tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852441121575995961.comments2023-11-02T06:29:50.450-04:00The Golden Age of SilverJoe Iannandreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00011840613470956347noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852441121575995961.post-75799691529381335942019-05-20T20:03:54.013-04:002019-05-20T20:03:54.013-04:00Came across your blog while seeking the same resol...Came across your blog while seeking the same resolve. Considering a Chamonix camera, but a Wista SP would satisfy my requirements. Been shooting ME for years and got a taste of 4x5 the last few years. The big negatives are so wonderful.<br /><br />I may just get the Wista. <br /><br />Thanks for the post! Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06284564125792258012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852441121575995961.post-62702786357054990112017-02-27T03:51:22.606-05:002017-02-27T03:51:22.606-05:00Well, no. It was the demand of their backers that ...Well, no. It was the demand of their backers that may have given them the idea to sell this B&W film prior to the E6 (and this specific B&W emulsion seems to have some interesting traits, being really heavy on silver, even though only around ISO 80). Dave Bias talked about it in a recent video with Ted Forbes on The Art of Photography – if I remember right (to be found on YouTube; you might find it interesting).<br /><br />The first batch will be 35mm only, as far as I know, but I can’t wait to get my hands on it (as a backer I will have early access ;)).Christian Augustinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13915279251144769509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852441121575995961.post-89436472828881485532016-11-28T05:34:09.356-05:002016-11-28T05:34:09.356-05:00Excellent! Thanks for the write-up!Excellent! Thanks for the write-up!kAAshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12020195813814308708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852441121575995961.post-26453952897979201852016-05-29T10:56:06.223-04:002016-05-29T10:56:06.223-04:00Used to love my Yashicamat 124G ... my Fuji X-T1 i...Used to love my Yashicamat 124G ... my Fuji X-T1 is a waist level camera when I use the tilting screen! Bob Jensen Photographyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18157499037954133224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852441121575995961.post-54263260351600782016-04-12T09:53:44.708-04:002016-04-12T09:53:44.708-04:00Amazing photo, Joseph. I told you that. Love it!...Amazing photo, Joseph. I told you that. Love it!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15120187587801404483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852441121575995961.post-64006421289666428782016-04-09T11:35:49.756-04:002016-04-09T11:35:49.756-04:00A beautiful shot none the less Joe. Your a passion...A beautiful shot none the less Joe. Your a passionate man for staying out there all day long; just to get the perfect shot. Just another lesson of life; taking a negative and turning it into a positive. I`m sure over the years you Joe are a master of taking Negatives and turning them into beautiful Positive pictures.. Great work Joe Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14229804602138548814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852441121575995961.post-28407573145264687652016-03-31T19:26:18.667-04:002016-03-31T19:26:18.667-04:00I agree that yours is the better photograph, but i...I agree that yours is the better photograph, but it lacks enough context on its own for the average internet looker to 'get it'. I myself was a bit puzzled as to what I was looking at when I first saw it. There is no real sense of scale, especially for someone who lives in San Diego and can barely identify that as ice at all! Well, I'm glad I clicked through and got the whole story. Good job on the photo. Thanks for sharing.James Harrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04115005148651311733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852441121575995961.post-52462176576104014022015-12-07T15:09:31.268-05:002015-12-07T15:09:31.268-05:00Thanks for the information! Thanks for the information! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15433473425813873911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852441121575995961.post-17723700630994147862015-11-14T20:13:55.963-05:002015-11-14T20:13:55.963-05:00Both photos are good and I especially like the fir...Both photos are good and I especially like the first one. I like to visit the beach when the weather turns cold because there are almost no people and because the light is cool.<br />I agree that your second photo wouldn't have been as good had your son been wearing a red jacket because he is so large in the frame. A number of years ago I made a photo of a woman wearing a bright red jacket standing on a snowy beach looking at the waves and the dramatic clouds in the sky. In this case the bright red jacket worked because she was quite small in the frame and the jacket provided a nice contrast to the overall blue colour of the photo.<br /><br />Marcus Marcus Peddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10828640292397153550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852441121575995961.post-7866256211920173072015-07-22T18:48:01.226-04:002015-07-22T18:48:01.226-04:00Hi Bill,
The windblown snow shot was done with a ...Hi Bill,<br /><br />The windblown snow shot was done with a 127mm lens on a Mamiya RB67. The aperture was set to the minimum possible (f/32 with that lens) as that camera's lack of movements meant I needed all the depth of field I could get in this case. The RB67 does have bellows focus though and I've always wondered how hard it would have been for Mamiya to have it the ability to use limited movements like a bit of tilt or rise. If it had even this limited capacity I might never have gone back to large format.Joe Iannandreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00011840613470956347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852441121575995961.post-32677516737344342702015-07-21T08:09:39.998-04:002015-07-21T08:09:39.998-04:00Nice man cave, thanks for the description creating...Nice man cave, thanks for the description creating the atmosphere. My darkroom is the shower/laundry room. This space works great. I place a slotted rack on the tub for my developer & bath trays and the Bessler sits on the dryer. The washer then becomes the working table and the best part is there is only one door to black-out. So far, the only down side is the bending over to work the trays...so I've been sitting on my daughter's old kiddie rocker to give my back a rest.<br />Beautiful print of the drifting snow! What were your camera settings?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16458129847912506438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852441121575995961.post-6705474782166669892015-05-23T21:57:35.387-04:002015-05-23T21:57:35.387-04:00Congratulations on solving the problem of the air ...Congratulations on solving the problem of the air bubbles and I applaud your meticulous efforts to do so. I think a less hardy soul might say 'to hell with it' and order a Nikon D810. Or, at least, send the film out to be developed. :)Marcus Peddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10828640292397153550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852441121575995961.post-30162433347895359212015-05-17T13:55:49.345-04:002015-05-17T13:55:49.345-04:00Thank you to all who have commented. It's been...Thank you to all who have commented. It's been so gratifying to read all of your responses to this, both here and in the other placed it has been shared. Your thoughts and your own personal stories are reassuring as I now know I'm not the only one bothered by the implicit notion out there that if an amateur photographer was any good they'd have gone pro by now. It's easy to forget that Vivian Maier was only ever an amateur photographer. In fact I shudder to think what photographs she might not have taken had she become just another talented working pro.Joe Iannandreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00011840613470956347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852441121575995961.post-25904356852058315862015-05-17T10:44:42.665-04:002015-05-17T10:44:42.665-04:00your comment put the cherry on top!
"then som...your comment put the cherry on top!<br />"then some people I know starting saying I would need to buy a car, start forming a network of contacts, and invest in this and that in order to become a true professional." - Thats the real Trap!klikknprohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04557608412944720761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852441121575995961.post-82152172667089047702015-05-16T21:28:39.112-04:002015-05-16T21:28:39.112-04:00Great article about what 'amateur' and ...Great article about what 'amateur' and 'professional' meant and mean. It's too bad that 'amateur' has come to mean 'without real skill' or 'playing at photography'. I quit my job last year for various reasons and decided to use my suddenly abundant free time to concentrate on photography and put on an exhibition. I got good reactions from people who came to see the photos but then some people I know starting saying I would need to buy a car, start forming a network of contacts, and invest in this and that in order to become a true professional. I stopped making photos for about a month because the joy had been sucked out of my passion. I certainly don't want to do photography if it gives me stress and I have to run around like a blue-arsed fly. Luckily, people stopped suggesting I become a professional and I am now out and about making photos again. Marcus Peddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10828640292397153550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852441121575995961.post-87472024687294838212015-04-26T05:44:23.219-04:002015-04-26T05:44:23.219-04:00I have shelves full of prints from both film and d...I have shelves full of prints from both film and digital files. The other day I was looking at them all and thinking I have too many. I even through out some 'art' prints that looked good five years ago but dreadful now. I don't throw away photos of people because, as you say, they are valuable even if they aren't well composed and exposed. But I think having too many prints is preferable to having lost everything in a computer crash or obsolescence.<br />Great photo of your daughter, by the way. I am sure she and her future children will treasure it.<br /><br />MarcusAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852441121575995961.post-71620395427918177092015-03-20T00:11:51.452-04:002015-03-20T00:11:51.452-04:00I suppose the images are always what it's abou...I suppose the images are always what it's about in the end, so thanks for your interest Bill. To answer you questions both images are scans from negatives. Though it's workable I'm still not quite up to speed making prints regularly in the semi-makeshift darkroom I have put together so far. Both were edited with contrast adjustment, dodging and burning type operations akin to the kind of treatment I would want to give them in the wet darkroom. To be honest I think I went a bit far with the sky in the lower image.<br /><br />In the taking the upper image was taken with a yellow contrast filter on the lens. Actually I probably would have gone to the trouble of dragging out the RB67 for this one if not for the fact that I don't think I could have gotten myself high enough to compose the shot with its waist level finder. The lower image was shot unfiltered with the Hi-Matic.Joe Iannandreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00011840613470956347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852441121575995961.post-30166173300001377922015-03-19T17:40:06.267-04:002015-03-19T17:40:06.267-04:00Interesting. Equipment issues aside, I'm inte...Interesting. Equipment issues aside, I'm interested in how you made the photos. Did you use a filter, and are these prints or scanned & edited negatives? Interesting photos.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16458129847912506438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852441121575995961.post-24901946894680000062015-03-09T18:39:13.402-04:002015-03-09T18:39:13.402-04:00Thanks for the kind words. It's hard to believ...Thanks for the kind words. It's hard to believe this was shot on Delta 100 developed in Pyrocat, not a combination you'd chose for grain but the contrast adjustments needed to bring life to the white on white scene in overcast light really brought it out. Joe Iannandreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00011840613470956347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852441121575995961.post-72036451499868424602015-03-09T16:52:42.255-04:002015-03-09T16:52:42.255-04:00Beautiful pictures. I specially liked the red filt...Beautiful pictures. I specially liked the red filter F80-one. The graininess mmmmm!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852441121575995961.post-4870154639301811202015-03-04T17:41:46.602-05:002015-03-04T17:41:46.602-05:00Nice photos...I'm looking forward to seeing so...Nice photos...I'm looking forward to seeing some of the prints. To date, I have been unsuccessful in making contact prints. I still select a negative to print, but I'm missing that one valuable link. Thanks for the encouragement to keep trying.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16458129847912506438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852441121575995961.post-47858356728265403302015-03-03T20:49:02.539-05:002015-03-03T20:49:02.539-05:00The problems I would love to have. I have no room ...The problems I would love to have. I have no room for a darkroom at the moment, small or not. But this morning I did develop my first roll of film at home for the first time in about five years, so that's a step ahead. The contrast looks a little low but the subjects were low contrast so perhaps I'm okay. A little extra time in the developer might not have hurt. I can't wait for them to dry so I can look at them on the light box and then bring them to get printed.Marcus Peddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10828640292397153550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852441121575995961.post-51989906376767662452015-03-01T14:36:02.057-05:002015-03-01T14:36:02.057-05:00Well done, you're not the only one - I also ha...Well done, you're not the only one - I also have gone back to the "Dark Side" of photography quite recently.... Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01500375808912187893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852441121575995961.post-994096815673470792015-02-28T17:48:02.517-05:002015-02-28T17:48:02.517-05:00Keep it up, you'll have your own blog in no ti...Keep it up, you'll have your own blog in no time.Joe Iannandreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00011840613470956347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852441121575995961.post-82888979064268722602015-02-28T08:56:25.437-05:002015-02-28T08:56:25.437-05:00Most of what I write/post to the Internet can prob...Most of what I write/post to the Internet can probably classified as 'talking to myself'. Someone suggested that commenting on other peoples' blogs is a good way to get people to discuss things on your blog. I find that strategy works slightly . . . . :)Marcus Peddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10828640292397153550noreply@blogger.com