View allAll Photos Tagged developing
On December 24, 2024, I picked up my venerable Leica M3 year 1956 (see below for details) for a photowalk in Lyon city, France. I went to Fourvière, enjoying a not too cold (6°C) and clear sunny weather.
My Leica was loaded with a 36-exposure Ilford HP5+ film. I equipped the Summicron 2/5cm lens with a Hoya HMC AUV screw-on 39mm protective filter plus the Leitz shade hood for all indoor scenes, and outdoor I mounted a push-on 42mm FOCA (France) Yellow x2.5 filter and a generic cylindrical stainless steel hood that, unfortunately, induced some vignette if not perfectly aligned, that should be corrected during the processing). I should find a 39mm screw-on filter more safe to use with my Summicron 2/5cm,
Expositions were determined for the indicated 400 ISO (28 DIN) using an Autometer III Minolta light meter fitted with a 10° finder for selective measurements privileging the shadow areas and erected for the filter absorption if any.
The outside temperature was about 6°C with a bright sunny weather in the afternoon. Typically exposures outdoor were made at 1/250s with apertures ranging from f/8 to 11 and 1/50s or 1/25s at full aperture f/2 or f/2.8 indoor.
Basilique Notre-Dame de Fourvière
La Crypte***
December 24, 2024
69005 Lyon
France
----
*** THE CRYPT
A majestic low church that welcomes Virgins from all over the world.
The crypt of Fourvière, dedicated to Saint Joseph, is identified as the low church. With the same surface area as the basilica, it was initially designed by Pierre Bossan as the main entrance to the sanctuary. The pilgrim had to “go to Mary through Joseph”, thus passing from the darkness of the crypt to the light of the basilica.
-----
After exposure, the film was processed in Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developper at dilution 1+25 and 20°C for 6 min. The film was then digitized using a Sony A7 body fitted to a Minolta Slide Duplicator installed on a Minolta Auto Bellows III with a lens Minolta Bellow Macro Rokkor 50mm f/3.5. The RAW files obtained were processed without intermediate files in LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures. All views of the film are presented in the dedicated album either in the printed framed versions and unframed full-size jpeg accompanied by some documentary smartphone Vivio Y76 color pictures.
About the camera and the lens :
This Leica M3 circa 1956 (Ref. Leitz ISUMO), double stroke, was sold to me with a Leitz Wetzlar Summicron collapsible normal lens 1:2 f=5cm of the same period equipped with a 39mm screw-on protective filter, a 42mm push-on Leica lens cap and an original Leitz shade hood (Ref. Leitz IROOA).
The camera was serviced in Paris, France, in 2018 by Gérard Métrot at Photo-Suffren, (a Leica boutique) who worked on the maintenance of camera's of famous French photographers as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Doisneau. The camera was inspected by Odéon-Photo, Paris, another historic Leica place in Paris, in April 2024.
I sourced at the same time in Germany a stunning Leitz Leica leather bag (Ref; Leitz IDCOO) of the same model that appeared on the back cover page go the Leica brochure year 1954. This bag can accommodate the camera and a mounted Leica-Meter type M. The interior in covered with a carmin velvet in perfect condition.
The Leica M3 is one of the most iconic range-finder 35mm camera of the 50's and the 60's. It was produced in Wetzlar, Germany, in different versions at 226178 exemplars, between 1954 (n° 700000) and 1966 (n° 1164865, www.summilux.net/materiel/Leica-M3) . The Leica M3 was the result of the study of a "super-Leica" that was started before WWII and only achieved in the 50'S.
The greater improvement of the M3 compared the classical Leica's was in a magnificent and very complex range-finder combined to the view finder permitting the framing with the two eyes open, integrating the frame in the real and normal vision. The shutter integrates too the normal and the slow speeds in the same barillet. The film advance of this version of Leica M3 is also the typical "double-stroke" advance that was exclusive to the Leica M3 first versions.
The camera was transported to me from Paris to Lyon, France on April 26, 2024 and the bag arrived the day after.
This is my first self-developed roll of black and white film. The stats for the camera and film are below, as well as the procedures that I used. I am pretty sure I messed up a few things, cause 1) some frames didn't come up at all, they had some sort of white (looks like overexposed) areas, and I am thinking that might be because of sloppy insertion of film into the reel, especially since I have the metal one, it makes things a bit more difficult to put film evenly. 2) the times for developing the film, fixing it, hypo clearing agent, and photo-flo were all the way messed up :) I don't even remember the exact times I put, but I will do an estimate below. I scanned the film, but did not do any processing on it, just added a border to make them a bit more interesting for my own taste.
Camera: Zenit-E
Lens: Asahi Super-Takumar 135mm/f3.5
Film: Arista II, ISO 400, fresh (non expired)
Scanned with: Canon 8800F
Developing procedure:
1:
Developer: Launder Chemical Formula 76
Ratio: 1:1, single roll, 8oz (4oz developer + 4oz water)
Time: 8 minutes, agitate every 30 seconds for 15 seconds :)
(I am telling you, don't know where I got this number from)
Temperature: tried to keep it at 68F/20C
2:
Fixer: Lauder Chemical Formual 763
Time: 2 minutes, agitate every 15 seconds
3:
Hypo-Clearing Agent: Launder Chemical Formula 150
Ration: 1:7, single roll, 8oz (1oz agent + 7oz water)
Time: don't recall, but something like a minute or so (1 min)
4:
Koda Photo-Flo 200
A couple of drops and god know what I did, just shaked it a bit
5:
Ran water for 10 minutes at 68F/20C
Basically, I am pleased with the results, but still don't know what happened to those overexposed areas. I am sure that was not the film, but something to do with incorrect position of film on the reel during development. Need to get the plastic container I think.
Any comments would be appreciated, please give me something to work on, anything would do, from times of developing to image enhancements.
Thanks
Photo shows ACES Research fellow in Soft Robtics, Dr Rahim Mutlu with Prof Gursel Alici and a bionic hand gripper they’ve developed..Although in it’s early stages the soft robotic is printed from a soft plastic material.
Kodak T-Max developed in Diafine (and by the looks of things badly scratched in the process!). PP to boost contrast and add a colour tint in Lightroom.
I like the retro feel of the grain of the T-Max...boosted by the scratches. The developed negs were really lacking in contrast - probably a result of too much time in the developer. But once scanned and got into Lightroom its easy enough to rescue with a generous helping of the contrast slider :-)
ANTALYA, TURKEY - MAY 26: Participants attend the Midterm Review of the Istanbul Programme of Action at the Titanic Hotel in Antalya, Turkey on May 26, 2016. The Midterm Review conference for the Istanbul Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries will take place in Antalya, Turkey from 27-29 May 2016. The conference will undertake a comprehensive review of the implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action by the least developed countries (LDCs) and their development partners and likewise reaffirm the global commitment to address the special needs of the LDCs.
Abdullah Coskun / Anadolu Agency
The photograph shows the ILIS Timeline – developed as part of a research report by Belinda Dear: “Learning from the past: Retrieving the herstory of international lesbian organising - The International Lesbian Information Service 1980-1998” - accessible at this link:
1drv.ms/b/s!Aj_yVM1cZ0Z4ifAP9hdsSW0NV5ULNQ?e=6gaX0v.
The following narrative by Sylvia Borren outlines the history of ILIS.
“THE ILIS HISTORY, BORN WITHIN AND DEVELOPED BEYOND ILGA (1980 TO 1998)
When the International Gay Association started in 1978 in Coventry there were no women present. However lesbian organizing at local level in Europe (e.g. Sweden, Germany, Austria) has been happening annually since the mid-seventies: sharing personal herstories, visibility as lesbians, freedom in sexuality and lifestyles.
A few women joined the 1979 IGA meetings in Bergen, and in Brighton…and committed to reaching out to lesbian groups to join. The effort paid off: in the second IGA meeting in Barcelona in 1980 a third of the participants were women, and the IGA women’s secretariat was established. Between Christmas and New Year in 1980, in Amsterdam the first ILIS Conference was organised by Interpot - COC Netherlands, where 76 women attended from 17 countries. The International Lesbian Information Service was established. Interpot ran ILIS and also the IGA women’s secretariat for some time.
ILIS existed from 1980 to 1998; in which time it organised a dozen international lesbian Conferences in Europe, and supported Latin American, Asian and Zami subgroups as well as 3 Asian- and 3 Latin American lesbian conferences.
External highlights were the ILIS attendance, workshops and influence at the UN Women’s NGO forums in1980 (Copenhagen), 1985 (Nairobi) and 1995 (Beijing). These UN meetings globalised the lesbian networking and strategic content.
After Nairobi at the ILIS 1986 Geneva conference 700 women from 23 countries turned up. In 1987 in Mexico the First Meeting of Latin American, Caribbean and Chicana Lesbian Feminists was attended by 250 participants. The three Asian Lesbian Network (ALN) conferences 1990-1995 had between 80 and 170 participants from 13 countries. The 1991 Barcelona ILIS conference was attended by 350 women from 10 European countries. The ILIS history still inspires lesbian organisers today.
It is hard to realise that there was no internet back in those years. Communication was via typed or handwritten blue aerograms, sent to feminist and lesbian organisations asking for contact with more lesbian sisters. Irregular newsletters were sent out, first called ‘ILIS – the cheap stencil service (year+ no.)’ and later ILIS newsletters. Travel and phone calls were still very expensive. Organisers of conferences usually did not know how many women would turn up until the opening day.”
Photo credit: IHLIA
ILIS History 1 Timeline_IHLIA
Pima Air and Space Museum
Mitsubishi Ha 42
(Ha 214 Ru)
The Japanese Mitsubishi Ha 42 was a double-row 18-cylinder, radial air-cooled engine derived from the Mitsubishi Kasei 14-cylinder engine. It incorporated a cooling fan, two-speed reduction gearing, and some models included twin transverse superchargers for optimal performance at high altitudes.
Just over 2,800 of these specialized engines were manufactured. The Ha 42 was used in two prototypes for an upgraded model of the Mitsubishi Ki-67 Hiryu "Peggy" and were also selected for the experimental, long-range, high-altitude Kawasaki Ki-91 bomber. This aircraft was to be larger than the American Boeing B-29 Superfortress with a similar range. Ironically, the Ki-91 project was halted when the Kawasaki factory and nearly completed prototype were destroyed during a B-29 raid in early 1945.
Technical Specifications
Model: Mitsubishi Ha 42 (Ha 214 Ru)
Developed: 1940-1945
Design: 18-cylinder air cooled radial engine
Rated Output: 2,300 horsepower
10th Ave, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Nikon F100, Nikkor PC 28mm f/3.5, Kodak Gold 200 negtive
©All rights reserved. Without my permission please don't use this image in any commercial, non-commercial or blogging purposes.
If you are interested in using my pictures please contact with my mailing address.
Thanks in advance for checking/hit my photo stream. Your comments & favorites /likes are Greatly Appreciated.
Photographed by: Anisul Hoque
Email : www.anisulhoque@gmail.com
anis11-2146@diu.edu.bd
U can also find me-
Many films respond well to Rodinal, especially when stand developed. Now, these images are fine, and much better than I expected, tone, contrast, reasonably sharp. However, the grain is off the hook, but not as rough as I thought it would be.
You can read the full review online
www.alexluyckx.com/blog/index.php/2019/01/16/film-review-...
Nikon F2 Photomic - AI-S Nikkor 35mm 1:2.8 - Svema Foto 400 @ ASA-400
Blazinal (1+100) 60:00 @ 20C (Stand)
Scanner: Epson V700
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC (2019)
Photo by Laura Brunow Miner. Developing Super Senses: Tools to Know Your Users.
Room Hilton C Monday, March 16th, 2009, 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
+++ DISCLAIMER +++
Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based on historical facts. BEWARE!
Some background:
The Flakpanzer Coelian comprised a family of self-propelled anti-aircraft gun tanks, designed by Rheinmetall during World War II for the German armed forces. In the first years of the war, the Wehrmacht had only little interest in developing self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, but as the Allies developed air superiority, the need for more mobile and better-armed self-propelled anti-aircraft guns increased.
As a stopgap solution the Wehrmacht had adapted a variety of wheeled, half-track and tracked vehicles to serve as mobile forward air defense positions to protect armor and infantry units in the field as well as for temporary forward area positions such as mobile headquarters and logistic points. As Allied fighter bombers and other ground attack aircraft moved from machine gun armament and bombing to air-to-ground rockets, the air defense positions were even more vulnerable. The answer was to adapt a tank chassis with a specialized turret that would protect the gun crews while they fired upon approaching Allied aircraft.
Initial AA-tank designs were the ‘Möbelwagen’ and the ‘Wirbelwind’, effectively both conversions of refurbished Panzer IV combat tank chassis with open platforms or open turrets with four 20mm cannon. Alternatively, a single 37mm AA gun was mounted, too, resulting in the more effective ‘Ostwind’ tank – but all these vehicles were just compromises and suffered from light armor and lack of crew protection. Further developments to supersede these stopgap solutions led to the ‘Kugelblitz’. This was another Panzer IV variant, but this time with a fully closed ball-shaped turret which was effectively integrated into the hull, resulting in a low silhouette and a fully protected crew. Another new feature was the use of the lightweight Mauser MK 103 machine cannon – a lightweight, belt-fed aircraft gun with a gas-powered action mechanism, first employed on board of the Hs 129 attack aircraft against ground targets. Muzzle velocity was 860-940 m/sec, paired with a high degree of accuracy. The armor penetration for APCR was 42–52 mm (1.7–2.0 in) / 60° / 300 m (980 ft) or 75–95 mm (3.0–3.7 in) / 90° / 300 m (980 ft) – more than enough for aircraft, and even dangerous for many combat tanks when hitting more lightly armored areas. However, the Kugelblitz turret could only mount two of these guns in its very cramped and complicated tilting compartment. Venting and ammunition feed problems could also not be satisfactorily solved, so that the development lasted longer than expected. As a consequence, the production numbers were low, even though some turrets were mounted on Panzer IV, V and Hetzer chassis’, but the lack of firepower prevailed. Combining four MK 103 guns with a favorably shaped, completely enclosed turret for the Panzer IV chassis turned out to be impossible, even though a prototype, the so-called Zerstörer 45, was built and tested, with four MK 103 but in an open turret, similar to the outdated Wirbelwind.
The solution to this problem eventually materialized in 1943 with the decision to completely abandon the limiting Panzer IV chassis and build a new generation of anti-aircraft tanks on the basis of the larger Panzer V medium battle tank, the ‘Panther’. Its production had in the meantime already achieved considerable numbers, and, just as the former Panzer IV before, damaged and/or recovered combat tanks that were refurbished, updated and sent back to the front had become available, too, so that these 2nd hand vehicles could be easily converted into SPAAGs with a new turret design that exploited the Panther’s increased size and weight limits. Using the standard tank’s chassis also ensured that an SPAAG on its base would easily keep up with the mechanized troops it was supposed to protect, and it simplified maintenance and logistics, too.
Under this premise Rheinmetall developed the so-called ‘Coelian’ turret, In May 1943, Oberleutnant Dipl. Ing von Glatter-Götz, responded to the respective orders of Inspectorate 6, initiated the development of a new series of Flakpanzers based on already existing chassis. To refine the technical demands the Germans formed a commission for the analysis of the effectiveness of enemy ground attack planes. The report (dated 31st June 1943) stated that, in the case of dive-bombing, the lowest point that the enemy plane reached was 1200 to 1500 m at an angle of 45-80°. Planes using larger caliber machine guns or cannons attacked at an altitude of around 150 to 300 m. The committee suggested that the best way to bring down enemy planes was using direct fire autocannons. To effectively fight the enemy planes, the future Flakpanzer would have to have a fully rotating turret with a high angle of fire and the caliber used should not be lower than 2 cm, with the more powerful 3.7 cm being preferred, or even bigger guns, potentially the highly effective 88 mm FlaK.
The Coelian turret received its (actually unofficial, but it was quickly adopted by the troops) name after Oberleutnant Dipl .Ing von Glatter-Götz’ third name. It was a fully enclosed, 360° rotating turret that could carry a wide array of weapons and ammunition, all were belt-fed. It also housed a crew of three and it offered a good protection through a sloped, frontal armor of 70mm thickness, even though the sides were vertical to simplify production and maximize internal space. Traverse and elevation of the turret was hydraulic, allowing a full elevation in just over four seconds, and a 360° traverse in 15.5 seconds. The initial version, called Coelian I, was armed with two 3.7 cm FlaK 43 guns (the so-called Gerät 341, which gave the SPAAG prototype its project name), as a compromise between range, firepower, and rate of fire. Rheinmetall developed various versions, though, which mainly differed internally in their weapon mounts, ammunition supplies and respective feeds. These included fully enclosed turrets with a single 55 mm gun (only a prototype was built and tested), twin 55 mm autocannons in a mutual lightweight mount, the so-called “Gerät 58” against larger, high-flying targets (Coelian II), and mounts with four 30 mm MK 103 (Coelian III, against smaller and low-flying targets) as well as four 20mm MG 151/20 guns (eventually dropped). All these vehicles ran under the SdKfz. 171/3 designation, with suffixes (A-C) to distinguish their armament.
The Coelian II’s Gerät 58 twin autocannon was based on an aircraft weapon, the MK 214. Two of these lightweight guns were combined side-by-side in a mutual, compact mount, specifically developed for the use in a fully enclosed turret. The Gerät 58 had an overall length of 8,15 mm (26.7 ft) and weighed 2.990 kg (6,586 lb). The barrel length was 4,21 m (13 ¾ ft) for a bore of 77, and the weapon fired a HE/fragmentation shell (weighing 2.030 g/4 ½ lb) with a muzzle velocity of 1.050 m/sec /3,440 ft/sec). Recoil was 280 mm (11 in). Against aerial targets the Gerät 58 had a maximum effective ceiling of 6,000 m (6,560 yards) and a practical rate of fire of 140 RPM. Armor-piercing rounds were able to penetrate 110 mm vertical hardened steel armor at 500 m or 70 mm at 2,000 m.
The ammunition could be fed in from both sides and the spent cases were ejected downwards, to be collected in buckets in the turret’s base. Beyond the belt feed the Gerät 58 received in the Coelian II turret a manual magazine feed for each barrel that could store five rounds (plus one ready in the gun chamber) for short continuous bursts – they typically held AP rounds for self-defense. These magazines were driven by gravity, though, and once expended, had to be reloaded manually. The ammunition supply comprised 104 rounds in total.
Even though ground-based mobile radar systems were under development at the time of the Coelian’s design, all these turrets had to rely only on optical sensors, even though very effective optical rangefinders were introduced. Initially the Coelian turrets were only equipped with a binocular Scherenfernrohr for the gunner, which acted as a coincidence rangefinder and was linked to the guns’ movement. The device was housed in a shallow fairing on the turret roof. Later production turrets featured a very effective stereoscopic telemeter (similar to an stereoscopic rangefinder, but only with a single eyepiece) integrated into the turret, which was outwardly only visible through small armored fairings on both flanks near the roofline which held the rangefinder’s optics; these vehicles, regardless of their armament, generally received an “Ausf(ührung) B” suffix.
When production started in late 1944 all Coelian turrets were mounted on revamped Panzer V chassis, simply replacing the former combat tanks’ turrets from the A, D and G variants. Theoretically they could have also been mounted onto the Panzer VI ‘Tiger’ chassis, but due to this type’s weight and complexity this was not carried out.
However, when the first SPAAGs arrived at the frontline the SdKfz. 171/3 Panther/Coelian family had already just become an interim solution like its Panzer IV-based predecessors: Plans had been made to start the production of a completely new, simplified tank family, the so-called ‘Einheitspanzer’. The resulting standard combat tanks, called E-50 and E-75, based on their respective weight class in tonnes, were based on the even larger Königstiger battle tank and could potentially accept even bigger turrets and weapons. Consequentially, while production of the Coelian turrets and the conversion of 2nd hand Panther hulls was just gaining momentum, work for the new Einheitspanzer tanks and their weaponry had already started and eventually superseded the Coelian SPAAGs from early 1945.
When Einheitspanzer production gained momentum the Panther conversions into SdKfz. 171/3 SPAAGs was stopped. Roundabout 300 Coelian tanks of different configurations reached frontline units, and by mid-1945 the Coelian family had gradually replaced most of the outdated Panzer IV AA variants and SPAAGs with open turrets. However, the Coelian SPAAGs were soon joined and replaced themselves by the newly produced, dedicated Flakpanzer variants of the new Einheitspanzer family.
Specifications:
Crew: Five (commander, gunner, loader/2nd gunner, driver, radio-operator/hull machine gunner)
Weight: 44.8 tonnes (44.1 long tons; 49.4 short tons)
Length: 9.00 m (29 ft 5¾ in) overall with guns forward
6.87 m (22 ft 6 in) hull only
Width: 3.27 m (10 ft 9 in)
3.42 m (11 ft 3 in) with skirts
Height: 3.09 m (10 ft 1½ in)
Suspension: Double torsion bar, interleaved road wheels
Fuel capacity: 720 litres (160 imp gal; 190 US gal)
Armor:
15–80 mm (0.6 – 3.15 in)
Performance:
Maximum road speed: 46 km/h (29 mph)
Operational range: 250 km (160 mi)
Power/weight: 15.39 PS (11.5 kW)/tonne (13.77 hp/ton)
Engine:
Maybach HL230 P30 V-12 petrol engine with 700 PS (690 hp, 515 kW)
ZF AK 7-200 gear; 7 forward 1 reverse
Armament:
2× 55 mm (2.17 in) L/77 Gerät 58 anti-aircraft cannon with 104 rounds
1× 7.92 mm MG 34 machine gun in the front glacis plate with 2.500 rounds
The kit and its assembly:
This was a rather uninspired build, because I had for a long time a surplus 1:72 Coelian turret in the The Stash™, from ModelTrans/Silesian Models. Motivation was rather low because I had already built a (modified) Coelian a long while ago, using a KORA 1:72 resin conversion kit and a Hasegawa 1:72 Panther Ausf. F (with Schmalturm and all-steel wheels). I wanted to avoid a doublet, but there’s little else to do with a Coelian turret, so I eventually decided to pull out another Hasegawa Panther from The Stash™ and remembered mention of a twin-55mm FlaK as potential armament. Since I had some suitable gun barrels left in my donor bank, I adopted this idea for the build and went into action.
From this basis things went straightforward. Concerning the assembly phase, there’s not much to tell about Hasegawa’s 1:72 Panther Ausf. G. Fit is good, but it is a rather simple kit which shows its age, though, through some very rough details. The hull was built OOB, only the opening for the turret had to be widened to accept the new resin turret.
The latter only consists of two parts: the massive core section and a separate weapon mount. The latter was in so far modified that it can be jammed into the respective opening, allowing the guns to be mounted at different angles.
Since the original molded gun barrels had to be replaced, anyway, I did a thorough (and fictional) modification: I used two 55 mm autocannon resin barrels from an E-50 and mounted them onto the original cannon fairing – plain and simple. An additional but plausible update is the integration of a stereoscopic rangefinder, with its optics in small fairings on the turret flanks, made from sprue material. In the same manner a 360° periscope for the commander was added on the turret roof.
The only extras are some additional equipment bits on the fenders (e .g. a second container for spare barrels) and two whip antennae on the turret, created with heated sprue material.
Painting and markings:
Once more “something typically German”, but nothing spectacular, so I ended up with another variant of the Hinterhalt scheme. This was inspired by the pattern of a real Sturmtiger, with the standard colors of Dunkelgelb (RAL 7028), Olivgrün (RAL 6003) and Rotbraun (RAL 8012).
Painting started, as in real life, with an overall coat of Dunkelgelb, with Tamiya TS-3 from a rattle spray can, with a hush of Elfenbein (RAL 1001) over the upper surfaces to give the paint a bleached/lighter look. On top of that I added green and brown fields with Humbrol 86/226 and 160. For additional camouflage I added counter-shaded mottles in the form of thin short stripes to the darker tones, applied with a fine brush. I tried a home-brew stencil but that did not work well, so I reverted to the hairy stick. Tedious, but O.K.. As a non-standard measure the three-tone camouflage was extended onto the wheels – these were in real life officially ordered to remain in a uniform color, because the swirl of the colors was very revealing when the tank was moving. As a counter-shading measure, to brighten up the shadows in the running gear area, the wheels frequently remained Dunkelgelb.
After basic painting was completed a dark brown washing was applied, details were emphasized with dry-brushing in light grey and beige. Decals were puzzled together from various German tank sheets. The blue tactical code is speculative – late-war Königstiger may have carried this type of markings (linked with the respective Division), but it’s still a dubious detail. The model was finally sealed with matt acrylic varnish and the optics on hull and turret were finished with glossy black paint.
The OOB black vinyl tracks were also painted/weathered, with a wet-in-wet mix of black, iron, and red brown, all acrylics to avoid chemical long-term reactions with the relatively soft material through solvents. Once they were mounted into place mud and dust was simulated with a greyish-brown mix of artist mineral pigments around the running gear and the lower hull, “dusted” into place with a soft brush.
A bit of recycling and less exotic than originally hoped for – but it’s still a whiffy tank model, and its proximity to the real but unrealized Coelian project makes this one even more subtle. Pile reduction, one by one…
ANTALYA, TURKEY - MAY 26: CEO of World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies Bostjan Skalar attends a session within Midterm Review of the Istanbul Programme of Action at the Titanic Hotel in Antalya, Turkey on May 26, 2016. The Midterm Review conference for the Istanbul Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries will take place in Antalya, Turkey from 27-29 May 2016. The conference will undertake a comprehensive review of the implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action by the least developed countries (LDCs) and their development partners and likewise reaffirm the global commitment to address the special needs of the LDCs. Gokhan Balci / Anadolu Agency
Developing knowledge partnerships in education for science, skills, technology and innovation, led by Martin Davidson, CEO, British Council and HE Deputy Prime Minister Mr Kelimbetov
Tonight Chris and I decided to try developing our first set of film ever! The process started out a bit shaky, with me not even having a roll of film to develop. I thought I had put a roll of Kodak Tx Max B&W in my Canon FTb but it turned out I shot 36 blanks! No film in my camera! Yes I know, what an idiot. I can not even redeem myself from that one. Anyways, we decided I needed film to develop and randomly went through one in my apartment. But then... my FTb broke, yes, broke. It just seized up and would not work, would not wind film, just died. But not to fear, Chris was there. He had a Japanese knock-off of the M5 with him. Sorry, I can not remember the name of the camera. So we popped a cheap roll of lomography Lady Grey in and went wild. Then came time to develop. Taped bathroom window with black garbage bags and turned my bathroom into a temporary darkroom. Worked like a charm. Got my roll opened and wound up smoothly. Can not say the same for Chris, he had some issues with his roll. But we processed it anyways. Chemicals in...shake, shake, film out! It worked! We had successfully processed our own film. Some of Chris's got destroyed because of the winding-up issue, but besides that the process worked!
There is such great satisfaction in developing your own film. Its one thing to shoot digitally and have it printed and shoot film and go through the entire process of producing a picture. You are not "taking" a picture but rather "developing" one. You have got to try it to understand the power of film!
Comments +1
July 7, 2008
In 2008, as Iraq transitioned from security to rebuilding, the arrival and integration of the Borlaug Institute at Texas A&M University's Agricultural Team helped to develop Iraqi agriculture.
Team Borlaug conducted assessments, provided technical training, conducted problem-solving research, formulated agriculture policy and advised local, provincial and national level leaders on improving the Iraqi agricultural economy.
army.mil/article/9752/team-borlaug-arrives-at-camp-victory
First roll 35mm taken since I was ten. First one developed as well obviously. Im really satisfied with the result as I was going for a rough and contrasty look.
The film was developed in my bathroom with R09 (Rodinal).
Like my Facebook-page to get updates on new pictures and see more work: www.facebook.com/NiklasBergstrandPhotography
Niklas Bergstrand Photography - My homepage | My Facebook-page | My Twitter
Future scenarios developed by students of Chinmaya School Delhi, articulating how they would see themselves as unique in 2050. They developed this scenario in mind keeping the economic situation of India in 2050.
Fergus Bell - founder Dig Deeper Media
Mandy Jenkins - news director Storyful
In this workshop, participants will learn how to set up systems that allow you to monitor social media effectively so you will be the first to find out when news breaks. Learn how to find eyewitnesses quickly and how to work with the images and videos that they post. Do you have adequate Twitter lists set up? How is your Tweetdeck optimized? Are you making the most of Facebook? Are you confident about finding geo-located content? Which tools do you have bookmarked on your desktop? Learn from First Draft’s Fergus Bell and Mandy Jenkins, who will share top tips for discovering some of the most powerful social content to emerge from the biggest news stories.
Organised in association with the First Draft News Coalition.