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
they're practically cones!
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7234/7076431429_31fa1186dc_c.jpg
― Millsner, Saturday, 14 April 2012 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
I wonder how many of those things get stolen, they're great.
Another one from Scotland trip.http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7266/6930429268_5aa868fafc_c.jpg
― not_goodwin, Saturday, 14 April 2012 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
up to your usual impeccable standard. you've got a knack for nailing the tone of an image.
― Millsner, Saturday, 14 April 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
Thank you very much.
― not_goodwin, Saturday, 14 April 2012 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
blacks are so v tricky
― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 14 April 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
^compliment of your blacks
― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 14 April 2012 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
IDK if these count or not but I've been getting bored of shooting shows lately and have been making these to make life harder for myself:
http://richardgin.blogspot.com/2012/04/work-harder.html
― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 15 April 2012 03:50 (twelve years ago) link
Re: previous tricky blacks
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7129/7077968861_943e63ea59.jpg
this one made me laugh:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7075/6933704168_eb88a19f7a_z.jpg
― Millsner, Sunday, 15 April 2012 13:09 (twelve years ago) link
^dope.
jimmy mod: the mobile/iPhone view of your site is kind of screwy fyi
― ♆ (gr8080), Sunday, 15 April 2012 13:37 (twelve years ago) link
Great stuff on this thread. I always say that but I do mean it.
25 days in the US. I'll never have a break from work like that again in my life, so it has been thoroughly documented (well, as best I could with the kids around). Still importing photos from 40D, ZE-1 (cheapo Kodak thing I bought from Target on day 2 cos I wanted a pocket video camera), our two smartphones... It's gonna be around 4000 images.
I don't know where to start, but at the end - flying home:http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7059/7079897737_188c322a10_z.jpg
Gaylord MCing at the Chickfactor shows (mindful of running out of memory, I started shooting a lot of ISO 1600 B&W JPGs at night - this is near-SOOC, just cropped):http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5275/7079913989_5b668cc65c_z.jpg
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 15 April 2012 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
I know just how you feel, I'm uploading holiday photos myself and filtering down from about 2000 pictures as I go.
― Aunt Acid and the Gaviscons (aldo), Sunday, 15 April 2012 13:52 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe I should've just taken the EOS 10 + 50mm, six rolls of Fuji Superia 400, four rolls of Ilford Delta 3200, rationed myself to 15 shots per day, and let Jacobs do the rest. (Phones could've handled the blow-by-blow FB documentation).
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 15 April 2012 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
I've taken so many similar landscape shots it's really all about trying to find the right ones. But yes, I did all the day-to-day FB shots by phone.
― Aunt Acid and the Gaviscons (aldo), Sunday, 15 April 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago) link