Photography
Related: About this forumDowntown with legacy glass and camera set to monochrome.
It's kind of like the bit of sorbet to cleanse the palate. I needed to feel a good heavy manual lens in my hands. I needed to feel the stops on the aperture ring, and the smooth resistance of the focus.
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Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)I love B&W.
Speaking of retro, I wonder if a person could outfit a digital camera with a pinhole instead of a lens. That would interesting.
alfredo
(60,071 posts)I was thinking about buying one for my camera. My camera has live time that allows me to see the image in process. That should take the guess work out of it.
http://www.ephotozine.com/article/olympus-livetime---best-new-technology-2012-20754
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Keep up the good work.
alfredo
(60,071 posts)I'm still learning, and still see the majority of my images as shit.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)The company I was working for as a computer programmer was launching a new product and they recruited 6 or 8 people from around the company for an advertising photo. One professional model was the "gang leader", and I was to be one of the punk gangsters in the photo.
The shoot, resulting in one single photo for the ad, took 10 hours! The photographer and his crew would adjust lights, fiddle without poses, and then take another Polaroid (that was before digital), and then take a dozen or more shots with a film back instead of the Polaroid back on his Hassleblad, then repeat the whole process while a technician developed the film and brought the photographer a still-wet roll of huge Ecktachrome transparencies, which were scrutinized with magnifiers by several people before they started the whole process over again. They easily shot a hundred or more photos to get the one usable one.
The next day I went back to programming, glad I'd never have to do another photo shoot like that!
So I guess even pros expect that very few of the photos they take will actually survive intense scrutiny and be displayed in public.
alfredo
(60,071 posts)I used to be an artist model for a local artist back in my younger days. Here's her site. http://gloria-thomas.com/index.htm After her early years she stopped using models and just winged it.
Mira
(22,380 posts)keep on showing the photos. I like them all but especially the second one. It seems to tell a self contained story.
alfredo
(60,071 posts)Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)alfredo
(60,071 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)There's something about the guy's shadow.
And I also like the fountain...it seems to have a lot of "action".
alfredo
(60,071 posts)would not have worked at noon.
calikid
(584 posts)unionthug777
(740 posts)I dabbled in B&W when I was younger....dad had a darkroom to load film into canisters. and off I went....not anywhere near as good as yours, though.
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alfredo
(60,071 posts)The smell of the chemicals and the enlarger light are still with me. I still have my tank for negatives. I remember pushing Extachrome slides to 1,600. Talk about noise.
Set your camera to monochrome and do it.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)I often find that I think I have them in focus and when I get home... nope, not so much. I don't know if it's because of my progressive lenses in my glasses or what but my hit rate with manual focus is abysmal.
I especially like 2 & 4.
alfredo
(60,071 posts)I use the same type of gasses and I have cataracts, but the zoom/magnify really helps my hit rate. High contrast subjects help.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)I always forget about it being an option.