FILM Photographer of the year

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well im up in the lake district this weekend if its not piddling down but i wont get the film back in time for submission. So i think the next couple of entries will be lucky to get a point between them.
 
Congratulations all 5 filmies who scored points! Some really great shots there. I now have the great distinction as the only filmie with 4 entries and no points at all! :(:coat:
 
:D I got points!! Sorry Had to get that out my system!

Clever shot Nick the grain really suits. A good month for "us" though, glad I didn't try to get the kids to play along. I think I'm with everyone else on the hiding to nothing for the next couple of months.
 
essexash said:
well im up in the lake district this weekend if its not piddling down but i wont get the film back in time for submission. So i think the next couple of entries will be lucky to get a point between them.
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Shoot some film off. post to Peak asap it should be on the doormat early next week.
ChrisR said:
Congratulations all 5 filmies who scored points! Some really great shots there. I now have the great distinction as the only filmie with 4 entries and no points at all! :(:coat:
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Come on Chris there's a long way top go yet.
 
steveo_mcg said:
:D I got points!! Sorry Had to get that out my system!

Clever shot Nick the grain really suits. A good month for "us" though, glad I didn't try to get the kids to play along. I think I'm with everyone else on the hiding to nothing for the next couple of months.
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Thanks Steve, really liked your atmospheric misty shot.
 
Congratulations on so many filmies getting points this month....great entries and nice to see a variety of different formats and films.

I've been at my parents for almost whole of May so far as my Mum went into hospital for an operation so helping out. Unfortunately I didn't take a film camera with me as I wasn't expecting to be here this long. So had choice of either no entry for May or pop into local camera shop and buy a new (to me) film camera. Guess which option won :)
 
Okay so I might be really slow with this, maybe this is what happens when I try and find things on my phone and not on the computer, but can someone tell me where the main thread for this is? Where can I see results and topics?
Surely there must be a main thread that answers all these question, and I'm simply too blind to see it!
 
Steve said:
Congratulations on so many filmies getting points this month....great entries and nice to see a variety of different formats and films.

I've been at my parents for almost whole of May so far as my Mum went into hospital for an operation so helping out. Unfortunately I didn't take a film camera with me as I wasn't expecting to be here this long. So had choice of either no entry for May or pop into local camera shop and buy a new (to me) film camera. Guess which option won :)
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the only possible choice, surely.
Hope your mums doing ok squire, speedy recovery
 
VirtualAdept said:
the only possible choice, surely.
Hope your mums doing ok squire, speedy recovery
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Thanks Mads...she had a brain tumour removed and the operation went well. Recovery is measured in months rather than weeks, but she is making good progress.

And yes, now the proud owner of a Fuji 645. Not even had time to put a trial roll of film through it. First roll of film shot contains my potential May entry, and wont be back from DS Colour until next Weds so fingers crossed all is okay.
 
@Steve, hope your mum keeps up the recovery.

Serious envy on the Fuji!

My May entry is suddenly in a little doubt, as my Mac went ping on me last week. It's now with Apple in Solihull so I'm hoping they can resurrect it! At least it's a no-PP month, so at worst I can grab another copy onto the OH's WinPC from the CD, but I've no clue how I would do the re-sizing. I've realised I've been using Macs, off and on, since the first or second generation boxy ones in the mid 1980s, and this is the first one to actually fail on me. Annoyingly, it's also the first one I've actually paid for!
 
If we can get dispensation from Darren, ping it on to me and I'll resize it for you if you can't manage on the windows box.
 
Thanks Steve... I'm hoping all will be fixed by then!
 
ChrisR said:
@Steve, hope your mum keeps up the recovery.

Serious envy on the Fuji!

My May entry is suddenly in a little doubt, as my Mac went ping on me last week. It's now with Apple in Solihull so I'm hoping they can resurrect it! At least it's a no-PP month, so at worst I can grab another copy onto the OH's WinPC from the CD, but I've no clue how I would do the re-sizing. I've realised I've been using Macs, off and on, since the first or second generation boxy ones in the mid 1980s, and this is the first one to actually fail on me. Annoyingly, it's also the first one I've actually paid for!
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Thanks Chris....sorry to hear about the Mac...hope you can get it sorted in time.

The Fuji seems great....will postpone judgement until I get some results but loving the handling and simplicity of it.
 
Just got a roll back from Asda, maybe just maybe have something. Need to rescan them though; asda have, as ever, got sharpening turned up to 11 and seem to get a d range similar to that of a webcam...
 
I take it I'm the only idiot trying to scan a colour neg them self? My normal approach of scan flat and fix in lightroom is going to leave me with a very rubbish image now I think about it but I really can't enter an asda scan...
 
I'll probably be scanning something hideous and Agfa-like, unfortunately as it's a no PP month it may have to stay that way.
 
Not just me then! Didn't see the point in spending good money on Portra for a nil pointer... starting to regret that now!

Actually I may be entering an asda scan after all, I can't seem to replicate what they've done and I quite like it!
 
steveo_mcg said:
Not just me then! Didn't see the point in spending good money on Portra for a nil pointer... starting to regret that now!

Actually I may be entering an asda scan after all, I can't seem to replicate what they've done and I quite like it!
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h'mm surely any shot entered is better than nothing...well unless you are ashamed of it or consider it's an insult to the judges ;)
 
excalibur2 said:
h'mm surely any shot entered is better than nothing...well unless you are ashamed of it or consider it's an insult to the judges ;)
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Quite.

This probably is the rub for "us". A developed negative still isn't a final image, unlike a camera output jpg.

The scanner is interpreting the results of the cameras interpretation of what the photographer told it to do some time ago. Either one can leave it to chance that the scanner finds the correct reinterpretation or one spends ages adjusting settings which would probably be interpreted as PP. I really should have shot this digitally it is much easier to make adjustments on the camera than the scanner, or spent the money and shot it on Velvia...
 
Well I've got a shot I can enter, it's adequate at best but I do have some rolls due back from Peak which I hope will arrive before deadline day.
 
Well good luck esp representing film....but you never know the mind of a judge as he\she might like your shot with an Asda scan...well as long as it's not covered in spots, hairs or scratches ;)
 
I think digital users find the no PP month harder than film users as its more part of the mindset to be able to correct things PP.
 
steveo_mcg said:
I take it I'm the only idiot trying to scan a colour neg them self? My normal approach of scan flat and fix in lightroom is going to leave me with a very rubbish image now I think about it but I really can't enter an asda scan...
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No mate, I scan them too. Hours of fun eh
 
steveo_mcg said:
Just got a roll back from Asda, maybe just maybe have something. Need to rescan them though; asda have, as ever, got sharpening turned up to 11 and seem to get a d range similar to that of a webcam...
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steveo_mcg said:
My normal approach of scan flat and fix in lightroom is going to leave me with a very rubbish image now I think about it but I really can't enter an asda scan...
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steveo_mcg said:
Actually I may be entering an asda scan after all, I can't seem to replicate what they've done and I quite like it!
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That's quite a turnaround, Steven! I do agree with you, though; ASDA scans can be horrendous but then turn out to have some nice aspects when I try scanning myself.

Colour negs are always hard to scan; much better when there's no other reference to suggest the colour balance is all wrong! I think you probably do have to take a different approach with colour negs. I try and use the neg presets if they are in the software (eg Vuescan). Some folk scan as positives to TIFF and then use ColorPerfect. The time I had trouble with colour matching, @Mr_T did the ColorPerfect conversion for me and the results were amazing (see this thread).

My current solution with 35mm C41 film is Photo Express in Hull, who are fast and give excellent results (looks as good as Mr_T's version in the referenced thread). They nwill also scan existing cut negatives.
 
ChrisR said:
That's quite a turnaround, Steven! I do agree with you, though; ASDA scans can be horrendous but then turn out to have some nice aspects when I try scanning myself.

Colour negs are always hard to scan; much better when there's no other reference to suggest the colour balance is all wrong! I think you probably do have to take a different approach with colour negs. I try and use the neg presets if they are in the software (eg Vuescan). Some folk scan as positives to TIFF and then use ColorPerfect. The time I had trouble with colour matching, @Mr_T did the ColorPerfect conversion for me and the results were amazing (see this thread).

My current solution with 35mm C41 film is Photo Express in Hull, who are fast and give excellent results (looks as good as Mr_T's version in the referenced thread). They nwill also scan existing cut negatives.
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Tell me about it! just wish I could work out what Asda done, or convince them to turn down the sharpening!!

No preset for C200 (vista) as you've discovered in threads passim.

I'm just too cheap to pay someone for it and most of the time thats fine, I chuck it in LR and get an image I'm happy with. TBH I'm not sure how maninpulating the scanner to get a decent representation varies from doing it in LR, I'm not even sure what I'm doing isn't foul of the no PP rules... But if I have to produce a before and after the straight of the scanner will be honest.

VirtualAdept said:
No mate, I scan them too. Hours of fun eh
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At least the digital contact print has left me with only a few images to concentrate on; oh and a mill stone of colours to try and match...
 
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well mines in for May, just got to work out how to do a wildlife shot with nothing longer than 50mm now and not knowing anyone with a cat.
 
essexash said:
well mines in for May, just got to work out how to do a wildlife shot with nothing longer than 50mm now and not knowing anyone with a cat.
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Tame Robin ? Last year (or the year before) one Robin didn't mind me photographing it 2ft away with a 50mm lens.
 
thats not a bad idea, there's a really "unfased by humans" crow in the area and some female blackbirds which always seem quite happy to be near people.
 
... until you have a camera, of course!
 
Even a 1/1500 sec didn't freeze this Robin, only it's feet are sharp..using a 50mm lens

 
Well, at last I managed to persuade my wife to let me use up the last two shots in her Oly Stylus (ie mju 1), and send off that film and the two films that have been hanging around for a week, to Photo Express! I do have a backup, but I have a vague memory that there might be a couple of appropriate shots in my two films! Hope to get it back Thursday, maybe Friday, so we're close to the wire again...
 
ChrisR said:
My May entry is suddenly in a little doubt, as my Mac went ping on me last week. It's now with Apple in Solihull so I'm hoping they can resurrect it! At least it's a no-PP month, so at worst I can grab another copy onto the OH's WinPC from the CD, but I've no clue how I would do the re-sizing. I've realised I've been using Macs, off and on, since the first or second generation boxy ones in the mid 1980s, and this is the first one to actually fail on me. Annoyingly, it's also the first one I've actually paid for!
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Happy to say I got the Mac back this afternoon. The repair cost was about a third of what I originally paid for it, and slightly less than originally quoted (new logic board rather than new graphics chip). The previous Mac is still in use by my daughter after around 8 years, so I'm hoping I'll get another 5 out of this one! One nice thing: the Apple Store guy ("genius", yuck) cleaned up my Mac before accepting it, so it looks absolutely pristine! Anyway, no resizing excuses available now...
 
excalibur2 said:
Even a 1/1500 sec didn't freeze this Robin, only it's feet are sharp..using a 50mm lens

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wow....that surprised me. Although I don't do fast exposures, I had always assumed 1/500 was fast enough to freeze just about anything. Didn't realise the little critters could move that fast :)

ChrisR said:
Happy to say I got the Mac back this afternoon. The repair cost was about a third of what I originally paid for it, and slightly less than originally quoted (new logic board rather than new graphics chip). The previous Mac is still in use by my daughter after around 8 years, so I'm hoping I'll get another 5 out of this one! One nice thing: the Apple Store guy ("genius", yuck) cleaned up my Mac before accepting it, so it looks absolutely pristine! Anyway, no resizing excuses available now...
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Glad to hear that's fixed Chris.

I'm hoping to collect my film from DS colour labs today and get a suitable frame to scan and enter. First roll of film on the Fuji GA645, so hoping all is okay with it.
 
excalibur2 said:
Even a 1/1500 sec didn't freeze this Robin, only it's feet are sharp..using a 50mm lens

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I am assuming the head is out of focus as you were shooting wide open,just looking at the front and back of the table the head falls into the back OOF area. The wing beat of a Robin is very fast indeed and I am not surprised that the leading edge is OOF as it to falls into your front OOF area.This would have been a great shot captured clean. The only other aspect I can think of is ,does your camera shutter speed tell lies?
 
***wow....that surprised me. Although I don't do fast exposures, I had always assumed 1/500 was fast enough to freeze just about anything. Didn't realise the little critters could move that fast :)***

It is amazing, it heard the T90 shutter noise and took off :( I've other shots of the Robin behind a DGd window (a few feet away) and it didn't move. (y) .......friendly birds as it used to see me in my computer room and wait perched on the window ledge until I gave it some cheese.
 
My May entry is in. Love the results from the Fuji GA645 and looking forward to using it a lot more over the summer.
 
I've not looked at my entries since Monday, going to force myself to rescan once more if I can't get it to look similar to the Asda scan I'm going to enter the asda scan and ignore any comments of sharpening!
 
Ah b****r it, I can not get the V500 to produce an image like the Asda scan, I can get a better result in LR but number 11 sharpening it has to be; life is too short!!
 
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