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Rebuilt the Leopard 2A6 from scratch last week, and incorporated new suspension and hull techniques into the build!
As for the Leopard 2A6 kits I was going to make, that is no longer to be, as it is too much of a logistical nightmare (802 pieces with 126 different elements).
Instead, I will be making the instructions for my previous Leo. 2 available sometime this week.
Cheers lads!
Een ijzig begin van de dag, op een winterdag in februari.
Krommenie, Nederland
An icy start to the day, on a winter day in February.
Krommenie, The Netherlands
While checking out the yards in Alliance, NE we found this shiny SD70ACe on the end of a coal train staged on the eastern edge of North Yard. The locomotive started beeping: it was a warning that the auto-start had been engaged and the locomotive would fire up shortly. After a quick setup I took this 30 second exposure that caught the initial plume of exhaust after the cold start. A half hour later the train was on the move east on the Sand Hills Subdivision.
Bochum, Deutschland
Exkursion der Fotoklicke Gevelsberg an die ruhr unter dem Motto "Die dunkle Jahreszeit"
New Year's Day is always an outdoor day for me. I use to stay up late on NYE but over the years I have begun to favor an early bedtime in order to get a head start on the fresh year - generally heading out somewhere to be in nature. This year saw me hiking Silver Falls State Park. But I have talked about my New Year habits in previous posts over previous years. The thread of today's image is actually involving Harman Phoenix 200 - the film used to make this image.
I will say, I have not completely made up my mind on this film, though my opinion of it has evolved since my first roll with it. It is definitely interesting stuff and I am glad Harman is making it. How long it remains available is still to be seen though. But even if it is phased out, it seems like that will be just to make room for a newly evolved color film.
But it does surprise me sometimes how film photographers don't quite seem to realize how malleable a material film is to work with. I see it sometimes at work. Customers will drop off film and then be amazed to discover how much work we can do to an image at the printing or scanning stage. Some think the image is more or less baked into the film and there is only one possible way that it will come out of a printer. But this also happens online too, especially with the rise of home developing and home scanning. Folks will develop a film like Phoenix then scan it (sometimes poorly) and characterize it by the results they get as if those are the only results possible. One example of this is the fact that Phoenix has a purple base. Most color films have a dusky orange film base. But Phoenix must share technology with XP2, a black and white C-41 film also known for a blue-purple film base. This purplish base makes it trickier to scan since a lot of film scanners are calibrated to see, and negate, the orange film base. And since we are dealing with negatives where everything inverts, that purple base of Phoenix inverts into a yellow-orange color cast in the positive scans. That is to say unless you work to correct/calibrate for it. My initial tests with this film only had modest color corrections and I just kind of let it be yellowish. But then I saw some optical prints we had done in our lab where our printing tech had put in a bit more effort to see if he could correct Phoenix to something a bit more neutral. The results impressed even me and at first I did not even realize the prints I was looking at had come from Harman Phoenix. So having seen this as an example of what the film could do I spent more time scanning my next couple of rolls. Specifically I used the Nikon Coolscan's ROC (restoration of color) feature to automatically correct the color cast. It did an impressive job but also had a tendency to add too much contrast. So lately I have been dialing in the color corrections manually and ending up with results like this image and without the heavy yellow tinge of my earlier images made on Phoenix.
I guess my point is multi-pronged. One - be careful about rushing to conclusions, especially when you have relatively little evidence to work with. Two - don't believe everything you read online because the folks giving you info might be failing at point One. Three - Remember that you are blind to your own blind spots. Meaning you have them, but you cannot see them. And it is easy to forget about something you cannot see. I had begun to characterize my own expectations of this film without realizing it and it took the print work of our lab to make me conscious of the bias I was forming about Phoenix. Four - keep your mind open and be curious, don't stop asking questions and don't stop looking for the answers to them, even if you want to think you already know those answers.
Anyhoo, just some Phoenix-related thoughts that may or may not be applicable in other ways.
Hasselblad 500C/M
Harman Phoenix 200
No.47722 sets off for Keswick from the Seatoller terminus against a backdrop of High Scawdel.
The fine Cumberland County Council finger-post with disc finial has benefitted from a recent bit of sprucing up.
Nice to out and about early, sunrise at upper kananaskis lake.heading out towards fossil falls centre of shot.
With reports of MACs, Dash 8s, Oriole trains, and hopes we'd get the CSX stone train returning to Hanover for a nice and round chase home, we went down to Baltimore. Starting at Jessup, we would move to St Denis and see a plethora of trains.
These beautiful Texas orchids were blooming today on a tree near my friend's home where l was invited for a lovely traditional Southern New Year's Day dinner! The food was delicious and the company exceptional! A wonderful way to start the new year 2017!
Leaving home at 1.15am to get here in time before the sunrise. This is a pano of 19 pictures that i started on the right hand side and worked left, as i worked my way around the glow of the sun got brighter and gave this effect under the Milkyway.
We're living through the last years of interesting topics regarding classic traction in freight traffic on Hungarian rails. Most recently, the Békéscsaba hub of Rail Cargo Hungaria (RCH) got a BR285, which has already started working on the nearby servicing trains starting the 22nd of July.
Yet – very rarely – you can bump into crazy things, mostly thanks to the general bad shape of vehicle maintenance and planning at MÁV-Start. On a slow May afternoon a friend of a friend, working as a dispatcher was scrolling through the planned trains for Line 50 in the system when he noticed that the freight service from Baja-Dunapart was not showing a Class M62, nor the grey diesel TRAXX in the traction box, but a Class M44 shunter.
Could be a typo... But what if... Well, after phoning around half the loc inspectors and RCH dispatchers of Transdanubia, the info was pieced together, that if one of the Sergeis won't be passed back up by early morning to Dombóvár from Pécs, then yes, the little shunter will have to do instead. Not as it stood in the system; sending the M44 out as far as Baja, to return with an – even if empty –, longer train on the hilly Line 50 would be risky.
So RCH tasked its shiny and boring diesel with that job, and sent the Bobó to take care of the other task of the day; bringing nine empty wagons to Komló next to the three already there, and returning with as many as they could load by afternoon. Armed with this knowledge, we set alarms for around three o'clock and checked to see on the mapper if any of the M62s moved.
By 5:30 we were already through the shittiest gas station coffee I've had in a while, and soon enough we were each waiting eagerly near Mecsekjánosi after choosing our locations for the first pics. The rest is history! More pictures from this day here and here.
Your scanner can lie to you.
Yesterday when making a double exposure with 2 different negatives I discovered that the negative was not as underexposed as I thought it was when I first scanned it.
The print showed a brighter image.
This is a scan of 2 negatives on top of each other, I might eventually scan the print and post it as well.
Printing is important, If you can find a way it will be a game changer if you love film photography.
The 2 negatives together were emmet gowin's idea when he was picking them up to look at them he looked at them together in the light, not sure if he did it on purpose or not.
He also may have said something like “be careful to not be accused of mimicking my work and tell them it was my idea”.
I’ll take it.
"Life begins the day you start a garden."
- Chinese Proverb
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Metroline West Volvo B5LH/MCV EvoSeti VMH2570 (LA68DWW) is seen in Uxbridge at the start of its journey towards White City on express route 607.
I actually like this cover. Its different from all my other covers. i wanted to try something cool. What do you think?