The Rllmuk Photography Thread

[FishyFish]

17 hours ago, Monkeyspill said:

Nice vibrant colours in all of those. I particularly like the empty tins and chimneys.

 

Thanks. I like the empty tins shot too - they're just vegetable oil cans that have been re-purposed as ashtrays, but the colour and the light drew me. I shoot all the attractive things, me.

[Monkeyspill]

The top two are Kodak Gold 200. The bottom two are Kodak Portra 400. Taken on a Rolleiflex T.

 

I had to do quite a lot of digital repair work on the second one because the negative came back from the lab with dried water streaks running down both sides and a few noticable scratches. I could have cleaned it (the lab offered) but in the end I found it quicker just to fix the scan a bit. The third one (St Patrick's Cathedral) was a long exposure and really over exposed so the negative is very dense. I managed to pull it back in the scan. Portra is kind of amazing in that it lets you get away with so much. The last one is ever-so-slightly out of focus but it's not that noticeable. Focusing on the camera I use takes a bit of guesswork because the top viewing lens focuses slightly closer than the bottom picture-taking lens - and on top of that I've got dodgy eyesight so I often can't get the focus 100% right.

 

 

 

 

 

[FishyFish]

14 hours ago, Monkeyspill said:

The top two are Kodak Gold 200. The bottom two are Kodak Portra 400. Taken on a Rolleiflex T.

 

I had to do quite a lot of digital repair work on the second one because the negative came back from the lab with dried water streaks running down both sides and a few noticable scratches. I could have cleaned it (the lab offered) but in the end I found it quicker just to fix the scan a bit. The third one (St Patrick's Cathedral) was a long exposure and really over exposed so the negative is very dense. I managed to pull it back in the scan. Portra is kind of amazing in that it lets you get away with so much. The last one is ever-so-slightly out of focus but it's not that noticeable. Focusing on the camera I use takes a bit of guesswork because the top viewing lens focuses slightly closer than the bottom picture-taking lens - and on top of that I've got dodgy eyesight so I often can't get the focus 100% right.

 

 

 

Those have all turned out really well. I really like the colours in the second picture. A little Isopropyl alcohol and a microfibre cloth can be a good way to remove water marks from negatives. The marks are usually on the back of the negatives, so you don't need to touch the emulsion side (although make sure you rest it on a surface where it won't get dirty / scratched).

 

And yeah, Portra 400 has a crazy exposure latitude.

 

 

[MarkN]

Some clouds earlier today.

[Monkeyspill]

8 hours ago, FishyFish said:

Those have all turned out really well. I really like the colours in the second picture. A little Isopropyl alcohol and a microfibre cloth can be a good way to remove water marks from negatives. The marks are usually on the back of the negatives, so you don't need to touch the emulsion side (although make sure you rest it on a surface where it won't get dirty / scratched).

 

And yeah, Portra 400 has a crazy exposure latitude.

 

 

Thanks. I still find colour difficult.

 

I'm not sure it's worth trying to clean the negs. Most of the rest of the roll is either OK or really underexposed.

 

I got an accidental scan of the same picture from the lab: 

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jGVckq5J7M7UHa7TrpyCI-uKxGh_Q9Ff/view?usp=sharing

 

Maybe the colours are more accurate. You can see some of the water marks but I'm pretty sure they used something like digital ICE because my scan came out more messed up than that. It took a lot of faffing to sort it out.

 

With Portra 400 it's also easier to remove the orange mask and get natural looking colours than any other colour film I've tried.

[Timbuktu]

A bit sad that Amazon is shutting down DPreview, didn’t even know it was owned by them.

[Loik V credern]

I just read that. Wtf. That shouldn't be allowed to happen. It should be passed on to a new owner. Seriously. That everyone in the comments on there is so accepting of it like 'oh well this is what big companies do' says it all. It's not like an indie game company folding and the designers there starting up something else, so many users are tied to that site, it's an archive. Having forums for every camera model made it so thorough. 

 

All this 'Amazon should be ashamed' is moralising a decision that shouldn't be allowed to happen. Camera sales from what I've seen are significantly down, I can only see this as Amazon wanting to decrease sales further, for whatever reason. It's a camera website, I'm not understanding why that would be a goldmine of profit. 

 

Genuinely shocked that a long running website can just tell everyone 'sorry guys, closing in two weeks, you'll have a bit of time to save your data then we're switching the lights off' like they're a landlord. 

[FishyFish]

56 minutes ago, Monkeyspill said:

With Portra 400 it's also easier to remove the orange mask and get natural looking colours than any other colour film I've tried.

 

I find that I get really good colours with 35mm when scanning with my Plustek, but it's a bit more tricky with 120 and the Epson flatbed. Kodak Gold in 135 scans great with really nice colours using Negative Lab Pro, but I struggle with it a lot in 120 scans.

 

I've had pretty good results with Portra and Fuji Pro in 120 though.

[cubik]

1 hour ago, Timbuktu said:

A bit sad that Amazon is shutting down DPreview, didn’t even know it was owned by them.

Wow, that's been a real cornerstone of the internet forever and the first place I've looked for camera reviews & comments.

One of those websites that still feels like websites used to - Informative and niche without being completely ruined by intrusive ads and clickbait headlines.

It's not surprising that Amazon would shut them down, shame that someone else can't take it off their hands though.

 

[Monkeyspill]

58 minutes ago, FishyFish said:

 

I find that I get really good colours with 35mm when scanning with my Plustek, but it's a bit more tricky with 120 and the Epson flatbed. Kodak Gold in 135 scans great with really nice colours using Negative Lab Pro, but I struggle with it a lot in 120 scans.

 

I've had pretty good results with Portra and Fuji Pro in 120 though.

 

I scan all mine in the flatbed and process in Photoshop. Consistency is hard as the scanner isn’t accurate and I’m not organised enough to have a proper workflow - I’m just doing it by eye.
 

Portra is fairly easy - I think it’s quite forgiving in that if you get the colour a bit off, it doesn’t notice. Especially with the 400. 

 

Gold is ok, Fuji Pro400H is a bit more tricky but Ektar100 is a pain in the arse. If you are even slightly off with that film, it looks wrong.

The hardest film I’ve tried to scan is oddly slide film. Something weird happens with the colours on the flatbed, especially with Velvia - and any dark areas get flooded with digital noise. I hate scanning slides.

 

[FishyFish]

Yashicamat 124G and Ilford HP5+.

 

[Naysonymous]

Statfold barn railway, digital. 

This one was taken on vintage glass.  Nikon Series e 100mm f/2.8 from the early 80s.  

[Naysonymous]

Birmingham, earlier today. 

 

 

 

Except for the crops these are basically straight out of camera. Just set focus and exposure and waited for people to walk into the frame.  Got like 20 of em in about fifteen minutes. Sometimes when the light just hits right you really do struggle to get a bad shot. 

[Monkeyspill]

Another on Kodak Gold 200:

This was the back view from one of my wife's relative's garden. I cropped it a bit on the top and bottom.

 

Fuji Velvia 50:

Saigon/Ho Chi Minh; also cropped. I think there's more detail in the dark areas my scanner can't resolve.

 

Ilford HP5+:

Just a canopy covered in leaves in the north of Thailand somewhere. I can't remember where.

 

Thai temple. I liked the stripy shadows. I was using an orange filter, which makes the sky look pretty dark.

[Naysonymous]

Bottle Kicking, Hallaton. Easter Monday. 

[Monkeyspill]

 

 

 

 

 

[PK]

I was trying to take a moody shot of the boats in the mist and got photobombed

 

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[FishyFish]

 

[PK]

[Monkeyspill]

On 11/05/2023 at 10:25, FishyFish said:

 

Nice. I used to live not that far away from Venice - about a 45 min train journey. I think every time I went there it was raining. I got very drunk during Carnivale and made a horrible prat of myself.

 

3 hours ago, PK said:

I opened the page on my phone and thought they were birds at first!

[Monkeyspill]

A few black and whites. 

 

 

 

 

[Naysonymous]

 

Having a dance. Piccadilly Circus, May 2023. 

[Monkeyspill]