Posts Tagged ‘Portrait’

Clément

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

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Here he is on flickr

When everything goes wrong

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

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Words of advice from the inexperienced. Wash your negatives thoroughly and DON’T change the type of film you shoot unless you have experience with the new film you plan to use.
I’m a bit disappointed that I traveled thousands of kilometers to meet up with the family (which is hard considering everyone lives in a different state) and manage to destroy all my black and white film in an afternoon.
I shall, from this point, revert to my tried and trusted film stock and developers. Not that there is anything wrong with what I’ve just ruined. Just that I don’t want to have to spend more money learning the in’s and out’s of another stock when the current one already serves me well.

Uchujin

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

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See his genius at work here -> Uchujin
While I was in the film archives the other day I found a few shots I forgot to scan. A case that so often happens to me “ah, not bad, I’ll do that one last”. As usual, I forget or run out of time.
Figured it would be nice to add to the rest of the shots considering everyone else got a look-in a while back on the blog.

Enoshima, Pan F and Diafine

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

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On my little adventure to Enoshima last weekend at 4am, not only did I manage to get sick but I tried a Film / Developer combination I hadn’t seen before.

I’ve used Ilford Pan F on occasion and, while expensive, have liked the results I’ve gotten so far. My trip to Enoshima was finally a chance to shoot something at ISO100 (developing with Diafine pushes it a stop to 100) so I thought I’d try it developed in Diafine.

Well, as you can see by the results, it’s pretty damn dark. But, looking at the shot of the old man (second slide), I couldn’t have really exposed it more or the shirt would have been blown. The background at the time was not at all dark and the day was overcast so there were no shadows so in theory more of the background should be visible.

If you are going to use this combination, make sure you don’t have any dark area’s in your shot or you’re likely to get blacks.

Manny Santiago

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

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