Show us yer film shots then!

It's profoundly depressing when you realise that you've been exchanging conversation with people that you've socks older than... :(
 
In March 1990 I would've been 3 :D

Trawling the forums. Waiting for negatives from a photoshoot this morning to dry :)
 
TheBigYin said:
It's profoundly depressing when you realise that you've been exchanging conversation with people that you've socks older than... :(
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You've just reminded me I actually have a pair in my sock drawer that I bought in my second year at uni in 1986. :D
 
Well, my first ever roll of film and I think I did OK!

I found a canon Eos 5 film camera in my local charity shop and couldn't resist. I went straight into my local developers and picked up the first film I could see, (BW400CN),.. I had and still have no idea what the different films are like!

OH and the the weird eye focus control thingy doesn't work so they are all manually focussed at f1.4 no less! I got a hit ratio of 7 out of 25 so not bad.. This film malarkey could get quite expensive! I reeled off a whole film in under 5 mins..lol

What do you think? I think they scanned the negs at low res though as they are 1144 on longest edge?? I always assumed the res would be quite high?? again I have not a clue..lol

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011_11 by onform1, on Flickr

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023_23 by onform1, on Flickr
 
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Cheers Rob... I have had a film itch for a few years now but every time I found a film camera in charity shops, car boots etc they have all had terminal injuries! At least this one works, sort of. lol
 
Agreed, they're very good portraits. :thumbs:

Now, to drag the thread back down to my level, here's a couple from my first couple of films developed and scanned by Asda. Not bad considering the price of £2 for scanning a 36-exp film and 97p for the CD. Both films on one CD meant two films dev'd and scanned for under a fiver and ready in an hour. Bargain. :)


Minolta Hi-matic 7s on Fuji Superia 200.


Edinburgh Tenement Windows by Strappster, on Flickr


Minolta Hi-matic 7s, Fuji Superia 200


Socks Appeal by Strappster, on Flickr
 
All above very good for first couple of films...an advert for those who want to try film. :thumbs:
 
onform said:
What do you think? I think they scanned the negs at low res though as they are 1144 on longest edge?? I always assumed the res would be quite high?? again I have not a clue..lol
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It usually depends on where you get it done and how much you pay regarding the resolution, Club 35 for instance where I get my colour neg films developed do a low res option at about 2mp for £2.50 and high res option of about 6mp for £5.00 (on top of the dev price). When 35mm film is scanned professionally at 4000dpi you get an effective resolution of approximately 18mp.

Try to slow down and not only shoot when you are sure you are going to have a good shot, 36 exposures can go a very long way if you work like that.

The film you used was a B&W C-41 film, C-41 is a colour negative process which is standard throughout the world and can be processed in pretty much anywhere that does developing, the type you used is designed to give B&W images but be processed in the colour neg process so it is easier to get developed as not many places do 'proper' B&W processing anymore. You might want to try some colour films now, the new Kodak Portra 160 and Portra 400 are highly recommended especially for portraits which they are designed for (but you will have to order than online as hardly any shops stock professional films anymore)

BTW the EOS 5 is autofocus and the eye control is just to allow you to select the focus point by eye so I don't see why you shouldn't get autofocus if your using an EF lens.
 
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Yep, if it's like my EOS 3 you can disable the eye control if it's getting in the way and just use the normal half press of the shutter button and dial to select the focus point if you need to.
 
Thanks for all the feedback guys, regarding the focus on my eos5 you can select focus spot manually but the whole screen just flashes red no matter what is selected. I think the actual focus system is working though it's just the heads up display is buggered. I think I have got it on centre focus spot through trial and error!

I have searched and seen what the portra 160/400 films are capable of on flickr so I am now dying to try it.. Where do you guys buy it from? And can I get it dev at my local shop or is it a send off job? Also do you know of anywhere that does really good high res scans?
 
You don't need to send colour negative films of, any lab will do them.
 
I've just bought some Portra 400 from 7dayshop.com but delivery takes a while. IIRC mine arrived 8 days after ordering and in two packets, presumably so that each packet was valued under the £18 minimum for import tax/VAT.

I haven't had any developed yet but I'm going to use either Club35 or DSCL based on all the reports I've read on here. :)
 
I use Club 35 because they have reasonable prices unlike some pro labs and their quite quick, the films are usually back within 4 days. Their maximum scan size is about 6mp but thats easily enough for a 12"x8" print, for scans bigger than that you really have to use a scanning service or do it yourself.

You may want to try 1scan (http://www.1scan.co.uk/negativescan/negativescanning.htm), I've not tried them yet but they seem to have good reviews (including doing lots of big orders from clients like universities and museums) and they have a Nikon Coolscan 5000ED which is amongst the best film scanners ever and unlike most places they don't have a minimum order quantity so you can get your best ones scanned without having to get others done to make up the minimum quantity. Be careful of places that do cheap scanning like 20p a negative, usually the quality is not quite the best even if it is at '4000 dpi'.
 
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Oh go on then ;) ....

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Sorry Danny but it's not for me. The lighting is clever in the way that her face is hidden and it could work for so many images but for me it's a technique that doesn't suite the rest of the image.

I really didn't want to be the person to bring out some cliched ***** about not being able to see the face in a portrait but it just doesn't suite the pose and styling on this occasion IMO.

That crap on the floor isn't adding anything to the image either so I'd crop it off.

Hurry up and scan the rest of the roll, you've got 9(?) more frames to find something for me to like;):thumbs:
 
***Sorry Danny but it's not for me***

very sexy I thought and didn't think about the technique :)
 
I really like Danny's pic. Sexy, unusual pose, well lit, great choice of clothes that really work on the model.

Being critical, I agree about the detritus on the floor and while the doorway (?) frames the model well and the silhouettes in the gloss paint either side add to the pose, the stairs behind detract, they draw attention from the model. I'd have preferred to shoot with the receding lines of the passageway bringing your attention toward her, though I appreciate that you have to shoot within the bounds of the location.
 
Hey all :)

Thanks for the critique and taking the time to give well thought out feedback!

The rubbish stays....it isn't meant to be a traditional portrait, hell I was going to shoot it as a silhouette but decided to shuffle her back a tad. I like the general aesthetic of the image, I never think about leading lines, rules etc, it's just not the way I like to shoot and it's not how I like my own images,and wouldn't say much about me.

There's a few more in the film gallery section, go have a butch if you get a sec.

Appreciate the feedback guys

Dan
 
Already had a shuftie Danny, and theres a couple of crackers in there - I'll probably have a crack at a bit of crit in there when I get a spare half hour or so...
 
TheBigYin said:
Already had a shuftie Danny, and theres a couple of crackers in there - I'll probably have a crack at a bit of crit in there when I get a spare half hour or so...
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Oh dear here we go....!

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Mahoneyd187 said:
Oh dear here we go....!

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Nothing untoward mate, it's just I'm not really a people-togger, so it takes me a bit longer and a lot more thinking about things to give anything sensible in the way of crit.

I was really happy when we actually got a proper place to post film shots and give / receive critique, and always try to give a half-decent appraisal of shots rather than "flickr critique" - I think that people deserve more than just "nice shots, I like 1, 3 and 4" - that's really what TP is all about, and I suppose, since I've "gone green", I'm even more conscious that we all really aught to try a little harder on the crit. front.
 
TheBigYin said:
I was really happy when we actually got a proper place to post film shots and give / receive critique, and always try to give a half-decent appraisal of shots rather than "flickr critique" - I think that people deserve more than just "nice shots, I like 1, 3 and 4" - that's really what TP is all about, and I suppose, since I've "gone green", I'm even more conscious that we all really aught to try a little harder on the crit. front.
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I like points 1 and 2, not so sure about point 3 and point 4 is my favourite.




lolz :nuts:

Y'know, I don't think I've looked in the film crit section since I joined. I really should post some of my own stuff in there, I've been putting it off until I've got something I'd be happy for people to critique but if I stick with that idea, I won't post anything.
 
Well, at the moment it'd be either stuff I've posted in this thread previously or pics from 10 or more years ago. Once I've taken some better shots with a bit of a theme rather than snapshots from wherever I was at the time, I'll get a thread up. :)
 
Well - we don't normally like "cross posting" of shots - BUT - seeig as this particular thread is supposed to be a photo-sharing thread, rather than a critique thread, if ANYONE has a picture that they've posted in here, that they'd like a little more in depth analysis of, please feel free to post it over there.

One thing I think we need to keep in mind is that TP is really here to help make us better photographers - and for us to help others to become better too.

As the forum has grown in size, it's my personal feeling that the standard and level of critique has fallen - people are too scared to give proper robust critique for fear of either

a) offending the OP or
b) getting a earful of abuse from the OP doing a :dummy:

That or they take the "I don't know enough about photography to criticise someone's shots" - to which I say "Rubbish - you've got the same tools as everyone else - eyes to see, a brain to think, and fingers to type!" - okay - so you're not a technical whiz - fine - so talk about how a picture makes you FEEL - talk about the subject matter - even about memories the picture has brought back to you. Anything - as long as it shows you've THOUGHT about the picture, and CARED enough to try and help the person posting.

Anyone got a ladder so I can climb down off this horse, it's a bit high to jump down from :lol:
 
Is that Carshalton by any chance?

I swear I recognise that tree :D

Edit: OK, now I've looked at your Flickr stream it confirms my suspicions.
 
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Musicman said:
Is that Carshalton by any chance?

I swear I recognise that tree :D

Edit: OK, now I've looked at your Flickr stream it confirms my suspicions.
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Yep, the park up behind the ponds. I grew up in Sutton. ;)
 
I enjoy this thread but would enjoy it even more if each poster stated what camera they were using ;-)
 
Still catching up with finishing rolls, developing and scanning from the summer..

Kodak Retina 1a, Fujicolor C200..
 
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