what do you see like: 2012

I can't remember the name of our old photo thread.

The X100 went to New Year's Eve. I was drunk by the time I pulled it out and had the exposure compensation dialed in at -1 so the exposures kinda got blown. Oops.
Shot a roll with my Rolleiflex that might have some decent stuff on it.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7005/6617473169_f4f4711dee_z.jpg
What's going on here by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7169/6617460843_d622e56d3a_z.jpg
An interesting point, but I disagree... by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7007/6617456427_af0d46bd57_z.jpg
You've got to be kidding me. by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7154/6617448535_1d56750549_z.jpg
Sonia and Pat by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

first scan I've been happy with (boring photo but I knew it was properly exposed and sharp enough) - TMax 100 (2002-3ish) scanned on the Plustek 7600i w/ Vuescan. Psyched to get something going (at least for small prints and online display), since I've got 75 rolls of B&W film to work through over the next few months.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7148/6623281961_1b17febbe1_z.jpg
Plustek 7600i, TMax 100 by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

oh that's nice, milo. not boring.
somehow really sad to be back at ILP, feel like it can never be as good as the out of control freight train that was the sandbox photography thread was.

i am getting a bunch of rolls of film processed tomorrow, maybe inspired by the talk of backlogues in the sandbox. some of it is from 2010, which is a long time ago now. also picking some up, & i have a hand-me-down scanner with which to scan any visible & worthwhile prints, i'm p psyched.

was

That's right, back in the ILP ghetto!

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7006/6614640625_e506dd18df_z.jpg

That Sandbox thread was somethin' else...

Street performer in the chill evening air of Covent Garden, a few hours ago:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7005/6623643949_8f777f85f4_z.jpg

can we make the ILP board slogan (/gothic text on crest scroll) either FUCK THE MIDTONES, via the bookmaking youtube, or mute shrines, per something dayo said? both haunt me. also welcome other suggestions.

mute shrines

hey ILP i just remembered an amusing flickr story & i figure you guys are the choir for me to preach it at, it is also sorta-relevant to the 'are you favouriting a photo or its contents' thing we discussed a little in the sandbox, re: pictures of girls on flickr. my friend took a photo of me, once, on the street, and it ended up on her flickr. it is a good photo. & i was perusing her photos some while later & saw that two people had added it to their favourites, one a guy i sorta know, & the other person a stranger, someone i never knew who had been so beguiled by my representation that they had declared it their favourite thing. i was so thrilled by this adoration, so clicked through to the guy's profile, & found this long, modern-photographer tract in the bio about how he FOUND BEAUTY IN THINGS OTHERS WOULD NOT FIND BEAUTIFUL, DEVASTATED RUINS, DEAD BIRDS, &c&c&c.

it really took the shine off the compliment.

haha I think everybody on flickr will happily explain how they just kinda see things a little bit differently, and find beauty in unexpected places! an entire social media platform full of photographer savants: who knew??

heh, truthbomb! though I suspect many assume that attitude as mental insurance against criticism.

technically my last shot of 2011:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7033/6634175545_348e262775_z.jpg

technically not linked?

let's try that again!

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7033/6634175545_f7e9cb3c5e_z.jpg

oh nice!

I scanned a roll or two of kodachrome - even more saturation applied in post

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/3c2d8804.jpg

millsner: very don't look now, v good
dayo: that's awesome, somehow i think of you as a guy from 1890 who just obviously wouldn't have been able to take a colour photo. what camera's it w?

millsner, that's a great, great shot
damn I wish I had shot some Kodachrome when I had the chance

the leica, of course! schlump I bought an om-1 and just sent it away to get repaired. I was inspired by you and eskenazi. it's black.

I'm kind of stunned by how well these kodachrome scans clean up in aperture, just a little saturation + s-curve and there's so much color, and this is just from my shitty v500.

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/aff479cf.jpg

well, that looked better in aperture. could be more red! oh well

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7015/6656293705_552ed71daa_b.jpg
Summer's Over by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

oh I missed this thread so much during ILX downtime. yaaaay!

for some reason I've never had a great time scanning kodachrome but those look great!

This one is from late last year, but for some reason i quite like it, it also make me feel a little sad :(
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7021/6619272095_51721f0c56_z.jpg

what do you see like: 2012

What i want to see like: 2012

That's beautiful. Wistful, rather than sad, imo.

we're off to a good beginning this year!

not goodwin, that almost looks as though it's composed of layered tracing paper. lovely.

the leica, of course! schlump I bought an om-1 and just sent it away to get repaired. I was inspired by you and eskenazi. it's black.

aw! this is so exciting to me. did i ever tell that story about jane bown, & how devastated i was to find out that she used an om-1, rescinding my ability to blame my tools for my poor photos

http://www.andrewward.com/Photos/jane_bown/jane_bown_samuel_beckett_london.jpg

when i was a little younger i had a kinda love-hate relationship with it, because it has a much smaller kind of 'remove' or 'rendering process', to me, compared to when i see something taken by a pentax that looks otherly & framed & cinematic. om-1s are very real. i'm actually slightly mournfully considering swapping mine out for another, having seen a couple in shop windows etc, recently; it's probably eaten three of the last ten films i've shot, which is obviously partly user error but is partly it jamming at twenty four frames or having trouble spooling the tail of the film & so not even shooting (fwiw i'd recommend taking a couple of shots while you're staring at the roll, watching it feed into the spiral); from what i understand they do have a slight rep for this. what were you getting it sent away for ..?

really like your kodachrome shots; they have a very full spectrum of colour, like the darkness of the blacks in the lobby shot. i just got some weird kodak slide film back, i'll scan something & maybe post here soon.

did i ever tell that story about jane bown, & how devastated i was to find out that she used an om-1, rescinding my ability to blame my tools for my poor photos

haha otm. that said, I do slightly blame my lovely Canon and heavy-ass lenses for the fact that I'm not taking as many pictures as I used to -- it's just much too much faff to lug around London all the time. That's one of the reasons I'm pretty excited about the new Fuji.

i think taking a photo of beckett will do the "otherly & framed & cinematic" for you.

ha yeah i guess so. he's got a giacometti face.

about having the appropriate/convenient gear to use, i think there's another funny equipment paradox, the same way that there is with analogue/digital, in which some people find the perceived limits of analogue actually useful & conducive to getting along with your camera - i feel like having p much restricted myself to a camera i can hang on my shoulder & slightly batter into things (i scraped it against a cobbled stone wall yesterday, high-five), carry around under a bag strap without noticing, &c, is really useful, & what i forgo in having a variety or quality of lenses i make up for in having my camera with me all the time. this is obv my perspective & i can see the compelling better-actual-photos argument against it, but i feel like having a camera there whenever you're outside is the point, for me, & i would be bummed to be restricted by cumbersome equipment. i guess this a good argument for small cameras in general.

I bet everyone pretty much agrees: the best camera is the one you have with you, be it point-and-shoot or cell phone or whatever. The worst camera is the one sitting at home.

yes. & kinda as an extension of that, i am sitting next to a yashica i never use, but the familiarity i have with my om-1 so trumps the added potential of anything new. i know this makes me sound set in my ways. but i don't even have to look at it, sometimes, & alla that old shit is designed so harmoniously to fit well with the way your brain and hands work.

out of curiosity, does anyone have a little kinda pocket camera, stuff like those contax that i have no idea of the model # of or way to describe? i've seen a lot of like really nice photographs by ppl like sofia coppola, & a couple of friends of mine, they're somehow really disruptive to my idea of a slr/medium format hierarchy, & really intriguing to me. i guess i am thinking analogue here.

"point and shoot" "contax t3" <- glossary of terms that are beyond me

I've got an Olympus XA2 (the zone focus one) and a Rollei 35 (guess focus). Are those the kinds of things you're thinking of?
Perfect for the always-carry-with-you aspect.

https://sites.google.com/site/analogcompactcameras/famous-point-n-shoot-users

right, yeah i guess, rollei i sorta think of as something different but yeah i just mean something where you're just clicking, p much, maybe w/flash

There's really no reason that a giant top of the line Nikon 35mm SLR would take a picture that's technically any better than a compact rangefinder or something like the Rollei, really. I mean they're both just opening a door to shine some light on a piece of 35mm film for a portion of time, no matter how big or small the container around it is. Only difference I can figure would be the lens.

xpost

I use an Olympus Stylus too. That's point-and-shoot autoexposure, built in flash etc. For going to bars or the beach or whatever. Does just fine.
And that old picture of Death Valley of mine upthread is from a bottom of the line Olympus Trip from my high school days:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7175/6463613999_f8a573e3d0_m.jpg

Unlike digital cameras where a more expensive piece of equipment gets you a larger sensor (basically like switching film formats), the cheapest and most expensive film cameras all use the same size "sensor." And you get to switch it out at will.

Like you could shoot full frame by buying a 5D ii, or just using the Olympus Trip.

yep. i eventually found that really reassuring - i know we had quite a lens-y discussion on a previous ILP thread, & gear is really only a small priority for me, certainly dwarfed by a) film & b) the thing i am taking a photo of. i think i had an example of a guy who'd tried out taking different shots of a bookcase to demonstrate differences in grain who, to me, seemed to be clinically insane.

i should prob get a point & shoot sometime, maybe just to have a camera with a flash. i like not necessarily having compartmentalised what-camera-works-best, though; when i used to play with a digital i would use it for like 'throwaway' stuff - goofy things i saw - & i like it better using a camera for anything you see that seems appropriate. just talking day-to-day roaming, not that there aren't appropriate & instrumental choices.

xp ah!, more evidence in the pro- column then

Yup it's a clue that you only ever hear guys talking about their lenses when taking pictures of, like, brick walls, and not when talking about, like, great photographs.

looool otm

schlump the om-1 wasn't fully winding all the time on one wind, needed to take two sometimes. I sent it to www.zuiko.com but dunno if that's an option for you, you split time between the pond is that right?

I used to carry around a XA2 for color 'graphs, it was okay but it was kind of annoying because exposure was auto w/ no compensation (funny, you figure out why manufacturers include these settings in maybe your 10th year as a photographer.) I switched it for a rollei 35, more inconvenient but has more manual functionality.

I know terry richardson uses some yashica point and shoot (probably because of some kind of affected hipster 'oh I couldn't be bothered to learn how to actually use it, this works perfectly okay' faux naivete) or something

have thought about getting one of the mythical contax or fuji point and shoots but really, they're not that much smaller

leica cl's perhaps the best compromise

I think if I see an Olympus Mju for $5 I'll grab one. They look awesome and are small:

http://www.thecamerasite.net/02_Rangefinders/Images/Olympus-mju-II.jpg

XA always seems to underexpose a bit, but you can trick it with the ASA selector.

This is what I see like in 2012, btw (other photos I've been putting up lately are all from the past):

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7167/6661317289_f2797a2b18_z.jpg

ooh, that's a good one!

Thanks! It's all that winter light.

gonna come back to the post above but just wanna register upon reading that the idea of you wrapping up an object in an envelope & writing a url on the front is blowing my mind, it feels like the future and the past all at once

Yup it's a clue that you only ever hear guys talking about their lenses when taking pictures of, like, brick walls, and not when talking about, like, great photographs.

I don't have a P&S, but I've had a Canonet QL17 forever, a Kodak Retinette (scale-focus 35mm) I found in my great-grandmother's stuff from Canada, and I just bought a Hexar AF off Craigslist.

The AF is interesting - it's big (pretty much the same size and weight as my X100), but freakishly quiet (even w/o turning on silent mode) and the fixed lens is basically a copy of a previous-generation Leica 35mm Summicron.

need to stop reading TOP because via them I know this is in stock:

http://www.steidlville.com/books/892-Emmet-Gowin-Photographs.html

and I think it incldes

http://learn.michenerartmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Nancy-Danville-Gowin.jpg

so I have to get it

oh wow
did you ever see those Rene Burri photographs he took, at a school teaching deaf-mute* kids:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qVJIz0b96_8/Seh_rG2pzrI/AAAAAAAAAKk/hriWfQHDLY4/s1600/burri.jpg

http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1084/1414544289_962ec96e36_z.jpg

*occurs to me here i'm not sure whether this is in any way an archaic term, as is sometimes the case, so just apologies if i'm miswording

those gowin photos look amazing.

thanks for the point & shoot testament everyone. i can see the appeal, my friend gets a lot out of one. i have never really had access to auto-focus or depth of field which minimises its importance, & i am sometimes ruing the blurry shots i've taken, so maybe i should go somewhere in that direction sometime. i like being able to take photos real quick. the argument against lens caps.

schlump the om-1 wasn't fully winding all the time on one wind, needed to take two sometimes. I sent it to www.zuiko.com but dunno if that's an option for you, you split time between the pond is that right?

ty for this - hadn't occurred to me to get mine done (& it's a much nicer prospect than retiring it, we have bonded) (my camera was my mom's, bought just after my sis was born, in 1981), though i know a guy vaguely-locally who services, etc. so may look up zuiko. i'm in the uk, uh huh, though could swing & envisage times at which usps will be at my disposal.

http://teenagefilm.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Iggy-and-the-Stooges-8.jpg

belongs in the stooges thread i guess but these are real interesting

man what a beautiful photo

seriously i keep looking at it, the girl's hair on the left, the stripes. ty for emmet gowin, dayo, i can believe i haven't heard of him bc i'm not a great historian but he's amazing, his nudes (i think mainly of one woman) are incredible. also love this sam fentress portrait of him:

http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2009/10/21/pages/2069/LIVE.Gowin_Fentress.jpg

Lightroom 4 Beta is out today

one from 2011, one from 2012:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7023/6489175149_d4125868d4_z.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7030/6682263427_bcceba1c91_z.jpg

they're great. i like the hand in the second pic, just by the sleeve of the iphone guy; it's like one of those comic book frames in which the artist has drawn their hand or pencil tip to draw your attention somewhere.

huh, didn't even notice that! first thing that stood out to me was "H-A-T-E".

I didn't notice the "hate" on the hand until scanning either, as it turns out.

when you noticed that it perfectly jived with your identically tattooed knuckles, amid your hands delicate adjustments to the placement of the negatives

here are a couple of photos from a month ago, of floral things. i never really used to post photos itt but it's nice that we all do different stuff, i like the comparison.

thinking about going for the zuiko camera overhaul btw, dayo, i haven't figured it out totally yet but i like the idea of getting my om-1 back.

schlump, fwiw I think the zuiko.com guy is the most respected repairman left in the world on olympus cameras, ~keeps the flame alive~ etc.

if you need a liason here in america to handle your stuff lmk

may have linked to this before but a great interview with EG

http://bombsite.com/issues/58/articles/2012

those rene burri pics are wonderful. looks like he was shooting from the hip for the second one though? wonder if those were snuck

i saw those exhibited a while back; iirc it was his first magazine assignment, or maybe one that made his name. 'assignments', or being a photographer in any sort of acknowledged/professional/journalistic capacity, probably has a lot of weird dynamics wrt how open you are about shooting, i imagine. i guess it goes back to that thing about how you should handle (/"wield") a camera & what relationship people have w/someone in the room who has a camera - it seeming established that you're there shooting, it not being too surprising or distracting, etc - all of this came up with the life essay upthread about the doctor, too.

if you need a liason here in america to handle your stuff lmk

ty so much; starting to think about it, had wondered about packing it off with an american friend who's heading over there, to mail internally; we'll see, but that's really good to know. i am glad that i would be getting my camera repaired by master splinter.

dipped into a couple of other EG interviews that were fascinating, talking about living in this kinda post-Frank world in which we're resigned to but fuelled by chance & what we end up seeing & chronicling locality, etc. will try to read the bomb one.

ooh, link me to some other EG interviews!

ha, there was two & i can only see one off the top of my head, i know i've got it tabbed or bookmarked at home though, so, for now:

http://www.americansuburbx.com/2010/09/theory-interview-with-emmet-gowin.html

To be in the presence of our own first hand experience, is probably the only way we can save ourselves. See what I was saying about Robert Frank; what I had to give up was being answerable to Frank. What I had to become was answerable to what was happening in front of me and how I felt about it. That’s what you have to give up, the authority of an answer and replace it with the authenticity of the experience. And that’s why I want to emphasize and celebrate what Sommer was saying. We’re at the mercy of what we find. That’s the big advantage. It’s a big advantage.

so my dad offered to give me the m6 (like permanently) as a birthday present (he will never use it again) and i am srsly torn about how to deal with that?

totally ignoring any family dynamics that might make it ~complicated~, that just seems nice to me. & you'll use it. you will be helping the camera fulfil its destiny as a camera. & also you could always give it back to him (also as a birthday present, it would be very generous).

how has it been playing with it? i mean in the context of 'this is not my camera' but then also just generally, playing with it.

yeah accept the camera and love it! I think the best possible destiny for any camera is to stay in continuous and rigorous use.

schlump: I like those floral pictures a lot, btw

oh hey thank you! floral photz are just a good way to shoot colourfully i think. i can't remember if i posted this a couple of months ago, i feel like it looks like it came out of a tasteful home interiors store's fall catalogue but it is kinda nicely blurry & measured in a way my photos usually aren't. leaves. colours. goodtimes.

i am feeling self-indulgent by posting stuff btw so please everyone else address this by over sharing.

oh wow, the green/blue/orange contrast there is really striking

i mainly take blurry unflattering photos of friends btw, i'm just not so big on posting identifiable ppl here

xp why yes it screams AUTUMN, it just screams autumn at your face

idk - I think the contrast between green and red is very striking

ty man

just finished reading the interview w/ frank where he disses HCB. will try to scan it (and by scan I mean take shitty pictures with my outdated iPhone) but I will transcribe this quote

"I'm not interested in taking a beautiful photograph. I don't mean that there's no room for it; I just don't want to do it. For example, I live in a very beautiful place. I could get a camera, and make a very beautiful picture. It could be almost as good as Ansel Adams. But I don't want to take a beautiful picture, and I can't, really. It makes me feel good to look at it. It wouldn't make me feel good to take that picture."

Very bright day today, went up to the Lake District, got a few shots that I like, will upload after I've stared at them for a while to make sure I like them.
Here's one I like straight away, desaturated it and straightened it, then just added a little clarity to it.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/6697220533_7ac6402f3f_z.jpg
Coniston by carljgodwin, on Flickr

Oh man... that is breathtaking! And I do say that too because I was there just some months ago. But really, a spectacular capture. It reminds me of Phillip Lachenmann's Grey Study series, a series of photographs I adore:

http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_114305_400857_philipp-lachenmann.jpg

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/22f4d93e.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/0359b962.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/3fc26c08.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/d9b9c56f.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/eff21411.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/15711487.jpg

love the third one down

girls, table, glasses

it's the weeknd baby

both of those parties were terrible, btw.

Just like the texture of the paper here, and the oblique late-afternoon sun...

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7018/6695478081_6e171da1b1_z.jpg

love the third one down

reminds me v much of one of mine own, never knew I'd be ~influential~

gbx in there with "i wore them first"

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2767/4323475588_92700dbae5_z.jpg

more recent feet:
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/b911c704.jpg

i especially like it because those two ended up kind of getting together that nite (nye)
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/724bc289.jpg

oh they're both great
patterned tights, yellow shoes & decorated wallpapers all seeming like gifts from the photographees

btw two more recent plant & leaf pics that i forgot i'd taken, following my small ILP retrospective of floral shots in January 2012.

decided it was time to go through the archives again

http://ihardlyknowher.com/idiotcervantes/big

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7020/6705091061_cf37a4440e_b.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7147/6705089795_bba0e17c5b_b.jpg

i havent had any film developed in a while but i did one of those hardlyknowher things

http://ihardlyknowher.com/tiepoloceiling/big

decided it was time to go through the archives again

http://ihardlyknowher.com/idiotcervantes/big

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Damn homey

Damn homey

^^ dayo your phots are crushing, the first one is like sadder than bicycle thieves

& plax those photos are amazing, you are like a prism:

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3282/5722072294_2fbed4a700_b.jpg

ilp on fire

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4150/5486972399_73b1bcdb78_b.jpg

agreed, plax making me really want to shoot color!

Everything's looking fantastic here... agreed wrt plax: the clothesline picture is great too.
and I really dig this one from dayo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/idiotcervantes/6705088945/

These are pretty much my recent two pictures:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7168/6704020203_a2a371d1b0_z.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7151/6697727357_2d74636be8_z.jpg

I'm sort of becoming increasingly unsure of why in the world I'm spending so much time putting pictures online though. Anyone else?
Thinking I should maybe just take pictures, get them scanned, and like work on them out of view. Or just do *something else* with them.

yeah I mean that's why I'm getting into (or trying to get into) darkroom printing - remember reading something by frank where he said "always print your pictures. they should live" which ping pongs around in my head

yeah gotta at least get myself a printer

agreed wrt plax: the clothesline picture is great too.

yes. & another: http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5292/5493313659_33d4e9a8ba_b.jpg. i think this reminds me of like eggleston's dolls heads on a car bonnet, in terms of seeming like some weird dispatch from nowhere i have ever been.

i might chronicle this in some kind of private how-do-i-shot-book thread as it progresses but me & a friend are maybe going to put some of ours together, in a book, of some description. i was reading, i think about emmet gowin but maybe not?, & it mentioned that his first thing was a book he made six copies of. & photos having 'object value', & existing in a quantifiable form, feels sorta attractive right now, even as i work through the questions of 'what is the additional value of objects' (in comparison to them existing on the internet, should people end up looking at them) & 'does anyone need a book', etc.

good phots, also, cv. someone who is busy walking & smoking & reading is probably a sensible & oblivious target if you are gonna shoot on the street. there is a lot going on there.

one day I will stop taking photos of lonely people

Some sheep took an interest in the setting up of a tripod.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7148/6709439227_9916b7be2d_z.jpg
Watcha Doin' by carljgodwin, on Flickr
While setting up for this shot. I know it's another sunset shot, but i can't help myself.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7001/6709447359_bd4889527e_z.jpg
Sunset by carljgodwin, on Flickr

those sheep are awesome btw. the light is edward hopperishly directional.

A+ sheep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inwAc-ZBpx0&ob=av2e

would like my entire life to be shaded in colors made pastel by fluorescent lights

lol try again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7yez4lXjBI

dayo have you ever heard of patrick mimran? i hadnt till my little brother gave me a book of his photographs for my birthday:

http://mimran.com/

no I haven't! he has a lot of obsessions

this is the first time ive looked @ his site, its kind of a letdown compared to this book i have

maybe one day I'll get a chance to look at his book! btw looked at all three aloha fridays, great stuff!

thank you, dayo. i am pleased to hear you finally looked at them.

I never ordered mine :(

sb'd u for that.

lol. I have like 10 photography books still in the wrapper ;(

I find that like, 10-20 pictures in 'serious' mode are the most I can do at a time without needing a break.

are they still available? xp

i've been basically defying zine convention and just endlessly reprinting them so its ok

sb'd you for decreasing the collector's value of my copies

oh man my attending just took me on a tour of an awesome spot to shoot on the way home from a home visit. totally know what i'm doing with my saturday morning

you guys are all super nice.

while printing photographs is like, yeah i wish i could afford to do it more often, still its nice to think of it the other way, like what do you get from showing it on the screen. i remember seeing some agnes martin paintings in a slideshow at a talk by an art historian and realising that they made more sense seen that way than in a book because there you can't see that inner luminescence but the slide was able to approximate something of it. i realise this is a different example, but still, photographs are all about light, except when they're y'know, about shadows. but like cigarette smoke curling through morning light, or the pattern from a venetian blind spreading out across the floor. melanie schiff is a photographer i like, i'm pretty sure i've mentioned her on this before. she does these still lifes that are all about light in this way. i like the way they burn on the screen.

http://kavigupta.com/images/KaviGuptaGallery000182.jpg

k, really went for my best Eggleston with this one:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7147/6728677191_179b56be03_z.jpg

^^^really like that. also superior WI is just teeming with egglestonian potential

this is duluth, via iphone

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7016/6737662557_8d40117b08_o.jpg

btw judith yr photos are really gorgeous!

I like mooching around churches, especially when I have a legitimate non-spiritual reason for being there... Anyway, more objects in low light innit*...

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7020/6737984699_eb1cf6e6b8_z.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7175/6737954761_2ac6cdec77_z.jpg

(* - just can't bring myself to post photos of friends in here... )

Such ego! It had to be principal, huh?
Out of curiosity, have you been touching film much at all lately?

That's daughter #2's hand!

Film? Not much lately. Ran a roll of Velvia through the EOS 10 Jun-Aug last year, last used the IX7 APS in September, haven't shot any medium format since last spring and no B&W (Neopan 400CN) since last summer. They're just sitting there, gathering dust at the moment. Keep telling myself that once it's light in the evenings again I'll get out in the garden with the Bronica...

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7144/6785097071_13ac0b6abf_z.jpg

hey

omg

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/62636c26.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/c1a7119e.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/7876ac64.jpg

china that's awesome, it's like you perfected your aesthetic! it is the chinavision ur-text

what did you take those shots w, grady? they're so luminous and granular

thanks!

they're shot with vivitar ultra wide & slim i got at the thrift shop for $4.
http://i.imgur.com/FfQZb.jpg

cross-processed provia 400x

first 2 are Zagreb, the 3rd is Budapest

china that's awesome, it's like you perfected your aesthetic! it is the chinavision ur-text

lol I was thinking something very similar

it'd be like a dayo picture of a middle aged man in HK looking at his open wallet, reflected in a banks storefront window

it's funny cuz it's an old picture from last summer that I think at the time I thought was "too obvious" but now I have no more hangups about obvious. obvious is good.
going through old pictures is surprising sometimes.

that is a cool camera. is provia slide film?? i've used it in the past & can't remember. lovely anyway.

it'd be like a dayo picture of a middle aged man in HK looking at his open wallet, reflected in a banks storefront window

loool

i think i have got a couple of things back that wandered into dayo territory recently, this is my big city at night shot

it's funny cuz it's an old picture from last summer that I think at the time I thought was "too obvious" but now I have no more hangups about obvious. obvious is good.

i am sorta agreeing w/this but based on totally different standards; going back to that thing about what-to-take-a-photo-of, there are things i shoot that feel like they're in over-familiar photographic territory. & i don't think yr textural ny building-material 21c streetsprawl pics qualify! i got this back recently, & know i've shot similar pictures whenever i've walked past a picturesque bird on a lamppost, but i kinda nailed it (thank you cloud), & that sorta beats the other feelings i have about what the picture even is.

going through old pictures is surprising sometimes.

for sure. there might be some stretch of time in the future when i'm back at my folks' place, where all of my regrettable teenage negatives are, & i'd sorta be interested to scan a lot of them, just to see how they come out. sometimes things are v different just out of the context, either of the film/of memory/or of whatever expectations you had at the time that encroach on seeing a picture. i took this a couple of years ago & never really liked it because it's too grey, but it looks okay to me now, as a pic at least.

is provia slide film??

yes. its pretty reliable for shooting in low light and pushing it to 1600. personally, i like shooting it w/ a flash and cross processing:

http://i.imgur.com/lQlTZ.jpg

oh nice. i am on pretty rocky ground w/pushing film, though i feel a lil safer w/b&w. i actually just googled the camera you mentioned, i know i was asking for tips a while ago, but i should really buy something little with a flash to carry around.

^^ great/confusing photo, btw; painted bgrnds in your pics at the gift that keeps on giving

btw the vivitar ultra wide & slim isn't made anymore and they go for stupid amounts of money on eBay, but these are supposed to be identiacal:

http://www.fourcornerstore.com/collections/superheadz-cameras/products/black-slim-devil

all the b&w stuff i posted last week i shot on a weird no-name knock-off i found on eBay. it has the same lens but it has a small flash in it-- i cant shoot daytime w/ it tho because the exposure is too long

"obvious is good" is meant mostly as an admonishment to myself btw. I have a habit of talking myself out of pictures with pretty upfront 'hooks' sometimes and it's good to be reminded that, yes, it's not a bad thing to actually shoot the big obvious thing in the scene, put it front and center, make it look nice, etc.
like sometimes there's a 'big thing' happening or present, and I can convince myself that the skillful thing to do is to take pictures of anything but that. which is just stupid. take the picture of the 'big thing'. too much second guessing and talking myself out of a picture because I'm worried someone else would take it.

http://i.imgur.com/W5gXy.jpg

whoa

warning: picture of a dead body

quite a picture to follow that post

yeah i didnt take that, i was posting it in response to your post, sorry.

fyi: http://www.petapixel.com/2011/03/29/debate-over-fabienne-cherisma-photo-rekindled-after-award-given/

my post leaves a lot of room for amendments and second guessing, and the situation in the picture initiates a lot of that. there are a lot of degrees of the 'big thing' or the obvious subject or the thing that everyone else if photographing, and they don't all need to be treated the same way. my anecdote refers more to the way that I'm trying to cut back on the critical impulse that actually prevents me from taking a picture because some spectacle seems just too clear and has to be resisted. I don't really think that any potential picture is so apparent that it shouldn't be taken; that's an issue for editing.

editing, judgement, whether or not it provokes a feeling of queesiness etc.

no i totally get what you meant and i already regret my cheap and tasteless post in reply

boy tbh I just don't understand the photojournalism world AT ALL. I know from all my reading that, like a good photographer, I should regard all kinds of pictures as part of the same grand effort (art photos, snapshots, news photos, technical photos, etc.) but honestly, it's the journalism ones that I just have no feeling for at all, almost always.

xpost
no! adversarial is good!

the problem i've been having lately isnt so much trying to "not take the obvious photo everyone else would take" but more "don't take the photo i've already taken 100 times with diminishing returns"

lately i've been leaving my camera in my bag thinking "fuck this i already have a million photos of people dancing in this same club"

maybe i just need a new life

that's like how I finally trained myself out of taking pictures of rooftops as I walked around. and other subjects I can't even remember right now where when I see them now I say to myself "no, you always take pictures of this and it NEVER looks good." finally sinking in though. too many pictures of shadows on the ground to count.
I've got a lot of nightlife photos too, but they sort of live in a different world (the social media world) than a lot of others. best thing that ever happened to me was just getting $3 developing.

lately i've been leaving my camera in my bag thinking "fuck this i already have a million photos of people dancing in this same club"

otm. also, a more recent feeling when out and about is "what extra can I bring to this? if I go on Flickr it will already have been covered in every way possible". Portraits are about the only thing left that don't make me feel that.

a more recent feeling when out and about is "what extra can I bring to this? if I go on Flickr it will already have been covered in every way possible"

hm, this is frustrating to me, i'm not sure i totally feel it anymore. i remember a time, probably after signing up for flickr & finding out that so much photo activity was going on, being just swamped by the sets of well-composed, correctly exposed photos people had shot, feeling that there was much less point to continuing to try to chronicle the world, because it was quantifiably being done elsewhere, and in a much glossier, more accessible way. but, i know i posted some emmet gowin interview in the other thread, in which he said one of the paradoxes of working post-robert-frank was that people had been stripped of the authority to go out and discover the world, to go and photograph as an exploration and a document; but had simultaneously been compelled to rely on locality, and their own world, and put aside grandiose documentary urges in favour of finding those truthful or well represented angles that existed in their day to day, cf gowin's beautiful portraits of his wife. & that is def what the argument is, to me, now; i mean there's still "i've taken this picture of the yellow gate next to the green hedge" more than once, but whenever i see a cluster of shots online that have some cumulative narrative - someone's life, someone's neighbourhood, someone's relationship (am referring p specifically to some things that have been in the famous people thread recently), i'm hugely encouraged by how powerful someone else's local detail can be, and so presumably how interesting the texture of my surroundings has the potential to be for someone distant to them. i know there's still 'other people have taken the bird-on-a-lamppost shot', which is true, & maybe i'm getting invested in sets, or gradually amassed context relieving the burden of individual shots being markedly individual. but i still think the point now is to do your own thing rather than to chip away at cataloguing, the way that's collectively being done as everyone puts their stuff online.

Portraits are about the only thing left that don't make me feel that.

yes, for sure, & having got the gesture of a friend or someone on the street is the clearest instance of having got something no-one quite can, or that you would have to have your camera on you to catch

boy tbh I just don't understand the photojournalism world AT ALL. I know from all my reading that, like a good photographer, I should regard all kinds of pictures as part of the same grand effort (art photos, snapshots, news photos, technical photos, etc.) but honestly, it's the journalism ones that I just have no feeling for at all, almost always.

― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Monday, January 30, 2012 11:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

there was a book published in the 70s or early 80s, of journalistic photos taken out of context and just presented as if they were, uh, 'art' photos. can't remember the name of the book though!

Sounds a little like Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel's "Evidence" which I actually love:
http://www.americansuburbx.com/2009/10/theory-evidence-larry-sultan-and-mike.html

the pictures tend towards the technical and (duh) evidentiary, and are taken by sort of uninterested professionals, which is something I enjoy. Technical photographs I can get down with any day.

ah yes, that's the book I was thinking of

so as a VERY amateur photographer i've wanted to jump into these threads, and might someday, but as to this discussion, two of my best friends are photo journos who I know have a separation they do within their photography w/r/t "artistic" and "journalistic" work and I'd really like to introduce them to this thread but I've never hung out here. Would you guys be interested in that pov?

man I found a copy of it at the PS1 book fair and it was selling for like $1,500 or something like that. yowza.

xpost

most def! xp

clay: of course!
my issues with photojournalism are my own personal hang-ups, which is why I resort to weird half-assed language like saying I don't understand it or don't feel it or whatever.

there was a 2003/2004 reissue I think but even that run is sold out and copies going for hundreds xp

alright! I can't and won't claim to speak for them but I'll try to talk to those dudes about wading their feet in here. Both are amazing photographers (the best I've known) who I think would have a lot to say.

P.s. as a longtime lurker of ILP you guys are all really fucking good. I hope you know that.

god I'm just amazed and psyched to hear that ILP actually has lurkers!

i lurk like a madman and second clay on all points.

chinavision, i really like your stuff, and it has actually made me consider subjects i'm sure i would have continued to pass over.

awesome, thanks!
I'm mostly an ILP regular and a rest-of-ILX lurker (for more than a decade now!)

god I'm just amazed and psyched to hear that ILP actually has lurkers!

― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Tuesday, January 31, 2012 8:16 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ha, ^^

there was a 2003/2004 reissue I think but even that run is sold out and copies going for hundreds xp

― dayo, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 14:09 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wow, i had this from a university library here, i'm glad they buy this stuff. & yeah it's a great book, and makes for a fascinating evidence in the argument of what a photo is/how & why you look at it, etc

but had simultaneously been compelled to rely on locality, and their own world, and put aside grandiose documentary urges in favour of finding those truthful or well represented angles that existed in their day to day, cf gowin's beautiful portraits of his wife. & that is def what the argument is, to me, now; i mean there's still "i've taken this picture of the yellow gate next to the green hedge" more than once, but whenever i see a cluster of shots online that have some cumulative narrative - someone's life, someone's neighbourhood, someone's relationship (am referring p specifically to some things that have been in the famous people thread recently), i'm hugely encouraged by how powerful someone else's local detail can be, and so presumably how interesting the texture of my surroundings has the potential to be for someone distant to them.

Two things in play here - sense of place and personalization. If your work isn't personal, then no one's going to give a damn - if you're taking pictures of red tricycles consciously emulating Eggleston or hauling a view camera to Yellowstone to play Adams, the work is just going to be boring. If you're doing either because there's some deeper meaning or impulse to why you do so, then that will show. Combined with projects and plans (for display - book, show, etc.), personal work has a much better chance to be something valuable (to the photographer and maybe viewers).

Sense of place is in the same vein - not an all-encompassing view of a given city or w/e, but a view that encompasses what one person has seen and experienced.

hey so my new housemate that moved in yesterday is a photographer

i guess that means i don't need you guys anymore oh well ill look back fondly

you'll be back when you need to think baout things

i really want to talk more about portraiture. i think going back and getting into the early masters was really made me rethink what i thought photography was. nadar especially. just the way they work within such a limited set of parameters, the different notion of time at work. i feel like one of the reasons i'm hate paul sepuyas work so much is in how badly he misunderstands nadar. or maybe thats unfair and its just that i feel like that's what he's doing when nothing is further from his mind. but even this self portrait seems to be about the amorousness of the camera lens. just the sensuality of sfumato. light, flesh etc. this thought is not even half formed yet but its one i've been trying to have for a while.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Nadar-Self-Portrait.jpg

also my housemate just fixed the lens i thought was broken by putting it on the radiator.

I like your housemate.

housemate otm

she's okay, i'm not that enthused about her. she keeps finding reasons to tell me i'm a pussy.

i love her more with each post.

i just don't like violent movies.

haha aw

some of my favorites from a recent trip to myanmar:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7155/6798766363_3db17d8e3b.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7168/6798707079_1444d3b3fe.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7022/6798596911_2d5f53510b.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7145/6798559837_35a7e2ac8b.jpg

more here: http://ihardlyknowher.com/45183294@N02

<3 'bout time you posted pics here!

http://ihardlyknowher.com/45183294@N02/big

go big or go home

Two things in play here - sense of place and personalization. If your work isn't personal, then no one's going to give a damn - if you're taking pictures of red tricycles consciously emulating Eggleston or hauling a view camera to Yellowstone to play Adams, the work is just going to be boring. If you're doing either because there's some deeper meaning or impulse to why you do so, then that will show. Combined with projects and plans (for display - book, show, etc.), personal work has a much better chance to be something valuable (to the photographer and maybe viewers).

Sense of place is in the same vein - not an all-encompassing view of a given city or w/e, but a view that encompasses what one person has seen and experienced.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, January 31, 2012 11:22 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah, I mean, the question that I think every photographer returns to, probably more than once or multiple times during their career (if not, you're doing it wrong) is why to photograph. why we fight. and maybe each time it becomes a little harder to answer. or maybe for some people, it becomes easier. like they like to take pictures of birds with big telephotos and that's what they'll do for the rest of their lives. idk.

there's two ideas that I bounce around when I think of this. the first is the idea of the visual diarist (or something like this), which has been used by photography critics for awhile now. the idea that a photographer's output is valuable in what milo is saying, a sense of place or personal importance. like, looking at a photographer's collected work, if you know how to read it, tells you what that photographer values, what is important, what she privileges. or at least that's what it should do. no idea what to think if all you've got access to is a ten thousand deep flickr stream. idk.

the other idea is one I picked up from a robert frank interview (I'll scan it soon, I promise!) - the idea of obsession. that a photographer is defined by her obsessions. that photographers are only interesting when they're obsessed. maybe that explains why we all have tropes and symbols we always seem to return to in our photographs. maybe that's why atget would photograph a certain area of paris three, four, five times, always returning. the idea of a return, not as a homecoming, but as a way to shock, to revitalize...

man they're great, rent, the second one kills
xp

... damn, looking at the link dayo put up; these are amazing!
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7149/6798775867_b3af004788_b.jpg

aw thx dudes.

so, any thoughts on what to do when editing, or more specifically, editing for a set of pictures to put up? the most obvious idea is to do common themes, i.e. people eating in restaurants, seascapes, idk. the worry is that once a set's theme is 'revealed' (maybe by the fourth picture or so) then maybe the viewer gets bored.

thought about just picking the best 10 pictures from, say, 50 rolls shot in a row, but then you might lose coherence, or it might feel like "here are 10 pictures that are all nice but don't speak to each other."

hmm

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7009/6805044945_c3d44d9889_z.jpg

love that, gbx

xpost to dayo: on facebook (i dont really do flickr) i intentionally mix up everything chronologically, putting what i think are the best three photos at the top, and try to have little repetition photo to photo

thx dude

i haven't done photos in a while :/

It's been over a year since I've had any inspiration/motivation to go out and take photos. This week I had to as part of two site visits for uni, taking pictures of buildings and derelict sites and stuff, but I just sort of rushed through it (half of the photos came out blurry) because it was cold and the whole process was so catalogue-y ('we need a picture of this street'; 'we need a picture showing cars parked around here'; 'let's get a photo of these listed buildings') that it wasn't really enjoyable.

I haven't really taken photos in weeks. My life is painfully dull right now and I'm suffering from one of those what's-the-point doldrums. Trying to clean up the warehouse to embark on non-photography arts and such to start getting my groove back.

so, any thoughts on what to do when editing, or more specifically, editing for a set of pictures to put up? the most obvious idea is to do common themes, i.e. people eating in restaurants, seascapes, idk. the worry is that once a set's theme is 'revealed' (maybe by the fourth picture or so) then maybe the viewer gets bored.

thought about just picking the best 10 pictures from, say, 50 rolls shot in a row, but then you might lose coherence, or it might feel like "here are 10 pictures that are all nice but don't speak to each other."

hmm

― dayo, Thursday, 2 February 2012 02:58 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

when i started putting pictures online i was choosing from a whole bunch that i had scanned, a ton of film stacked up, here, & so it was probably a little harder to think about what to put where - it ended up being a weird mix of the things i'd felt most urgently compelled to scan, and the pairings dictated by whatever else i had around - so it might be something shot on the same stock, or otherwise something as close together in feel as i could find from everything on hand. & now it's much easier because i put stuff up more sorta diaristically, so usually there might be a few from the same roll, & then an older shot that i haven't got around to uploading if it fits in. diaristic definitely solves a lot of problems for me.

i do think a kinda vague 'mood' sorta grouping is p good, which usually ends up linking a few photos that are similar to another few photos that are similar to that, so can be maybe more narrative than single-topic. i felt a little awkward recently because i'd put up a run of shots, & i had one of a dog sleeping on the pavement, stretched out, & then another of someone i know half-asleep in the sun somewhere, from the same roll. & they fit really well next to each other just because they both had this kinda inattentive-good-subject-sunlit-relaxation thing going, but it would have made me feel awkward for there to be an implied connection of THIS IS MY SLEEPING ANIMALS SERIES, what w/the humans involved.

yr geographic sets look good anyway dayo, so

i don't really keep up with/read bremser but enjoyed this:

http://bremser.tumblr.com/post/16983873652/the-day-apple-buys-kodak

i've shot portra before but idk if i've used 400, i can't get it locally

I really admire you guys shooting people and crowded places, i'm far to uncomfortable with it. I've thought about it and actually headed into town to do it but couldn't bring myself to get the camera out. Maybe i'm just thinking too much about it?

I went out looking for snowy landscapes, came home with this...
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7011/6818436773_b2ca280e93_z.jpg

do you know this thread?

idk its kindof hard to just start taking photos of ppl tho right?

that photo is great

So, I'm trying to get better at photography.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7017/6775950429_73e9bc4fb8_z.jpg
Sadeyes by alan.stephen, on Flickr

I wish I could put my finger on what's wrong with this.

that's a great picture!

only technical tip I have is that it's a little underexposed

raiding my Lightroom archive
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7003/6825920531_1a038de1d3_b.jpg
Alcatraz stairwell by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

Oh man, i wish i could get to visit places like that and get results like that. Nice work milo.

do you know this thread?

idk its kindof hard to just start taking photos of ppl tho right?

that photo is great

― judith, Sunday, 5 February 2012 12:26 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I do, thank you. Still not got me the courage though. I think i'll stick to subjects that won't frown at or assault me...

Early morning wonder, taking advantage of the fog.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7001/6825160863_5281c07e2c_z.jpg

Milo Z and not_goodwin, I think I can spot yr style before I scroll down and see yr names now. Good work!

n g that is awesome.

milo too

milo, you can crosspost that to the ruins photography thread!

love that soft glow, n_g

keepin' em coming

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7146/6826870143_a9254400bd_z.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7012/6824596431_f0ac5d9bed_z.jpg

The last few photos posted here are intimidatingly good! I really need to get out with my camera more. Seoul is so ugly this time of year...

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7169/6793566303_3ca8602a6e_z.jpg

Can't remember what/if I posted in the other thread. Here we go...

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7001/6690815035_3a2feca8d0_z.jpg

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6117/6422165189_9fd564135d_z.jpg

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6018/5906293939_f85dc1e625_z.jpg

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6010/5906299605_105c490ce6_z.jpg

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6201/6131003282_c457965f7d_z.jpg

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6166/6231464056_c7ff572e2a_z.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7020/6541080625_896f51fa4f_z.jpg
Untitled by cwsmith, on Flickr

clay!

plax!

that's a little restaurant on the Oregon coast in a little town called Newport. Most of my photography these days is via iPhone. Kind of embarrassed but sign o the times.

Hello, ILP.

no its so modern!

my friend Cecilia several hours into drinking on Saturday night
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7167/6832595721_f69568f4c4_b.jpg
Cecilia by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

found a lost roll from bosnia
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/98a7f05b.jpg

that's great! it has the thing of being v balanced in a v unruly way

so quiet here now.

i finally organized my pics so the link upthread wont work anymore. im here now if anyone's interested: http://ihardlyknowher.com/kdfo/sets

Gr80 i know you have aloha friday but is there a place besides here that you post eg bosnia pics?

damn rent you get around! i love the goat(?) action shot under "around europe"

xpost: its funny you should ask, as i just put together a zine layout of 100% bosnia/croatia/hungary pixx

its looks awesome but overall its too many pictures of my bros just goofing off, so i'm trying to decide if i want to actually "release" it or just print a few copies for friends and then re-use a lot of the photos on my next proper zine

if i go w/ the latter, i will post the pdf here for free download

if you wanna fbook me, most of my photos are there, including my europe trip (i keep galleries public for about a week or so before switching to "just friends")

also i have a website but i haven't updated the galleries in about a year and a half

facebook makes photos look so gross but i get the most satisfaction w/ posting them there and knowing friends and strangers see them, too lazy to maintain a flickr as well... some day

ha yeah it's a sheep i think. that was in wales. ive been operating for 2.5 years in asia under this unfounded fear that i could get recalled to canada for some reason & at any moment, so have been trying to get to as many places as i can, whenever i can. it's been great, though, obviously. i used to stare at maps a lot as a kid.

i like that you use pics of your friends. me being stupid maybe but ive always kept friend photos and what felt like "photo" photos as separate categories, without ever even giving it much thought...one of a few unexamined habits im now considering thanks to ilp ppl.

anyways, cool, thanks for the links!

lol @ your cover image

Your Euro-trip photos are spectacular gr80

i like that you use pics of your friends. me being stupid maybe but ive always kept friend photos and what felt like "photo" photos as separate categories, without ever even giving it much thought...one of a few unexamined habits im now considering thanks to ilp ppl.

yes! i think about this a lot too. the emmet gowin thing in the other thread about mainly having your life to offer as photographic material changes things a lot.

been quiet because I'm finally building my website! and the website building part went surprisingly fast, with the photo selection and editing taking surprisingly long.
accidentally made a bunch of photos on flickr 'private' and then back to 'public' again, eliminating favorites etc. so now am trying to take it less seriously, no longer posting to groups etc.
the latest is this then:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7038/6884085643_677c8a90f1_m.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7184/6884085435_5dc563406d_m.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7198/6884085243_51a85b6f5c_m.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7187/6884085039_65c0d55ddd_m.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7063/6884084843_5c799e8e6b_m.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7047/6884084543_e6f6f82ea9_m.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7064/6884084351_b722239f3a_m.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7046/6884084155_68b3dc80a1_m.jpg

er probably should have put those side by side, sorry

those are awesome! where was all that paper coming from?

Your Euro-trip photos are spectacular gr80

― Flag post? I hardly knew her! (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, February 16, 2012 1:21 AM (7 hours ago)

thanks! we spent most of our time driving/riding or drunk so i was really limited in what i could shoot. i was the photographer friend on a motorcycle trip, really want to go back and have the ability to stop and take pictures of whatever i want.

that was the giants super bowl victory parade. paper coming from office windows

cough up the website, dude!

oh man I think it's going to take me a little while. i haven't spent any time putting pictures 'together' before so I'm starting from scratch on that, and discovering that what I thought would be coherent sets of images don't mesh as well as i would have expected. a lot of rethinking going on.

thanks! we spent most of our time driving/riding or drunk so i was really limited in what i could shoot. i was the photographer friend on a motorcycle trip, really want to go back and have the ability to stop and take pictures of whatever i want.

― ⚓ (gr8080), donderdag 16 februari 2012 19:54 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The driving, being drunk and party elements are quite present, yes :-)

But there is something very particular and personal, or unique, in nearly all your photos. I can't put my finger on it and I'm horrible at describing an aesthetic image that pleases my eye or touches me in words, but you have the ability to single out moments that many other people wouldn't. The photos really feel like you frame a single moment, a 1000th of a second, yet they breathe and suggest so much motion and life - the seconds before and after the shot linger in it, somehow. Stirring a very particular melancholy, or nostalgic "i wish I was there" feeling within me.

Sorry if that is total gibberish, but they appeal to me in a big way. I need to cough up some dough for those Aloha Friday mags :-)

Did you change film for the black and whites or is it all digital and reworked into b 'n w afterwards?

dude thanks LBI, i'm glad you appreciate them-- add me on fbook i have shitloads more albums... or are we already friends? i forget.

Did you change film for the black and whites or is it all digital and reworked into b 'n w afterwards?

yeah most of europe was shot on kodak bw400cn. there might have been a roll of tmax in the mix. aside from a few shots that were on an expired roll of gold200, the color stuff is all portra160, the xpro stuff is a mix of provia400 and elite chrome (kind of bummed about how the xpro stuff came out-- have had way better results with both of these in the past)

i dont really edit anything color wise or crop anything, except for when the lab fucks up my scans i might 'shop out some scratches/lines or color-correct to a truer black & white

http://i.imgur.com/WkRsE.jpg

is that from the valerian tumblr? I'm hooked on tokyo camera style right now: http://tokyocamerastyle.com/
just pure equipment lust but I don't shy away from it

this is such standard-issue camera-desire-101 that it doesn't necessarily even qualify as equipment lust, but the clicking around i did on http://www.ibarelyremember.com yesterday was such a oh man leicas thing. like the conversation here recently regarding the potential of cameras - small cameras, cheap cameras, etc - is very reassuring and true to me, but i like having the idea of there being an out of reach camera, which would obviously up my game, &c

the couple of mentions/fridgefuls of t-max on there are interesting. i'm still waiting for my first real roll of that to come back from developing; i shot one once that got eaten up. curious to see what it's like, i can't imagine it being any nicer than tri-x

also basic: could someone testify to the purpose/effectiveness of the kinda extended 'collar' kind things on most of those lenses, pictured at china's link? is it a light thing or?

you know tmax's rep as far as I can tell is that it is extremely fine-grained and gives good mid values. but as someone who loves fine-grained mid values, I never really got along with it. I think tri-x has advanced so much over the years that it is pretty smooth itself, and if you really are after that smoothness, then some ilford films really take you there. fp4 is what I'm thinking of maybe?
you're talking about the lens hood on those cameras. it's used to cut out light hitting the lens surface at an angle, which causes a loss of contrast (say you're pointed towards the sun, and although it's out of frame its rays still strike the glass and cause contrast loss... basically the hood throws a shadow over the glass). I went without one for a long time, but then started taking more pictures facing south in the winter in nyc and realized why one could be helpful. the added benefit is that it makes it harder for an object to bump into your lens.

speaking of small cameras, I came across two olympus stylus epics recently, and they are now my new 'going out' cameras. pretty good 35mm lens point and shoots.

it seems i'm mainly seeing B&W in 2012
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7037/6887578561_5b09761ca3_z.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7068/6865469181_f42d300b22_z.jpg

thanks for that, china. i love grain but saw some nice fp4 scans somewhere recently (in a guy's great set of fuji presto & other b&w stuff) & might give it a shot. lens hood info interesting also.

Other benefit of a hood - protect the front element in a bag or from bumping into stuff if you're clumsy. I keep one on my lenses rather than use a protective filter or lens cap, unless the lens is worth more than the rest of my worldly possessions (like the Leica 35mm I sold a couple of months ago).

those pictures that you linked actually look pretty grainy to me still, schlump! I imagine it's because he's rated the film at 400 iso.
here's an example of what I consider to be some pretty smooth fp4:

http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1114/5116423732_956f9bf64b_z.jpg

oh sure yeah - sorry i kinda careened towards 'but fp4 looks generally nice anyway!' rather than 'but who needs grain anyway'. feel like i haven't seen any of yr b&w stuff before, china, or have just got used to the colour, that's nice. i was using this interesting, weird agfa film for a while recently, i think pushed to 800, & got some v nice tones:

http://cn1.kaboodle.com/hi/img/c/0/0/42/6/AAAADAwSmaQAAAAAAEJuAQ.jpg?v=1239562205000

i think i maybe like getting mids, & getting some gradation of greys, while there's still definitely some dark/black in the picture, for range. i'm saying this like it's something i can control, where as it's just not using 100 speed film that's gonna come out in a narrow range of midtones - a lot of my associations for b&w film are of it looking washed out, & muted, rather than boldly transformed from colour to this new, other spectrum, & it's only really 400+ speed film i can ever seem to get that from.

(i'm doing that thing again, here, where bc i'm awkward about posting particular pics itt i'm just gonna link to some stuff i've uploaded. via the schlump profile below this; on the page linked there's a bunch of b&w stuff towards the end that is kinda richer for me for its higher contrast. i think i wondered if that would be what the lens hood did, wrt colour photography: stop the bleaching of lens flare and so create a richer, darker tonal range, etc).

dude thanks LBI, i'm glad you appreciate them-- add me on fbook i have shitloads more albums... or are we already friends? i forget.

Did you change film for the black and whites or is it all digital and reworked into b 'n w afterwards?

yeah most of europe was shot on kodak bw400cn. there might have been a roll of tmax in the mix. aside from a few shots that were on an expired roll of gold200, the color stuff is all portra160, the xpro stuff is a mix of provia400 and elite chrome (kind of bummed about how the xpro stuff came out-- have had way better results with both of these in the past)

i dont really edit anything color wise or crop anything, except for when the lab fucks up my scans i might 'shop out some scratches/lines or color-correct to a truer black & white

― ⚓ (gr8080), donderdag 16 februari 2012 22:02 (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

We're not friends on facebook for I am not on it, apart from a spoof account i needed to enter the outloud music room. But if a guy with a fake Dutch name adds you soon, someone with no friends or profile at all, that will be me. Thanks dude!

Thanks for the background on your photos. I think the black and whites especially worked out brilliantly.

is that from the valerian tumblr? I'm hooked on tokyo camera style right now: http://tokyocamerastyle.com/
just pure equipment lust but I don't shy away from it

― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Friday, February 17, 2012 5:33 AM (9 hours ago)

a dude in hawaii does this: hawaiicamerastyle.com (i'm on page three)

We're not friends on facebook for I am not on it, apart from a spoof account i needed to enter the outloud music room. But if a guy with a fake Dutch name adds you soon, someone with no friends or profile at all, that will be me. Thanks dude!

one of my fbook friends is a Dutch dude i found on flickr offering to GIVE AWAY a Leica MiniZoom (i'd been watching them go for $100 on eBay). i hit him up and he shipped it halfway around the word to me for $0.00, asking only that i email him photos i took with it

That's how cool we are http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

Very sweet deal gr80.

TOP is running some great posts on how B&W pics can look different

http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2012/02/bw-through-the-years.html
http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2012/02/interpreting-black-and-white-part-i.html

wow I *just* closed my attempt at that black and white conversion before checking this thread. the initial post was pretty great on there.

come on dudes, I'll do it... gotta rack up view counts somehow:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7178/6773433706_317683825a_m.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7058/6919335181_b66b76a5f2_m.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7202/6919241629_527fe34837_m.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7055/6913955775_8ec7bd9be4_m.jpg

return to the scribbly wall

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PP

i can't remember if i already said this, you are the only guy who makes modern cars look okay, in photos/takes photos in which cars are not some awkward difficult element actively ruining the photo. this isn't a car thing, it is a photo thing.

behind the scenes scribbly wall director's cut remix also great

the one of the bus stop is so balanced, I love it

oh this is great, cv: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7069/6913136509_b23bd214bc_b.jpg

thank you!
re: modern cars, it's not something I *specifically* try to shoot, but I have always been really bothered by some people I'm contacts w/on flickr who obviously love shore, eggleston etc. and always shoot OLD CARS. those cars weren't old when they were photographed guys! part of a trend of people who try to mimic their fav. old photographers by photographing stuff from the same era of their fav. work.
that WOMP tag is all over for some reason

yes, for sure. i mean i think such a key thing about eggleston is his eye for design, or fixtures, or fashion, which must have seemed fairly mundane & ordinary, but which carry a lot of power after the fact. & the retro-(/decay?)-documentation urge is definitely counter to the idea of filling the same role as a photographer.

yup people seem unable to separate the style/technique/goals etc. of a photographer from the subject. folks left hunting for scenes that look like they miiiight pass for 1973.

I'm purchasing the Canon 10-22mm at the end of this month, anyone used/owed one? I'm off up to Loch Etive next month and wanted a good wide angle lens.

Something the keep the thread going...
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7182/6931456253_8e5213d6b6_z.jpg

I have one. I deliberated for a loooooooooong time over it (kept waffling over Canon vs Tokina) but I'm pretty happy I chose the Canon.

I think I walked by the same antique shop seen in one of Elvis Telecom's Feb 6 posts:

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/abe999ca.jpg

Ha! When were you in Bisbee?

yes! spent the day there today. hadn't been there in years. took a few b&w photos too. will post them when I get them back if they're any good.

Birkenhead Hamilton Square station. I waited for many trains here in my youth...

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7068/6790639324_447d9d136c_z.jpg

not_g: played with a 10-22mm once, at the top of a Peckham multi-storey car park...

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2546/3717669520_aaa15e3d66_z.jpg

A recent favorite. The south face of Mount St. Helens, out the window of a plane, with a telephoto lens.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7030/6834128575_027fe13f40_z.jpg

niiiice

It's a crazy-sharp lens, and one of my favorites. (Though at this point it's like picking favorite children.) It's an 80's model push-pull zoom, 70-210mm. No auto-focus, but in situations like this that serves me well, because I don't want to trust the camera to decide what's most important. I'm looking at hundreds of miles, ffs.

I think from time to time that I'm venturing into more saturated pictures, but then I scan some old kodachrome slides and realize what heavy saturation *really* is:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7040/6790895690_d26a40409c_z.jpg

Kodachrome: jellybeans for your eyes!

ha that's amazing, it makes me categorise the past as a time when everything looked like kodachrome/everyone was on acid all the time (/everything was orange)

yeah it's funny because looking at it, it seems *right* to me because, of course, LA was sun-drenched orange and yellow when I took it, but if I took the same picture now with, say, fuji superia, I wouldn't get ANYTHING like this, and if I pumped up the reds and the saturation etc. I'm sure it would just feel wrong!
also the black blacks... I'd be kicking myself if I let my blacks get that dark with print film, but with slide film the decision is made for me, and it kinda looks good? I'm thinking of messing around with chromes a little more again. I can't get the *greatest* scans of them, but whatever.

slightly off-topic, I noticed that an installation picture I did was used on LPV: http://lpvmagazine.com/2012/02/medium-1/ (the Art Blog Art Blog one)... and I now realize that that gallery series has been written about quite a bit, with my documentation accompanying most articles. I did it pretty unprofessionally anyway... in exchange for vacation time upstate.

http://lpvmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/artblog.jpg

but with slide film the decision is made for me, and it kinda looks good?

heh yeah there was a photographer who shot slide film in the south american tropics - the exposure range is so wide due to the harsh light that he just said fuck it and let the shadows go to pure black and got these amazing, color film noir-ish photos. can't remember the name of the photographer but there was a post on TOP about it.

I've seen those! and yeah they look good.

I think it's fun noting that all the instagram/hipstamatic filters are sort of the equivalent of how film manufacturers tweaked their films back in the day - kodachrome, velvia, etc.

except we are very conscious of the artifice when using iphone filters - films, though, felt 'natural'

heh yeah there was a photographer who shot slide film in the south american tropics - the exposure range is so wide due to the harsh light that he just said fuck it and let the shadows go to pure black and got these amazing, color film noir-ish photos. can't remember the name of the photographer but there was a post on TOP about it.

link plz

http://www.webbnorriswebb.com/

http://i.imgur.com/1sq1o.jpg

alex webb - I think he is an ILP favorite

check out 'the mouth of night (paraguay)' on the website

alex webb is one of those photogaphers who makes you want to quit everything, sell all your possessions except for your cameras and travel the world and take amazing pictures

sigh

these aren't mine, i like my housemates photos tho

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzwyxz11Tn1qzck11o1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1330694020&Signature=OSUPvM8IcOqP4oqKnl46TVw5o1k%3D

http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/necoutepaslesidoles/15134450502/1/tumblr_lx4vbxMGxs1qzck11

http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/necoutepaslesidoles/15134092140/1/tumblr_lx4uy8ZdaC1qzck11

I like the last one especially.

yeah the white on white is nice

first one is my sitting room

i like the chairs one v much

she gets how to use this hard frontal flash which is a technical thing i am jealous of, v nan goldinish.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7199/6932041575_0c4baa7501_z.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7061/6794047844_56d93fd50f_z.jpg

recent faves.
there's a little of that frontal flash there, though whether I know how to use it I couldn't say. it's from an olympus stylus epic, which has become my new 'going out' camera. I love it!
(I found one for $15 at a flea market, but the day *after* I ebayed one for $25, so my gf gets one too.)

stylus for second pic. top is still the leica.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7203/6942902391_90915281e1.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7176/6796787314_92674697e5.jpg

Yes.

aw, my pickles vanished :(

i liked the pickle jar a lot

me too.

You can still click on the empty image slot and get to it people, don't be sad.

Oddly compelling.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7049/6799439316_5cb89ec3f0_z.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7066/6819873120_60147ff31c_b.jpg
so lonely by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

hey i got some film back in the first time in forever.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7069/6970538887_56ec8200cc_z.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7056/6824417218_68f0c02105_z.jpg

love the 2nd one!

thanks lol trending #whiteonwhite

I really like the first one too. I'm also wild about mirrors. But really that's some great light.

feelin' the tiles, light, and reflections in milo z's last one too

haha I was thinking more about the white on grey on pale yellow, the paleness of it all

like milo's one as well - feel like it would work really good in a series

series is what I'm thinking too, but nothing I've taken similar to that has worked yet
<3 the cool tones of #whiteonwhite

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7051/6824812596_a362bd3ec9_z.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7194/6804547496_4879a904ba_z.jpg

I love pictures of meals!

#whiteonwhite got me doing this

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/ad40aa42.jpg

RIP kodachrome

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/7ef9f212.jpg

RIP all kodak chromes, for that matter. based on recent discussion I picked up some Fuji T64 since, yeah, how much longer can a film like *that* have? I have no clue how I'll use it though.

cross-processing tungsten slide film used to be a thing

iirc the "thing" to do is shoot tungsten in sunlight then get it developed normally

a few photos from a roll i shot that way:
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/e4f63762.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/664d0ed3.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/152a954e.jpg

tungsten film has a built in white balance shift - it's like setting your digicam's white balance to tungsten. I think its primary use is for indoor shots with mixed lighting. hear it's popular with museums for taking photographs of paintings in interior lighting?

but yeah shoot it in sunlight. I barely saturated the color here and the blues just overtook everything..

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/5212a9d7.jpg

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/cfa6f76d.jpg

Cross-processing tungsten, you get a blue cast, but more pop to other colors than if you just process normally.

Tungsten was originally primarily for shooting with studio hot lights, but it also worked for household incandescent (if you had enough light at all to shoot 64 ISO). I still have a couple of boxes of 4x5 sheets of 64T that I never got to use. They're horribly out of date (6 years, no refrigeration), I should try them in my pinhole.

I'll mess around. A few inside, a few out. You can bet I'll use the SLR that's got an f1.4 lens though for 64 ISO.

picked up an LTM to M adapter for my russian 50mm lens today. kinda psyched about that as it's a largely uncoated (and thus kinda hazy) lens. I dig the look, and can carry it with the Leica now.

got a shitload of film developed today!!!
(sorry if this is posting too many)

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/0a4b7609.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/82657824.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/dc225dfe.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/b4fa9356.jpg
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http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/e03d90a8.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/72153966.jpg
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/3e68c47f.jpg

they're so beautiful! the wide expansive ones particularly. what were you shooting with?

saw them on fb - yeah great stuff! that's not the c-41 bw400cn is it?

thanks dudes!

yeah all the B&W is bw400cn-- its all i've been shooting lately. when it's that reliably good while being so cheap & available (and cheaper to get developed) its really a no brainer.

the color one is on superia 400

schlump i shot all but the 2nd one down with my yashica t4. the 2nd one down with a weird no-name point and shoot i found of eBay that is like a vivitar ultra wide & slim but with a built in flash.

here is the rest

i like all the cactus shots! (and also your friend's Orbison shirt)

This is kind of off topic but I couldn't really find a more appropriate thread (sorry).
Anyway, UK people might be interested in this: http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=13357

lol i took this photo and i think the photo ref that occurred to me first was chinavision

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7039/6978054203_cf9ce24787_z.jpg

haha rule #2 of photography: always photograph construction materials, cones, bars, etc.
nice dual rows of cones/posts, complete with diagonal shadows!

Here's a glimpse of home: Caton Avenue, where I live (sort of; really where the back entrance to my building is)

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7200/6978071543_5ee7b9011f_z.jpg

testing 500px embed

http://pcdn.500px.net/1977354/649f1044432ed706bbd9eb8f93b09f35b5bc48a3/4.jpgMade in China by Matt Powell</font>

http://pcdn.500px.net/1977365/641f28774530dc54b27abbc5bdaedfc66eca736c/4.jpg
Made in China II by Matt Powell

hey, salsa, what was your link? the site can't find the info, unless you were publicising a gallery show from 1899

How odd, they seem to have removed the page and other mentions of the exhibition. They're supposed to be doing an 'international photography 1960s/1970s' thing (IIRC) starting in September. It seemed really interesting so I hope it hasn't completely dropped off the program.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7191/6840376158_e2ffb2aa3e_b.jpg
Untitled by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

love it!

getting negs back today

Randomly walked up a back alley and caught the whole process of someone painting a graffiti mural. This is near the end of the process (obv). The only downside was that they got me so stoned, by the time they were finishing it up, I almost forgot how to operate my camera.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7194/6977964239_0bdac3b08b_z.jpg

i'm shooting here all weekend again:

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=87283#unread

ILX?

its on 77-- post a request for access here: Request Access to 77 Borad

(i will vouch for you, as i am sure the rest of ILP crew will)

gotcha. sent in my app.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7195/6988670635_401daaaec0_z.jpg

cones!

can't let cones go ever

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7199/6989126545_cf6c1a9473_b.jpg
Concert in the Park by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7052/6990610339_4b920906c2_b.jpg
Cat-hair 'stache by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

haha

what are those shot w/ milo?

My old D700 and a 50mm lens.

Love both of those. Love.

in the spirit of rule #2 of photography (sadly lacking cones)

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7056/6846434494_9a7cf94276_z.jpg

Drizzly day around the shabby industrial wasteland where I grew up... encouraged me to shoot B&W JPGs but, of course, I now wish they were all Raw and I could undo some of the damage of careless in-camera settings (sharpening, chiefly):

(United Molasses tanks at the bottom of my old road; I remember the day in the mid-'80s one of these blew up, or blew its top at least):
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7037/6845141992_2861dd326a_z.jpg

(I think this freight line used to serve Bidston docks and the Mobil Oil terminal, both of which are effectively gone; definitely in regular use in the early '90s...not now)
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7176/6845136052_aa561a1602_z.jpg

(Level crossing in the same place as the above; colour Raw, this time...)
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7065/6846671198_75e20f63c6_z.jpg

I got suckered into attending a baby shower so I could drink Everclear Punch and keep the father and and grandfather entertained.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7262/6998245533_8046ea2881_b.jpg
he loves it when you call him Big Poppa by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6214/6852146784_4fb2be5d57_b.jpg
Rumplemom by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7138/6998268755_f81bf8fab4_b.jpg
Why don't I have one? by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

They're great, Milo.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7072/6852663176_baba3dd9be_z.jpg

St. Patrick's Day. Damn, girl, damn girl, damn girl, damn.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7225/6854028364_b8d9fd1808_c.jpg

it's just unfair.

she sold me some corn right outside work today, with a discount for being handsome :)

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7225/6858797530_2745b8a7f5_c.jpg

I'd be extremely happy just taking photographs of Korean street sellers.

here you guys go

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7230/7004233897_59b6a95ff8_c.jpg

when that came up on my "new images from yr contacts" stream I zoomed all the way in to read it

I'm sure everyone is tired of seeing this picture, but I keep monkeying with it because a) I'm no good at color and b) it's really easy to work on

Downloaded a free Mac RAW processor called Raw Photo Processor - it's not fully-featured, but it does most things and will export as a TIFF to go back into Photoshop or Aperture or w/e. There's also a plugin available for Lightroom if you donate, which I'm going to do. Most importantly, it's the only software that gets the Kodachrome look right, IMO - everyone else makes it garish, like a orange Velvia on steroids. In my mind, Kodachrome has solid, neutral colors, but it's rarely harsh.

So:
LR4 into Color Efex Pro, trying to keep it from being too contrasty but it's still too warm:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7218/6861475322_6e9abfa71c.jpg
LR4 into Color Efex Pro by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

RAW file opened with RPP, I let it adjust exposure, etc. and applied the K64 profile plus 20 saturation. Gets much closer to what I've been trying to get out of color files - not too saturated, but the colors are good (when you just lower contrast in LR4 it looks like a fog is being dropped over everything IMO).
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7099/7007590671_b19e391269_c.jpg
RPP K64 by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

and then: above RAW file imported to LR4 and out to Color Efex Pro, to monkey with contrast and warm it up a little. Very, very close now to what I've been trying to get out of color people photography, I think. But kind of an enormous pain in the ass. At least I get to sit in a lighted room listening to music rather than fumbling in a darkroom, I guess.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7258/7007589057_d8cabf0cf8_c.jpg
RPP K64 + Color Efex Pro 4 by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://i.imgur.com/YSAWC.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/JwqHh.jpg

i don't know why imgur is only loading one of those and not the other :(

imgur is having some problems

dope imo, light leaks look p cool in black and white. what camera?

i shot it with this, which started giving me problems mid-day, including coming open before rewinding (hence light leaks).

most of the roll was ruined but it made some kind of boring shots look cooler

hey now the 2nd one is loading :)

the light leaks work pretty fantastically well on those!

figured it was time to jump on IHKH: ihardlyknowher.com/davejm

looks good! I think a lot of your pictures in particular benefit from the large display size.

momus!

right, three recent favorites:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7113/7033375481_cbf4f40a68.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7271/6882277548_5d02c3e979.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7277/6876463522_c509383db1.jpg

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/photos/the-hottest-live-photos-of-2012-20120111/no-age-0783724

^ me /braggin

nice one!

very cool! I'll see no age here in seoul soon, actually :)

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7217/6896601586_06b1a4f8fa_b.jpg

(Cool thread, guys)

cool pic, admrl ;)

thanks!

oh nice. i love that it looks not so much fisheyed as actually subsided.

and here's a recent iPhone image I am proud of =D
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7043/6892887605_8184e5a7d1_b.jpg

http://i11.tinypic.com/53ucxtl.gif

I started messing around with black and white in the first time in about a year or so. seriously considering trying to get into the home developing game eventually, but I'm also not quite ready to give up color. well I mean I'll never give up color, since it's kinda my favorite, but I can imagine a future where I do color in digital, and black and white on film, depending on the future availability of color film etc.

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5117/6903248328_34a4c56d3e.jpg http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5336/7049340649_7ea8c196c8.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7046/7049340539_29e2e0450f.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7113/6903247972_a375b42651.jpg

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5324/6903247646_8d9b8cba37.jpg http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5336/7049339969_609dfc8a9e.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7193/7052676825_e74b271d2e_b.jpg
Not bad for 88 by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7214/6906591924_0ea658c96d_b.jpg
DSCF3443.jpg by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7078/6906584548_8368036b48_b.jpg
Mugging by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

I think maybe those are broken

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7193/7052676825_69393f4f69_b.jpg
Not bad for 88 by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7214/6906591924_3f0018931b_b.jpg
Magic Fire by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7078/6906584548_d013794686_b.jpg
Muggin' by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

Looking good for 88, i doubt i'll be alive at that age.

Have been to Scotland, let's get the castle out of the way...
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5324/6904112300_26ba2c38b2_z.jpg
Kilchurn Castle

ahh china those black & whites kill, it's so interesting seeing your stuff shot without colour. the candles are great. do you really see switching to digital colour as viable? i don't keep up with new digital cameras but it still feels like not the same sport to me.

switching to digital for color is still just an idle thought for me. probably couldn't afford to think about it for some years anyway, so it's all academic, but especially since the introduction of the x-pro 1 I'm keeping an eye on new digital cameras and imagining how they might fit in with my picture taking. I'm sure it's not gonna be the same, but that'll just make it interesting. I tell myself someday I'll probably switch to digital and when it happens it'll actually be exciting to change tools and techniques. until then I'm gonna shoot film as long as it's available at prices I can afford.

yeah those b&ws kill. what camera?

that's with the Leica M2, using Fuji Across 100. just picked up a 3 pack of Ilford FP5 this week too (ahead of all the Passover camera store closings!) that I'm shooting at the moment. don't think I've used that stuff before.

also finally sold a voigtlander lens of mine! so that I can pay off the 50mm I bought a couple weeks ago :/

The framelines on the XP1 don't feel the way Leica framelines do to me. There's something about the way they jump from one plane to another (parallax correction) that confuses me about where they really are, etc.. I'm sure it will just take more time with it.

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5451/7055238707_9788dda150_c.jpg

she's watching!

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7053/7055696993_947cfbcda9_z.jpg

that's with the Leica M2, using Fuji Across 100. just picked up a 3 pack of Ilford FP5 this week too (ahead of all the Passover camera store closings!) that I'm shooting at the moment. don't think I've used that stuff before.

― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Saturday, 7 April 2012 22:03 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow. they're so contrasty. i shot a bunch of delta 3200 in glorious sunshine recently, which i haven't seen yet, but i kinda love being able to get super dark blacks when outside. yrs don't look like 100 film to me, but i've never used acros afaik.

i realised there are a bunch of ilfords i haven't tried - like the 200 speed infrared one - so i'm trying to squeeze those in also.

I think Acros really responds to the developer - or at least there are photographers on flickr who use Acros and get these metallic, silvery tones from XTol (or so they claim) that I've never been able to replicate. I think they use medium format or large format Acros too, and it may be that laws of physics make it more conducive to achieve that effect with a larger negative...

I was working towards a bit more of a high contrast image than I normally go for too, in the scanning phase, and also by shooting it at the box speed for the most part.

i think of your style having so much to do with color, but it translates so well to black & white-- nice photos!

thanks dude... it's def kinda weird getting used to it again. have to remind myself to stop taking pictures of cool colorful things.
the current passover-related film purchasing drought (and a little restlessness preceding it) made me pick up a bunch of unusual films before last Friday, so now I'm shooting a bunch of stuff I don't normally mess with. usually I am ALL about fuji superia 400 and basically nothing else. this is sinking in as I go though old negs.

i got a bunch of superia 400 for christmas and i love it

thanks dude... it's def kinda weird getting used to it again. have to remind myself to stop taking pictures of cool colorful things.

ha, this is my main motivation for picking up another camera, so i can walk around with something small, loaded w/colourful film in my bag, and carry a camera loaded w/tri-x. i get so into shooting colours at this time of year because the streets are so bright, blossom is coming out, the stone of buildings is lit up by sun (colours; shooting blossom not in colour), & it feels ridiculous to have to glide by some synaesthetically bright scene because you're just gonna grade it in greys.

i have about 80% of my next zine laid out, waiting on about 5 more rolls to get developed before i finish it-- i think its a lot more boring than my past efforts, but i think i'm ok with that.

2 tentative spreads:

http://i.imgur.com/rIXmn.png

http://i.imgur.com/zI6Hm.png

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5350/7062643555_3af5742657_b.jpg
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5341/6916562976_24d5dff915_b.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7068/7062639195_c343a5dd64_b.jpg

kinda obv but w/e

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5448/7062641469_aa9a899e36_b.jpg

i like them! what kind of film?

that's the bog standard bw400cn stuff that got scanned all contrasty at cvs

i spent easter morning driving to 4 diff drug stores looking for that stuff, haw

the local cvs always seems to have exactly two rolls at any given time, it's magical

nice shots gbx! some rad architecture where you live

good highlight recovery on the last one of the three you posted initially

Did you rescan them somewhere else, gbx? They look good

you framed lost real nice, gbx
& i love those grids, gr8080; i got super invested in how photos can play with each other after seeing the spreads hiroyuki ito put together, from the famous people thread

Did you rescan them somewhere else, gbx? They look good

thx dudes! those are the basic scans from cvs. I've got some others that better rep some of the shortcomings. def want to try a home scanner for comparison

I'd be interested to see the more problematic scans. those ones you posted look about as good as I'd expect lab scans to look, in terms of light/dark balance etc.
in fact I've seen a lot worse. heavy contrast and blown highlights are perennial lab scan issues.

yeah gbx those look pretty great for cvs

I guess this one was the main offender:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7048/6916557438_b62556249c_b.jpg
08_9.jpg by skowlyfield, on Flickr

hella blown in the upper left

doesn't look particularly blown to me, could be better natch, but...

what's all that noisy stuff then? dust? scratches?

fwiw I'm realizing that I first appraised these pics on my tv and not my monitor---that thing is contrasty as heck

damn son your photos were on tv???

nbd

upon zooming in, that looks like really bad sharpening artifacts from the cvs scanner

you can see the same artifacts on the right hand side, the chain link fence

for sure there's prob a ton of 'microdetail' or w/e that aren't shown in the scans

aha!

the images weren't v big, you can see the originals on flickr

girl I was with would not have been pleased if I had moved toward the stage to actually be photographer-esque, but the XPro-1 went to the Hold Steady tonight

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7060/7069828285_7462855711_b.jpg
Craig Finn of the Hold Steady, The Loft, Dallas by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7267/7069826597_ae8ea17d49_b.jpg
Craig Finn of the Hold Steady, The Loft, Dallas by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/5828/349f.jpg

nice

man u guys makin me want to shoot color

i just looked at china's ihkh
& the recent return-to-colour is just wow

have you shot colour w/the leica, much? because your digital colour stuff was beautiful

sunshine makes me want to shoot colour, but i've just been walking around shooting the ground for a few weeks, it feels like it has maybe become my schtick. i thought i could collect the photos & publish them as street photography.

your digital colour stuff was beautiful

the guy on the truck
some other stuff too

thanks man! i haven't shot color with the m6 yet, no, but i plan to once i can get my hand on some...superia? is that the ish around here?

i kinda never liked superia ..??, though i am not totally rigorous with these decisions, & it might be just that i associate it with all of the photos i took before i started playing with less common film.

yeah superia 400 is the standard fuji color neg, should be pretty easy to get at wal-mart or some other big box store

I usually stick w superia 400 and overexpose by a stop. Smooth grain, good detail. It *can* suffer from green/magenta issues, but home scanning fixes that for me. Labs will vary.
Probably 70% of my color photos are superia. The equivalent cheap Kodak shows much more grain.

All abou the cheap films by the way. Kodak and Fuji consumer stuff can all be found for about $3/roll.

yeah I'm drawn to the idea of buying cheap film, and doing cheap drug store developing, why because it's an aesthetic also I am cheap and lazy

yeah dudes will say that fuji doesn't give accurate skin tones, but then those dudes will also happily spend $7 per roll.
I love cheap cheap cheap. part of which is just coming up with a system and not deviating from it. efficiencies of scale etc.

full disclosure though: last few pictures of mine were on ektar (can't get large supplies of fuji in nyc during passover!)

yeah I figure if I were to try and get in too deep into some perfect scheme I just wouldn't produce. otoh there's a cvs a block away so I might as well focus on volume right now

Portra 160 is still prob my preferred color film for flash photography

I need to start scouting local spots for color. The price difference at Amazon/B&H isn't enough to not go w/ Portra, but I'd like cheap.

just dropped two rolls and picked up four more of the bw400cn. we'll see about this.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7209/6928599460_73a7c5a014_b.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7086/7074681109_fef21216b2_b.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7236/6928599164_2089212c86_b.jpg

ruined
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5119/7074680667_bf49e238ae_b.jpg

i stopped in ritz camera while running some errands at the mall and they had this oddball Vivitar 100 iso B&W film for $4, kind of weird looking, but i'm stoked to give it a go:

~special moments~

rly like that last one ev

thanks mang, i was gonna post it in wdyll but i didn't want to cop yr style

lol no worries go ahead and post that ish

they're practically cones!

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7234/7076431429_31fa1186dc_c.jpg

I wonder how many of those things get stolen, they're great.

Another one from Scotland trip.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7266/6930429268_5aa868fafc_c.jpg

up to your usual impeccable standard. you've got a knack for nailing the tone of an image.

Thank you very much.

blacks are so v tricky

^compliment of your blacks

IDK if these count or not but I've been getting bored of shooting shows lately and have been making these to make life harder for myself:

http://richardgin.blogspot.com/2012/04/work-harder.html

Re: previous tricky blacks

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7129/7077968861_943e63ea59.jpg

this one made me laugh:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7075/6933704168_eb88a19f7a_z.jpg

^dope.

jimmy mod: the mobile/iPhone view of your site is kind of screwy fyi

Great stuff on this thread. I always say that but I do mean it.

25 days in the US. I'll never have a break from work like that again in my life, so it has been thoroughly documented (well, as best I could with the kids around). Still importing photos from 40D, ZE-1 (cheapo Kodak thing I bought from Target on day 2 cos I wanted a pocket video camera), our two smartphones... It's gonna be around 4000 images.

I don't know where to start, but at the end - flying home:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7059/7079897737_188c322a10_z.jpg

Gaylord MCing at the Chickfactor shows (mindful of running out of memory, I started shooting a lot of ISO 1600 B&W JPGs at night - this is near-SOOC, just cropped):
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5275/7079913989_5b668cc65c_z.jpg

I know just how you feel, I'm uploading holiday photos myself and filtering down from about 2000 pictures as I go.

Maybe I should've just taken the EOS 10 + 50mm, six rolls of Fuji Superia 400, four rolls of Ilford Delta 3200, rationed myself to 15 shots per day, and let Jacobs do the rest. (Phones could've handled the blow-by-blow FB documentation).

I've taken so many similar landscape shots it's really all about trying to find the right ones. But yes, I did all the day-to-day FB shots by phone.

I backed up cards every couple of days to my wife's netbook (small and light enough to stick in our luggage) and did some tweaking of choice shots with Picasa, uploading from there (plus the occasional on-the-spot upload from a phone where we had WiFi). Those moment-of or day-of photos will have had far more impact and meaning to those involved than what I'll do on Flickr over the next week or so. But the latter is the "permanent" record, I guess.

gr8080 -- I know. I'm not terribly happy about it but I'm not 100% sure what I want to do.

RE: editing insane amounts of pics: I don't even bother going thru lightroom etc for most stuff. I open everything up in preview and slam through it as quickly as possible judging on composition before focus or content. Like, if I can make a baseline judgement about something in a fraction of a second there's very little to be gained from sitting and studying it further.

related: http://www.derekshapton.com/planet_shapton/?p=1324

1 gig is 36 shots? 27MB a file? jeez

yup

ooh baby I like it RAW

After day 3 in Florida it became clear to me that I should stop shooting everything Raw because (i) I was going to be forced to buy more cards and CF is now 4x the price of SD in high-street stores (sucks to have 2007 technology, but there we are), (ii) so many pics were ISO 100-200 in glorious light and I trust myself to get decent in-camera results in those conditions (even if my options were reduced later on) and (iii) while Picasa happily opens Canon .cr2 files...it can't exactly do a lot with them (or I couldn't make it so).

Eventually dumped that first week to a $12 8GB USB stick I got in Target and recycled the cards.

There won't be much studying of these in LR - just a lot of pick and delete, maybe 5-10/day will make the Flickr sets (and it'll be mostly family stuff).

There's no RAW support for my Fuji, so I'm having to live with JPGs for now. It feels strange to look at them without immediately going to curves, etc. but it's kind of nice.

the recent color

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7189/7082242267_81d39b25d5.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7109/6933750908_b32a73e7d0.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7036/6931887652_af94b7e72c.jpg http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5464/6926263424_d45fafe5da.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7133/7069963871_90698b23d4_b.jpg
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5442/6923884906_698a404ae2_b.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7178/7086435083_2a9199298a_b.jpg

A friend asked me to photograph a group of visiting monks as they created a sand mandala at the museum where she interns - I'm not overjoyed with what I got (I was in the back of the audience for the initial ceremony and the monks didn't seem like they were in a mood to be posed beforehand) but it's serviceable for the museum to document things, I guess.

set of 13:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/celluloidpropaganda/sets/72157629850403225/with/6946342042/

kind of like:
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5315/7092413643_87bc26c149_b.jpg
Monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery work on sand mandala by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5454/7092416521_c51d2ce444_b.jpg
Monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery work on sand mandala by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5240/6946348782_aed60d528b_b.jpg
Monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery work on sand mandala by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5316/7092422847_6fc252670b_b.jpg
Monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery work on sand mandala by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5455/7092426937_0f8f0e29a5_b.jpg
Monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery work on sand mandala by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7110/6946360264_0f31e68984_b.jpg
Monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery work on sand mandala by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

like the last one a lot milo, that's really nice, & serviceable is harsh but it makes for a good document

You lot a really comfortable shooting people and capturing great candid moments, i kinda hate you all.

I like thinks that don't frown at me.

Another one from the Scotland trip.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7195/6950934050_f5751cfcd5.jpg

Sister's dog Dylan, helping me out with shutter speed and dof.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7260/6948258190_d9427afc53.jpg

radical

haha wow

thinks = things btw

http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/4186/377es.jpg

v nice!

yeah

Oh i like that schlump.

great one! love the framing... the partially obscured head, etc.

Another from the Scotland trip. Debated and fiddled a lot with this one, still not 100% with it :/

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7267/7103478677_a4be308dc8_z.jpg

Carl, you really are posting some wild nature shots right now. We have some jarring contrasts of style in this thread and I love it.

I continue to plough through holiday snaps. Not many are worthy of inclusion here... mostly I wish I'd spent more time around freight trains...

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8166/6958199318_2804451b34_z.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7116/7085774985_3623f8f1a0_z.jpg

We have some jarring contrasts of style in this thread and I love it.

^^

into the skies in the last three. & yes to colourful trains.

lizard picture is great. love that t-shirt!

too dark probs
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8027/7107509939_6c0924195e_b.jpg

this lady was v small
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7124/7107510433_5db847a982_b.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7097/7107510763_13813c284b_b.jpg

holy crap i just realized that the frikkin cvs cropped the last two rolls? they're all 1500x1200 while the previous were 1900x1200???

hey dudes I got a nice little writeup here:
http://www.nocultureicons.com/collective/2012/4/24/a-few-questions-with-brandon-mitchell.html

feeling probably a bit too self-satisfied now...

yeah the ratios on them are really strange, gbx. i like the sky a lot.

gbx, looks like they cropped your scans as if they were going to make 8x10 prints from them

ah that sorta makes sense

nice write up, cv!, u famous!

yup it's all downhill from here!

that was a nice, concise piece. way to go!

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5332/7112090823_34643c3441_z.jpg

Photos all finally on Flickr. I may be bothering this thread in the future with others from it, and feel free to post any you think are worth it if you browse the collection, but I like these:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7254/7079643255_6300442881_z.jpg
The Andes at the end of the road by alan.stephen, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7233/6934329206_ec42123c12_z.jpg
Atacama town 8 by alan.stephen, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7218/6933764968_c137c7b28d_z.jpg
Chaxa Lagoon 5 by alan.stephen, on Flickr

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5335/6933857372_2e695c2b9c_z.jpg
Altiplano lakes 8 by alan.stephen, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7087/6934925910_8bcd6fd84b_z.jpg
Rano Raraku 7 by alan.stephen, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7086/6938809916_f596c467a8_z.jpg
Ambulance by alan.stephen, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7093/6939045680_3f7a5714a3_z.jpg
Fire warning by alan.stephen, on Flickr

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5444/7085251313_8cb636213c_z.jpg
Lllama by alan.stephen, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7101/6942455178_8e755af446_z.jpg
Ainsworth Bay by alan.stephen, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7191/7091791579_f38b9d305c_z.jpg
Wulaia Bay by alan.stephen, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7099/7091872267_7d3c051b8f_z.jpg
Wulaia Bay by alan.stephen, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7179/6951088978_a602055580_z.jpg
Broadway-style confiteria by alan.stephen, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7057/7097084343_df3298f5c3_z.jpg
Caminito by alan.stephen, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7083/6951474416_b50ea2097d_z.jpg
Cementerio de la Recoleta by alan.stephen, on Flickr

ah I know it's a different country but the light in those pics reminds me so much of Peru. wish I could go back. south america is such a gorgeous place.

which is to that the pitures of the lakes and of atacama bring back a lot of nostalgia!

yeah i want to go to there

oblivious kid kills me

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7211/7115157329_9b2cdcf6a8_z.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7218/7115165661_e86c1385c3_z.jpg

Dawn in the Loop.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8141/6969706390_50c148f167_c.jpg

ooh, I like the train

It's kind of the signature.

Here are a couple of reports from the Olympus Stylus Epic, which I've recommended elsewhere.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8002/7102896259_ccf0998928.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7277/6967975766_8f89d2c8ee.jpg

it's a really good walking around camera! I left the Leica home today and will snap what I can with the Olympus, due to lousy weather.

Quick snap from bedroom window
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7123/7116136901_5fea5f620a_z.jpg

lovely, do you have more manchester stuff?

lurker here to say thank you
you are all v talented (i mean that sincerely -- keep up the shooting, shooters)

Xpost, yep, erm lots, feel free to have a nosey through...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carljgodwin/

i added you on flickr - hope that's ok? your pictures are so beautiful!!

some really nice stuff, thanks

love all your b&w scottish mountains

am waiting on a stylus epic to come up on ebay, they're really nice. flash-bleached blossom is crazy.

I got one on eBay... and after winning the bid, then found one at the flea market the very next day. so now I've got one and my girlfriend's got one. not a bad deal.

here's another taken with that little guy:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8159/7104303267_0000ec107a.jpg

Prob best picture I've taken in months.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8164/6971872276_2dddf3e451.jpg

gbx, that SoftRelease is finally on its way. Took me a while to find which box the tiny little thing was in.

Ah awesome, thank you!

I know where i want to live...
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8014/6978720628_0c682be120_z.jpg

where is this

are there mammoths?

trolls

Glen Coe, Scotland.
Click on the picture, there's a map.

Lovely. I was near there in 1989. It was too foggy to see anything.

what sort of animals live in those mountains?

mammoths

wolves - eradicated
deer - corralled into game reserves
capercaillie - largely eradicated
golden eagles - largely eradicated
anything else - taxidermized in scots baronial hunting lodges

insects? other? fungi?

yeah these

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_midge

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Poker by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

Really enjoying the last few!

Saw No Age this weekend:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8158/7124751925_b4df55979e_z.jpg

i started a new ILP thread:

oh so you're a photographer

Another from Scotland.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7274/7135959397_8f5862396e_z.jpg

I'll contribute to the new thread when i've completed the essay on what's been expected of me since i bought an SLR.

Whoa. All I can say to that is, whoa.

This can't hold water to that view, but I did find it interesting.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8027/7139314695_5874da6256_c.jpg

Low ISO, long exposure, nearly invasive focal length. But just short of invasive. You can see people's wallpaper, though.

I dig this one.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7276/7004131272_5372cf4204.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8012/7150520639_1f697f23e3_b.jpg
Untitled by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/04/15/downtown-crossing-street-photographers-crossing-the-line/

lol America

wait I saw that linked somewhere else recently too. the article and the photographers both kind of annoy me.

I mean, just cuz those dudes seem kinda like my sorta annoying overly serious "street photography" strawman.

yeah here's a piece from one of the guys 'featured' in the story

http://thephotorecession.webs.com/

not really my cup of tea tbh

I've been on exactly one group photography outing, a flickr meet up

it was kinda weird, there was this one guy who seemed to feel like it was a competition to see who could get closest to their subject, at one point he had his nikon + 28-105 lens like inches away from somebody's mouth, just snapping away

everybody wants to prove that they could be Bruce Gilden

Internet street photographers and the hobbyists who spend thousands on lighting to take naked pics of girls from modelmayhem.com are neck and neck for photography's most disgusting savages

site is a compelling exhibit in the argument against giving titles to photos. a couple of those shoe photos are p good. but the sort of visibly conflicted, usually blurry street photography, of just chronicling strangers, is very strange.

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/3176/396z.jpg

love it!

ty! from a good roll of repackaged-sensia slide film, something i don't think i can get anymore

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/4638/387ok.jpg

are they scans of prints?

yeah, i've never got around to negative scanning, it explains the jaunty angles. how come?

I usually stick w superia 400 and overexpose by a stop. Smooth grain, good detail. It *can* suffer from green/magenta issues, but home scanning fixes that for me. Labs will vary.
Probably 70% of my color photos are superia. The equivalent cheap Kodak shows much more grain.

― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Friday, 13 April 2012 16:09 (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

All abou the cheap films by the way. Kodak and Fuji consumer stuff can all be found for about $3/roll.

― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Friday, 13 April 2012 16:10 (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

belated TY for this, btw. i've started buying & using superia 400, you're right, it's nice/a good all rounder, &c, & i can get it cheaply.

I was asking because of the angled photos, but also because the shadow behind them seemed so precise that it almost looked like an effect or filter!
I really stand by my superia love. people knock it for its greens and magentas, but with scanning and printing there are ways around that. And it really is smooooth grained!

I feel like I'm getting dangerously close to just posting every picture of mine as they come up now, but again, I like these two:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7243/7162599382_47f8336857_z.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7212/7161652868_08cb91242e_z.jpg

Nice!

Ava in the pub on Sunday...
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7092/7160820432_8a7b76d02d_z.jpg

Being a tourist in sunny DC...
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8146/7002009214_8b0c1c107b_z.jpg

I went to lengths to get this shot. Even on a crappy day, Chicago can be gorgeous.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8004/7160425278_83d265a3cc_c.jpg

I was asking because of the angled photos, but also because the shadow behind them seemed so precise that it almost looked like an effect or filter!

yeah the cross-processed colours are really full on; it kinda wiped out a couple of shots by just turning them into migraine-tests. but they are as-is; they're on the right side of colourful w/o being too holga i think.

I really stand by my superia love. people knock it for its greens and magentas, but with scanning and printing there are ways around that. And it really is smooooth grained!

yes. i actually really like grain a lot, probably more with bw but sometimes with colour, too, when it's bright, when the colours are strong. the white skin tones thing has probably been a slight thing with some outdoor shots, but it's nice & holds up pretty well in electric light indoors, too. it's satisfying to have a regular thing to reflexively go for, anyway, since my hook up for various expired film lapsed i've been stuck buying expensive but interesting films, it can be a little much.

also a lot of nice greys in the above run of shots

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8017/7168315758_e888388b2d.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7263/6997386452_fb5b664d17.jpg

Vienna = lotsa pics of statues.