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Photo of the Day September 2020

Hope everyone is having a fun safe labor day today. So glad that we are able to go out and shoot again in public... especially the portrait shooters. This is a portrait I edited early on when the "Stay at Home" orders first started... when we were all locked indoors...

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Here is a quick animation of the edit if interested (please excuse the typos... lol). I took the portrait before the stay at home orders, the backdrop isn't mine... even if the location is local. I reread the thread rules to see if this is allowed. Please let me if it's not and I'll delete, or have it deleted. Happy Labor Day!!!!
 
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The Darmok family had a roadtrip—hopefully you missed me, but if you didn’t, well, I’m back anyway!

I was finally able to try this “landscape photography“ craze I’ve been hearing about. ;) I put both my 9mm BCL and 14mm 2.5 to use, and ND filters! I’m surprised how often I went with the BCL, but this one was with the 14mm with ND2. Prepare for my “least worst” of the Wichita Mountains, of south central Oklahoma.
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erayser said:
Hope everyone is having a fun safe labor day today. So glad that we are able to go out and shoot again in public... especially the portrait shooters. This is a portrait I edited early on when the "Stay at Home" orders first started... when we were all locked indoors...

stayathome_edit.jpg


Here is a quick animation of the edit if interested (please excuse the typos... lol). I took the portrait before the stay at home orders, the backdrop isn't mine... even if the location is local. I reread the thread rules to see if this is allowed. Please let me if it's not and I'll delete, or have it deleted. Happy Labor Day!!!!
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I like that image. Lovely moment captured.
 
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OK so, I have been playing with film for a while. I finally worked up the courage to process one of my films myself.

As expected the first roll was a bit of a bumpy ride. I completely ruined the film during the processing process in typical man style - I read the manual AFTER having a bash at it... Anyway of a roll of film with 36 exposures I managed to ruin all except 5 frames so I “scanned” them in (macro lens and a tripod with negative laying on an ipad screen)

This is one of them - not a photographic masterpiece but I made it from start to finish myself and.... the film feeder holes are actually from the film not a software pretendy frame. Not suggesting this is any good, just a bit chuffed to have done it.

I am hoping I will get at least semi competent at this at some point but in the meantime it is a bit of fun.

[EDIT]: I have no idea where that tree is as it was so long ago. Note to self, carry a sharpie and write on the canister where/when the film was used.
 

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kenoh said:
OK so, I have been playing with film for a while. I finally worked up the courage to process one of my films myself.

As expected the first roll was a bit of a bumpy ride. I completely ruined the film during the processing process in typical man style - I read the manual AFTER having a bash at it... Anyway of a roll of film with 36 exposures I managed to ruin all except 5 frames so I “scanned” them in (macro lens and a tripod with negative laying on an ipad screen)

This is one of them - not a photographic masterpiece but I made it from start to finish myself and.... the film feeder holes are actually from the film not a software pretendy frame. Not suggesting this is any good, just a bit chuffed to have done it.

I am hoping I will get at least semi competent at this at some point but in the meantime it is a bit of fun.

[EDIT]: I have no idea where that tree is as it was so long ago. Note to self, carry a sharpie and write on the canister where/when the film was used.
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Do you watch Thomas Heaton. His adventure with a film camera are quite interesting from a film novice point of view. I developed my own film once on a photography taster day in the 90’s. Back when I didn’t know my F-stop from my film speed.
 
More Cottonwoods, yet again. Rocky Mountain Arsenal, yet again. They're the most prevalent prairie trees on our part of the North American Steppe outside of Denver. They were heavily utilized by First Nations folks for shelter, medicine and a host of other things. They grow in nice shapes and break up the prairie landscape in interesting ways to me.

Cottonwoods 2 Rocky Mountain Arsenal by Ray Harrison, on Flickr
 
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Apple fanboy said:
Do you watch Thomas Heaton. His adventure with a film camera are quite interesting from a film novice point of view. I developed my own film once on a photography taster day in the 90’s. Back when I didn’t know my F-stop from my film speed.
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Oh yes, I am fan of Thomas and he is from my homeland too. Very interesting and has re-ignited my film interest
 
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kenoh said:
OK so, I have been playing with film for a while. I finally worked up the courage to process one of my films myself.

As expected the first roll was a bit of a bumpy ride. I completely ruined the film during the processing process in typical man style - I read the manual AFTER having a bash at it... Anyway of a roll of film with 36 exposures I managed to ruin all except 5 frames so I “scanned” them in (macro lens and a tripod with negative laying on an ipad screen)

This is one of them - not a photographic masterpiece but I made it from start to finish myself and.... the film feeder holes are actually from the film not a software pretendy frame. Not suggesting this is any good, just a bit chuffed to have done it.

I am hoping I will get at least semi competent at this at some point but in the meantime it is a bit of fun.

[EDIT]: I have no idea where that tree is as it was so long ago. Note to self, carry a sharpie and write on the canister where/when the film was used.
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Awesome image. If you want to get into self digitizing with your digital camera - you may want to investigate this; The Essential Film Holder.


I used to process b&w film - it's all in the timing - and the stinky chemicals - I think the fixer was the worst.
 
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A view from the top of Mount Scott, with Lake Lawtonka and the small town of Medicine Park in the distance. While the Wichita Mountains are not all that high in elevation relative to what we typically think of as mountains west of the Mississippi, they seemingly appear out of nowhere in the vast semi-arid plains of OK and TX. You can drive hundreds of miles in most every direction and not come across anything remotely similar. Also, OK must have been getting favorable precipitation most of the summer, as this is the greenest I’ve seen this area. Usually by late summer most of the native grasses have gone to seed and are dormant until spring.

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kenoh said:
OK so, I have been playing with film for a while. I finally worked up the courage to process one of my films myself.

As expected the first roll was a bit of a bumpy ride. I completely ruined the film during the processing process in typical man style - I read the manual AFTER having a bash at it... Anyway of a roll of film with 36 exposures I managed to ruin all except 5 frames so I “scanned” them in (macro lens and a tripod with negative laying on an ipad screen)

This is one of them - not a photographic masterpiece but I made it from start to finish myself and.... the film feeder holes are actually from the film not a software pretendy frame. Not suggesting this is any good, just a bit chuffed to have done it.

I am hoping I will get at least semi competent at this at some point but in the meantime it is a bit of fun.

[EDIT]: I have no idea where that tree is as it was so long ago. Note to self, carry a sharpie and write on the canister where/when the film was used.
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Welcome back! It's been a while since you posted an image.
 
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Steven-iphone said:
Awesome image. If you want to get into self digitizing with your digital camera - you may want to investigate this; The Essential Film Holder.


I used to process b&w film - it's all in the timing - and the stinky chemicals - I think the fixer was the worst.
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I smiled at this .... also processed my own b&w film 1984 in college, took photography as art elective.
Dodge and burn were what they meant then exposing negative with enlarger onto print sheets.
Ahhh, doing contact sheets first, then selecting which negative(s) to expose, and how.
 
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I, too, remember the film days and processing B&W film and then spending time in the darkroom..... For classes where we worked in color, we had color "drums" that were rather frustrating to use. When I wasn't taking classes, I'd usually drop the film (both B&W and color) off at a nearby photo lab, they'd process it and do the contact sheets and then I'd review those....and while I'd do the B&W prints myself, I'd have the lab do the color ones. Much better results!
 
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