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As of a couple weeks ago the photography program at my school was cut. Not because of low class sizes but only because of money. It's heartbreaking to know that a school that is said to support the arts is cutting one of the only art classes it still has.
So for this weeks photo I've decided to do somewhat of a tribute to all the time i spent in the darkroom. It was honestly the most peaceful place in school and i have so many good memories of it. I'm going to miss it, all the smells of the developer and the stop and fix chemicals, the red lights, the old enlargers, everything.
So this photo may not be the most creative or deep but it stands for something that matters a lot to me and i think that it's important that i post this.
Art classes provide so much for high school students, not only do they teach us to hone in on our skills and improve ourselves but they also offer some relief and a break in all the stress of school.
To any school board people out there, stop cutting these programs. They matter.
WPG 8x8 Square Format
Our local Wakering Photography Group (WPG) challenge was any subject presented in an square 8"x8" format.
I captured this tree at sunset but I felt it was a little underwhelming....so I decided to process and print it as a negative as it was to be displayed in a black mount. I got some advice from Dave, a fellow group member, how to convert/revert the image in Lightroom, and was pleased with the result!!
It wasn't a favourite with group but was against some excellent square images.
Thought I'd mess with the photo and have a little fun, I really like seeing negatives of photos..kinda like an X ray but not ; )
Nikon D700 90mm f/2.5. While taking the previous shot, and having failed to stop down the lens after focussing, and when shooting in manual, the shot got massively overexposed. The blinking highlights showed this image in negative, and I though it looked quite cool, so I turned it negative in PSP.
Leica M3 | Zeiss C Sonnar T* 1,5/50 ZM | Kodak Portra
800 Digitized with Nikon D810 | Negative Supply 4x5 Light Source Basic (99 CRI) | Negative Supply Film Carrier MK1 for 35mm
Home developed in Unicolor Powder C-41 | Rotary Processor
Negative Lab Pro v2.3.0 | Color Model: Frontier | Pre-Sat: 3 | Tone Profile: LAB - Hard | LUT: Frontier
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photo by Leslie Lazenby
Calotype negative, 8x10. Shot on the Wehman Field Camera with elements from old broken Kodak lens from a folding camera.
6 minute exposure in full sun, on a dried calotype negative, developed in gallic acid and aceto-nitrate of silver.
Another old 35mm film negative of the beautiful Dolgoch Falls. This was shot on Kodak Ektar 100 with my old Nikon F100 and a Tokina 20mm prime lens. Negative was photographed using my Olympus E-M1 and converted in Adobe Lightroom.
I know I likely have better things to do than take photos of what's on my tv screen. However, there was a program on about a photographer who found these old negatives and decided to process them himself. This is one that he's processing in his darkroom which intrigued me.
Chand Baori step well, Abhaneri, India
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I purchased a large box of b&w negatives at an estate sale. The sale was for the possessions of a photographer who worked for the railroad. The negatives are amazing and will post more ;)
The negs span from a trip through war torn europe during WWII , the photographer was apparently serving during the war to trips to NY Chicago and many cities in the US
Some negs are rough and some are in great shape
This setup is the reason that I first decided to buy a mirrorless camera. When I learned that I could buy adapters to mount my old Canon FD lenses to a modern digital camera I was sold. One of the first things I did with that camera ( Sony A7 ) was mount it to this bellows set and digitize some old slides. More often now I am digging up old black and white negatives in order to make copies. The trick to using this setup is to use the focus magnifier to focus on the film grain as opposed to any feature of the image.
“Buttercups and daisies,
Oh, the pretty flowers;
Coming ere the Springtime,
To tell of sunny hours.” - Mary Howitt
“I'm called Little Buttercup - dear Little Buttercup,
Though I could never tell why.” -William S. Gilbert
Negative scan from my archives, Paris, 1962
More "Paris in the 60s" here: www.flickr.com/photos/amarcord108/sets/72157625555243112/...