Author Topic: 00:45 on friday morning, high time for a weekend thread from me! 08/07/11 (Read 20119 times)

Thom Stone · « **on:** July 08, 2011, 12:48:45 AM »

never started one so thought I would get in there early ;-) and give it a go. just took this about 10 minutes ago. its my little brother ben with his new haircut. trying out my wireless flash system with PC cord to transmitter from my RB67, had to be done and some point and he wanted a new facebook profile picture :-P

skinhead by Thomo_Stoneo, on Flickr

mamiya rb67, 127mm lens f3.8 1/125s, polaroid back, fuji fp100c Silk

thil · « **Reply #1 on:** July 08, 2011, 07:26:02 AM »

Nice one Thom.

This week I've been digging out some old negatives which I'd never got around to printing and came across this one:

(Ilford XP2 + Leica M4-P & 35mm Summicron)

calbisu · « **Reply #2 on:** July 08, 2011, 07:39:01 AM »

Thil - this has to be Catalonia for sure... and the famous "Castellers"

thil · « **Reply #3 on:** July 08, 2011, 07:57:30 AM »

Quote from: calbisu on July 08, 2011, 07:39:01 AM

Thil - this has to be Catalonia for sure... and the famous "Castellers"

Yep that's right. They are Castellers and this was in Girona.
They are celebrating after successfully building the tower. I have a couple of rolls from that day - still scanning some more frames from that sequence of events.....

calbisu · « **Reply #4 on:** July 08, 2011, 08:01:04 AM »

Quote from: thil on July 08, 2011, 07:57:30 AM

Quote from: calbisu on July 08, 2011, 07:39:01 AM
Thil - this has to be Catalonia for sure... and the famous "Castellers"

Yep that's right. They are Castellers and this was in Girona.
They are celebrating after successfully building the tower. I have a couple of rolls from that day - still scanning some more frames from that sequence of events.....

You were close to the action... I am from Girona, L'Escala town (but living now in the Philippines), are you from there?

thil · « **Reply #5 on:** July 08, 2011, 08:16:20 AM »

Quote from: calbisu on July 08, 2011, 08:01:04 AM

Quote from: thil on July 08, 2011, 07:57:30 AM
Quote from: calbisu on July 08, 2011, 07:39:01 AM
Thil - this has to be Catalonia for sure... and the famous "Castellers"

Yep that's right. They are Castellers and this was in Girona.
They are celebrating after successfully building the tower. I have a couple of rolls from that day - still scanning some more frames from that sequence of events.....
You were close to the action... I am from Girona, L'Escala town (but living now in the Philippines), are you from there?

I was right beneath the tower and it was one hell of an experience. I lived in Barcelona for a couple of years but now back in the UK - my partner is Catalan (a Gironina). L'Escala? Great beaches right?

calbisu · « **Reply #6 on:** July 08, 2011, 10:29:09 AM »

Two from the Rolleiflex with 400Tmax.

Diane Peterson · « **Reply #7 on:** July 08, 2011, 01:59:16 PM »

still into my pinhole phase.....

Jeff Warden · « **Reply #8 on:** July 08, 2011, 02:23:42 PM »

Calbisu those are nice! You could make an extended series of through-the-window images with the Rollei. Really nice.

City fowl >

Alan · « **Reply #9 on:** July 08, 2011, 02:35:06 PM »

Super Cool Calbisu - definately a series there waiting to be tapped.

Nice pic Thom, i like that, nice lighting.

J-Warden, howd you do that?

astrobeck · « **Reply #10 on:** July 08, 2011, 02:38:11 PM »

Great start to the weekend!

Calbisu, I agree a series like this would be cool!

A six month long pinhole from me and my Dad. It was a collaboration for us. I built the camera and then sent it to him in Texas and instructed him to place it facing east toward our old homesite. I grew up in this house. My Dad still lives here, he's 83.

Six months solargraph. Hope you like.

Jeff Warden · « **Reply #11 on:** July 08, 2011, 03:08:18 PM »

Quote from: aoluain on July 08, 2011, 02:35:06 PM

J-Warden, howd you do that?

Hi aoluain,

Here is the shot before the crop. The ducks (Geese?) are swimming under an arched overpass. :-)

Alan · « **Reply #12 on:** July 08, 2011, 04:26:12 PM »

wow thats some serious reflection and shadow action ! cool

astrobeck, cool solargraph - i like that. its nice to have that image it obviously
means a lot to you - well done to your dad too, go him!

Patrick · « **Reply #13 on:** July 08, 2011, 04:56:18 PM »

Diane - LOVE that pinhole

Here are a few Pola's from me on type 664 expired in '07. All shot on the 250 and scanned as color.

Diane Peterson · « **Reply #14 on:** July 08, 2011, 05:17:20 PM »

Patrick..Thank you so much..and I love your polaroids!
Astrobeck...that is so cool..your going to need to tell me how to do that..I am entranced!

Miles · « **Reply #15 on:** July 08, 2011, 05:34:51 PM »

Nice Pins & Polas !

Lovely Solar too

A few out of the half Frame Fed Micron, APX from Photographica dine in R09 (as it's cheap).

Alan · « **Reply #16 on:** July 08, 2011, 06:31:07 PM »

wow, lovely polas Patrick.

here are two portraits i have been working on this week
taken on the mamiya645 on foma 200 and a little bit of
PS to finish. I really like the blurred edges effect but would love
to be able to do it in camera . . .

Thom Stone · « **Reply #17 on:** July 08, 2011, 07:13:17 PM »

Quote from: aoluain on July 08, 2011, 06:31:07 PM

I really like the blurred edges effect but would love
to be able to do it in camera . . .

Bit of vaseline round the edge of a UV filter should do it :-P

Phil Bebbington · « **Reply #18 on:** July 08, 2011, 07:21:34 PM »

Hasselblad SWC and Fuji 160C - Texas

KayJay · « **Reply #19 on:** July 08, 2011, 08:34:38 PM »

Hell, i want a Polaroid 250 (350, 450)..... but they are a little bit expensive in Germany....

Francois · « **Reply #20 on:** July 08, 2011, 09:10:09 PM »

Quote from: thom_stone on July 08, 2011, 07:13:17 PM

Quote from: aoluain on July 08, 2011, 06:31:07 PM
I really like the blurred edges effect but would love
to be able to do it in camera . . .

Bit of vaseline round the edge of a UV filter should do it :-P

There's also a hole in the middle of a nylon stocking. Light in color creates a pale vignette. Black causes a more subtle effect.

Late Developer · « **Reply #21 on:** July 08, 2011, 09:15:46 PM »

Woah - nice work, peeps! Love Calbisu's forlorn Japanese gent and Patrick's Polaroids.

My efforts for this week were taken on Tri-X in Snape (Suffolk, near Aldeburgh) last weekend. Nikkormat FTn.

Soap · « **Reply #22 on:** July 09, 2011, 02:21:21 AM »

Oh gee, these threads seem to be starting earlier and earlier

hope im not too late by now.

Lokinhamradalur, Iceland; Farm kids race back to the homestead after saying goodbye.

OM-10 - HP5+400 in Ilfosol 3

http://steveninn.tumblr.com/ for more of my stuff.

Terry · « **Reply #23 on:** July 09, 2011, 03:16:14 AM »

Calbisu: gutsy candids, really edgy shooting. Very good stuff.

Phil Bebbington · « **Reply #24 on:** July 09, 2011, 08:09:58 AM »

Hasselblad 501CM Fuji 160C - Big Tex in Texas

calbisu · « **Reply #25 on:** July 09, 2011, 11:52:05 AM »

- Warden - I still stare at your shot and wonder about its logics...
- Becky - That must be the funkiest shot coming from a Pinhole!
- Patrick - What a GREAT series those cars really have personality. All shots just look fantastic. Did you have to adapt the 250 for new batteries or it worked already with standard batteries?
- Aoluain - I think you might achieve that with a diffuser filter, but then it would affect all the shot...
- Phil - Your second shot is pure Phil´s style ; )
- LD - Great tones there!
- Soap - That´s a classical.

Thanks all for the nice comments. Shooting with the Rollei allows you to do things that you would not do with other cameras. Like staying one meter away from a window doing the famous ¨45degrees I am not focusing at you¨ movement, although you know I am shooting at you but do not mind because what I am doing it´s too weird

Today I went for more shooting. Every time I go with my camera around is a tour de force. Interacting with people, trying my best, I get exhausted each time, but it´s real fun!!

Jeff Warden · « **Reply #26 on:** July 09, 2011, 05:31:24 PM »

Quote from: calbisu on July 09, 2011, 11:52:05 AM

Shooting with the Rollei allows you to do things that you would not do with other cameras. Like staying one meter away from a window doing the famous ¨45degrees I am not focusing at you¨ movement . . .

The waist level finder is intriguing to me, and one of the reasons I want a Rollei. I decided to get a trainer first to see if I could use the WLF and the square format, and decided on a Yashica Mat. I got it two weeks ago and can't say too much about it just yet, except it ain't no Rollei. :-) So far my negatives have been quite low contrast and are not sharp unfortunately. My 35mm Ikon easily makes sharper prints at the 8x10" size than this Mat, so perhaps I just got a dud? Anyway I'm enjoying learning how to use the WLF, which is a real challenge. When the light is right I can't see anything at all in the finder! But when the light is in my favor it's such a beautiful view.

My neighbor, Josh. Always has a smile ready for me, but this visit he was very grumpy. He'll come around. Ikon with Sonnar 1.5

calbisu · « **Reply #27 on:** July 09, 2011, 06:17:04 PM »

Quote from: J_Warden on July 09, 2011, 05:31:24 PM

Quote from: calbisu on July 09, 2011, 11:52:05 AM
Shooting with the Rollei allows you to do things that you would not do with other cameras. Like staying one meter away from a window doing the famous ¨45degrees I am not focusing at you¨ movement . . .

The waist level finder is intriguing to me, and one of the reasons I want a Rollei. I decided to get a trainer first to see if I could use the WLF and the square format, and decided on a Yashica Mat. I got it two weeks ago and can't say too much about it just yet, except it ain't no Rollei. :-) So far my negatives have been quite low contrast and are not sharp unfortunately. My 35mm Ikon easily makes sharper prints at the 8x10" size than this Mat, so perhaps I just got a dud? Anyway I'm enjoying learning how to use the WLF, which is a real challenge. When the light is right I can't see anything at all in the finder! But when the light is in my favor it's such a beautiful view.

My neighbor, Josh. Always has a smile ready for me, but this visit he was very grumpy. He'll come around. Ikon with Sonnar 1.5

Warden, I am not very experienced shooting WLF, but together with the Rollei I have a Kowa 6 and a Pentax 67 with the WLF accesory. I have found that the Pentax 67 is sharper than the Kowa and the Rollei sharper than the Pentax (could be because the Rollei lacks the mirror slap and I always shoot handheld). Also the Pentax 67 screen is pretty much brighter than the Rollei (even though mine has been installed a brighter screen than the original). Focusing with the Rollei is improving but it has had a Learning curve (luckily the loupe for critical detail covers the full frame so you can correctly frame with it). Finally the Rollei has a single coated lens so lower contrast but higher tonal range than the Pentax 67, something I was looking for at this moment. To finish I recommend very much the Rolleiflex (light, sharp, high tonal range, sexy...) but would tell you to install a bright screen. Hope I was helpful : )

Mike (happyforest) · « **Reply #28 on:** July 09, 2011, 08:03:17 PM »

Thom, Unusual portrait. I am drawn into thinking what he is doing whilst this picture was taken. His seems so engrossed in what he was doing. Playing the piano perhaps. Anyway a lovely image.

Calbisu. Great set of images, love the balance in illumination between the outside of the carriage and inside.

Heather\Astrobeck, Love the pinholes, must get mine out again and see if I can do better than last time. Anybody tired solagraphs with Cibachrome\ilfochrome as I have some old stock which may be worth a try?

Aoluain, These a lovely portraits, would like to see what they were like before you photo shopped them. Although I think the soft image works extremely well with both images. Always been reluctant to use the vaseline around the edge of a filter as I think it would be a bugger to get off. I have seen other recommend covering the filter\lens with stretched cling film and put the vaseline on that, but again never tried it.

JW love the picture of Josh. Sometimes you get more character out of a portrait when the sitter is not all smiles.

Mike

otto k · « **Reply #29 on:** July 09, 2011, 08:06:09 PM »

Nice stuff above, as usual. Just working on some scanned in negatives today, continuing the flower series I started a while back using a soft focus lens.

Andrea. · « **Reply #30 on:** July 09, 2011, 11:12:54 PM »

Been camping. Lickisto campsite, Isle of Harris. Wonderful place. Then to another Beethoven quartet concert in my favourite gallery. Brilliant. SQ 15 opus 132 eh? Sublime.
Anyway, took a couple of snaps this morning while on a stroll by the campsite - with the Baby Graphic - handheld sort of thing. Rollei400s

Here's one

and a snp of The Crofter's Dad using a borrowed Dynax 7000i foma400 and some pyro sort of stuff.

Terry · « **Reply #31 on:** July 10, 2011, 05:08:26 AM »

J Warden: I can recommend the Ikoflex as a Rollei substitute. I got a couple of them, thinking that Id see if I like TLR shooting and eventually upgrade to a Rollei, but now I don't think I want to make the switch. I love my Ikoflexes, and the glass is superb.

Thom Stone · « **Reply #32 on:** July 10, 2011, 12:42:18 PM »

great stuff, another one I took last night. trying to scan the negs to these but my scanner only has a backlight for 35mm, any ideas (besides scanning in strips then stitching in photoshop)

"we do though, don't we!" by Thomo_Stoneo, on Flickr

- by Thomo_Stoneo, on Flickr

Francois · « **Reply #33 on:** July 10, 2011, 02:10:08 PM »

Quote from: thom_stone on July 10, 2011, 12:42:18 PM

great stuff, another one I took last night. trying to scan the negs to these but my scanner only has a backlight for 35mm, any ideas (besides scanning in strips then stitching in photoshop)

It's the only way to do it... unless you build yourself some type of large sized backlight that runs on DC power (you don't want the flicker induced by AC power)... Think multiple white cathodes, LED grids...

Simplest would be multiple LED flashlights in a box lined with foil with a piece of vellum as diffuser far from the negs...

Paul Mitchell · « **Reply #34 on:** July 10, 2011, 04:00:06 PM »

Another bumper crop! Just a few of my favourites

calbisu - 2 great images and would make a great series
Diane- fab pinhole, the small shadow of the jacket makes the image
Becky - amaaazing solagraph!
Patrick - great set of vintage auto pola's
Phil - we're not worthy!
late developer - love the last image especially as I was standing under this very tree a few weeks ago! (will post an image)
J-Warden - a memorable image
otto - great colour, great series!

A few of my recent efforts...

Pinhole taken on Ektar

Taken on an Agfa Super Isolette and HP5

I think this the same tree as the one late developer posted
Pinhole on PanF

Paul

Phil Bebbington · « **Reply #35 on:** July 10, 2011, 04:39:16 PM »

Paul, these are just beautiful. The last one takes my breath away.

Alan · « **Reply #36 on:** July 10, 2011, 06:11:12 PM »

thanks to all for the vaseline and tights . . .

i heard about the the vaseline trick before, why did i not think of it?

I have a uv filter ready for the next session. I used 2 filters, removed the glass of one
and placed the vaseline on it then put it into the second uv filter sticky side down
and used the threaded retainer from the first uv to secure it in place > lightbulb

happyforest here are the originals . . .

Alan · « **Reply #37 on:** July 10, 2011, 06:13:09 PM »

oh and well done to all the additions, great work from all !

Jeff Warden · « **Reply #38 on:** July 10, 2011, 06:35:40 PM »

Quote from: Terry on July 10, 2011, 05:08:26 AM

J Warden: I can recommend the Ikoflex as a Rollei substitute. I got a couple of them, thinking that Id see if I like TLR shooting and eventually upgrade to a Rollei, but now I don't think I want to make the switch. I love my Ikoflexes, and the glass is superb.

Now I'm embarrassed. I'm not having contrast problems with the Yashica. It was bad paper. So I tried one of the negatives this morning with my regular paper and I got proper contrast with a #2 filter. Operator error. :-)

That sharpness issue is another matter though, but I'm finding that stopping the lens down helps. It's an f3.5, but I'll have to stick to f8 and higher for images that I want to be sharp I think. At any rate I'm having some fun experimenting. I'll figure out how this camera likes to work and then decide if we can be friends, the Mat and me.

Thanks for the advice all,

Jeff

Mike (happyforest) · « **Reply #39 on:** July 10, 2011, 08:27:37 PM »

aoluain

Thanks, for providing the originals it is interesting to see how they compare to the modified version.

Good luck with the modified UV filter, no doubt well see the results here in the future.

Mike

Francois · « **Reply #40 on:** July 10, 2011, 09:09:27 PM »

If you want something a bit more permanent and quite different, you can use hairspray on the filter. If you grow tired of it, you just wash it with some window cleaner. It makes a less "streaky" look than petroleum jelly on the filter.

gregor · « **Reply #41 on:** July 10, 2011, 09:32:28 PM »

on our way to the mountains last weekend, we stopped at a coffee shop where my spouse had an impromptu crocheting lesson from a local...

shot last weekend, M2 + 40mm Nokton on Tmax 400, printed yesterday: split filtered (#4 1/2 @ 25 seconds and #00 @ 7 seconds).

Diane Peterson · « **Reply #42 on:** July 10, 2011, 10:11:22 PM »

Soap...liking your work a lot! just checked out your sites..and I am the person with the strange sounding name that is now following you on Twitter!

gregor · « **Reply #43 on:** July 10, 2011, 10:41:27 PM »

Quote from: aoluain on July 08, 2011, 06:31:07 PM

wow, lovely polas Patrick.

here are two portraits i have been working on this week
taken on the mamiya645 on foma 200 and a little bit of
PS to finish. I really like the blurred edges effect but would love
to be able to do it in camera . . .

If you live in a hybrid analogue/digital world, in-camera diffusion has some pluses. Vaseline, flipped lenses and such are a couple of options as is putting crinkled cellophane over the lens. However, the diffusion can be better controlled and worked into the composition in the darkroom.

Nick Moys · « **Reply #44 on:** July 10, 2011, 11:55:08 PM »

Still the weekend......just. Inspiring stuff from all. Personal favourites: Paul's trees, Patrick's cars, Soap's Iceland shot and Andrea's portrait. A few more polaroids from me - two on sepia film, one on spectra softtone - (must scan some film too!)
Nick

Patrick · « **Reply #45 on:** July 11, 2011, 03:37:05 AM »

Thanks guys. Calbisu, I modded the batteries for AAA.

Andrea. · « **Reply #46 on:** July 11, 2011, 09:31:40 AM »

Isle of Harris half-marathon.

My fav snap of the week. Petri7s polypan-f

hookstrapped · « **Reply #47 on:** July 11, 2011, 11:26:48 AM »

love that first one, grey_fish

Back to the Leica, Trix 400 pushed 1.5 stops

calbisu · « **Reply #48 on:** July 11, 2011, 12:43:15 PM »

That´s beautiful Hookstrapped - love the processing - love the comp - fantastic everything

calbisu · « **Reply #49 on:** July 11, 2011, 12:44:05 PM »

Quote from: Phil Bebbington on July 10, 2011, 04:39:16 PM

Paul, these are just beautiful. The last one takes my breath away.

I agree