastic" Andy Warhol
    • Personal Site
Re: Apocolypse.
« Reply #6 on: September 30, 2009, 10:19:43 PM »
The second shot is just amazing... !
Mauricio Sapata
@mauriciosapata
mauriciosapata.com

gary m

  • Sheet Film
  • ****
  • Posts: 452
  • Listen to the picture
    • Gary Moyer
Re: Apocolypse.
« Reply #7 on: September 30, 2009, 11:40:01 PM »
Yeah that second shot is something!

LT

  • Global Moderator
  • Self-Coat
  • *****
  • Posts: 5,030
Re: Apocolypse.
« Reply #8 on: October 01, 2009, 09:39:34 AM »
typically great - typically Skj.  (you shoudl use that little soundbite on your business card - dont worry, I'll waive the creativity fee  :P ;) ;D)
L.

Skorj

  • Global Moderator
  • Self-Coat
  • *****
  • Posts: 1,901
  • the black cat
    • Filmwasters.com
Re: Apocolypse.
« Reply #9 on: October 01, 2009, 12:28:10 PM »
Yeah that second shot is something!

Thanks! I am rather fond of this one myself. I shot it as imagined, and though not too many people dig the content, that we were really under the shadow of an erupting volcano, and were coughing on the grit, makes it a good memory too. But for Ed, it was Asama-yama, and an abandoned gas station on an old resort road into the mountains.

Are they marks on the film or were things really falling from the sky?

The second shot is one of my fave Skj photos and also one which inspired Sean to comment on your ladder technique in a way that I remember had me quite literally in fits of laughter.

They are marks on the Type-665 print as a result of being well expired, peeled erratically, and left in the sun. I cannot remember the comment, but can remember the ladder. Seriously, it still gets packed when we're off on a shoot, as sometimes, it makes the difference...


The German and I stopped for an early morning cool drink in the mountain mists.


[Sorry, image deleted during forum software upgrade. Please re-upload if so inclined.]
« Last Edit: October 01, 2009, 12:35:06 PM by Skorj »

Skorj

  • Global Moderator
  • Self-Coat
  • *****
  • Posts: 1,901
  • the black cat
    • Filmwasters.com
Re: Apocolypse.
« Reply #10 on: October 01, 2009, 12:39:40 PM »
I am thinking I should try and pull together an Apocalypse set now too...


We stood wondering what possibly dark secrets the blackened water obscured.

My only problem is the demise of Type-665! I was paying 2000 yen a pack a few years ago, passed 3000 yen a while ago, and can buy it if lucky from the nice folks on eBay for 5000 yen a pack. Dunno about you folks, but 500 yen a shot (USD5 or there abouts) kinda hurts when you burn three or four packs on a shoot.

Still, if you're gunna go all the way to San Zhi to shoot a subject, another few hundred on film is kinda moot... Such is life. See ya. Skj.
« Last Edit: October 01, 2009, 12:42:28 PM by Skorj »

sapata

  • Self-Coat
  • *****
  • Posts: 2,079
  • "I want to be plastic" Andy Warhol
    • Personal Site
Re: Apocolypse.
« Reply #11 on: October 01, 2009, 06:56:08 PM »
wow... really good results !
I've stopped shooting with polaroids unfortunately, I'm waiting to see what's going to happen with the whole impossible project thing, I still got some films though but nothing that really inspired me to go out and use them...
Mauricio Sapata
@mauriciosapata
mauriciosapata.com

Nigel

  • Self-Coat
  • *****
  • Posts: 1,523
    • nigel rumsey photography
Re: Apocolypse.
« Reply #12 on: October 02, 2009, 09:07:40 AM »
Skorj that last shot is fantastic and what amazing architecture, I'd LOVE to go there.

Great work.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein

website

Skorj

  • Global Moderator
  • Self-Coat
  • *****
  • Posts: 1,901
  • the black cat
    • Filmwasters.com
Re: Apocolypse.
« Reply #13 on: October 06, 2009, 05:49:24 AM »
Skorj that last shot is fantastic and what amazing architecture, I'd LOVE to go there.

Great work.

Thanks! Unfortunately, I think San Zhi resort is now either almost gone, or gone entirely... Pity.

db

  • Peel Apart
  • ***
  • Posts: 346
    • portfolio
Re: Apocolypse.
« Reply #14 on: October 06, 2009, 07:34:13 AM »
Damn- these are amongst your best ever. 10/10

hookstrapped

  • Self-Coat
  • *****
  • Posts: 2,289
    • Peter Brian Schafer PHOTOGRAPHY
Re: Apocolypse.
« Reply #15 on: October 07, 2009, 07:28:43 PM »
Love them.

Diane Peterson

  • Self-Coat
  • *****
  • Posts: 1,960
    • Diane Peterson Photography
Re: Apocolypse.
« Reply #16 on: October 10, 2009, 05:22:18 PM »
That second shot is truly outrageousely good!