Author Topic: It be the weekend ending 30th May (because of the bank holiday) (Read 21944 times)

Ailsa · « **on:** May 27, 2011, 11:15:42 AM »

What a momentous occasion - it's the first time I've started one of these threads.

The pics here were all shot the other week (but scanned in the last couple of days), in a village on the north-east coast of Scotland. I was there to take pictures for a friend who's been making a film - called Dummy Jim - for ten years. This was the last week of filming, and it was the best few days I've had in years. My brief was pretty open - to take some pictures of the surrounding area, some portraits of the actor Sam, and some stills of the filming.

The film is based on the true story of James Duthie, who was profoundly deaf and mute, who cycled from the village of Cairnbulg and Inverallochy to the Arctic Circle in the 1950s. You can find out more here: http://dummyjim.com/ and here: http://www.facebook.com/DummyJim

Scuse the plethora of images, but I hope you like.

Ailsa · « **Reply #1 on:** May 27, 2011, 11:19:02 AM »

And some more...

Windy · « **Reply #2 on:** May 27, 2011, 11:40:59 AM »

And a wonderful set of pics to start it with too

Phil Bebbington · « **Reply #3 on:** May 27, 2011, 12:13:06 PM »

Cracking stuff, Ailsa.

Late Developer · « **Reply #4 on:** May 27, 2011, 12:37:36 PM »

..oh, I like, Ailsa, I like VERY much. Beautiful foties, all of them.

Chalky · « **Reply #5 on:** May 27, 2011, 12:44:11 PM »

Very nice.

I like the one in the church the most.

Happy bank Holiday weekend everyone!

Mil Mascaras · « **Reply #6 on:** May 27, 2011, 12:50:47 PM »

What a great start. The last three are tremendous.

Paul Mitchell · « **Reply #7 on:** May 27, 2011, 02:46:29 PM »

Gulp... how do you follow those!

My favourites have to be 2 and 4 though

Paul

Paul Mitchell · « **Reply #8 on:** May 27, 2011, 03:03:16 PM »

A couple more recent pinholes taken on a trip to the Dorset coast earlier this year. The weather was pants for LF image making (what I originally went for) but ideal for pinhole... and no lens to be sprayed with salt either!

Paul

Patrick · « **Reply #9 on:** May 27, 2011, 03:52:36 PM »

First two are from my Polaroid Automatic 250 on some old Polapan 400

The next two are from the Rolleiflex 3.5F on HP5 developed in D76 1:1

calbisu · « **Reply #10 on:** May 27, 2011, 03:58:52 PM »

What a great start!

Ailsa the second set is just great. My fave is the church one.
Paul, I go for the second one

I went to take some pictures of a friend of mine here in Manila. I like it very much to take pictures of friends; it puts pressure on trying do do something different and obtain some decent portraits which I find really difficult. Two with the POlaroid 195, ligth was soooo weaaaak. The color one with the Pentax 67 and portra 800.

Windy · « **Reply #11 on:** May 27, 2011, 04:26:07 PM »

More great shots. My starter for 10 - Taken last weekend on a Rollei B35. Fomapan 400 and Rodinal 1+100 stand developed

Beth, waiting for pizza, Sutors Creek Cafe, Cromarty by windy_, on Flickr

Phil Bebbington · « **Reply #12 on:** May 27, 2011, 04:35:36 PM »

Hasselblad 501cm - Kodak bwcn - New Mexico

Paul Mitchell · « **Reply #13 on:** May 27, 2011, 04:41:55 PM »

Patrick - Love the first two Pola's

Paul

hookstrapped · « **Reply #14 on:** May 27, 2011, 05:51:15 PM »

Mil Mascaras · « **Reply #15 on:** May 27, 2011, 05:53:26 PM »

This was from my second roll ever of slide film (Provia 100F), shot 2 months ago, but I never got to scan it until now as I didn't have the proper equipment. WOW!!! The colours are much more amazing than I thought. I only auto-colour corrected in photoshop, no more tweaking or extra saturation or any manipulation.

These are from the dock area in Kaohsiung, Taiwan

astrobeck · « **Reply #16 on:** May 27, 2011, 06:39:21 PM »

Wow! As always we start the weekend with a bang!

Ailsa- love the last one in the second set. Great to see you first out of the chute!

Paul- those pinholes are extra sweet. Love them!
Mil- those scooters-wow!
and Phil- as you mentioned once before....cars should definitely have fins again!

moominsean · « **Reply #17 on:** May 27, 2011, 06:44:51 PM »

a couple black frame poor pod shots. also took a bunch of peel-apart but haven't scanned anything yet...

Jeff Warden · « **Reply #18 on:** May 27, 2011, 06:56:27 PM »

Those provia shots are sweet! I exposed a roll of it two weeks ago and had a devil of a time exposing it properly. But you nailed it.

From this week (Zeiss Ikon with ZM35mm/2.0). . .

Paul Mitchell · « **Reply #19 on:** May 27, 2011, 07:11:51 PM »

Mil - my favourite has to be the scooters, great effort for your first roll

moominsean - the horses are something else! would definitely have that on my wall

Paul

sapata · « **Reply #20 on:** May 27, 2011, 07:30:10 PM »

Great work everyone so far...!

What a start Ailsa! I particularly like the second series...
I love the two polaroids two as well Patrick

I have a few pictures I took with my newly fixed Kodak Vest Autograph. Following the "glue and detergent" recipe from the web, I fixed the bellows... no light leaks.

I used an original 127 back paper film as a template and cut a new one from a discarded 120 to cover the 35mm film. I them drew the frame numbers following the template an loaded the 127 spool with some Fuji Across...

sapata · « **Reply #21 on:** May 27, 2011, 07:32:36 PM »

I noticed when I point the camera up I get a strange blur right in the midle of the picture...

Soap · « **Reply #22 on:** May 27, 2011, 07:35:01 PM »

Oh. Love these threads. Dont mind if I jump in with a pair or three

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cwilk · « **Reply #23 on:** May 27, 2011, 07:57:37 PM »

A punch and judy show

Late Developer · « **Reply #24 on:** May 27, 2011, 08:00:46 PM »

Usual brilliant weekend thread again, I see.......

Ailsa's set will take some beating. Paul Mitchell's second shot is superb (and the first one ain't too shabby!). Patrick Ryan's shots are fab - but I especially like the last one. Windy's shot of Beth is lovely - very natural and uncontrived and Mil's junk robot is hilarious.

I got the first roll back from my Rollei 3.5t. Not good, I'm afraid. I couldn't get the camera to wind onto "12", so I opened the back and wound the film off manually. This seems to have caused a bit of light leakage around the edges and I don't think I had the hang of using the meter. However, a couple have come out okay. There a nice of of our Heather and her hubby and another I took (in a hurry) on the way to a meeting near Embankment on Tuesday.

I've got a roll of Tri-X in the Rollei now and I must find out of there's any trick to unloading the camera safely as well as testing the meter readings against my Minolta Auto Meter IVF.

Mojave · « **Reply #25 on:** May 27, 2011, 08:04:38 PM »

Coming in late again so there is too much to comment on specifically but Alisa, those shots are amazing!!! All of them are very moving to me, especially the very last one in the second set.

Phil Bebbington · « **Reply #26 on:** May 27, 2011, 08:14:41 PM »

Man, this has all the feel of a vintage weekend!

Phil Bebbington · « **Reply #27 on:** May 27, 2011, 08:15:21 PM »

Hasselblad SWC and Fuji 160C - Crete

Mojave · « **Reply #28 on:** May 27, 2011, 08:17:12 PM »

Ok, went back through and:

Paul, love those pinhole coastal shots!
Patrick, feels like 1950 America. Love 'em!
Carlos, such wonderful portraits of your friend. Love the second one the most.
Windy, great composition with the shot above her head.
Phil, what a fantastic angle!
HS, is that your new subject? Cant wait to see the story unfold!
Mil, wonderful textures in those shots!
Sean, I saw that second one, as you know, but not the first. Totally awesome!!
Cant read my writing here but those shot of the kids, especially on the bench, awesome!
Sapata, those panos are great and really love that strange blurriness!
Soap, wonderful mood, especially the first.
Cwilk, great summer shots. Love the mood.
LD, wonderful light!

Here is mine. TIP black frame of Descanso Gardens, the California oak tree forest. It got blasted with light so I had a lot of fixing to do.

LT · « **Reply #29 on:** May 27, 2011, 08:24:48 PM »

superb pics one and all.

Ailsa - a rare showing of your pics ... and well worth the wait. Nicely done indeed.

Heather · « **Reply #30 on:** May 27, 2011, 09:16:02 PM »

Good stuff this week

sapata - have you checked the film pressure plate is feeling nice and springy and doesn't move around when you tilt the camera like that? Wondering if something like that is causing the odd centre fuzziness.

LD - That may well be my new favourite photo of me by a FWer. It may well replace ArtsyKen's picture of me with that one heheh

sapata · « **Reply #31 on:** May 27, 2011, 10:18:41 PM »

Quote from: Heather on May 27, 2011, 09:16:02 PM

sapata - have you checked the film pressure plate is feeling nice and springy and doesn't move around when you tilt the camera like that? Wondering if something like that is causing the odd centre fuzziness.

Thanks for pointing that out Heather... I guess you're right. Although it's not easy to see as the pressure plate is hidden in the same way of screw mount Leica cameras. I will have to open the camera for a closer inspection...

jojonas~ · « **Reply #32 on:** May 28, 2011, 01:08:52 AM »

a lot of bw stuff so far. me like~
moominseans horses and mojaves shot stood out for me. dreamy stuff~

I managed to develop 6(!) rolls between getting off work and a lateish dinner. I'm almost starting to catch up, only 11 rolls left now

here's some I managed to scan aswell...

Susan B. · « **Reply #33 on:** May 28, 2011, 02:42:19 AM »

Lovely Ailsa. Particularly like the one of the man sitting in the church. Great composition and mood. So glad it was a worthwhile trip for you!

hookstrapped · « **Reply #34 on:** May 28, 2011, 03:21:48 AM »

calbisu · « **Reply #35 on:** May 28, 2011, 04:13:28 AM »

Ok, I know it´s going to sound weird but today I dreamt with filmwasters, I was with couple of filmwasters, that may be were sean and francois... then I started to take a picture and one of them advised me to modify the composition so I could get better use of light... and in the dream made sense!!!

Sean horses and Mojave dark forest my faves! IP I do not want to say it but it looks cool!!

Three more with the Canon A1, some images from the PHilippines. One is from a celebration in a small town, the other school inauguration and the third one at home. We were cooking and the fire alarm went on and three security guards from the building came to my apartment... That very same day we were almost kicked out from one mall because I went with baby and Elena to ladies bathroom to change baby´s clothes... That was a weird weekend.. Oh, yes, the shots

16mman · « **Reply #36 on:** May 28, 2011, 04:25:17 AM »

Some portraits of my youngest brother shot with my Canon AE1. Terrible scans compliments of the "pro" lab down the road. Need to rescan them on my own scanner, but I'm too lazy

Skorj · « **Reply #37 on:** May 28, 2011, 08:45:45 AM »

Bank Holiday? What bank holiday? We're working! I'm still experimenting with FP-100C in my Buroni (in the rain)...

Some great stuff here, especially Dummy Jim, thanks all again. Skj.

jojonas~ · « **Reply #38 on:** May 28, 2011, 10:02:23 AM »

Quote from: Skorj on May 28, 2011, 08:45:45 AM

Bank Holiday? What bank holiday? We're working!

hear hear!

oh, heck. here's a few more to celebrate that I scanned so much yesterday~ (even though most of it was crap haha) all shot with my minolta srt-101 and 55mm rokkor lens on expired kodak royal supra film.

Paul Mitchell · « **Reply #39 on:** May 28, 2011, 11:43:06 AM »

It all just gets better!

16mm - that 2nd shot is wonderful

jojonas - my first proper camera was the SRT 101 and your posts make me realise how much I miss it... was sadly stolen a few years back

Paul

Terry · « **Reply #40 on:** May 28, 2011, 12:13:11 PM »

This is good--I'm getting to be able to identify people's work before I see the name tag. Some outstanding examples this holiday weekend.

I started the holiday early and went for a walk in the city with my trusty and reliable Exakta (Fomapan 100 souped at 1:50):

choppert · « **Reply #41 on:** May 28, 2011, 05:05:22 PM »

Cwilk - that second one made me snort out loud! Good stuff.

Miller · « **Reply #42 on:** May 28, 2011, 05:44:39 PM »

Quote

Bank Holiday? What bank holiday? We're working! I'm still experimenting with FP-100C in my Buroni (in the rain)...

Yep, Bank Holiday Monday and not working! Experimenting with FP-100B in my Pinhole Goose (in the dry)...

choppert · « **Reply #43 on:** May 28, 2011, 07:22:34 PM »

Quote from: Patrick Ryan on May 27, 2011, 03:52:36 PM

How on earth do you get such a wide range of tones?
Pure black to pure white, through all those lovely greys.

My scans never look anything like this!

Film? Dev? Neg size? Camera? Exposure?

Gob-smacked

Chops

Heather · « **Reply #44 on:** May 28, 2011, 08:45:45 PM »

Bwahahah! I love The Onion newspaper vending box!

Just back from meeting up with Late Developer, saw half of the Museum of London angry street photography before a fire alarm had us ushered out at high speed, went to some other galleries and caught the last day of the Bruce Davidson exhibit at the Chris Beetles Photography Gallery. Not a bad day considering I was originally planning on sitting at home tidying up my flat all day

anyway, I did manage to scan some film this past week... 2 rolls of 35mm and 1 roll of holga. I like my dorky cliche' waterfowl holga pics and the pavement is some random alley in Edinburgh

K. Praslowicz · « **Reply #45 on:** May 28, 2011, 09:04:25 PM »

Adventure this weekend: epic train ride.

K. Praslowicz · « **Reply #46 on:** May 28, 2011, 09:07:39 PM »

Quote from: 16mman on May 28, 2011, 04:25:17 AM

Some portraits of my youngest brother shot with my Canon AE1. Terrible scans compliments of the "pro" lab down the road. Need to rescan them on my own scanner, but I'm too lazy

The timing on the second image is a winner.

Heather · « **Reply #47 on:** May 28, 2011, 09:36:10 PM »

Posting this for Late Developer on his behalf since he took this earlier today and it's the weekend!

jojonas~ · « **Reply #48 on:** May 28, 2011, 10:54:36 PM »

heather! lovely holga shots. if only mine were as well exposed as yours

paul, I'm sorry to hear that about the minolta srt.

but if it's any comfort, they're easy to find on auction sites for a nice price

you've got any lenses left? I've only got my 55mm mc rokkor-pf 1.7 and some 40-135 soligor zoom... so far

Late Developer · « **Reply #49 on:** May 29, 2011, 01:13:25 AM »

Damn it...! The first half decent SX-70 photo I've ever taken....!!! Clearly, the subject matter is what makes the difference.

Fantastic meeting up again with Heather and her hubby - who showed me a fantastic selection of galleries in the West End. Shame about the fire drill at the Barbican - excellent exhibition of street photography in London from the mid-19th century to date. Well worth the visit if you're in the vicinity.

Congratulations also to Barcelona and all their fans. They're a plentiful bunch and in great spirits before the game - and probably in even greater spirits afterwards. Mind you, I'm really not biased. I genuinely don't care who beats Manchester United...

Oh, and I lurrrvvvv Heather's third Holga shot. Great depth and, being a northerner, cobbles make me feel right at home......

Author Topic: It be the weekend ending 30th May (because of the bank holiday) (Read 21944 times)

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