Author Topic: weekend May 24 (Read 18342 times)

astrobeck · « **on:** May 24, 2012, 07:30:34 PM »

It's going to be a long weekend here:

a vintage Diana snap of the old church on the plaza in Old Town Albuquerque
I love this old Diana, it's the first one I ever bought. The others I gave away.

Phil Bebbington · « **Reply #1 on:** May 24, 2012, 07:38:20 PM »

Becky, this shot is a stunner.

Phil Bebbington · « **Reply #2 on:** May 24, 2012, 07:38:56 PM »

Hasselblad 501 with Fuji 160C in Baker, CA

moominsean · « **Reply #3 on:** May 24, 2012, 07:59:22 PM »

Just in Baker yesterday! Haven't had a chance to scan yet.

Miller · « **Reply #4 on:** May 24, 2012, 08:31:15 PM »

More telegraph pole action...

Francois · « **Reply #5 on:** May 24, 2012, 08:45:11 PM »

A few from the car show last week-end.
It was so cramped you just couldn't take a decent picture of a single car... so I ended up taking shots of hood ornaments.

I did abuse a star filter on this set. Not very proud of it but the images were so dull I felt they needed a little pick me up.

Francois · « **Reply #6 on:** May 24, 2012, 08:45:57 PM »

In the last one, some idiot was walking right into my shot...people $:-\$

I'm still pretty happy with the colors. Not bad for some Kodak Gold 200 that expired in 2001

Overexposed by a full stop and it doesn't even show!

Jeff Warden · « **Reply #7 on:** May 24, 2012, 09:26:04 PM »

Nice shot, Becky!

here's one from Sunday brunch. Zeiss Ikon, ZM Sonnar 50mm, Tri-X

Cheers,

Jeff

calbisu · « **Reply #8 on:** May 24, 2012, 09:29:48 PM »

Spent three weeks in Spain, that was delicious, no dust and heat for a while

First one is a shot of my father, I have so few shots of him, we were in the Garden and I looked at my father and suddenly cried at him, do not move, do not move, I went home took the POlaroid and there he is

the other one is my cousin and a friend.

Becky, that church shot is just great!

hookstrapped · « **Reply #9 on:** May 24, 2012, 10:31:47 PM »

Back to the Gakkenflex and Tri-X in TMax (looking for model with name ending in x)

Nah....

astrobeck · « **Reply #10 on:** May 24, 2012, 11:18:24 PM »

Wow!
Miller, how did you capture the signals coming off that pole?
That's really cool looking!

Francois, I love the color on the cars. And how can you go wrong with hood ornaments and a star filter!

Jeff-love the expression on his face!
Hookstrapped- I think this is one of your best.
Phil- that is a knockout blue sky!
Carlos- glad you got a break from the sand and dust, love the photo of your Dad.

charles binns · « **Reply #11 on:** May 24, 2012, 11:19:24 PM »

Palm Sunday. Comitan Dominguez. Holga & TriX

Hookstrapped. Stunning!!

moominsean · « **Reply #12 on:** May 24, 2012, 11:29:39 PM »

Spent a couple days in exploring California, drove 1100 miles in two days. Shot this pack of 669 that expired in 1992...was the old paper packs, figured it would be bone dry. Not the case, and excellent color!

hookstrapped · « **Reply #13 on:** May 24, 2012, 11:35:07 PM »

Thanks!

another...

mickld · « **Reply #14 on:** May 24, 2012, 11:51:54 PM »

Strong start to the week...I'll just drag the standard down for the rest of us with my most recent roll from the Holga

HP5+ in R09.

Start

Reel-to-Reel

Albert Clock by the Cherry Tree

sapata · « **Reply #15 on:** May 25, 2012, 12:31:35 AM »

Becky... this is one of the sharpest Diana shot I've seen! beautiful...
Francois, love the star effect on the camaro symbol!... and the yellow car keeps smiling at me

Miller: as Becky mentioned, you've captured the signals!...

hookstrapped · « **Reply #16 on:** May 25, 2012, 12:51:31 AM »

calbisu · « **Reply #17 on:** May 25, 2012, 07:26:15 AM »

Hookstrapped, that second one is.. fantastic

calbisu · « **Reply #18 on:** May 25, 2012, 08:13:14 AM »

two more family shots from holidays, nephews, little Alma and Mamma

Photo_Utopia · « **Reply #19 on:** May 25, 2012, 08:38:02 AM »

Quite a few wonderful shots, can't mention them all but love the triptych from Hookstrapped.
I've started taking images again after a little break, last week I went to the John Jarrold print Museum in Norwich.
Here are a couple of shots:

I have uploaded a few more to my Flickr but these two are the ones I like most.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51840227@N02

Regards
Mark Antony

kenny · « **Reply #20 on:** May 25, 2012, 09:02:48 AM »

Lots of fantastic images this week.
My favourites are the instant pictures from both Miller and moominsean. Those colours are just wonderful

Here's mine for this week. Chamonix 045-n2, with Nikkor-SW 90mm.

Happy Weekend!

calbisu · « **Reply #21 on:** May 25, 2012, 09:09:04 AM »

Kenny, that second one is a fantastic example of urban ladscape

Phil Bebbington · « **Reply #22 on:** May 25, 2012, 09:45:04 AM »

Great work and this early in the weekend as well!

Quote

Just in Baker yesterday! Haven't had a chance to scan yet.

Great stuff, Sean. I thought it was a great place. Lots to tickle the photographic senses!

Alan · « **Reply #23 on:** May 25, 2012, 09:55:25 AM »

what a thread . . .

great stuff by all,

hookstrap's model shots as usual are beautiful . . . but the first is just stunning!

francois' cars are great, that filter adds a nice touch!

Moominsean and Phil as usual - great !

Kenny - those two shots are absolute class, great time of the evening to shoot!

astrobeck - lovely shot, the contrast is great.

everyone else - good work !!

colour seems to be v.popular . . .

Diane Peterson · « **Reply #24 on:** May 25, 2012, 02:36:57 PM »

Every image is a stunner..what a great weekend of photos..Mine from my latest pinhole..4x7 cause it was the size of the last piece of oriental paper...developed in Ilford multi-grade developer..I think I like this stuff better than Dektol..but still experimenting!

Francois · « **Reply #25 on:** May 25, 2012, 03:16:06 PM »

Quote from: sapata on May 25, 2012, 12:31:35 AM

Francois, love the star effect on the camaro symbol!... and the yellow car keeps smiling at me

It was an old Austin Healey... I don't know what year it was but it did look minty. And yes, it did smile at me too

Photo_Utopia · « **Reply #26 on:** May 25, 2012, 03:23:51 PM »

I think it was an Austin-Healey "frog eye' Sprite, from about 1960.

jojonas~ · « **Reply #27 on:** May 25, 2012, 03:38:00 PM »

oh... sweet shots everyone! I'll be back to comment later, in the meantime here's a scanned neg that just dried a while ago.

and I gotta say, dektol ain't bad as a film developer

dektol 1+4 5min
ilford pan f plus
lubitel 166 universal

Diane Peterson · « **Reply #28 on:** May 25, 2012, 04:53:18 PM »

I never knew you could use Dektol for film developing..information please?

Phil Bebbington · « **Reply #29 on:** May 25, 2012, 07:23:28 PM »

Kenny, two killer shots and Peter, quality, as always.

jojonas~ · « **Reply #30 on:** May 25, 2012, 07:31:30 PM »

Quote from: Diane Peterson on May 25, 2012, 04:53:18 PM

I never knew you could use Dektol for film developing..information please?

you just dilute it more! I read around that some schools used it as a universal developer to cut costs. and other stories about horse race photographers and journalists using it in high concentrations to get their shots developed quickly.

when you mix up dektol you start by mixing up a stock solution and then later you use that diluted with water to get a working solution. 1 part stock and 2 parts water for normal use with paper, I think.

I found it's even on the massive dev chart

http://www.digitaltruth.com/devchart.php?Film=&Developer=Dektol&mdc=Search

I took out my time for ilford pan f plus (info under the shot) from looking at the times for tmax and tri-x and then comparing the times for those films compared to what I wanted to develop -but on the chart for D-76. apparently dektol is pretty similar to that developer.

this was just an educated guess though and I bet I could perfect things but..... eh! I like things simple

hookstrapped · « **Reply #31 on:** May 25, 2012, 08:13:08 PM »

Francois · « **Reply #32 on:** May 25, 2012, 09:37:13 PM »

Quote from: Diane Peterson on May 25, 2012, 04:53:18 PM

I never knew you could use Dektol for film developing..information please?

Dektol will give you much chunkier grain than a regular developer. It also increases contrast quite a bit.

Thing is that most developers actually contain two developing agents: one for high contrast and one for low contrast.
The high contrast developing agent we're talking about is Hydroquinone. D-76 contains 5 grams of it. But Dektol contains 12 grams.

The trick to control contrast with is is to alter the dilution. For film, it can be diluted all the way to 1+4.
For 1+1 dilution, my old book recommends 5 min. at 68°F.

Phil Bebbington · « **Reply #33 on:** May 25, 2012, 11:15:22 PM »

Stunning, Peter.

Terry · « **Reply #34 on:** May 25, 2012, 11:24:47 PM »

Peter--I like the last one best of that series; the weight of the mullion between the frames balances just right to my eye with the weight of the images themselves. Very nice.

I went to a play in the city yesterday and beforehand went for a walk along the High Line. I took along the new Exa with a Schacht 50mm lens and shot a roll of expired Portra 160 NC

Nick Moys · « **Reply #35 on:** May 25, 2012, 11:46:16 PM »

Really like Mark's typesetter's blocks and Kenny's cityscapes. Peter's Gakkenflex girl series is just sublime.

A couple of seascapes from me taken last weekend, whilst the weather was still grey. Even by Norfolk standards, the 'lunar' landscape of The Wash at low tide is rather remote and austere, but wonderfully evocative too.

Bronica ETRSi/Adox CHS100/Finol.

mudflats by Nick Moys, on Flickr

jetty by Nick Moys, on Flickr

Sandeha Lynch · « **Reply #36 on:** May 26, 2012, 08:10:13 AM »

A couple of old ones, but somebody might recognise them.

Bessaflex, Orestor 100/2.8, TriX.

Mab · « **Reply #37 on:** May 26, 2012, 11:43:06 AM »

This seascape is from Friday evening. I used my bread and butter Rollei Retro 100 film and an orange filter. Some dodging in PS for the clouds.

hookstrapped · « **Reply #38 on:** May 26, 2012, 12:18:57 PM »

I also really like the typesetter blocks and cityscapes. The use of color in both is lovely.

Thanks for the kind words on my shots. A couple of months of frustration working with a pair of flaky actors all went away in a couple hours of working with Yesenia.

calbisu · « **Reply #39 on:** May 26, 2012, 01:20:32 PM »

After few weeks of not posting please allow me to post couple more shots

Today and yesterday I went for shooting here in Khartoum, which is becoming more and more hazardous so I really have to push myself to go for shooting. Is not only the increasing extreme weather conditions (above 45 degrees) but also the attitude of government officials. Today at the Zoo, and as expected, a policeman shouted at me warning that photographing was not permitted. I calmly went to him and showed not only the government permit to shoot but my new brand ID card from the foreign affairs ministry

I flashed them both to the policeman and responsible of the ´Zoo´ with no success. They argued that i could not shoot because that was police area, I argued that it was police area because the policeman was in front of me but I was not going to shoot at him; they were adamant and I was adamant, so I decided to play the latino role, raising my voice and moving a lot the arms with additional gesturing, finally they surrendered

The funny part is that when you arrive to Khartoum airport there is a gigantic sign that says something as tourists are welcome please bring your camera

astrobeck · « **Reply #40 on:** May 26, 2012, 02:57:23 PM »

Carlos- maybe you should take a photo of that sign at the airport and show that to the police....

"The funny part is that when you arrive to Khartoum airport there is a gigantic sign that says something as tourists are welcome please bring your camera."

Diane Peterson · « **Reply #41 on:** May 26, 2012, 03:15:34 PM »

Finally some mild success with Ilford Direct Positive...5x7 pinhole developed in Ilford multi-grade

calbisu · « **Reply #42 on:** May 26, 2012, 03:19:44 PM »

Quote from: astrobeck on May 26, 2012, 02:57:23 PM

Carlos- maybe you should take a photo of that sign at the airport and show that to the police....

"The funny part is that when you arrive to Khartoum airport there is a gigantic sign that says something as tourists are welcome please bring your camera."

Becky, I am afraid airports is one of those places not allowed to be photographed. Actually once I almost got arrested because I did not realize that at the background of what I was photographing there was the airport... $:-\$ luckily I was shooting polaroid and I could prove that I was not a spy.

Diane, are those your friends?

Francois · « **Reply #43 on:** May 26, 2012, 03:36:45 PM »

It's only when you travel to faraway places like that that you realize you're not in Kansas anymore

Jeff Warden · « **Reply #44 on:** May 26, 2012, 03:40:54 PM »

I took an evening stroll with the Hasselblad last night. The sign tells us that the weather was wonderful

astrobeck · « **Reply #45 on:** May 26, 2012, 04:33:21 PM »

Nick- I just love dried mud puddles...I'm always intrigued by the "artistic" designs left behind by the cracks.

Diane Peterson · « **Reply #46 on:** May 26, 2012, 04:48:06 PM »

Diane, are those your friends?

Well, a few of them that were around for the "shoot"!

..my cats were trying to pull them away as the pinhole was exposing..!!

Randy B · « **Reply #47 on:** May 26, 2012, 06:56:41 PM »

Great stuff all around. Great weekend thread so far.

I especially love Kennys night shots and am always a big fan of Hookstrappeds work.

Excellent showing guys, have a great weekend.

Heres some Tri X from a hike with the lady and the dog a few weeks back.

Chalky · « **Reply #48 on:** May 26, 2012, 06:59:53 PM »

many many great pics as usual. ones that caught my eye:

miller's telegraph pole
Francois camaro
calbisu's portraits
photo utopia's letters
Terrys train window

Mine is a polaroid of my friend and his son last night after a day of surfing, sun and a beach BBQ, life here in cornwall is good

Converted polaroid model 100 to a manual lens and polaroid 108 expired in 1999

Photo_Utopia · « **Reply #49 on:** May 26, 2012, 07:24:03 PM »

Nick if you get to go to the Jarrold print museum it's well worth it. I did the 'Museum at night' thing last Friday, so most of these shots are at 1/8-1/30sec ƒ3,5 400ISO.
I think normally they only open Wednesday mornings– plenty to see including old process cameras that were taller than me and a 1950's Hell scanner as well as a special typeset of the King James Bible first page set in original typeface!
Here's a shot not that good but of a 1950's printer, my Rollei comes from the same era..