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Spines and seeds
Here's an image made in the late summer of 2021. I'm slowly, slowly, slowly catching up with my backlog of film developing. I managed to develop ten films a few weeks ago - only thirty or so to go ...
I have often been struck by how successfully some photographers capture a kind of intimacy or evocation in their photographs of seeds and flowers: a kind of fragility reflected in the framing, depth of field, and contrasting. Occasionally, I manage it with close-ish work, but I find more distant subjects caught with a 'normal' lens challenging. I could not decide whether or not this photograph made the cut.
I have intervened after scanning more than is usual for me, though, not in any way that I believe I could not achieve in the darkroom, if I had one: a little cropping, a little burning of the background, a little contrast enhancement for the seeds. The result is unrefined, perhaps, but so are my darkroom skills.
Thistle seeds, Blenheim Park, late summer 2021. Pentax SPII, probably a 50/1.4 Super Multi Coated Takumar, Rollei Superpan 200 in 510 Pyro.
Spines and seeds
Here's an image made in the late summer of 2021. I'm slowly, slowly, slowly catching up with my backlog of film developing. I managed to develop ten films a few weeks ago - only thirty or so to go ...
I have often been struck by how successfully some photographers capture a kind of intimacy or evocation in their photographs of seeds and flowers: a kind of fragility reflected in the framing, depth of field, and contrasting. Occasionally, I manage it with close-ish work, but I find more distant subjects caught with a 'normal' lens challenging. I could not decide whether or not this photograph made the cut.
I have intervened after scanning more than is usual for me, though, not in any way that I believe I could not achieve in the darkroom, if I had one: a little cropping, a little burning of the background, a little contrast enhancement for the seeds. The result is unrefined, perhaps, but so are my darkroom skills.
Thistle seeds, Blenheim Park, late summer 2021. Pentax SPII, probably a 50/1.4 Super Multi Coated Takumar, Rollei Superpan 200 in 510 Pyro.