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I've been looking into getting a slightly less wide lens to partner the trusty 10-20mm, as I do find occasions where I want to be a little tighter in composition. After much deliberation, I decided that I couldn't justify the cost of a 17-40L, lovely piece of glass though it is, given my current level of experience.
Unfortunately, the other options (Sigma 20-35mm, ETC) aren't significantly cheaper to justify their flaws.
Instead, after a lot of googling, I went the bargain route and picked up a Tamron 19-35mm off Ebay for £50 + postage. This was the first time I've tried it (massive plus point - 77mm filters) and I'm pretty impressed.
Yes, it has some barrel distortion, but so does my Sigma 10-20mm costing 8 times the price! Sharpness and colour definition seem good. If all the shots come out like this, I'll be a happy man.
Taken this morning at Hauxley with Coquet Island as a backdrop and a spectacular sunrise sidelighting the rocks. One of the nicest mornings I've had for a while...
EOS 1000D / Tamron 19-35mm / Hi-tech 0.3 soft and 0.6 hard grads
I bought the Sprocket Rocket, hoping I would get very cinematic images, like the wonderful pictures of Jeff Bridges with his Widelux. Clearly, for a first roll, I'm far from having attained that goal :) But it was an interesting test, and, as a movie fan, I still like the aspect ratio.
I shot this one at the French skydiving championships.
Sprocket Rocket, APX 400, lab dev and scan.
On a Barbie birthday a few years ago I mentioned how despite my sizable Barbie collection few were of the blonde bombshell herself which is something that didn't change much since. What has, however, is the overall brand quality. Not only are we getting full prints items but dolls in a variety of sizes and shades to wear them. Of course there's still a long way for Babs to go (still waiting on an articulated AA male doll for sale @ mattel) but it's so fulfilling to see Babs & co just get better with age.
Happy Birthday gurl!!
in an effort to photograph more humans, I've begun working with a local entrepreneur as she begins her journey to own and operate her own dance studio. she needs images for her website, etc...and I need experience photographing people.
it will be a not for profit endeavor, but what I'll get is the opportunity to creatively pose and photograph people. I look at it as a step forward in my development as an artist and photographer as I currently have very little experience in this area.
it's a different process than I'm use to. typically, the subjects in my photos have no expectations of what the final images will look like, or how they will be represented. humans are different though. when processing I begin to look at the image through their eyes. I'm still not sure if I should let this influence my work or if I should try to ignore this tendency.
And if it rains all day
Call on you I'll call on you
Like I used to
Slide down beside and wrap you in stories
Tailored entirely for you
I'll remind you
We exchanged a vow
I love you I always will
A call girl with yesterday eyes
Was our witness and priest
Stockport supporters club kindly supplied us a choir
Your veil was your smile
As we move down the aisle
Of the last bus home
And this is where I go
Just when it rains
Blinking and stoned
Rain in your hair
You only smoke ‘cause it's something to share
Singing bring on the night
To have and to hold
The sodium light turning silver to gold
Spitfire thin and strung like a violin
I was
Yours was the face with a grace
From a different age
You were the sun in my Sunday morning
You were the sun in my Sunday morning
Telling me never to go
So I'll live on the smile
And move down the isle
Of the last bus home
And if you're running late
This is where I'll go
elbow
a los peces del acuario.
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Little joke
Taken at / Photographié à Québec
Nikon F100
Micro nikkor 60mm
Ilford hp5@800
Kodak D76 Stock
Nikon Coolscan LS5000
CS5 : contrast local contrast and unsharp mask
The weather forecast for today (Sunday) was for temps to reach well into the 30s. It actually reached 41 deg F.
Huzzah!
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Interesting photo taken in Ika, Croatia.
Came overexposed, since there is on Reciprocity Failure for Retro 80s, I've been using Ilford FP4+ as guide.
Got a really dense contrasty negative at the end. It was foggy but not that much. Probably overexposed film, 30 sec of exposure and red filter made it all white. There is an island in distance in middle of photo, for those with good sight.
And negative got so many black and white dots (it is visible in sea rocks at bottom of image, nasty black dots), not sure what was problem?
Mamiya RZ67 Pro II - 110mm F2.8 Z (#25 Red Filter & 0.9 GND Soft)
Rollei Retro 80s @ ISO 20
Spur HRX (1+17) @ 20°C 8:40 (N+1)
Agitation: 2 inverts at start, then 1 invert each minute.
Stop bath: Ilford Ilfostop 1 min with 4 inverts at start.
Fixer:
Kodak TMax Fixer 4 min. Agitation 30 sec at start, then 5 sec each 30 sec.
Hypo Clear Agent:
Formulary's Hypo Clear Agent with 30 sec pre soaking, then 2 min with agent.
Washing/Wetting Agent: 5 min rinse then Rollei RWA wetting agent.
Scanner: Canon CanoScan 9000F
Some digital adjustments: dodge and burning mostly
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German postcard by Ross Verlag, Berlin, no. 1176/1, 1927-1928. Photo: First National Pictures
Norma Talmadge (1894-1957) was an American actress and film producer of the silent era. A major box-office draw for more than a decade, her career reached a peak in the early 1920s, when she ranked among the most popular idols of the American screen.
Norma Talmadge was the daughter of one of the most famous "mothers of artists" in film history: Peg Talmadge. Norma, her mother, and her sisters Natalie and Constance were abandoned by their alcoholic and jobless father Fred right on Christmas Day. Thus, the three teenagers had to start earning money as vaudeville models and actresses. In 1909, Norma began working in the cinema thanks to her discoverer, Vitagraph editor Breta Breuill. She acted in numerous Vitagraph shorts, a.o. Uncle Tom's Cabin (Stuart Blackton, 1910), Love of Chrysanthemum (Van Dyke Brooke, 1910), and A Tale of Two Cities (William Humphrey, 1911). Helped by Vitagraph leading actor Maurice Costello, her career blossomed. By 1913, she was the major star of Vitagraph Studios and had played in hundreds of shorts there. Her co-actors from the Vitagraph 'stable' were a.o. Maurice Costello, Van Dyke Brooke, Lilian Walker, Hughie Mack, Leo Delaney, and Clara Kimball Young.
In 1915 Norma Talmadge had a breakthrough when acting in Vitagraph's anti-German propaganda-film, the feature The Battlecry for Peace, but mother Talmadge was unsatisfied with Vitagraph and arranged a two-year contract at National Pictures. Yet, when Norma's first film there flopped, and the company went bankrupt, she called on director D.W. Griffith and was able to act in seven features at Triangle. In 1916 she met Joseph Schenck, a wealthy exhibitor who wanted to make films himself. Smitten by her, Schenk proposed marriage and a studio. They founded the Norma Talmadge Film Corporation. In Schenk's New York-based studio, Norma would act in her dramas on the ground floor, while her sister Constance would do comedies on the first floor, and the comic unit with Fatty Arbuckle played on the top floor, while sister Natalie Talmadge worked as a secretary and occasionally had small parts as well. Arbuckle brought along Buster Keaton and Al St. John. When Arbuckle was lent to Paramount to do features, Keaton took over the comic unit and married Natalie.
NormaTalmadge's first film at the studio, Panthea (Allan Dwan, 1917) was a straight hit. Between 1917 and 1921 Norma made four to six films per year, under Schenk's supervision. After her greatest success, the drama Smilin' Through (Sydney Franklin, 1922), Schenk closed the New York studio. The family continued in Hollywood, where Norma's films became bigger and glossier. She worked with top directors, cinematographers, and costume designers and by 1923 she was the best-paid film actress in Hollywood, earning 10.000 a week. In 1924 under Frank Borzage's direction, she did her best film (artistically and at the box office) Secrets. While Schenk became head of United Artists in 1924, Norma was still tied to distributor First National by contract and continued to make films for them in the mid-1920s, including Camille (Fred Niblo 1926). During the filming of Camille, she fell in love with her co-actor Gilbert Roland and asked Schenk for a divorce. He refused but saw they were a winning couple and matched them in several films. After that, she made films with UA, but the first two were flops and marked the end of her silent film career.
Norma Talmadge took voice lessons for a year, and despite expectations, produced a perfectly non-dialectical voice, but her first two sound films simply weren't good films, so she called it a day and left the film world. As she was very rich by now, she could permit herself to do so. Divorced from Schenck in 1934, she married her second husband, George Jessel, who eagerly brought her on his ailing radio shows, but both his shows and the marriage ended in failure. Norma married for the third time in 1946, with Carvel James, and died relatively young, on Christmas Eve 1957, at age 64, because of pneumonia. It is said that we owe to Norma Talmadge the tradition of stamping the handprints of the stars in front of the Grauman's Chinese Theater, when in 1927, accidentally, she left her own when falling on wet cement in the same place.
Sources: Wikipedia (English, Dutch, and Spanish), and IMDb.
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My arrival at the Pfister Hotel. I love people watching, almost as much as I love being watched by people :) So, who will I see today, and who will see me?
Photographed at the UpDog Challenge competition. Markham Park, Sunrise - Florida
This was one of my favorite images from the competition!
The youngest competitor, among dozens of highly trained and mature dogs, was this nine-month old. This was his first competition. The concentration - and action to catch the disc - speaks for itself. He is already displaying the trademark of a champion. Many experts around the field were predicting that he will be a future star in the UpDog Challenge competitions.
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American consumers indulged in big cars; European buyers had to made do with cars that were far smaller, especially in the years immediately after World War II. This contrast in expectations is emphasised by the different scales of the 1947 Mercury coupe at left and the British Morris Minor of 1960 at the right.