Francesco Bonomo Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 You know, after spending around 10 hours scanning 2 rolls of film. . . Sometimes I question why I don't just go out and get a D40. Adrian, that's exactly what I thought almost three years ago. I didn't have any room to print negatives at home, didn't have dark room equipment, and was shooting so many rolls every week that i decided to buy a D70s. For a year or so I was shooting all the time (I shot more than 10.000 pictures on a tv series I was working on, and I wasn't the stills photographer!). However, after a couple of years, I bought a new enlarger (on ebay, less than 200$), and found a way to turn the kitchen into a dark room whenever I needed it. Don't know why, perhaps I was growing tired of the immediacy of digital, and I could feel my pictures were lacking something. Digital is great, but I believe film makes me take "riskier" pictures, I don't like being on the safe side too much. Now I'm shooting 95% film, mostly black and white (with a F100 and a 20mm that never leaves the body, and with a Hasselblad), and I make someone else scan the negatives. Next step, I'm thinking about using anamorphic lenses on my Nikon :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Adrian Sierkowski Posted February 20, 2008 Premium Member Share Posted February 20, 2008 For me, film is like Christmas. By the time I get around to dropping off my neg for processing, I have forgotten what the hell I took photos of, so when it comes back; I have the great joy of 37 little presents! One of these days I'll figure out a way to shanghai someone into scanning them for me. . . I just need the right blackmail photographs first :ph34r: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francesco Bonomo Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 One of these days I'll figure out a way to shanghai someone into scanning them for me. . . I just need the right blackmail photographs first :ph34r: Isn't there a scanning service available at the lab where you have your film developed? What I usually do is select a few negatives every 3 months and drop them at the lab for scanning at less than 10$ per roll. I could spend a lot more and scan them at high resolution, but since I print them at home, I use the scans just as a sort of lo-res digital backup. p.s. I like that, "film is like Christmas". ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Adrian Sierkowski Posted February 20, 2008 Premium Member Share Posted February 20, 2008 I'm pretty sure they have a scanning service there; I know they do it for slides, but, for myself, I like to be there when it's scanned to I can manipulate the levels and HSL functions on the scanner to get it to more closely emulate what I'm seeing on my contact sheet. There was a lab here once, and I got a scan from them of b/w, but they had left their scanner calibrated for color neg. . . so i got back vert interesting black and green files. I'm one of those people who just has to go to the telecine session, or be the one to press the pretty red button ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Bowerbank Posted February 22, 2008 Author Share Posted February 22, 2008 Interesting thing just happened. I was just approached to do some portrait work and a short film after some guy saw my Flickr gallery. Guess it didn't hurt at all to promote it here ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Adrian Sierkowski Posted February 22, 2008 Premium Member Share Posted February 22, 2008 That's awesome. Congratulations! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Lowe Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitallion/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Wietzman Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 Here's another site for still shooters that I use. Allows you to add music to the stream. http://www.myartspace.com/artistInfo.do?po...fkjfpw539vg41j1 ck it out. What's nice about flickr is that you can post a fairly large image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Reimer Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 Just started my flickr blog and still photography recently: http://www.flickr.com/photos/23587914@N03/ I have some slides I want to get scanned, and then from now on I'll be scanning everything to post there. Strangely, though, I have no desire to get a D40 :) Hooray for self-promotion! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Reimer Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 By the way, Francesco, I really, really loved the b&w stuff you shot with the T-Max 3200. I'd love to see some more of that. All of you guys had some great stuff, though. I spent at least the last hour browsing your collections. Good stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jason Debus Posted February 23, 2008 Premium Member Share Posted February 23, 2008 I haven't got an account on one of those portfolio sites yet, but here's some random favorites: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francesco Bonomo Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 By the way, Francesco, I really, really loved the b&w stuff you shot with the T-Max 3200. I'd love to see some more of that. Thank you vert much, Jason! I used to shoot a lot of TMax 3200, in the last few months I've been mainly using Fuji Neopan and Kodak TriX on my Hasselbad, but I'm planning to use some 3200 soon. I'm leaving for work in two days and i'll be back in ten weeks, i'll try to scan some more negatives as soon as i come back (and set up a flickr account ;) ). Thank you again! All of you guys had some great stuff, though. I spent at least the last hour browsing your collections. Good stuff! I second that. Some really impressive stuff and so many interesting different styles! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francesco Bonomo Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 p.s. I apologize for typos and/or grammar mistakes in the post above. It's saturday night and got a little tipsy with my brother after going to see "No country for old men".... :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Brad Grimmett Posted February 24, 2008 Premium Member Share Posted February 24, 2008 I didn't have a flikr site, but after seeing all the good stuff you guys posted I uploaded some stuff. The site uploads really fast, so I got a lot of stuff up there really quickly. http://www.flickr.com/photos/24046303@N04/sets/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emanuel A Guedes Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 Great idea John!I'll try to look at the links you guys posted as soon as i can.. In the meantime, since I don't have a flickr account yet, here's a small gallery of my pictures on Facebook. Feedback, of course, is welcome ;) Francesco, Congrats! Very nice frame stuff. Emanuel :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrin p nim Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 My flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22553557@N06/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Rosenbloom Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 http://www.flickr.com/photos/68411920@N00/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Martin Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 My Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/26101690@N03/ All shot on 35mm film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirsty Stark Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Some of mine: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirstysan/sets/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamBray Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Nice photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francesco Bonomo Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 don't have a lot of time to check all the galleries these days, but it seems that the overall quality is very very high, way better than most photography forums. p.s. Jon, your link is not working p.p.s. thanks Emanuel! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Rosenbloom Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 "Jon, your link is not working" Yeah, it's the right address. Don't know why it doesn't go right to the photo page. Keep following the photos, though, they're mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Sheehy Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 http://www.flickr.com/photos/68411920@N00/ I believe you mean: http://www.flickr.com/photos/68411920@N00/ Nice shots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Rosenbloom Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 Thanks. Of course it has become a baby picture page, but I'll take the trade-off. :) Aren't those links identical? Yet, mine sends me to the "you missed" page, but Daniel's sends me to the correct page. What the ...???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Lachman Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 http://www.flickr.com/photos/18703513@N07/ My stuff's kind of tacky in putting it all together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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