Topic: Post Valentines Weekend Thread

[irv_b]

I had the day off and meant to start this earlier but you know how life gets in the way. Anyway............
First off 4x5 Linhof  Forma 400 then two with OM1 and XX in hc110(B)

[Kai-san]

Nice lines in the first one, Irv.

Contax AX / Zeiss Planar 50mm f1.4 / Kodak Portra 400

[Bryan]

Some trees from a hike near Chico, California.  Kodak Retina with Ilford Delta 400 developed in Rodinal 1:50. 

Bidwell Park Tree by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

Bidwell Park Oak by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr

[grit]

Valentine's Day Special: my wife got a haircut so she finally let me take a photograph of her, yay! I talked her into stopping dyeing her hair a year ago, and all the old dye is finally gone courtesy of this most recent haircut. Now she has a super cool gray streak. If I can age even half as well I'll be happy. Mamiya RZ67, Sekor 110, Ilford HP5+, and some nice window light.

[MiguelCampano]

I have been absent a bit. Just moved to a new apartment in Philadelphia, so I've been handling that, while working a lot from home too. This weekend I'll go shoot some film, so hopefully I find something interesting around.

In the meantime, this is a picture from a photo walk with Jeff last year:


prime real estate by Miguel Campano, on Flickr
Ilford Pan F 50, developed in Rodinal, and shot with the (now gone) Bronica ETRSi and 75mm 2.8

[ManuelL]

Irv, your 2nd image is great. Love the person in the shadows in the foreground framing the shot.
Miguel, great textures on that run down house!

Here it has been mostly rainy in the last week. Only took a short trip to take some pinholes at the ESOC satellite measuring station close by.


satellite station pinhole


satellite station pinhole 2

[grit]

Manuel, that's so funny, I just went hiking this week up to our local satellite dish with my pinhole camera (will develop the roll soon)! It's almost like we're on the same.....wavelength

(great shots btw!)

[cs1]

Good stuff, everyone. The first shot of the satellite dish is fantastic, Manuel.

I've shot a test roll of Rollei Retro 80S yesterday. I used my Bronica SQ-A. The good news is: Rollei 80S develops very well in Caffenol-C-H (RS). I developed it for 12m30s @ 20 °C (agitated for the first 30 seconds, let it rest for 30 seconds and then inverted it three times every minute). The not so good news is: I need to shoot it more so that I understand it better because right now I can't really warm up to it. It's a rather strange film. It's very IR sensitive which gives landscape shots a very fairytale look in the foliage when there's sun, however, it's also very contrasty bordering "slap in your face contrasty". This directly counteracts the effect you get with its IR sensitivity. Also, I have no idea why they rated it at ISO 80. Every single shot I took would've looked better with 1 or even 2 stops more light. So next time I'll shoot it at EI 50 (at least) and see what's going to happen. Here're two test shots with no artistic value:


Untitled by C S


Gritty tree by C S

[Jeff Warden]

Grit that's a fine portrait of your wife. Maybe this is the start of a new project for the two of you?

[grit]

Grit that's a fine portrait of your wife. Maybe this is the start of a new project for the two of you?

Thanks Jeff! She never really enjoys being the center of attention, photographs included, so I usually just let her be. I was lucky on this particular day though because she felt like the new hairstyle was important enough to warrant documentation. Interestingly, she is quite good at drawing (unlike me), so there may be a mixed media project in there somewhere, just probably not one involving her in front of the lens

[astrobeck]

Yes,
That is a nice portrait of your wife Grit. It would be nice to see some sort of collaboration.

Nothing from me this week.. I'm trying to get something going with my Brownie since it's brownie month.

[Sandeha Lynch]

Pinhole again. This was perhaps the best shot from a test roll on Fomapan 200, dev'd in DDX.
The new, out-of-the-studio pinhole camera is called the BB#7, or Black Box Number Seven, as it's the seventh black box I've done.


190217_fom2_07 by Sandeha Lynch, on Flickr

[Blaxton]

The view, today, from Newport, Rhode Island's celebrated Cliff Walk.

Ikonta 524, 105mm Tessar lens, Fomapan 100, Caffenol C-L, semi-stand

Newport, Rhode Island Cliff Walk by William Blackstone, on Flickr