Author Topic: Images for the Weekend...March 25 (Read 14468 times)

Diane Peterson · « **on:** March 25, 2011, 02:46:11 PM »

Handmade lens on handmade camera... a work in progress..

Francois · « **Reply #1 on:** March 25, 2011, 03:13:42 PM »

Sweet! another Maker!
Handheld loupe with flexible tape bellows?

Diane Peterson · « **Reply #2 on:** March 25, 2011, 03:52:02 PM »

I glued/hacked and taped so many parts together..I think it would have been much better had I used film other than 400 speed..this has way to much grain..or could that be from the "lens"...I don't like this much grain..

Mojave · « **Reply #3 on:** March 25, 2011, 05:31:26 PM »

Love your homemade lens Diane! Is this the same lens used for the Denim Jacket shot you posted on your blog?

Here is mine. Shot last week using my Pentax and my homemade loupe lens and Kodak Ektar film. This house is one of my favorite places to visit, though it pretty much stays the same each time I go there, aside from the melting adobe that is. I think its the only real adobe house I've seen out here.

vicky slater · « **Reply #4 on:** March 25, 2011, 05:49:41 PM »

love them both, both very romantic somehow.

i've got my first proper (not a friend

portrait job tomorrow and i suddenly panicked that i couldn't do outside shots so dragged poor mia outside to try it out.

vicky slater · « **Reply #5 on:** March 25, 2011, 05:50:18 PM »

and the other two are xpro of slide film...dunno really, i think i prefer it straight but i'd been meaning to try it forever.

Diane Peterson · « **Reply #6 on:** March 25, 2011, 06:00:19 PM »

Mojave..same lens but different "camera!" and I love your adobe..
Vicky..thank you..these color images of yours are just gorgeous!

Mojave · « **Reply #7 on:** March 25, 2011, 06:04:05 PM »

Vicky, I just cant imagine you panicking about doing portraits. You are so good at portraits!!! I love all the shots you have, especially the last, square image. Wow!!! What a stunner. I dont understand what you mean about preferring it straight or how that affected your images.

vicky slater · « **Reply #8 on:** March 25, 2011, 07:26:54 PM »

thanks.
once i've got a few jobs under my belt and seen that people are happy it'll be fine :)

and i mean developed straight forwardly, not cross processed......it's just personal preference, that's all.

Mike (happyforest) · « **Reply #9 on:** March 25, 2011, 07:34:17 PM »

Vicky

You'll have to let us know how you get on.

Just relax (if you can) and enjoy yourself, as others have said you portraits are great.

Don't forget what Tim Andrews said about your portraits of him

"Isn't this the most stunning photograph? I think it is. Stunning, stunning, stunning."

Mike

vicky slater · « **Reply #10 on:** March 25, 2011, 08:21:29 PM »

oh noes, you're making me blush!
thanks though:)

i'll post my favourite up afterwards, if he's okay with that.
need to get consent forms sorted out for next time.

hookstrapped · « **Reply #11 on:** March 25, 2011, 08:35:29 PM »

Quote from: Mojave on March 25, 2011, 05:31:26 PM

Love your homemade lens Diane! Is this the same lens used for the Denim Jacket shot you posted on your blog?

Here is mine. Shot last week using my Pentax and my homemade loupe lens and Kodak Ektar film. This house is one of my favorite places to visit, though it pretty much stays the same each time I go there, aside from the melting adobe that is. I think its the only real adobe house I've seen out here.

Nice

Volker · « **Reply #12 on:** March 25, 2011, 08:37:36 PM »

hi all,

here's another bleachd Fuji.

[600 se + 150mm + closeup lens]

Volker

calbisu · « **Reply #13 on:** March 26, 2011, 12:45:49 AM »

Vicky, love the colors from your second post, did you edit them in PS? They look fantastic specially the sky!

One from my side with POlaroid 195 and unpredictable, but not this time, 3000b film. Which I will statrt shooting at 6400ISO. I did not know much when to use this film but now I found that is great for street photography at night (yeah, what a discovery

! This guitar-hero I photographed was almos at dark pitch! It´s amazing how hard workers the Philippinos can be. I do not want to know for how many hours he must stand on the street with all those guitars hanging around

sapata · « **Reply #14 on:** March 26, 2011, 01:09:08 AM »

Diane and Erin... these DIY lens are fantastic ! The house is beautiful...
Vicky - I love the tones in both portraits and in my opinion it matches with the subject.
Dynamo's fuji and Calbisu pola are also great!!...

I have a couple of shots taken with my Voigtlander Avus using Wephota film in Crystal Palace Park, looooads of cleaning using photoshop trying to get rid of the spots left on the neg due to a strange development...

Mojave · « **Reply #15 on:** March 26, 2011, 02:22:02 AM »

Dynamo, Im really digging your bleached Fujis!

Carlos, wonderful! The exposure is great!

Sapata, I really love the look of that film! Its got great contrast without losing all the detail in the shadows and highlights.

roman · « **Reply #16 on:** March 26, 2011, 04:07:23 AM »

very nice images everyone

Lawrie · « **Reply #17 on:** March 26, 2011, 05:26:33 AM »

Great images Diane and Mojave. It's good to see other photographers interested in homemade lenses - hope to see some more work soon!!

Lawrie.

Karl · « **Reply #18 on:** March 26, 2011, 10:41:22 AM »

Great pics everyone. Hope the shoot goes well Vicky. Here's one taken over a really scarey drop down to the sea. I took it in landscape mode, but flipped the picture around and suddenly saw a Marvel hero figure crashed into the rocks. Can you see it?

al · « **Reply #19 on:** March 26, 2011, 11:25:03 AM »

Someone in my office had the honour of setting the theme for the monthly company photo club competition. They're always quite amused by my not-so-technically-perfect analogue approach to photography so I'd said I'd enter this time but I left it a bit late (10pm the night before the closing date) and sadly all my attempts to match the "Household Object Mystery Macro" theme using a pinhole camera were a dismal failure (I was hoping that the extreme pinhole perspective might offer someting but no luck and no time to re-shoot).

Still, at least it actually got me doing some film photography for a couple of hours at least and it did yield this somewhat disturbing self portrait from the frames I'd wasted messing around at the end to use the film up!

Jeff Warden · « **Reply #20 on:** March 26, 2011, 12:06:36 PM »

Hi all, here's another neighborhood kid in my back yard. I'll never grow grass back there.

Phil Bebbington · « **Reply #21 on:** March 26, 2011, 01:12:55 PM »

Hasselblad swc and Fuji 160C

jojonas~ · « **Reply #22 on:** March 26, 2011, 01:37:46 PM »

scanned a roll today from my yashica tlr and I found lots and lots of circles! it seems like sometimes I'm just in the mood for a certain shape

also, a shot from my first rolls shot through the gakkenflex - for good fun

ohyeah.. all shots here home developed. the 120 looks great but I dunno about the solaris/ferannia film - didn't expect much though

Diane Peterson · « **Reply #23 on:** March 26, 2011, 02:28:40 PM »

Love the "neighborhood Kid"..reminds me of the old "our gang" pictures they had in the 40's or 30's I guess...
Sapata..so love those tree trunks..and Jojonas..great shots..like circles also!

Windy · « **Reply #24 on:** March 26, 2011, 02:35:42 PM »

Love the DIY lens shots, Diane and Mojave, Carlos' guitar man too

Work has again kept me from developing this week so here are a couple more from my recent visit to Fort George. The OM10, Retro 400 and Rodinal

Kettle, Guard Room, Fort George by windy_, on Flickr

Ammunition Store, Fort George by windy_, on Flickr

sapata · « **Reply #25 on:** March 26, 2011, 04:23:41 PM »

Nice work Windy... the first shot is my favourite.
Great work with the TLR as well Jojonas - the lady on the background (1s tpic) seems quite impressed with your in action

astrobeck · « **Reply #26 on:** March 26, 2011, 05:01:54 PM »

from a stroll downtown Albuquerque yesterday afternoon.

My Holga must of had some dust inside since the negs have scratches.

p.s.- Vicky- you have nothing to worry about. Your portraits are stunning!

Karl · « **Reply #27 on:** March 26, 2011, 05:42:41 PM »

nice one astrobeck. Good shots.

Diane Peterson · « **Reply #28 on:** March 26, 2011, 06:22:45 PM »

thank you windy!
this is from an old Polaroid 80..made a "thing" so I could use 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 film...trying to get the film in the right spot..taking a few times to get it right...... not too bad results...sorry for all the "truck" shots..it's either shoot trucks or trees..

sapata · « **Reply #29 on:** March 26, 2011, 06:31:49 PM »

Quote from: astrobeck on March 26, 2011, 05:01:54 PM

from a stroll downtown Albuquerque yesterday afternoon.

My Holga must of had some dust inside since the negs have scratches.

Are you using without the mask ? They look like scrathes when you remove the mask and don't put a protection where the film runs...

Mojave · « **Reply #30 on:** March 26, 2011, 06:32:15 PM »

Love all the new editions!

Phil, so nice to see you back!

And Karl, yes, I think I see it. The head, shoulders, and even eyes with a mask. Its awesome!!! I have recently discovered that I have a real love of aerial photos. I find myself drawn to them and I just stare and stare at them. Love yours too!!!

Andrea. · « **Reply #31 on:** March 26, 2011, 06:50:00 PM »

Took the Ilford Sporti out in the morning, developed the Shanghai GP3 when I got home then printed this snap in the afternoon onto RC of some sort. Yes it's soft. It's meant to be :-)

Bus stop to Church

sapata · « **Reply #32 on:** March 26, 2011, 07:02:44 PM »

Quote from: Andrea on March 26, 2011, 06:50:00 PM

Took the Ilford Sporti out in the morning, developed the Shanghai GP3 when I got home then printed this snap in the afternoon onto RC of some sort. Yes it's soft. It's meant to be :-)

Bus stop to Church

I think it's absolutely beautiful Andrea! Totally "my cup" as they say around here

So far my favourite !

Diane Peterson · « **Reply #33 on:** March 26, 2011, 07:54:52 PM »

absolutely agree....love the subject and the feel!

vicky slater · « **Reply #34 on:** March 26, 2011, 10:03:23 PM »

ditto! gorgeous andrea.

and thanks all.
it went well in that they were really nice but i need to be alot bossier when shooting more than one person at a time...good lesson for me.
i did get a couple i really like though.

Mojave · « **Reply #35 on:** March 26, 2011, 10:18:32 PM »

Andrea, I love how that image is soft! I mean, for me, its soft in all the right places. I think its wonderful!!

astrobeck · « **Reply #36 on:** March 26, 2011, 11:05:34 PM »

Quote from: sapata on March 26, 2011, 06:31:49 PM

Quote from: astrobeck on March 26, 2011, 05:01:54 PM
from a stroll downtown Albuquerque yesterday afternoon.

My Holga must of had some dust inside since the negs have scratches.

Are you using without the mask ? They look like scrathes when you remove the mask and don't put a protection where the film runs...

I was using a modified mask, so I have smoothed it out some more hoping that solves the problem.
thanks for the reminder.

calbisu · « **Reply #37 on:** March 27, 2011, 04:07:03 AM »

Great weekend!

Becky, love that first one of yours, great comp.
Andrea. Ominous church, may be not a place to get lost during the night.

Couple more with POlaroid 195 and FP100c, bleached ones. The shots were deliverately underdeveloped, but they all came out highly Reddish, which still I do not understand why.. Ok, almost everything was red but still.. Is there a relation with that and underdeveloping? May be there is.

Anyway! This was and probably will be the most magnificent/decadent birthday party I will ever attend. It was prepared for a one year old girl. In a 5 star ballroom hotel. It was literally moving an amusement park inside the hotel. Whatever you can imagine was there. Incredible

Philippines is really a place of contrasts.

Lino · « **Reply #38 on:** March 27, 2011, 06:36:46 AM »

i love the second vicky pictures!

also the calbisu guitar man.

this is a 1969 volkswagen beetle, in all original condition, or as we call it here in brasil, a fusca.

Lino · « **Reply #39 on:** March 27, 2011, 06:43:20 AM »

Quote from: calbisu on March 27, 2011, 04:07:03 AM

Couple more with POlaroid 195 and FP100c, bleached ones. The shots were deliverately underdeveloped, but they all came out highly Reddish, which still I do not understand why.. Ok, almost everything was red but still.. Is there a relation with that and underdeveloping? May be there is.

I read somewhere that the colours transfer from the negative to the paper at diferent times (maybe first the reds, than the other colours, i don't know?). So this might have something to do with it.

calbisu · « **Reply #40 on:** March 27, 2011, 07:05:21 AM »

Quote from: Lino on March 27, 2011, 06:36:46 AM

this is a 1969 volkswagen beetle, in all original condition, or as we call it here in brasil, a fusca.

Grrreat colors, is that Ektar film? are you shooting with a Yashima Mat 124? Just guessing,

About the POlaroid´s colors, no idea ..

Andrea. · « **Reply #41 on:** March 27, 2011, 10:27:39 AM »

Thank you kindly all. A great week of images as usual.

Urban Hafner · « **Reply #42 on:** March 27, 2011, 03:34:05 PM »

Great stuff everyone! jojonas I have the same shot of the mall in Göteborg somewhere, too

Urban

Lino · « **Reply #43 on:** March 27, 2011, 07:07:57 PM »

Quote from: calbisu on March 27, 2011, 07:05:21 AM

Grrreat colors, is that Ektar film? are you shooting with a Yashima Mat 124? Just guessing,

Good guess

, its a yashica mat 124g. But the film was ektacolor.

sapata · « **Reply #44 on:** March 27, 2011, 07:34:43 PM »

Quote from: Lino on March 27, 2011, 06:36:46 AM

this is a 1969 volkswagen beetle, in all original condition, or as we call it here in brasil, a fusca.

Great shot Lino... I had a "fusquinha" exactly like this one!

Late Developer · « **Reply #45 on:** March 27, 2011, 08:48:48 PM »

What a weekend...........

I hit my 50th birthday yesterday. My present to myself was Matt Taylor's (ChopperT') M6TTL and Summicron 50mm f2.0. I know he was sad to see it go but I promised to take very good care of it.

As my wife and I were in Bradford seeing the Fay Godwin "Land Revisited" exhibition, we arranged to meet up with Graham (Wensleydale Blue) who was checking out the film festival. After a cuppa and a chat, we all headed off into the back streets of Bradford looking for likely subjects to shoot on a bit of impromptu film wasting.

The shots I took are on Ilford XP2 400 and were processed by Jessops.

It was really fantastic to meet up with both Matt and Graham.

Today, we've been to Fountains Abbey near Ripon. I've got a roll of Tri-X and a roll of Portra 400 VC to have processed and hope they came out okay, too.

Anyway, there are some stunners on the thread already. Difficult to pick favourites but Lino's Beetle and Vicky's portraits are just lovely......

Jeff Warden · « **Reply #46 on:** March 27, 2011, 09:30:01 PM »

Lino, that Beetle has a wonderful creaminess to it. Great shot!

Jeff

DMS · « **Reply #47 on:** March 27, 2011, 09:52:46 PM »

Last of the Fade to Black Film I have.

Polaroid SX-70 original model.

choppert · « **Reply #48 on:** March 27, 2011, 10:12:25 PM »

Quote from: Late Developer on March 27, 2011, 08:48:48 PM

What a weekend...........

I hit my 50th birthday yesterday. My present to myself was Matt Taylor's (ChopperT') M6TTL and Summicron 50mm f2.0. I know he was sad to see it go but I promised to take very good care of it.

As my wife and I were in Bradford seeing the Fay Godwin "Land Revisited" exhibition, we arranged to meet up with Graham (Wensleydale Blue) who was checking out the film festival. After a cuppa and a chat, we all headed off into the back streets of Bradford looking for likely subjects to shoot on a bit of impromptu film wasting.

The shots I took are on Ilford XP2 400 and were processed by Jessops.

It was really fantastic to meet up with both Matt and Graham.

Today, we've been to Fountains Abbey near Ripon. I've got a roll of Tri-X and a roll of Portra 400 VC to have processed and hope they came out okay, too.

Anyway, there are some stunners on the thread already. Difficult to pick favourites but Lino's Beetle and Vicky's portraits are just lovely......

FFS!

In three photos you've taken much better shots than I did in three years!

Great to see her going to a decent home. Sobs!

Phil Bebbington · « **Reply #49 on:** March 27, 2011, 10:21:40 PM »

Andrea, that shot is a killer!