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jeffreys14b
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| Awesome photos here. I'm still sad at the death of film and its connection to reality though. |
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| Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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| jeffreys14b wrote: | | I'm still sad at the death of film and its connection to reality though. |
I don't follow. Certainly film is used less these days, but is by no means dead.
What do you mean by 'connection to reality'?
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jeffreys14b
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| Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Buckster wrote: | | jeffreys14b wrote: | | I'm still sad at the death of film and its connection to reality though. |
I don't follow. Certainly film is used less these days, but is by no means dead.
What do you mean by 'connection to reality'? |
I should have just left my comment at 'awesome photos' b/c my comment about the death of film wasn't meant to take away from the quality here. Just being nostalgic for the photography I learned in school. |
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Buckster
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| Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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A couple of recent shots...
Winter sunrise on Little Traverse Bay:
Winter sunrise on Indian River:
Ice and snow on the rocks of the breakwater in Petoskey, Michigan:
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| jeffreys14b wrote: | | Buckster wrote: | | jeffreys14b wrote: | | I'm still sad at the death of film and its connection to reality though. |
I don't follow. Certainly film is used less these days, but is by no means dead.
What do you mean by 'connection to reality'? |
I should have just left my comment at 'awesome photos' b/c my comment about the death of film wasn't meant to take away from the quality here. Just being nostalgic for the photography I learned in school. |
Film photography still exists though, is my point. Some of the photographers and lab techs I talk to are seeing a resurgence in film sales and developing actually. Personally, I'm not just shooting digital here, but also medium format film, and enjoy it very much. I'm developing the film in my bathroom.
The "connection to reality" is, and always has been, dependent on how far the photographer wants to take things - nothing new there either.
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ohaideer
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I has some on my Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/emilynd. None of my nature photos are on my new computer.
I should go take some more.
As for film, it's used as more of an art than for just everyday photos now I think.
My neighbor wants to give me an ENTIRE darkroom set for FREE, but I dont have a place to put it ): I would love to use film more often. |
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Buckster
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| ohaideer wrote: | I has some on my Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/emilynd. None of my nature photos are on my new computer.
I should go take some more.
As for film, it's used as more of an art than for just everyday photos now I think.
My neighbor wants to give me an ENTIRE darkroom set for FREE, but I dont have a place to put it ): I would love to use film more often. |
Yeah, there's a lot of that going around these days - free or nearly free darkroom equipment, especially enlargers and trays. I've passed on some as well, simply because I don't really have an interest in doing much printing.
I'm scanning my film negatives to digital files then tucking them away in film sleeve pages in a binder. When I do want to print, I'm using the digital files and my photo printer up to 13" x 19". If I need them larger than that, I'll have a lab that specializes in that sort of thing do it. I'd never have an enlarger setup that could do those bigger sizes anyway.
Now if I could just afford an automated Jobo developing machine to process my medium format C-41 stuff, I'd be all set (don't suppose your neighbor has one of those he'd like to sell cheap?). B&W is no problem by hand in the bathroom, but temp control for consistent C-41 processing by hand has been a bit of a pain to get together. I just got a Jobo bath tempering unit off Ebay that will help though.
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| Buckster wrote: | | ohaideer wrote: | I has some on my Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/emilynd. None of my nature photos are on my new computer.
I should go take some more.
As for film, it's used as more of an art than for just everyday photos now I think.
My neighbor wants to give me an ENTIRE darkroom set for FREE, but I dont have a place to put it ): I would love to use film more often. |
Yeah, there's a lot of that going around these days - free or nearly free darkroom equipment, especially enlargers and trays. I've passed on some as well, simply because I don't really have an interest in doing much printing.
I'm scanning my film negatives to digital files then tucking them away in film sleeve pages in a binder. When I do want to print, I'm using the digital files and my photo printer up to 13" x 19". If I need them larger than that, I'll have a lab that specializes in that sort of thing do it. I'd never have an enlarger setup that could do those bigger sizes anyway.
Now if I could just afford an automated Jobo developing machine to process my medium format C-41 stuff, I'd be all set (don't suppose your neighbor has one of those he'd like to sell cheap?). B&W is no problem by hand in the bathroom, but temp control for consistent C-41 processing by hand has been a bit of a pain to get together. I just got a Jobo bath tempering unit off Ebay that will help though. |
All the stuff is black and white, that's all I know. I don't know ANYTHING about darkroom stuff. I wish I did though. |
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Day before yesterday, Wednesday, January 27th, I spent the day in town. Petoskey, MI actually, which is about 30 miles from where I live in the boonies. Temperature was a bone chilling 13 degrees Fahrenheit (10 C). Add to that, the wind was whipping and a storm was dropping a couple of inches of snow on us. Lake Michigan's Little Traverse Bay was well agitated under those conditions, so I decided to go down to the waterfront to see if I could get some shots of the water splashing up on the breakwater and the navigation light:
I marveled at the way the ducks and gulls were unaffected by the harsh cold, and fired off a few shots of them:
While I was doing that, something caught my attention from the periphery of my vision; something black in the water. At first, I thought it was a couple of seals, as I'd seen countless times off the coast of California and Oregon. That thought was fleeting though as I realized that we don't have seals in Lake Michigan, that I know of. As I focused my 400mm lens on the subject, I saw something I NEVER thought I'd see in these conditions: SURFERS!
Sub-Zero Surfing in a snow storm. Now THAT'S badass!
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Those guys surfing in snow storm is crazy buck
I took a trip this past weekend to Red Bluff near Columbia, Mississippi and got a few cool pictures
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Some old ones:
Flying over the Grand Canyon:
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joeleitz
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Pr126, I checked out shutterfreaks and there certainly are some nice photos there! I saw some lovely pics of herons building a nest. Awesome shots! Thanks for the link, I'll probably check out that site regularly. I haven't seen Hugh's "autumn colors" photos yet but I'll have a look for them - they sound great.
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pr126
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I have closed my account back in March 2010 with the company which hosted my photos.
Consequently, all my photos posted on this thread in the past have disappeared.
Here are some new photos.
Rose "Wildfire"
A room in Leeds Castle, UK HDR
Monarch Butterfly
Castle Howard, UK
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pr126
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These are all from my garden:
Rose "Deep Secret"
Clematis "Arctic Queen"
Fuschia Heidi Ann
Rose "Arthur Bell"
Iris "Sable"
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Ok, I'll play....
Downtown Memphis, TN USA
Downtown Memphis, TN USA
Zion National Park - Utah
Seoul, South Korea
Downtown Memphis, TN USA
The VLA (Very Large Array) outside of Socorro, New Mexico
Horseshoe Bend Page, Arizona
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