what do you see like: 2012

imgur is having some problems

dope imo, light leaks look p cool in black and white. what camera?

i shot it with this, which started giving me problems mid-day, including coming open before rewinding (hence light leaks).

most of the roll was ruined but it made some kind of boring shots look cooler

hey now the 2nd one is loading :)

the light leaks work pretty fantastically well on those!

figured it was time to jump on IHKH: ihardlyknowher.com/davejm

looks good! I think a lot of your pictures in particular benefit from the large display size.

momus!

right, three recent favorites:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7113/7033375481_cbf4f40a68.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7271/6882277548_5d02c3e979.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7277/6876463522_c509383db1.jpg

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/photos/the-hottest-live-photos-of-2012-20120111/no-age-0783724

^ me /braggin

nice one!

very cool! I'll see no age here in seoul soon, actually :)

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7217/6896601586_06b1a4f8fa_b.jpg

(Cool thread, guys)

cool pic, admrl ;)

thanks!

oh nice. i love that it looks not so much fisheyed as actually subsided.

and here's a recent iPhone image I am proud of =D
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7043/6892887605_8184e5a7d1_b.jpg

http://i11.tinypic.com/53ucxtl.gif

I started messing around with black and white in the first time in about a year or so. seriously considering trying to get into the home developing game eventually, but I'm also not quite ready to give up color. well I mean I'll never give up color, since it's kinda my favorite, but I can imagine a future where I do color in digital, and black and white on film, depending on the future availability of color film etc.

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5117/6903248328_34a4c56d3e.jpg http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5336/7049340649_7ea8c196c8.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7046/7049340539_29e2e0450f.jpg http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7113/6903247972_a375b42651.jpg

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5324/6903247646_8d9b8cba37.jpg http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5336/7049339969_609dfc8a9e.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7193/7052676825_e74b271d2e_b.jpg
Not bad for 88 by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7214/6906591924_0ea658c96d_b.jpg
DSCF3443.jpg by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7078/6906584548_8368036b48_b.jpg
Mugging by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

I think maybe those are broken

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7193/7052676825_69393f4f69_b.jpg
Not bad for 88 by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7214/6906591924_3f0018931b_b.jpg
Magic Fire by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7078/6906584548_d013794686_b.jpg
Muggin' by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

Looking good for 88, i doubt i'll be alive at that age.

Have been to Scotland, let's get the castle out of the way...
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5324/6904112300_26ba2c38b2_z.jpg
Kilchurn Castle

ahh china those black & whites kill, it's so interesting seeing your stuff shot without colour. the candles are great. do you really see switching to digital colour as viable? i don't keep up with new digital cameras but it still feels like not the same sport to me.

switching to digital for color is still just an idle thought for me. probably couldn't afford to think about it for some years anyway, so it's all academic, but especially since the introduction of the x-pro 1 I'm keeping an eye on new digital cameras and imagining how they might fit in with my picture taking. I'm sure it's not gonna be the same, but that'll just make it interesting. I tell myself someday I'll probably switch to digital and when it happens it'll actually be exciting to change tools and techniques. until then I'm gonna shoot film as long as it's available at prices I can afford.

yeah those b&ws kill. what camera?

that's with the Leica M2, using Fuji Across 100. just picked up a 3 pack of Ilford FP5 this week too (ahead of all the Passover camera store closings!) that I'm shooting at the moment. don't think I've used that stuff before.

also finally sold a voigtlander lens of mine! so that I can pay off the 50mm I bought a couple weeks ago :/

The framelines on the XP1 don't feel the way Leica framelines do to me. There's something about the way they jump from one plane to another (parallax correction) that confuses me about where they really are, etc.. I'm sure it will just take more time with it.

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5451/7055238707_9788dda150_c.jpg

she's watching!

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7053/7055696993_947cfbcda9_z.jpg

that's with the Leica M2, using Fuji Across 100. just picked up a 3 pack of Ilford FP5 this week too (ahead of all the Passover camera store closings!) that I'm shooting at the moment. don't think I've used that stuff before.

― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Saturday, 7 April 2012 22:03 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow. they're so contrasty. i shot a bunch of delta 3200 in glorious sunshine recently, which i haven't seen yet, but i kinda love being able to get super dark blacks when outside. yrs don't look like 100 film to me, but i've never used acros afaik.

i realised there are a bunch of ilfords i haven't tried - like the 200 speed infrared one - so i'm trying to squeeze those in also.

I think Acros really responds to the developer - or at least there are photographers on flickr who use Acros and get these metallic, silvery tones from XTol (or so they claim) that I've never been able to replicate. I think they use medium format or large format Acros too, and it may be that laws of physics make it more conducive to achieve that effect with a larger negative...

I was working towards a bit more of a high contrast image than I normally go for too, in the scanning phase, and also by shooting it at the box speed for the most part.

i think of your style having so much to do with color, but it translates so well to black & white-- nice photos!

thanks dude... it's def kinda weird getting used to it again. have to remind myself to stop taking pictures of cool colorful things.
the current passover-related film purchasing drought (and a little restlessness preceding it) made me pick up a bunch of unusual films before last Friday, so now I'm shooting a bunch of stuff I don't normally mess with. usually I am ALL about fuji superia 400 and basically nothing else. this is sinking in as I go though old negs.

i got a bunch of superia 400 for christmas and i love it

thanks dude... it's def kinda weird getting used to it again. have to remind myself to stop taking pictures of cool colorful things.

ha, this is my main motivation for picking up another camera, so i can walk around with something small, loaded w/colourful film in my bag, and carry a camera loaded w/tri-x. i get so into shooting colours at this time of year because the streets are so bright, blossom is coming out, the stone of buildings is lit up by sun (colours; shooting blossom not in colour), & it feels ridiculous to have to glide by some synaesthetically bright scene because you're just gonna grade it in greys.

i have about 80% of my next zine laid out, waiting on about 5 more rolls to get developed before i finish it-- i think its a lot more boring than my past efforts, but i think i'm ok with that.

2 tentative spreads:

http://i.imgur.com/rIXmn.png

http://i.imgur.com/zI6Hm.png

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5350/7062643555_3af5742657_b.jpg
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5341/6916562976_24d5dff915_b.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7068/7062639195_c343a5dd64_b.jpg

kinda obv but w/e

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5448/7062641469_aa9a899e36_b.jpg

i like them! what kind of film?

that's the bog standard bw400cn stuff that got scanned all contrasty at cvs

i spent easter morning driving to 4 diff drug stores looking for that stuff, haw

the local cvs always seems to have exactly two rolls at any given time, it's magical

nice shots gbx! some rad architecture where you live

good highlight recovery on the last one of the three you posted initially

Did you rescan them somewhere else, gbx? They look good

you framed lost real nice, gbx
& i love those grids, gr8080; i got super invested in how photos can play with each other after seeing the spreads hiroyuki ito put together, from the famous people thread

Did you rescan them somewhere else, gbx? They look good

thx dudes! those are the basic scans from cvs. I've got some others that better rep some of the shortcomings. def want to try a home scanner for comparison

I'd be interested to see the more problematic scans. those ones you posted look about as good as I'd expect lab scans to look, in terms of light/dark balance etc.
in fact I've seen a lot worse. heavy contrast and blown highlights are perennial lab scan issues.

yeah gbx those look pretty great for cvs

I guess this one was the main offender:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7048/6916557438_b62556249c_b.jpg
08_9.jpg by skowlyfield, on Flickr

hella blown in the upper left