Show us yer film shots then!

I've just photo scanned the two sheets of 4x5 Astia I shot last week. I had to merge two separate images in Photoshop as my current light block is only 6x6 size. Both shots had a slight magenta cast so I prefer them in B&W although I'll see how they look with a proper scan too.

1) Hillsborough Memorial in Port Sunlight. I found out that shooting digital with a flippy screen is so much easier than trying to frame a shot on the ground glass when the camera is sitting 3" off the ground and I'm in my work clothes so can't lay on the floor!

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2) Port Sunlight War Memorial - Slightly easier to frame because I could rest the camera on a wall and be almost eye level with it!

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Appreciate any feedback although I understand B&W conversions of colour slide film might not be to everyone's taste! Also, any vignetting is a combination of the post processing and the light falloff at the edges of my current light block.

Cheers
Steve
 
I recently did my first full engagement shoot on film. Definitely some more things to learn! Good grief. I recently posted the full set/thread in the people section but for the folk who never venture far from the film section, here is one and a CLICKY in case you want to see the full blog post. :)

Portra 400 :)

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gazmorton2000 said:
I recently did my first full engagement shoot on film. Definitely some more things to learn! Good grief. I recently posted the full set/thread in the people section but for the folk who never venture far from the film section, here is one and a CLICKY in case you want to see the full blog post. :)

Portra 400 :)

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Those colours!!! Lovely shot, must of been a nervous wait for the developing! Really nice :)

Adam
 
gazmorton2000 said:
I recently did my first full engagement shoot on film. Definitely some more things to learn! Good grief. I recently posted the full set/thread in the people section but for the folk who never venture far from the film section, here is one and a CLICKY in case you want to see the full blog post. :)

Portra 400 :)

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Gareth, I have watched your photography develop the way you have decided to progress and this photograph is good. The main principal of the composition is wonderful and she looks radiant,the eyes are beautiful,which say,s every thing that she is feeling.

I would just observe that her partner is a bit left out in the cold and looks like,he is a bit of a tree trunk.The OOF is not my problem just the heavy crop of his head. Having said that I love what you are doing and breaking old ground(film) makes you an Artisan that future couples will most definitely want. BIG TIME. Congratulations.
 
AdzJackson said:
Those colours!!! Lovely shot, must of been a nervous wait for the developing! Really nice :)

Adam
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Thanks, Adam. Yeah it's always nervous waiting for the developing but even more so with these as I didn't take anything digital with me on this shoot.

medwaygreen said:
Gareth, I have watched your photography develop the way you have decided to progress and this photograph is good. The main principal of the composition is wonderful and she looks radiant,the eyes are beautiful,which say,s every thing that she is feeling.

I would just observe that her partner is a bit left out in the cold and looks like,he is a bit of a tree trunk.The OOF is not my problem just the heavy crop of his head. Having said that I love what you are doing and breaking old ground(film) makes you an Artisan that future couples will most definitely want. BIG TIME. Congratulations.
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Thank you, Richard. I think the photo possibly works better as a set so it's definitely worth checking the full blog post I think with all the images from the shoot. I do appreciate your feedback though and I am constantly trying to improve with what I am doing here.
 
.Thank you, Richard. I think the photo possibly works better as a set so it's definitely worth checking the full blog post I think with all the images from the shoot. I do appreciate your feedback though and I am constantly trying to improve with what I am doing here.

I will do that and check out the full post.(y)
 
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Well Gareth I've just clicked on your link and extra congrats as I would assume you used fill in flash and at times can be difficult to get everything right and your shots look very good and balanced.
 
excalibur2 said:
Well Gareth I've just clicked on your link and extra congrats as I would assume you used fill in flash and at times can be difficult to get everything right and your shots look very good and balanced.
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Thank you for checking out the full post! :)

No flash was used at all. The snow on the ground made the whole area like one large reflector.
 
According to some in the "what can TP do better" thread, Like is to be discouraged, some would wish it removed. My first instinct on seeing the image above was to give it a Like, because... I do!

Apparently it's not quite so bad if you give a Like and also write something. Well, I'm not sure quite why I like this image s much, but I surely do. Lots of texture, good range of tones, light, shadows, shapes... and a great composition. But most of all, perhaps, the "grain" in that big stone (and its contrary angle). Love it, well done Kevin!
 
RichardTaylor said:
Around about 1970. Ashai Pentax Spotrmatic + a Takumar 135mm or Takumar 300mm lens. Proably Ektachrome or High Speed Ektachrome.

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I think the film may be Nostalgiacolour ... I remember it well. But seriously, this must've been a high speed film, surely? Wasn't High Speed Ektachrome 160 ASA, & the ordinary one at the time 64?

Funny that the guy on the left has his right leg in plaster ...
 
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A few I took last year just to check out a Mamiya C330 I'd bought. Provia 400, rated at 320 ISO. Metering was with a Lunasix 3 adapted for modern batteries.

Dev & scans were by Ag, but I wasn't overly impressed with the scans regarding the tonal extremities compared to the negs. So with cost in mind, the next step has to be a scanner that can do mf, so I can be in control ... I'd really like a film scanner, but on my budget it'll have to be a flatbed with a light hood.

The camera was hand-held (compromising sharpness). Mono conversions were done in Photoshop, just using channel mixer & curves layers.

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droj said:
I think the film may be Nostalgiacolour ... I remember it well. But seriously, this must've been a high speed film, surely? Wasn't High Speed Ektachrome 160 ASA, & the ordinary one at the time 64?

Funny that the guy on the left has his right leg in plaster ...
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Re High Speed Ektachrome being 160 ASA - you are correct. Thats what I normally took to shoot motor sport events.
I opened up a box of my old slides, that hadn't been opened since about 1980 and started photographing the best of them, oir the ones that had lots of memories (family pics). .
 
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droj said:
A few I took last year just to check out a Mamiya C330 I'd bought. Provia 400, rated at 320 ISO. Metering was with a Lunasix 3 adapted for modern batteries.

Dev & scans were by Ag, but I wasn't overly impressed with the scans regarding the tonal extremities compared to the negs. So with cost in mind, the next step has to be a scanner that can do mf, so I can be in control ... I'd really like a film scanner, but on my budget it'll have to be a flatbed with a light hood.

The camera was hand-held. Mono conversions were done in Photoshop, just using channel mixer & curves layers.

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Lovely shots Roger. Beautiful and unusual compositions.

Re the scanner, there's plenty of threads on here, not sure anyone's reviewed them yet. MF dedicated scanners are stupid expensive, but flatbeds do a pretty good job. If you don't care about LF (or don't mind the idea of scanning LF in two parts and stitching, which is what @Anysnap does), then an Epson V500 is what most people go fo and does a pretty good job. The V700 etc are quite a bit more expensive, and bigger? Probably not the thread to discuss it though...
 
Which is what Andysnap used to do. I now have an Epson 4990 which scans LF and seems to do a very good job of it.
 
I slum it with a flat bed for both mf and LF. The quality is fine you can see it falling apart at very large enlargements but for the most part it'll get you there. I have been thinking of joining my local dark room, they've got both a wet lab and a digital lab with a 'blad scanner that should do the job nicely!
 
medwaygreen said:
.Thank you, Richard. I think the photo possibly works better as a set so it's definitely worth checking the full blog post I think with all the images from the shoot. I do appreciate your feedback though and I am constantly trying to improve with what I am doing here.

I will do that and check out the full post.(y)
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I checked out your full set and they are very good indeed,your couple must have been very happy.

Great set of photograph,s.
 
medwaygreen said:
I checked out your full set and they are very good indeed,your couple must have been very happy.

Great set of photograph,s.
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Thank you, Richard. :)

They were happy I think. Shame I will have to shoot their wedding digitally in August. Will throw a few rolls in though if the situation allows. :)
 
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That is very creative Trevor. I like it a lot.
 
OK, I'll have another go at this colour malarkey.

Wista Field 45, Kodak Portra 160, Langdale, Lake District.
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Closer? Rubbish again? Spot on? :D

Cheers

Andy
 
Finally.......:D
 
steveo_mcg said:
New soup?
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No, I'm just starting to see when it looks wrong,also I asked the CMS to check it before posting. :)
I did, however, discover that my thermometer was reading way high so I have been using soup that was much too warm, nearly 50% too warm. Got a new one now.(y)
 
Andysnap said:
No, I'm just starting to see when it looks wrong,also I asked the CMS to check it before posting. :)
I did, however, discover that my thermometer was reading way high so I have been using soup that was much too warm, nearly 50% too warm. Got a new one now.(y)
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The temperature might go some way to explaining the difficulty you were having before at least.
 
steveo_mcg said:
The temperature might go some way to explaining the difficulty you were having before at least.
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Hopefully. I'm going to fire off a couple of colour sheets this week and see if it has any effect.
 
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