Show us yer film shots then!

Loving the cows and just to confirm that on seeing your b&w conversions you are indeed arty and farty, quality work Andy :thumbs:
 
Nice selection of shots Andy although I'm not convinced your B&W conversations are arty or farty enough to be classed as true 'classic' Tate-style art ;0) I do like the second and third colour shots though, the second one looks like the set from a spaghetti western with a bit more grass and distant detail in the third shots helps to draw you through the picture.
 
stevelmx5 said:
... I'm not convinced your B&W conversations are arty or farty enough to be classed as true 'classic' Tat-style art ;0)
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I respectfully disagree.
 
Well thank you all for the comments so far (most of them anyway).

Nick you are just a mean boy who is being mean.....I'm telling my mum on you....:razz: :lol:
 
Here's a shot I took on a walk up Elidir Fawr in Snowdonia (Rolleiflex and Velvia 50). Unusually, I ticked the colour correction option when scanning with the V500, and it seems to have turned out alright (the uncorrected version looked a bit blue). I added some clarity in Lightroom to cut out the haze. I'm wondering whether a UV/Skylight/warming filter would help on both counts when using reversal film?


View from Elidir Fawr by osh rees, on Flickr
 
Pack it in now Osh, you're making the rest of us look bad...:lol:

This is superb, so sharp and the colours are wonderful. Brilliant.

Andy
 
Osh, as usual another superb photo. I have recently had a drum scan of a poorly exposed Velvia 50 transparency done by Tim Parkin and this is the result. The photo admittedly is not the best but the amount of detail in the scan is incredible.


Bamburgh Castle - Tim Parkin Drum Scan by NGUSS, on Flickr

and a crop to the tiny dot in the middle is this


Crop by NGUSS, on Flickr

Just when I was considering selling the 4x5 as well. Oh well, never mind.
 
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Osh, as usual another superb photo. I have recently had a drum scan of a poorly exposed Velvia 50 transparency done by Tim Parkin and this is the result. The photo admittedly is not the best but the amount of detail in the scan is incredible.
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Nice shot and lots of detail there. This certainly piques my interest with regard to drum scanning, but I need to have some photos worth scanning first...
 
I know, I was happy up until now scanning at home, but I think that drum scanning is the way forward for any decent film related photos I have. I just need to take some first! I was considering packing it in after breaking my spot meter but think I will persist with it.
 
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well here's an example scanned at home on my v750 with a 100% crop of the houses you can see on the cliff at the back left. Not sure how much more detail i'd want, i can see the window frames, any more than that and i'd see what food they have on the table.

Loving that landscape Osh, gorgeous shot!



 
I've just had my first roll of Agfa Precisa back from Peak, it was basically a test roll so there's nothing of any real interest on there but it's certainly a pretty film!

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PMN said:
I've just had my first roll of Agfa Precisa back from Peak, it was basically a test roll so there's nothing of any real interest on there but it's certainly a pretty film!
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Looks good, especially the first pic.
 
The light's so flat in that first one, it shouldn't work, but it does! The second shows some real zing too. Feeling positive: just sent my first roll of Precisa off to Peak today...
 
ChrisR said:
The light's so flat in that first one, it shouldn't work, but it does!
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That's exactly what I thought! When I first looked at it there was just nothing about it I liked; it was very flat, un-dynamic and generally boring, but the more I looked the more I saw and the more that flat light seemed to suit it somehow. Odd!

Thanks for the comments guys. Chris, hope your Precisa turns out well! :)
 
Working through the scanning (and editing) backlog:



Rolleiflex 3.5F
Tri-X 400 (expired)

We had a fun conversation on why no one seems to shoot with TLRs anymore, and he asked about the continued availability of roll film (which, to his delight, I confirmed was still abundantly available in a wide range of emulsions).
 
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We had a fun conversation on why no one seems to shoot with TLRs anymore, and he asked about the continued availability of roll film (which, to his delight, I confirmed was still abundantly available in a wide range of emulsions).
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Availability of film is pretty much the first topic of conversation when folk realise I'm not shooting digi.
It's like a revelation to them that film is still produced and even more so that it can be developed! lol
On a very positive note, I recently bumped into a young french man (22 years old) whom was taught english language by my good lady back in 2006. Since then he has accumulated quite a collection of film cameras of different formats, most in very good condition, some i'm quite envious of (lol) and has a yearn to delv deeper into film photography, thus get use out of his gear......looks like i've found a local filmie who has a similar passion to myself.....and he was also delighted to learn that by manipulating film, he can keep the cameras alive. Looks like i will now be his "teacher" lol
 
Asha said:
Availability of film is pretty much the first topic of conversation when folk realise I'm not shooting digi.
It's like a revelation to them that film is still produced and even more so that it can be developed! lol
On a very positive note, I recently bumped into a young french man (22 years old) whom was taught english language by my good lady back in 2006. Since then he has accumulated quite a collection of film cameras of different formats, most in very good condition, some i'm quite envious of (lol) and has a yearn to delv deeper into film photography, thus get use out of his gear......looks like i've found a local filmie who has a similar passion to myself.....and he was also delighted to learn that by manipulating film, he can keep the cameras alive. Looks like i will now be his "teacher" lol
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:wave: Asha....can you speak fluent French or did your friend want to converse in English for practice.
 
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:wave: Asha....can you speak fluent French or did your friend want to converse in English for practice.
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Fluent no but more than good enough to communicate efficiently in most situations.

Tbh my written french is better than my verbal, the exact opposite to my good lady so between us we do just fine.....her verbal french is so good that most people don't believe she is of english origin.

As for the young man, he needed to brush up on his verbal english skills for school, hence he had lessons....he's now one of the few french people i know who can actually pronounce the "Th" correctley in words such as the, they, them etc....typically the french struggle with "Th" and say "Ze".
 
Asha said:
Availability of film is pretty much the first topic of conversation when folk realise I'm not shooting digi.
It's like a revelation to them that film is still produced and even more so that it can be developed! lol
On a very positive note, I recently bumped into a young french man (22 years old) whom was taught english language by my good lady back in 2006. Since then he has accumulated quite a collection of film cameras of different formats, most in very good condition, some i'm quite envious of (lol) and has a yearn to delv deeper into film photography, thus get use out of his gear......looks like i've found a local filmie who has a similar passion to myself.....and he was also delighted to learn that by manipulating film, he can keep the cameras alive. Looks like i will now be his "teacher" lol
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Yeah - usually with my TLR, very few people recognise them - it tends to be an older generation that remembers using them, baby boomers who were photographed with them, or the vast majority of intrigued people who have never seen them before.

As a result, the conversation is usually about the camera rather than film availability. This gent was very aware of TLRs, just wasn't sure about the film availability.
 
Maybe we could have a "If only" thread as in my shot taken 45 years ago on Kodakchrome my comment is:- "now why didn't I position my wife more to the left" :(

Scanned with Epson 2480 a few years ago...I'll have to scan it again with a V750 to see if I can improve the quality and colours.
 
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Brian, I was never lucky enough to shoot Kodachrome but I do have a little collection of old Kodachrome slides and think I can quite safely say if it still existed now I'd probably never shoot anything else, including digital! Lovely image. :)
 
Asha said:
Tbh my written french is better than my verbal, the exact opposite to my good lady.
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I can usually put together a coherent sentence when speaking French but have difficulty understanding a spoken reply which is usually too fast.

The strangest conversations I have had in France have been with me speaking French and the French person speaking English!


Steve.
 
Its still a cracking shot Brian, Kodachrome really was a beautiful thing.
 
excalibur2 said:
Maybe we could have a "If only" thread as in my shot taken 45 years ago on Kodakchrome my comment is:- "now why didn't I position my wife more to the left" :(

Scanned with Epson 2480 a few years ago...I'll have to scan it again with a V750 to see if I can improve the quality and colours.
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Smashing shot Brian ....do you mind me asking where it was taken ...Scotland somewhere perhaps??
 
Steve Smith said:
The strangest conversations I have had in France have been with me speaking French and the French person speaking English!


Steve.
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LMAO....yes the french like to speak english when they realise you are from the UK.....the conversations end up being spoken in my prefered chosen language of "Franglais" (A mixture of french and english! lol)
 
Thank you guys for your replies...the shot was taken on the west coast of Ireland near a town called Belmullet, my wife was brought up there and to her it's all nice scenery but she prefers London HUH!!!! I have plenty more to scan for any home sick members from Ireland for the old days....the peat for the fire, donkey cart and the old type house in the distance

 
excalibur2 said:
Maybe we could have a "If only" thread as in my shot taken 45 years ago on Kodakchrome my comment is:- "now why didn't I position my wife more to the left" :(

Scanned with Epson 2480 a few years ago...I'll have to scan it again with a V750 to see if I can improve the quality and colours.
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This is stunning. Crop it panoramic, losing the bottom third of her shins and about half the sky and this would only improve :)
 
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