what do you see like: 2012

niiiice

It's a crazy-sharp lens, and one of my favorites. (Though at this point it's like picking favorite children.) It's an 80's model push-pull zoom, 70-210mm. No auto-focus, but in situations like this that serves me well, because I don't want to trust the camera to decide what's most important. I'm looking at hundreds of miles, ffs.

I think from time to time that I'm venturing into more saturated pictures, but then I scan some old kodachrome slides and realize what heavy saturation *really* is:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7040/6790895690_d26a40409c_z.jpg

Kodachrome: jellybeans for your eyes!

ha that's amazing, it makes me categorise the past as a time when everything looked like kodachrome/everyone was on acid all the time (/everything was orange)

yeah it's funny because looking at it, it seems *right* to me because, of course, LA was sun-drenched orange and yellow when I took it, but if I took the same picture now with, say, fuji superia, I wouldn't get ANYTHING like this, and if I pumped up the reds and the saturation etc. I'm sure it would just feel wrong!
also the black blacks... I'd be kicking myself if I let my blacks get that dark with print film, but with slide film the decision is made for me, and it kinda looks good? I'm thinking of messing around with chromes a little more again. I can't get the *greatest* scans of them, but whatever.

slightly off-topic, I noticed that an installation picture I did was used on LPV: http://lpvmagazine.com/2012/02/medium-1/ (the Art Blog Art Blog one)... and I now realize that that gallery series has been written about quite a bit, with my documentation accompanying most articles. I did it pretty unprofessionally anyway... in exchange for vacation time upstate.

http://lpvmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/artblog.jpg

but with slide film the decision is made for me, and it kinda looks good?

heh yeah there was a photographer who shot slide film in the south american tropics - the exposure range is so wide due to the harsh light that he just said fuck it and let the shadows go to pure black and got these amazing, color film noir-ish photos. can't remember the name of the photographer but there was a post on TOP about it.

I've seen those! and yeah they look good.

I think it's fun noting that all the instagram/hipstamatic filters are sort of the equivalent of how film manufacturers tweaked their films back in the day - kodachrome, velvia, etc.

except we are very conscious of the artifice when using iphone filters - films, though, felt 'natural'

heh yeah there was a photographer who shot slide film in the south american tropics - the exposure range is so wide due to the harsh light that he just said fuck it and let the shadows go to pure black and got these amazing, color film noir-ish photos. can't remember the name of the photographer but there was a post on TOP about it.

link plz

http://www.webbnorriswebb.com/

http://i.imgur.com/1sq1o.jpg

alex webb - I think he is an ILP favorite

check out 'the mouth of night (paraguay)' on the website

alex webb is one of those photogaphers who makes you want to quit everything, sell all your possessions except for your cameras and travel the world and take amazing pictures

sigh

these aren't mine, i like my housemates photos tho

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http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/necoutepaslesidoles/15134450502/1/tumblr_lx4vbxMGxs1qzck11

http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/necoutepaslesidoles/15134092140/1/tumblr_lx4uy8ZdaC1qzck11

I like the last one especially.

yeah the white on white is nice

first one is my sitting room

i like the chairs one v much

she gets how to use this hard frontal flash which is a technical thing i am jealous of, v nan goldinish.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7199/6932041575_0c4baa7501_z.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7061/6794047844_56d93fd50f_z.jpg

recent faves.
there's a little of that frontal flash there, though whether I know how to use it I couldn't say. it's from an olympus stylus epic, which has become my new 'going out' camera. I love it!
(I found one for $15 at a flea market, but the day *after* I ebayed one for $25, so my gf gets one too.)

stylus for second pic. top is still the leica.

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Yes.

aw, my pickles vanished :(

i liked the pickle jar a lot

me too.

You can still click on the empty image slot and get to it people, don't be sad.

Oddly compelling.

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http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7066/6819873120_60147ff31c_b.jpg
so lonely by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

hey i got some film back in the first time in forever.

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love the 2nd one!

thanks lol trending #whiteonwhite

I really like the first one too. I'm also wild about mirrors. But really that's some great light.

feelin' the tiles, light, and reflections in milo z's last one too

haha I was thinking more about the white on grey on pale yellow, the paleness of it all

like milo's one as well - feel like it would work really good in a series

series is what I'm thinking too, but nothing I've taken similar to that has worked yet
<3 the cool tones of #whiteonwhite

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I love pictures of meals!

#whiteonwhite got me doing this

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/ad40aa42.jpg

RIP kodachrome

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/7ef9f212.jpg

RIP all kodak chromes, for that matter. based on recent discussion I picked up some Fuji T64 since, yeah, how much longer can a film like *that* have? I have no clue how I'll use it though.

cross-processing tungsten slide film used to be a thing

iirc the "thing" to do is shoot tungsten in sunlight then get it developed normally

a few photos from a roll i shot that way:
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tungsten film has a built in white balance shift - it's like setting your digicam's white balance to tungsten. I think its primary use is for indoor shots with mixed lighting. hear it's popular with museums for taking photographs of paintings in interior lighting?

but yeah shoot it in sunlight. I barely saturated the color here and the blues just overtook everything..

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/5212a9d7.jpg

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Cross-processing tungsten, you get a blue cast, but more pop to other colors than if you just process normally.

Tungsten was originally primarily for shooting with studio hot lights, but it also worked for household incandescent (if you had enough light at all to shoot 64 ISO). I still have a couple of boxes of 4x5 sheets of 64T that I never got to use. They're horribly out of date (6 years, no refrigeration), I should try them in my pinhole.

I'll mess around. A few inside, a few out. You can bet I'll use the SLR that's got an f1.4 lens though for 64 ISO.

picked up an LTM to M adapter for my russian 50mm lens today. kinda psyched about that as it's a largely uncoated (and thus kinda hazy) lens. I dig the look, and can carry it with the Leica now.

got a shitload of film developed today!!!
(sorry if this is posting too many)

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