Author Topic: Gold Weekend Thread 26th-28th February (Read 11372 times)

calbisu · « **on:** February 25, 2011, 12:40:40 PM »

Weeeell, as it looks nobody started the weekend... I DO IT!!!

Just shot one roll of Kodak Gold with the Canon A1, and rediscovered the joy of shooting 35mm. Cooool, I just love shooting any format

Well, large format still to shoot with . But I already even bough POlaroid 4x5 film without a 4x5 camera!!

astrobeck · « **Reply #1 on:** February 25, 2011, 04:16:57 PM »

Hey Carlos, I really like the expression on your daughters face. So intent.
Oh and that beach shot. Wish there was water like that nearby. All I see is sand and desert.

Nothing wrong with 35mm format. I too like larger, but sometimes the 35mm is just to easy to carry around all day.

Great start to the weekend!

Phil Bebbington · « **Reply #2 on:** February 25, 2011, 05:00:35 PM »

Hasselblad SWC in a disused factory in Crete

Miller · « **Reply #3 on:** February 25, 2011, 05:12:34 PM »

First flush from the Yashica 12 with well expired original Velvia...

Diane Peterson · « **Reply #4 on:** February 25, 2011, 06:12:35 PM »

I have been reduced to taking interior shots of my kitchen since we have so much snow outside! So cold and icy its not safe to venture out with my LF camera! 4x5 shanghai film.
developed in T-Max.

Phil Bebbington · « **Reply #5 on:** February 25, 2011, 06:59:25 PM »

Diane, we need to confine you to quarters more often

Lovely shot!

Diane Peterson · « **Reply #6 on:** February 25, 2011, 07:04:01 PM »

its a way to amuze myself so I don't get cabin fever..its a good thing I am going back to work in a month or so..providing some of this snow goes away!

Jeff Warden · « **Reply #7 on:** February 25, 2011, 08:01:05 PM »

Calbisu, that first shot is just lovely.

These are from last weekend's walk. It's Tri-X with a Biogon 35mm 2.0.

The tree in the background of this shot is so large that the four of us couldn't reach around the circumference. Big, big.

:-)

Andrea. · « **Reply #8 on:** February 25, 2011, 08:23:21 PM »

I'm avoiding the darkroom. My touch, such as it was is eluding me. Wabi-Sabi is in the air yet my celebrations are muted.
I did slosh some Rodinal round a Chinese GP3 today - along with half a dead sheep I think. Still, the Non-Landscape shot I took is nicely in the Vein of Pictorialism. Soft and blurry - that sort of thing.

Portrait of a Peat-track.
Voigtlander II 6x9 Helomar
GP3 /Rodinal/Crap

Late Developer · « **Reply #9 on:** February 25, 2011, 09:11:13 PM »

Hey, some lovely images already. Special mention for Calbisu's first and Andrea's pictorial peat track...

Mine are from a few years back. I'm going through some old negs (slowly) that I had scanned by the processing lab and which, as a result, I thought were pretty crap. Well, I've been pleasantly surprised at the improvement once I've given them the V750 / VueScan treatment. Okay, they're not masterpieces but they've scrubbed up much better than the originals...

The "outside ely" shot was taken at the point the sun broke over the horizon (hence the dark fields to the right) on a bitterly cold but sunny winter's morning in Cambridgeshire. The shot of Battersea Power Station was taken from a moving train, en route to a meeting in Croydon and the "Dead Zone" is a Starbucks - doesn't matter where, the name says it all for me. Camera: Nikon F3 - film Kodak TMX100

Here goes:

calbisu · « **Reply #10 on:** February 25, 2011, 10:36:05 PM »

Warden, that second one, the house with the tree, is just a classical!! love it.

euge... · « **Reply #11 on:** February 26, 2011, 02:37:05 AM »

LD that third image of battersea describes perfectly my view,as i come to ,when the train comes into Victoria.

astrobeck · « **Reply #12 on:** February 26, 2011, 03:53:09 AM »

love the Peat Track by Andrea and the Battersea from Paul.

Here's my contribution to the weekend, which began today for me.
Some expired fuji souped with C-41, all taken with the half frame.

I went ukulele shopping today. My other weakness besides cameras are things with strings!

Late Developer · « **Reply #13 on:** February 26, 2011, 05:15:55 AM »

@ Astrobeck

Becky - I trust you'll be familiar with the works of "The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain"? Very talented bunch of musicians. However, they tend to court controversy by playing rock "classics" like this one:

Smells like Teen Spirit - The Ukulele Orchestra

Personally, I think Curt Cobain would see the funny side. Some of his followers seem to think differently. Enjoy.

PS - lovely photos by the way. Natural, warm wood colours are my thing for guitars. I have an unused Martin DX1 Dreadnought that I really must get round to learning how to play - or trading on here - soon....!!!

Jeff Warden · « **Reply #14 on:** February 26, 2011, 01:11:14 PM »

Quote from: Late Developer on February 26, 2011, 05:15:55 AM

@ Astrobeck

Becky - I trust you'll be familiar with the works of "The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain"? Very talented bunch of musicians. However, they tend to court controversy by playing rock "classics" like this one:

Ok, that was just fantastic.

:-)

Phil Bebbington · « **Reply #15 on:** February 26, 2011, 01:34:34 PM »

Holga and Kodak bwcn - I have had this one kicking around for an age, but, have just posted to flickr. I pondered if I had ever put it here, but, following lots of searches can't find it. I hope this is not a case of here we go again

Francois · « **Reply #16 on:** February 26, 2011, 03:19:46 PM »

Quote from: Late Developer on February 26, 2011, 05:15:55 AM

@ Astrobeck

Becky - I trust you'll be familiar with the works of "The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain"? Very talented bunch of musicians. However, they tend to court controversy by playing rock "classics" like this one:

Personally, I think Curt Cobain would see the funny side. Some of his followers seem to think differently. Enjoy.

PS - lovely photos by the way. Natural, warm wood colours are my thing for guitars. I have an unused Martin DX1 Dreadnought that I really must get round to learning how to play - or trading on here - soon....!!!

Ooh! Ukes!
My favorites!
They're just a barrel of fun to play!

We have a local band that plays them exclusively...
Here's their rendition of Slade's "Cum On Feel The Noise" ... just for the girls

LUCKY UKE Cum On Feel The Noize

sapata · « **Reply #17 on:** February 26, 2011, 07:30:28 PM »

Hello everyone !

My highlight so far it's been Phil's "circus" shot... amazing tones and composition !

tkmedia - i've always been intrigued by electricity towers... I blame R.E.M for that ! great shot.
andrea - i like the landscape shot... very beautiful ! i can imagine a larger print of this...

I have a couple of shots taken with my Rollei...

sapata · « **Reply #18 on:** February 26, 2011, 07:53:36 PM »

and one more...

LT · « **Reply #19 on:** February 26, 2011, 08:21:05 PM »

all good stuff this weekend so far.

I had a bit of spare time today so I loaded up a few DDSs with hp5+ and lined up the shen hao with an Amyryllis Lilly that is budding.

Ed Wenn · « **Reply #20 on:** February 26, 2011, 08:53:22 PM »

From the ridiculous (the awesome Slade cover) to the sublime (some of the very fine work on display here) and back to the ridiculous again....a photo by me

Since Christmas I've been shooting non-instant film for the first time in a while and have particularly enjoyed working with my Bronny S2A and a home-made lens. Unfortunately, during one of my runs I screwed up the development ratios and mixed Rodinal 1:100 instead of 1:50 and didn't adjust the dev time...so I got some very thin negs with (what would have been) some really nice looking pictures on them. Bah!

Taking a leaf from Andrea's book I should probably have added some sheep to the mix

With the scanner on full stun I can get images from the negs, but the sky is all horizontal lines (in a bad way). In a weak moment I did use Photoshop to selectively blur the background and it looks great, but that's not really the way I roll, so here's the au naturel version of a 'December Pond Weed at Dusk'...or something.

Suzi Livingstone · « **Reply #21 on:** February 26, 2011, 08:59:47 PM »

Lovely stuff from everyone again this week!

Francois · « **Reply #22 on:** February 26, 2011, 10:40:54 PM »

Quote from: ed.wenn on February 26, 2011, 08:53:22 PM

Since Christmas I've been shooting non-instant film for the first time in a while and have particularly enjoyed working with my Bronny S2A and a home-made lens. Unfortunately, during one of my runs I screwed up the development ratios and mixed Rodinal 1:100 instead of 1:50 and didn't adjust the dev time...so I got some very thin negs with (what would have been) some really nice looking pictures on them. Bah!

You can still salvage those negs!
Either Silver or Chromium intensifier should do the trick...

moominsean · « **Reply #23 on:** February 26, 2011, 10:45:13 PM »

spent the afternoon at the phoenix matsuri...also took some fuji shots downtown but haven't scanned the bleached negs.

Phil Bebbington · « **Reply #24 on:** February 26, 2011, 10:47:12 PM »

Leon, I love the first one.

Ed, digging the mishap and Sean, the second one is something special in my eyes.

Francois · « **Reply #25 on:** February 26, 2011, 11:04:37 PM »

Well, the cold weather, snow and ice has been getting to me lately... and this is the first roll I have shot in a very long time...

All on my favorite re-branded Fuji 400. Sadly, I have only 3 rolls of processing included film to go... Lucky the rest of the freezer is packed full of other film.

First one: a view from my back window...
Second one: A visitor to our yard... sadly, I didn't have anything to feed it...
Third one: Part of what was to be my lunch... but somehow I couldn't peel and eat Mr. Potato Head...

Terry · « **Reply #26 on:** February 27, 2011, 02:01:55 AM »

Love the circus photo Phil--evokes some very pleasant memories. And Diane's kitchen: what better place to be snowbound?

I'm still fine-tuning that Ikoflex. There were some burrs on the rollers either side of the pressure plate, so I put them on a lathe and spun them against Emery cloth. So here are some from today's test roll:

Blaxton · « **Reply #27 on:** February 27, 2011, 03:26:00 AM »

J_Warden:

Your second shot looks to be an 18th century stone-ender house. Is it so and if so where might it be?

In any case, I like both pictures. I see a little bit of Walker Evans in the first.

Alan · « **Reply #28 on:** February 27, 2011, 02:22:58 PM »

do i need to say it . . ?

ah go on i will so, another good w-end thread!

Here are my fav's from a strong thread by everyone!

Calbisu: love the first one, im a sucker for light streaking across a scene like that.
Phil: your usual standard, nice
Diane: nice scene, i can smell the coffee!
Ed & Leon: I like those
tkmedia: nice pol..
Sean: love that first one, love those blues

These images of mine are from a wee project i have started, a set of diptych's entitled "relations"
this was meant to be shot on the 3 boxes of type108 film I got with the polaroid 250 but sadly as
Ed mentioned before . . . "expect nothing" and there is . . . nothing. totally dry.
so im shooting FP100c.

shot this morning,

calbisu · « **Reply #29 on:** February 27, 2011, 03:14:04 PM »

Phil, yep, that Circus Image is evocative
Aoluain, I rellay like colors in your Polas, are the Fuji´s? They look kinda of desaturated love´em.

Today few friends came home for lunch and of course I had to shoot few Polas at them. I did couple of double exposures with the 195, great possibiliies I guess, but I have not much experience with double exposures. Two bleached Fuji´s 100c and one ¨regular¨...

Alan · « **Reply #30 on:** February 27, 2011, 03:55:46 PM »

thanks calbisu, yep they are fp100c's!

Ed Wenn · « **Reply #31 on:** February 27, 2011, 07:42:35 PM »

I decided to see if those lines on my negs were caused by dodgy scanning software and so finally (after 10 years of thinking about it) coughed up and bought Vuescan. This snap isn't from the same roll, but the change in software does seem to have made a difference because others from this roll had the nasty lines across them too.

Here's Jacqui at Samphire Hoe in Kent. Shot with a modified Bronica S2A on expired TMAX400. Processed in Rodinal at 1:100. More to come from this roll, BTW. All 12 of them are decent. not sure that's ever happened to me before.

Diane Peterson · « **Reply #32 on:** February 27, 2011, 07:49:04 PM »

Ed..this is lovely! I am sure you will like Vuescan..I have had my copy for about 10 years and I think it's the best!

sapata · « **Reply #33 on:** February 27, 2011, 08:06:34 PM »

Terry...
1st shot it's pretty good ! the grey tones are great.

Francois · « **Reply #34 on:** February 27, 2011, 08:29:55 PM »

Nice work Ed...
Good to see something not "instant" from you

Mike (happyforest) · « **Reply #35 on:** February 27, 2011, 09:30:02 PM »

Calbisu

I like the last one, it looks as if the girls are having some joke at the blokes expense.

Ed

Lovely one of Jacqui, love the softness of this image.

Mike

mijonju · « **Reply #36 on:** February 27, 2011, 09:36:14 PM »

wow so many beautiful shots, i gotta get my rolls scanned soon

you guys are all amazing photographers

Terry · « **Reply #37 on:** February 27, 2011, 11:12:56 PM »

Mauricio--Thanks, I like it because it's a local barber shop with a very friendly owner but mostly because the micro-scratches that the camera was leaving on the emulsion are almost nonexistent this time!

glider · « **Reply #38 on:** February 28, 2011, 02:06:32 AM »

some shots from a very cold saturday morning with my polaroid propack. inconsistent results but thats why i use it. more of my work is at www.saltstainedeyes.blogspot.com

original_ann · « **Reply #39 on:** February 28, 2011, 03:56:23 AM »

Ed, that is astoundingly beautiful... I hope you plan on framing that!!!

calbisu · « **Reply #40 on:** February 28, 2011, 04:50:23 AM »

Glider, that first one is fantastic!! Which film you used?

pdewolff · « **Reply #41 on:** February 28, 2011, 10:04:23 AM »

some more practizing with the wet plate

CarlRadford · « **Reply #42 on:** February 28, 2011, 12:21:21 PM »

Quote from: pdewolff on February 28, 2011, 10:04:23 AM

some more practizing with the wet plate

Well done Piet - wonderful hat too

CarlRadford · « **Reply #43 on:** February 28, 2011, 12:23:45 PM »

Quote from: pdewolff on February 28, 2011, 10:04:23 AM

some more practizing with the wet plate

The dark circle in the middle could be a developer burn - are you pouring onto the centre of the plate as opposed to pouring along the edge and allowing it to sweep over the plate?

Chalky · « **Reply #44 on:** February 28, 2011, 01:02:40 PM »

Only had about a spare 30 mins and was looking for some inspiration in the house/garden to test my 195 and close up kit... great pics everyone.

pdewolff · « **Reply #45 on:** February 28, 2011, 01:16:24 PM »

@carl: The dark circle in the middle could be a developer burn - are you pouring onto the centre of the plate as opposed to pouring along the edge and allowing it to sweep over the plate?

the developer was really cold ( about 6 C ) after warming in the livingroom this burning disapeared...and / or probably yes, i did pour it in the middle

CarlRadford · « **Reply #46 on:** February 28, 2011, 01:43:54 PM »

Quote from: pdewolff on February 28, 2011, 01:16:24 PM

@carl: The dark circle in the middle could be a developer burn - are you pouring onto the centre of the plate as opposed to pouring along the edge and allowing it to sweep over the plate?

the developer was really cold ( about 6 C ) after warming in the livingroom this burning disapeared...and / or probably yes, i did pour it in the middle

Bad habit - teacher will be upset

Chris A Fraser · « **Reply #47 on:** February 28, 2011, 04:17:03 PM »

Glider - So glad you are shooting again, I'm a big fan of your work..... Love the new shot!!!!

Alan · « **Reply #48 on:** February 28, 2011, 05:17:40 PM »

thats a really nice shot chalky! love the colours.

astrobeck · « **Reply #49 on:** February 28, 2011, 05:39:51 PM »

Nice work Glider. I'm a big fan

of your blog!

Author Topic: Gold Weekend Thread 26th-28th February (Read 11372 times)

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