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.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Sunday, 8 April 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
i got a bunch of superia 400 for christmas and i love it
― ♆ (gr8080), Monday, 9 April 2012 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Monday, 9 April 2012 11:48 (twelve years ago) link
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
― ♆ (gr8080), Monday, 9 April 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5350/7062643555_3af5742657_b.jpghttp://farm6.staticflickr.com/5341/6916562976_24d5dff915_b.jpghttp://farm8.staticflickr.com/7068/7062639195_c343a5dd64_b.jpg
― catbus otm (gbx), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
kinda obv but w/e
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5448/7062641469_aa9a899e36_b.jpg
― catbus otm (gbx), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
i like them! what kind of film?
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 00:25 (twelve years ago) link
that's the bog standard bw400cn stuff that got scanned all contrasty at cvs
― catbus otm (gbx), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
i spent easter morning driving to 4 diff drug stores looking for that stuff, haw
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 00:40 (twelve years ago) link
the local cvs always seems to have exactly two rolls at any given time, it's magical
― catbus otm (gbx), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 00:41 (twelve years ago) link
nice shots gbx! some rad architecture where you live
good highlight recovery on the last one of the three you posted initially
― swaghand (dayo), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
Did you rescan them somewhere else, gbx? They look good
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 03:16 (twelve years ago) link
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
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 09:52 (twelve years ago) link
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
― catbus otm (gbx), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 13:21 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
yeah gbx those look pretty great for cvs
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
I guess this one was the main offender:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7048/6916557438_b62556249c_b.jpg08_9.jpg by skowlyfield, on Flickr
hella blown in the upper left
― catbus otm (gbx), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
doesn't look particularly blown to me, could be better natch, but...
― swaghand (dayo), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
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
― catbus otm (gbx), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
damn son your photos were on tv???
― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
nbd
― catbus otm (gbx), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
upon zooming in, that looks like really bad sharpening artifacts from the cvs scanner
― swaghand (dayo), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
you can see the same artifacts on the right hand side, the chain link fence
― swaghand (dayo), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
for sure there's prob a ton of 'microdetail' or w/e that aren't shown in the scans
aha!
― catbus otm (gbx), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
the images weren't v big, you can see the originals on flickr
― catbus otm (gbx), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
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
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7060/7069828285_7462855711_b.jpgCraig Finn of the Hold Steady, The Loft, Dallas by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7267/7069826597_ae8ea17d49_b.jpgCraig Finn of the Hold Steady, The Loft, Dallas by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 12 April 2012 05:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/5828/349f.jpg
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Friday, 13 April 2012 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
nice
man u guys makin me want to shoot color
― catbus otm (gbx), Friday, 13 April 2012 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Friday, 13 April 2012 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
your digital colour stuff was beautiful
the guy on the trucksome other stuff too
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Friday, 13 April 2012 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― catbus otm (gbx), Friday, 13 April 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Friday, 13 April 2012 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
yeah superia 400 is the standard fuji color neg, should be pretty easy to get at wal-mart or some other big box store
― swaghand (dayo), Friday, 13 April 2012 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Friday, 13 April 2012 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
All abou the cheap films by the way. Kodak and Fuji consumer stuff can all be found for about $3/roll.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Friday, 13 April 2012 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
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
― catbus otm (gbx), Friday, 13 April 2012 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Friday, 13 April 2012 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
full disclosure though: last few pictures of mine were on ektar (can't get large supplies of fuji in nyc during passover!)
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Friday, 13 April 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
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
― catbus otm (gbx), Friday, 13 April 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
Portra 160 is still prob my preferred color film for flash photography
― ♆ (gr8080), Friday, 13 April 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 13 April 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
just dropped two rolls and picked up four more of the bw400cn. we'll see about this.
― catbus otm (gbx), Friday, 13 April 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7209/6928599460_73a7c5a014_b.jpghttp://farm8.staticflickr.com/7086/7074681109_fef21216b2_b.jpghttp://farm8.staticflickr.com/7236/6928599164_2089212c86_b.jpg
― catbus otm (gbx), Friday, 13 April 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
ruinedhttp://farm6.staticflickr.com/5119/7074680667_bf49e238ae_b.jpg
― catbus otm (gbx), Friday, 13 April 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
i stopped in ritz camera while running some errands at the mall and they had this oddball Vivitar 100 iso B&W film for $4, kind of weird looking, but i'm stoked to give it a go:
― ♆ (gr8080), Friday, 13 April 2012 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
~special moments~
― catbus otm (gbx), Friday, 13 April 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
rly like that last one ev
― swaghand (dayo), Friday, 13 April 2012 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
thanks mang, i was gonna post it in wdyll but i didn't want to cop yr style
― catbus otm (gbx), Friday, 13 April 2012 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
lol no worries go ahead and post that ish
― swaghand (dayo), Friday, 13 April 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago) link