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Post by rhythmthief on Jan 10, 2015 10:21:24 GMT -5
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truls
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Post by truls on Jan 10, 2015 10:43:15 GMT -5
Hello rhythmthief!
Very good images. I like Your composition and the way you let the light work. The first image is like taken out of a book of photo composition. This Works in particular well With black and white pics. The Third image show clealy old cameras like the Isolette can make good picures. You, the photographer makes images, camera only a tool. You also show that you master black and white, as tones, texture, light, shape are the building Blocks.
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Post by philbirch on Jan 10, 2015 23:08:50 GMT -5
A good set of images. You develop them yourself?
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Post by rhythmthief on Jan 12, 2015 0:13:32 GMT -5
A good set of images. You develop them yourself? No, I haven't got around to getting hold of the kit to develop films yet, but I'm beginning to think it might make sense as I mostly use B&W film and from what I can gather it's easy enough to develop. It's an expensive hobby when you've got to pay someone else to do it! Thanks for the comments. I'll be honest and say that I've hand picked about the best images to show off ... there were a good few duff ones in this batch of films! It might be more interesting for me to post a few of those for critiques ...  |
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Post by philbirch on Jan 12, 2015 3:37:55 GMT -5
We all hand pick the best for public forums!
Developing b&w is simple, no mystique about it. The basic kit you need is a developing tank, developer and fixer and a dark place to load the tank.
A thermometer, film hanger and accurate measuring jug are essential but a household thermometer and measuring jug and a pair of clothes pegs/pins will do as film hanger. A changing bag is not essential but convenient unless you are happy loading your tank in a zipped up overcoat under the bed covers.
I 'scan' my negs using my DSLR or NEX camera. It is easy to invert them in any image processing program.
If I may say, your images are lacking contrast. Is this your preference or how they come out?
Phil
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Post by truls on Jan 15, 2015 12:04:43 GMT -5
There is a Nice black and white tutorial at Tutsplus. The hardest is loading the film on the reel in the dark, to practice With a disposed film will be a well Worth Investment. I use a darkroom changing bag, which is a great help saving film stuck in cameras also. |
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Post by philbirch on Jan 15, 2015 15:09:41 GMT -5
There is a Nice black and white tutorial at Tutsplus. The hardest is loading the film on the reel in the dark, to practice With a disposed film will be a well Worth Investment. I use a darkroom changing bag, which is a great help saving film stuck in cameras also. I got a changing bag in a bunch of old equipment so I use it now. My coat under the bedcovers sufficed for over 20 years! |
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Post by Stephen on Jan 15, 2015 16:48:29 GMT -5
Don't forget these days to develop skills with Graphics programs, Photoshop or The Gimp, Photoscape etc., They can restore very bad negs to nearer perfection....however they do not make bad pictures good!
The manipulations possible are legend, far, far beyond a darkroom. Small problems like lack of contrast can be cured in moments, and with older cameras even fall off at the edges can be cured.
Barrel and pincushion distortion can be dealt with, all of interest in correcting an image from an older camera.
Mind you you may want to show the problems!
A good tip, by the way, is to increase the image file size to a high figure before applying effects like sharpening etc, and after all is corrected, then reduce back to smaller size, at which point the "artifacts" produced by the Graphics program are reduced to a minimum.
Stephen.
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Post by Stephen on Jan 15, 2015 17:01:13 GMT -5
There is a Nice black and white tutorial at Tutsplus. The hardest is loading the film on the reel in the dark, to practice With a disposed film will be a well Worth Investment. I use a darkroom changing bag, which is a great help saving film stuck in cameras also. I got a changing bag in a bunch of old equipment so I use it now. My coat under the bedcovers sufficed for over 20 years! The Photographic Shop I worked for had a dedicated "darkroom", used for case storage etc., it was a wooden shed structure on the back of the shop. I changed a couple of films in there and happened to drop the cassette on the floor, bent down to pick it up and discovered that under the shelf was a gap of about .5 mm in places, due to shrinkage of the wood. I reported it to he owner, who had built the shed structure himself, and did not believe there were any leaks. But after pointing them out, the shop manager said they had never had problems, and I think it was due to the shelf shielding the film if above the shelf. To show how bad it was I exposed a strip of tri-x for 5 secs four feet from the cracks, and got fogging, and as a check used a sheet of paper, which resulted in a smeared pinhole type image of the yard outside!! Needless to say many yards of black reinforced tape were used to cover all the joints! I spoke to the manager of the other branch, who had worked there for years, and he said he had never trusted the room, and used a changing bag as insurance! Stephen. |
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Post by philbirch on Jan 15, 2015 19:08:33 GMT -5
Ha Ha!
I worked for a dental company and was the resident 'expert' in x-ray films. A customer once complained that the films were all coming out black. I spoke to her and asked all the questions, how long development was, type of x-ray head, exposure whether the dev was warm. All answered properly and seems like everything was as it should be. I asked if any other films came out black. "Yes a pantomograph a few days ago was black too". I asked laughingly if is a dark room with the light off. She was really offended, like I'd insulted her intelligence. "Of course there's no light, the windows are blocked out and everything". "Something new then?". "Well we have moved the darkroom out of the cupboard into its own room". "What safeight are you using?" (x-ray safelights are greenish yellow as opposed to the red/orange ones we use) "We don't need a safelight, there's enough light coming under the door to see by."
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Post by Doug T. on Feb 4, 2015 12:47:37 GMT -5
Very nice shots. I'm partial to the look of "vintage" photography, and enjoyed the shots taken with the Agfa most.
Good job!!
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