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© Jeff R. Clow
How I "developed" this:
1) Shot a leaf with red and green highlights floating on water
2) Use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software to convert the color spectrum using a "Deep Negative" preset I downloaded from the web
3) Used Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 software to recover some of the details through levels adjustments
The purists probably won't like it, but I thought it blurred the distinction between photography and art.
If you have the time, I hope you'll view this at the larger size linked below:
Leica M-A, Zeiss ZM 21mm f2.8, Kodak Ultramax 400, Contax TLA 140, scanned from negative with a Plustek 8100
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@UN Climate Conference (COP23):
Our lives are inextricably linked with biodiversity and ultimately its protection is essential for our very survival !
How Does Climate Change Affect Biodiversity?
As climate change alters temperature and weather patterns, it will also have an impact on plant and animal life. Both the number and range of species, which define biodiversity, are expected to decline greatly as temperatures continue to rise. The loss of biodiversity could have many negative impacts on the future of ecosystems and humanity worldwide.
Climate Change's Impact on Environment
Greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, absorb heat from sunlight, preventing it from escaping back into space. As the level of greenhouse gases rises, so will temperatures. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Weltklimarat) predicts that by 2100, temperatures may rise as much as 6 degrees Celsius (11 degrees Fahrenheit). Though changes in climate have happened in the past, the rapid severity of this change will directly affect ecosystems and biodiversity.
Effects on Land Biodiversity
The polar regions are already affected by rising temperatures. Diminishing ice packs have reduced the habitats of polar bears, penguins, puffins and other Arctic creatures. As the ice melts, it will cause a rise in sea level, which will affect and perhaps destroy ecosystems on coast lines. Changes in temperatures will also cause shifts in mating cycles, especially for migratory animals that rely on changing seasons to indicate their migration and reproductive timing.
Effects on Ocean Biodiversity
Rising sea levels will also cause changes to sea temperature and perhaps even currents. Such changes would have a strong impact on zooplankton, an essential part of the food chain in the ocean. Shifts in where plankton are found and how big their populations are could upset the biodiversity in the ocean. Whales especially could be affected as many species require mass amounts of plankton to survive. In addition, increased carbon dioxide causes acidification of the ocean, affecting creatures and plants that are sensitive to pH imbalances.
Lack of Biodiversity
As biodiversity decreases, there will be far-reaching effects. Disruptions in the food chain may greatly affect not only ecosystems but also humanity's ability to feed an ever-growing population. For example, losing diverse insect species will decrease plant pollination. There is also a risk of decreased ability to produce medicine as key plants are lost to extinction. Biodiversity also protects against natural disasters, such as grasses that have evolved specifically to resist the spread of wildfires.
We should stop that devastating process NOW !
Greylag goose family outing Graugans-Familienausflug (Anser anser)
Alster, Hamburg
For the Collective 52 Photo Group prompt "Favorite Book or Magazine". The all time classic guide to exposure - "The Negative" by Ansel Adams. Part 2 of a 3 book series - Book 1 "The Camera", Book 3 "The Print".
Pictured with the book, Yashica D TLR, Pentax Spot Meter complete with Zone scale as described by Ansel in this book, and a roll of Fomapan 200 film.
Negative scan
Camera: Nikon FM3A
Film Ilford HP5 Plus 400
Lens: Nikkor 50mm/1.8
Loughborough Junction
London
February 2020
Rollei 35 Classic, Kodak Ultramax 400, scanned from negative with a Plustek 8200i
The photo on the cake: Rollei 35 Classic, Kodak Ultramax 400, scanned from negative with a Plustek 8200i
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" I learned working with the negatives can make for better pictures.."
HYFR - Drake
Strobist Info:
Camera Settings - Nikon D3s with Nikkor 85mm f/1.4g lens, Aperture f/8, Shutter Speed 125, ISO 100
Main Light - AlienBee 1600 at 1/8 power shot through 47 inch octobox with grid camera left
Strobes triggered remotely using PocketWizard MiniTT1 transmitter and FlextTT5
Its not often that you come across a picture which you took over 45 years ago you've never seen in any form. This is one such example from my own collection. As many of us will recall from the days of film photography, it was pot luck whether your first and last photo on a film 'came out'. If you were very lucky on the day, one or the other might, but often you'd get a negative with an orange serial number etched across it which many a processor declined to print. To mitigate against potential disaster I would often photograph (cringe) something I considered unimportant at the time such as people, scenery lightweight PSVs or the floor.
Moving to the present day, and I know many people treat it with scepticism, but we now have magic AI programs which can do surprising things providing results are vettet before sharing with the wider world.
Whilst this image isn't perfect, giving credit where credit is due, it had an orange vertical band and serial numbers almost obliterating the right hand quarter of the view. Other than for a little tidying up I'd do to any elderly scan, one press of a button sorted it.
To the bus. Its a Willowbrook bodied Ford R192 (a type I now wish I'd photographed greater numbers of). BTG 577J had been new to Brewers of Caerau (South Wales) in November of 1970 where it joined a predominantly AEC fleet. I took the photo on Maesteg bus station circa 1980.
This is the actual window at Lacock Abbey, UK which formed the subject of the first ever negative produced by William Henry Fox Talbot the inventor of the salted paper and calotype processes
From the south entrance, looking north. Helicopter included. It circled many times, checking out the site.
Collections
~TOTW.
So im not sure how photogenic this really is but i did my best. And again, im always late with these theme of the weeks xD I wanted to get this in before they closed the thread, but I left the camera at the boyfriends. Ohwell.
Anyways, I have over a BIZZILLION negatives. Seriously. I dont have the heart to throw any of them away. First off, theyre cool looking. and second, what if i want more prints? xD
Schools gonna be out here in a mere four weeks. Then SUMMER. and theres a whole lotta summer photos I'ma stack up xD so beware.
Tootles.
{positive vibes!}
For Macro Mondays one of the mini VW models that live in my kitchen
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Saturday 17th July 1976.
Having worked 1C49 14.30 Fishgaurd Harbour-Swansea, D1068 is about to run "light engine" to Landore depot.
A John Vaughan photograph, scanned from the original negative, with full rights. Kevin Daniel Collection.
Reversed process from a print thru PS. Nikon FE2, Nikkor 35-105mm f/3.5-4.5 manual lens, Fujifilm Acros 100
Lubitel 2.
Ilford XP2 Super 400 (120) B&W film, cross processed in E6 chemistry (normally C-41 process).
Rated at 400 ISO then pushed by 1 stop in processing.
Not sure what the red colouring in some frames is caused by - light leak maybe?...not sure. The blue cast is from the anti-halation layer, i think? (The water from after the pre-development soak was blue-green).
Processed at home with Tetenal E6 kit.