what do you see like: 2012

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she's watching!

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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:

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kinda obv but w/e

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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:

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hella blown in the upper left

doesn't look particularly blown to me, could be better natch, but...

what's all that noisy stuff then? dust? scratches?

fwiw I'm realizing that I first appraised these pics on my tv and not my monitor---that thing is contrasty as heck

damn son your photos were on tv???

nbd

upon zooming in, that looks like really bad sharpening artifacts from the cvs scanner

you can see the same artifacts on the right hand side, the chain link fence

for sure there's prob a ton of 'microdetail' or w/e that aren't shown in the scans

aha!

the images weren't v big, you can see the originals on flickr

girl I was with would not have been pleased if I had moved toward the stage to actually be photographer-esque, but the XPro-1 went to the Hold Steady tonight

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Craig Finn of the Hold Steady, The Loft, Dallas by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

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nice

man u guys makin me want to shoot color

i just looked at china's ihkh
& the recent return-to-colour is just wow

have you shot colour w/the leica, much? because your digital colour stuff was beautiful

sunshine makes me want to shoot colour, but i've just been walking around shooting the ground for a few weeks, it feels like it has maybe become my schtick. i thought i could collect the photos & publish them as street photography.

your digital colour stuff was beautiful

the guy on the truck
some other stuff too

thanks man! i haven't shot color with the m6 yet, no, but i plan to once i can get my hand on some...superia? is that the ish around here?

i kinda never liked superia ..??, though i am not totally rigorous with these decisions, & it might be just that i associate it with all of the photos i took before i started playing with less common film.

yeah superia 400 is the standard fuji color neg, should be pretty easy to get at wal-mart or some other big box store

I usually stick w superia 400 and overexpose by a stop. Smooth grain, good detail. It *can* suffer from green/magenta issues, but home scanning fixes that for me. Labs will vary.
Probably 70% of my color photos are superia. The equivalent cheap Kodak shows much more grain.

All abou the cheap films by the way. Kodak and Fuji consumer stuff can all be found for about $3/roll.

yeah I'm drawn to the idea of buying cheap film, and doing cheap drug store developing, why because it's an aesthetic also I am cheap and lazy

yeah dudes will say that fuji doesn't give accurate skin tones, but then those dudes will also happily spend $7 per roll.
I love cheap cheap cheap. part of which is just coming up with a system and not deviating from it. efficiencies of scale etc.

full disclosure though: last few pictures of mine were on ektar (can't get large supplies of fuji in nyc during passover!)

yeah I figure if I were to try and get in too deep into some perfect scheme I just wouldn't produce. otoh there's a cvs a block away so I might as well focus on volume right now

Portra 160 is still prob my preferred color film for flash photography

I need to start scouting local spots for color. The price difference at Amazon/B&H isn't enough to not go w/ Portra, but I'd like cheap.

just dropped two rolls and picked up four more of the bw400cn. we'll see about this.

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