Show us yer film shots then!

A couple of test shots from my new (to me) Bronica ETRSi...

Both on (slightly OOD) Velvia 100F, home souped in a Tetenal E6 kit, and scanned with Canoscan 8800F/Silverfast SE. Minimal PP other than a little sharpening for screen display - hence the slightly wonky verticals/horizons :)

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Camelia House - YSP by The Big Yin, on Flickr
 
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***A couple of test shots from my new (to me) Bronica ETRSi...***

Dunno if it's my new monitor but they look too bright and in the first shot it shows the 3D effect pop I've noticed with my 75mm lens (well I've only got one).
 
redddraggon said:
From my first roll of film I used since I went digital, also the first rolls I self-devved and scanned, once I work out how to not get the negatives covered in rubbish I'll be laughing. Quite happy with my first roll though.
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Good first roll. With BW negatives, you can't use dust cleaning feature in the scanning software so you need to clean glass surfaces with anti-static glass cleaner, use, say, a can of air to blow dust off the negative under a light and fix the remaining imperfections with the healing tool in the image editor where you also finalize tone, contrast and sharpen the image for best results.
 
To continue with good ole fashion Analog, these are with my Pentax ME-F, SMC-M40F/2.8 and Ferrania 400....Nothing great, but I was out to test the film more than anything else. I will give the other two rolls the ole college try tomorrow.

Corner vendor
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I love corner shots
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Serenading the lady
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Baby on board
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Sitting pretty
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Javier. I hope you are not offended by the following:


Tension


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There are some great moments in your work. As you see I have cropped your picture and recognised / accredited all ownership to you.

Regards
 
alistair.o said:
Lovely shade and shadows - for me, this picture makes me stop and consider - thanks.

(You are slowly but surely begining to turn my mind to some colour in my 'work flow') Ummmm.
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Thank you for the comment... it was just such a natural shot, I walked around a corner in the Camelia House and there it was...

Interesting you say about making you think about adding some colour - I've been getting more and more annoyed with shooting colour on the film cameras, and i've been considering returning mainly to black and white, with just the occasional roll of E6 for those "Velvia Weather Days" out on the hills and so on, but as I pulled this roll out of the soup and saw bright, clear, reasonably framed and exposed shots on a length of 120 film, I'm having a little crisis myself :thinking:
 
Have you found TBY you do a lot more B+W than say color in your work? Is that mainly due to home processing or do you prefer the look?

(I know my answer im just interested in other replies)
 
ped said:
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Couple from me!

Leica M4P, VC 28mm Ilford HP5+ and developed in ID11.
Second one is using an orange filter.

Cheers
ped[/QUOTE]


this one is brilliant ! I very rarely like landscapes.
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jemdna said:
Have you found TBY you do a lot more B+W than say color in your work? Is that mainly due to home processing or do you prefer the look?

(I know my answer im just interested in other replies)
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To be honest Bryan, I haven't done a lot of ANY photography for the last 6 months. I've made a point of entering the POTY competition each month on here, which have been largely digital shots as they've been a bit convoluted for my moderate abilities with film. Other than that I've only shot a couple of rolls of B&W on 35mm and 2 rolls of colour neg. on the Holga pinhole camera over the whole winter period.

For me, I enjoy the whole process of working with film, including the processing, but where my B&W processing seems to be fine (by my own standards at least) I've struggled with colour accuracy on my colour developing (both E6 and C41). While it's generally been nothing I couldn't sort "post scan", it just feels that If I have to do that each time, then I'm moving away from what I want to do with film. If everything has to go through big colour correction in CS5, then I might as well shoot on the 7D :shrug:.

However, It might just have been that I'd been shooting inappropriate film in lousy light, as the first roll of Velvia from my Bronica has cheered me up immensely :) Next up will be the real test though - shot a roll of Portra 160NC as my second roll, and i've NEVER managed to get a satisfactory looking set of shots from that film when I've souped it myself.:shrug:
 
Fairynuff :)

I find I prefer shooting in B+W, color always looks "Dated" however Black and white on film can easily outclass digital (IMO)

I find more and more now Im using my Canon Digital for color work and 35mm for B+W... just need to get some more M42 (or whatever it is forgot now lol) to fit on my cameras as both film and digital have adapters at the ready so I can experiment :lol:
 
alistair.o said:
Javier. I hope you are not offended by the following:


Tension


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There are some great moments in your work. As you see I have cropped your picture and recognised / accredited all ownership to you.

Regards
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Don't mind it at all. In fact I encourage it. There is not better way to learn than to see, atleast for me. :thumbs: That was a strange sort of pciture in that there are actually two pics in there. :cool:

Thank you very much :)
 
jemdna said:
Fairynuff :)

I find I prefer shooting in B+W, color always looks "Dated" however Black and white on film can easily outclass digital (IMO)

I find more and more now Im using my Canon Digital for color work and 35mm for B+W... just need to get some more M42 (or whatever it is forgot now lol) to fit on my cameras as both film and digital have adapters at the ready so I can experiment :lol:
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Oh - if I want to shoot Black and White, I almost always go for the film option. Maybe it's because I was weaned on Black and White Movies, and the film look, but digital black and white always looks too "clinical" for me. That being said, I've used Silverfast SE before now to give a more film-esque look to dijikal stuff, and it's not alltogether awful :shrug: It's still a post processing effect though, and not real black and white.
 
Using an Elmar 5cm F3.5 LTM lens on a Leica barnack. The slight 'flare' in the top right hand corner is light refracting through the fountain that is to the right of this group.

Sheffield UK


The Interview

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ped said:
Thanks - I have re-done the picture now that I have my own scanner, here is the picture before (scanned by ASDA)
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That's a pretty impressive difference Ped, I think I'd be scanning a few of my back catalogue on the strength of that improvement :thumbs:
 
TheBigYin said:
That's a pretty impressive difference Ped, I think I'd be scanning a few of my back catalogue on the strength of that improvement :thumbs:
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I have to agree, the BG is a marked improvement with detail and contrast in both the sky and tree,s. very good indeed.:thumbs:
 
AlanSmithee said:
Good first roll. With BW negatives, you can't use dust cleaning feature in the scanning software so you need to clean glass surfaces with anti-static glass cleaner, use, say, a can of air to blow dust off the negative under a light and fix the remaining imperfections with the healing tool in the image editor where you also finalize tone, contrast and sharpen the image for best results.
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alistair.o said:
So you should be - well done. This third picture (IMO) is the mutts xxxs.

As for the rubbish - it will be the death of me here!

Keep on.
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Thanks. Afterwards I did whip all the "dirty" images into photoshop, and clone out all the hairs and dust. I've 3 or 4 more rolls to develop, so I'll make sure everything is clean before I scan them :thumbs:
 
Here are some from Yesterday. Again the Canon AE-1, FD28MM, Ferrania 100....I had really good shooting conditions, but these came out rather grainy. I suspect it could be the scanning and I will attempt to scan a few of these same ones tomorrow. These also do not seem to have the same punch as the first roll, which again brings me back to scanning.

Found this couple chilling and of course I smiled.
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Annoyed by Street Vision L.A., on Flickr

 
TheBigYin said:
That's a pretty impressive difference Ped, I think I'd be scanning a few of my back catalogue on the strength of that improvement :thumbs:
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Thanks guys - I'm very impressed with the scanner. Here is a shot I have shown before, scanned by ASDA. It was pretty grainy so i did some PP work on it to make it part of a sort of 'effect' but no sharpening has been applied to the image they gave me.

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I quite liked the image (and still do) and was going to have it blown up (though maximum size of the ASDA scan is 1800 pixels long edge) but this is what I got from the same neg on my scanner:

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Now this I WILL get printed - I can have it 7000 pixels wide and the dynamic range is excellent, you can actually make out the pattern in the trees.

Cheers
ped
 
jgredline said:
Here are some from Yesterday. Again the Canon AE-1, FD28MM, Ferrania 100....I had really good shooting conditions, but these came out rather grainy. I suspect it could be the scanning and I will attempt to scan a few of these same ones tomorrow. These also do not seem to have the same punch as the first roll, which again brings me back to scanning.
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I know you appreciate honesty and I'll say that your street shots (not just yours, but street shots in general) don't do much for me, but I really like these three. I especially like dogs so that was always going to be a winner.

I hope you don't mind me saying that?

Cheers
ped
 
@ Ped

what a difference..

begs the question...what scanner..?
 
Thanks, it's a Plustek 7600i SE with Vuescan software. Very impressed with it, though the bundled Silverfast software isn't much cop (hence the purchase of Vuescan)

I know the picture looks a little underexposed, but the woods were really dark and had the most amazing blanket of fog, so the result is intended!

Cheers
ped
 
ped said:
Thanks guys - I'm very impressed with the scanner. Here is a shot I have shown before, scanned by ASDA. It was pretty grainy so i did some PP work on it to make it part of a sort of 'effect' but no sharpening has been applied to the image they gave me.



I quite liked the image (and still do) and was going to have it blown up (though maximum size of the ASDA scan is 1800 pixels long edge) but this is what I got from the same neg on my scanner:

Now this I WILL get printed - I can have it 7000 pixels wide and the dynamic range is excellent, you can actually make out the pattern in the trees.

Cheers
ped
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Those ASDA scans are compressing your high and low values. Nothing like having control and rolling your own. :)
 
****Thanks - I have re-done the picture now that I have my own scanner, here is the picture before (scanned by ASDA)***

...maybe Asda don't know how to scan B/W, my Asda is VG for colour.
 
joxby said:
Brian....
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Well think of the poor machine trying to cope with all the different B/W films thrown at it...The Fuji machine at my Asda seems to like my favourite colour films i.e. Fuji superia 200 and Reala ;)
 
ped said:
I know you appreciate honesty and I'll say that your street shots (not just yours, but street shots in general) don't do much for me, but I really like these three. I especially like dogs so that was always going to be a winner.

I hope you don't mind me saying that?

Cheers
ped
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Thank you ped and especially for your honesty. That means so much more. The truth is, that it is my guess that most people do not like street shots. Those that do like them are few and I understand that.
Thank you again. :)
 
jgredline said:
Here are some from Yesterday. Again the Canon AE-1, FD28MM, Ferrania 100....I had really good shooting conditions, but these came out rather grainy. I suspect it could be the scanning and I will attempt to scan a few of these same ones tomorrow. These also do not seem to have the same punch as the first roll, which again brings me back to scanning.
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Javier - while the rendering of the photo's may not be quite as punchy and bold as your regular stuff (i'd kill for that kind of light to shoot in occasionally :lol:) the subject matter is spot on the money. The first shot of the couple with the sign was brilliant, and the composition of the guy with the Tattoo behind his head, looking like he's wearing some enormous "Carman Miranda meets Popeye" inspired hat really sang out. :thumbs::thumbs:
 
Amazing shot of that bridge Liam, love the composition. Id have been tempted to stop down a little more for more defined stars but that's just me
 
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