An old shot, from my hiking trip through Scotland in 2005.
Technical details
Shot on my Miranda MS2 Super, with its original kit zoom, on Kodak HD200 color print film.
Why I like it
Mostly, I like the sign.
Shot on my Miranda MS2 Super, with its original kit zoom, on Kodak HD200 color print film.
Mostly, I like the sign.
Shot two weeks ago in the east of the Netherlands, a close up of a fish ladder. A little experiment with shapes and close-ups.
Leica M3, 135mm Tele-Elmar, Neopan 400, developed in Rodinal 1:45
Leica M3, 50mm Summicron, Neopan 400, developed by my lab in Ilford chemistry.
It’s something new for me, but one of the first shots where I really think I got to the gist of B&W photography (at least what I want to do with it).
Shot handheld on Velvia 100, with Canon 30 and Canon 50mm.
The dappled colours of the trees, which, especially in a big print, gives the picture a watercolor-like texture.
Well, the first week is over. I shot about 6 rolls, most of which were `calibration shots’: bracketing like hell and checking the contact sheets for best exposure.
Another lesson learned this week was that when Mike Johnston said to make notes, he meant it. During the calibration rolls, I made a few unbracketed shots1, guessing exposure as best as I could. In some cases, I didn’t write down what exposure I used. As Murphy dictates, those exposures were dead-on, but I have no idea what values I used…
I shot this late in the evening after a hot day. The water was cooling rapidly, casting a fine mist, and the setting sun gave it a warm glow.
Shot with my Canon 400D, using an old manual-focus, T2-mount 500mm f8.0 lens, branded Sunagor. I might even have had a 2x extender in there as well, I can’t remember. This is a glass lens, not a mirror lens, and wide open it’s pretty soft, as you can see. Still, it was only 1% of the price of a Canon 500mm1.
The softness of the lens, combined with the mist and distance combine for painting-like effect. As someone who usually strives for sharpness, I’m honestly surprised. I guess it pays to experiment.
This slate rock wall has been slowly sliding down over the years, with the loose slates mixing in with the old leaves and broken branches near the side of the road. Kautenbach, Germany, spring 2009.
Shot on Velvia 100, with Canon 30 and Canon 17-40mm. Tripod was down to ground level and composed using an Angle Finder B.
The nice play of the black slate, the remaining red autumn leaves and the fresh green spring shoots. I also love this kind of wide-angle trickery, the rock wall in the read is in fact just four or five feet away from the front of the picture.
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As this site is about photography, I’ll post a picture now and then. Most of these will be mine, but if I feel like it, I’ll post pictures by other people as well (with their permission of course).
This picture is a good example why I always carry a camera nowadays. My lab opened 5 minutes late when I wanted to drop off some film before work. To pass the time, I shot some snaps of the fountain across the street. This was among them.
Shot on Provia 400X with my Miranda MS2 and Pentax 50mm f1.7. Note that this is just a quick scan, and my scan-fu isn’t brilliant to begin with.
The colours mostly (as I said, not the best scan unfortunately), the way the tree acts as a natural GND filter, becoming nearly translucent in the process, the way the exposure is just right on the fountain (no droplets, no white haze). It just comes together.
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