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"Logicians tell us that two Negatives make an Affirmative. Will somebody say how many Negatives make a Photographer ?"
Quote - Anonymous
Playing with the negative version of the photo I uploaded yesterday. ;-))
HSS everyone !!
Not knowing when the next wave is going to hit you, perhaps is your best chance to stay positive. The only way to survive is battling back even if you are feeling down.
Shooting with a GoPro Hero is a totally strange experience for me. Being an optical view finder guy, I have never gotten used to compose a shot with electronic view finders on my mobile phone, or even my Powershot S100. Now, imagine shooting in front of your subjects without using your hand, and instead, strapping and composing the camera with your head. You only get to see the results after pulling still frames out of a long video recording. This is weird and totally out of my comfort zone, but at the same time I feel this as another challenge to get something unique and fun.
I have been experimenting with taking day shots and using Photoshop's "invert" feature to convert the shot to a negative image. Day then becomes night. This is essentially the same shot as "Adams Street" (Malta, Illinois) in my feed below. A gimmick in my opinion for sure but still interesting to play around with.
Here today sick and frail it was all i could do to not let him sail
away
in the wind
thin beyond thin
bone and fur was all he had been
for who knows how long
he came to me to survive
i tried
once i caught him for a hospital visit
but he bit me hard to the bone i feared
and my visit was for six shots all in the rear
so i fed him and kept him warm in winter
the best i could
now i fear he is gone
not come back for more
and so he is finally at home
with a hot meal and a good tale to tell
of life and hardship with a cat tale to sell
Für "Crazy Tuesday"
Thema "Negative Space" am 16.11.2021.
Have a 😄 HaPpY CrAzY Tuesday 😄
and stay healthy.
Many thanks for all your views, faves and comments.
while hunting for another photo in my vast store of "stuff", I ran into the photo on the left. I don't know how, or when, or why, but I thought I'd to invert and see what was there. It's definitely me, I must have been working on making negatives at the time.
one of life's mysteries.
on the right is the inversion.
I tried searching on my stream, but it was quite a task. dunno whether I've used this photo before or not.
ah, I did find a version here from Sept 2016. I was working on oiled paper negatives.
**tonight I donated to Razom for Ukraine and World Central Kitchen.
please don't forget Ukraine. they still need food, clothing, and medical supplies.
NO MORE WAR! enough....
Karst Spring is a roaring torrent that gushes out of a wall of rock - it was lovely to be there on a 30C day, lots of cool plants there too.
The Japanese concept of Ma has been described as “a pause in time”, an interval or emptiness in space. As a music teach once said "Leave space so the high notes can shine".
Ma is not the negative space we photographers utilize in our images, but an emptiness full of potential. It should be deliberate and of value, holding sustenance towards the entirety of the shot.
Western image making seems to suffer from "FTF" : Fill the Frame. where 'empty' zones are frowned upon.
Chinon Infrafocus 35F-MA
Kodak ColorPlus 200
I could have easily removed that vignette, but when I did the entire 'atmosphere' of this scene suffered...
the strangest thing about a hole is the edge.
If a hole is plugged, where is it?
And: and why are there no half holes ??
Another in my (unintended) series of storm damaged tree photos. This big guy has lost half his limbs, and now stands rather awkwardly, perhaps fearful of the next great storm. (Or am I just reading too much into the image?) Seen in Co. Mayo, Ireland.
Tropical storm Typeo brought it.... a new perspective on an old craft. I thank you my friend!
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I recently posted a photo of my Minolta SR-7 with the Minolta Auto Bellows I kit fitted to it: flic.kr/p/2sjApVs
I thought it would be interesting to attach this to my Sony A7M3 and try out the negative and slide copier as well as the macro specimen attachment.
Taken in June 1992.
A small group of Exmoor ponies grazing along a roadside in typical misty English countryside. These native British ponies are known for their hardiness and are often seen roaming freely in the Exmoor National Park.
Originally shot on:
Minolta 7000i
Minolta AF 28-105 Lens
Kodak Gold 200 35mm
'Scanned' on:
Sony A7M3
Minolta Auto Bellows I
Minolta MC Auto Rokkor PF 58mm @ f11
Negative Lab Pro LR/PS
© Dominic Scott 2026
Here's Candor, thoroughly enjoying the fresh north sea air and finding nothing negative about the space to his left ;)
(we got back yesterday; sorry for not commenting all that much during our time at the seaside; I'll try to catch up!)
Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it. - Joyce Meyer
Mr. Llarence G. Brandenlung and his son
Vintage Negative
Year 1912
Denver, CO, US
Kodak 127 Film
© All Rights Reserved
Polaroid Week Autumn 2019
I've decided to raid my Dad's old negatives for Polaroid week this time and transfer them on to polaroid photos using the Impossible instantlab. These must have been taken around 1937 - 1940. I'm not too sure where this was taken.
Film : Polaroid originals sx70 BW
I bought some Minox APX-25 film, expired 1984, to be used with my Minox B.
I developed with Rodinal 1:50, 10 minutes, as I had read good results on internet with that combination.
The negatives turned out thick, with very little contrast and many artefacts.
This picture looks so old......
and I really like it:-).
I would be happy to receive advices on how to get better results from this film. I still have two left.
This is the Martini-tower, Groningen, Netherlands.