what do you see like: 2012

Drizzly day around the shabby industrial wasteland where I grew up... encouraged me to shoot B&W JPGs but, of course, I now wish they were all Raw and I could undo some of the damage of careless in-camera settings (sharpening, chiefly):

(United Molasses tanks at the bottom of my old road; I remember the day in the mid-'80s one of these blew up, or blew its top at least):
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(I think this freight line used to serve Bidston docks and the Mobil Oil terminal, both of which are effectively gone; definitely in regular use in the early '90s...not now)
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(Level crossing in the same place as the above; colour Raw, this time...)
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I got suckered into attending a baby shower so I could drink Everclear Punch and keep the father and and grandfather entertained.

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he loves it when you call him Big Poppa by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

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Rumplemom by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

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Why don't I have one? by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

They're great, Milo.

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St. Patrick's Day. Damn, girl, damn girl, damn girl, damn.

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it's just unfair.

she sold me some corn right outside work today, with a discount for being handsome :)

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I'd be extremely happy just taking photographs of Korean street sellers.

here you guys go

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when that came up on my "new images from yr contacts" stream I zoomed all the way in to read it

I'm sure everyone is tired of seeing this picture, but I keep monkeying with it because a) I'm no good at color and b) it's really easy to work on

Downloaded a free Mac RAW processor called Raw Photo Processor - it's not fully-featured, but it does most things and will export as a TIFF to go back into Photoshop or Aperture or w/e. There's also a plugin available for Lightroom if you donate, which I'm going to do. Most importantly, it's the only software that gets the Kodachrome look right, IMO - everyone else makes it garish, like a orange Velvia on steroids. In my mind, Kodachrome has solid, neutral colors, but it's rarely harsh.

So:
LR4 into Color Efex Pro, trying to keep it from being too contrasty but it's still too warm:
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LR4 into Color Efex Pro by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

RAW file opened with RPP, I let it adjust exposure, etc. and applied the K64 profile plus 20 saturation. Gets much closer to what I've been trying to get out of color files - not too saturated, but the colors are good (when you just lower contrast in LR4 it looks like a fog is being dropped over everything IMO).
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RPP K64 by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

and then: above RAW file imported to LR4 and out to Color Efex Pro, to monkey with contrast and warm it up a little. Very, very close now to what I've been trying to get out of color people photography, I think. But kind of an enormous pain in the ass. At least I get to sit in a lighted room listening to music rather than fumbling in a darkroom, I guess.
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RPP K64 + Color Efex Pro 4 by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

http://i.imgur.com/YSAWC.jpg
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i don't know why imgur is only loading one of those and not the other :(

imgur is having some problems

dope imo, light leaks look p cool in black and white. what camera?

i shot it with this, which started giving me problems mid-day, including coming open before rewinding (hence light leaks).

most of the roll was ruined but it made some kind of boring shots look cooler

hey now the 2nd one is loading :)

the light leaks work pretty fantastically well on those!

figured it was time to jump on IHKH: ihardlyknowher.com/davejm

looks good! I think a lot of your pictures in particular benefit from the large display size.

momus!

right, three recent favorites:

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http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7271/6882277548_5d02c3e979.jpg

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http://www.rollingstone.com/music/photos/the-hottest-live-photos-of-2012-20120111/no-age-0783724

^ me /braggin

nice one!

very cool! I'll see no age here in seoul soon, actually :)

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(Cool thread, guys)

cool pic, admrl ;)

thanks!

oh nice. i love that it looks not so much fisheyed as actually subsided.

and here's a recent iPhone image I am proud of =D
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http://i11.tinypic.com/53ucxtl.gif

I started messing around with black and white in the first time in about a year or so. seriously considering trying to get into the home developing game eventually, but I'm also not quite ready to give up color. well I mean I'll never give up color, since it's kinda my favorite, but I can imagine a future where I do color in digital, and black and white on film, depending on the future availability of color film etc.

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Not bad for 88 by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

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DSCF3443.jpg by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

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Mugging by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

I think maybe those are broken

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Not bad for 88 by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

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Magic Fire by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

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Muggin' by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

Looking good for 88, i doubt i'll be alive at that age.

Have been to Scotland, let's get the castle out of the way...
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Kilchurn Castle

ahh china those black & whites kill, it's so interesting seeing your stuff shot without colour. the candles are great. do you really see switching to digital colour as viable? i don't keep up with new digital cameras but it still feels like not the same sport to me.

switching to digital for color is still just an idle thought for me. probably couldn't afford to think about it for some years anyway, so it's all academic, but especially since the introduction of the x-pro 1 I'm keeping an eye on new digital cameras and imagining how they might fit in with my picture taking. I'm sure it's not gonna be the same, but that'll just make it interesting. I tell myself someday I'll probably switch to digital and when it happens it'll actually be exciting to change tools and techniques. until then I'm gonna shoot film as long as it's available at prices I can afford.

yeah those b&ws kill. what camera?

that's with the Leica M2, using Fuji Across 100. just picked up a 3 pack of Ilford FP5 this week too (ahead of all the Passover camera store closings!) that I'm shooting at the moment. don't think I've used that stuff before.

also finally sold a voigtlander lens of mine! so that I can pay off the 50mm I bought a couple weeks ago :/

The framelines on the XP1 don't feel the way Leica framelines do to me. There's something about the way they jump from one plane to another (parallax correction) that confuses me about where they really are, etc.. I'm sure it will just take more time with it.

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she's watching!

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that's with the Leica M2, using Fuji Across 100. just picked up a 3 pack of Ilford FP5 this week too (ahead of all the Passover camera store closings!) that I'm shooting at the moment. don't think I've used that stuff before.

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wow. they're so contrasty. i shot a bunch of delta 3200 in glorious sunshine recently, which i haven't seen yet, but i kinda love being able to get super dark blacks when outside. yrs don't look like 100 film to me, but i've never used acros afaik.

i realised there are a bunch of ilfords i haven't tried - like the 200 speed infrared one - so i'm trying to squeeze those in also.

I think Acros really responds to the developer - or at least there are photographers on flickr who use Acros and get these metallic, silvery tones from XTol (or so they claim) that I've never been able to replicate. I think they use medium format or large format Acros too, and it may be that laws of physics make it more conducive to achieve that effect with a larger negative...

I was working towards a bit more of a high contrast image than I normally go for too, in the scanning phase, and also by shooting it at the box speed for the most part.

i think of your style having so much to do with color, but it translates so well to black & white-- nice photos!

thanks dude... it's def kinda weird getting used to it again. have to remind myself to stop taking pictures of cool colorful things.
the current passover-related film purchasing drought (and a little restlessness preceding it) made me pick up a bunch of unusual films before last Friday, so now I'm shooting a bunch of stuff I don't normally mess with. usually I am ALL about fuji superia 400 and basically nothing else. this is sinking in as I go though old negs.

i got a bunch of superia 400 for christmas and i love it

thanks dude... it's def kinda weird getting used to it again. have to remind myself to stop taking pictures of cool colorful things.

ha, this is my main motivation for picking up another camera, so i can walk around with something small, loaded w/colourful film in my bag, and carry a camera loaded w/tri-x. i get so into shooting colours at this time of year because the streets are so bright, blossom is coming out, the stone of buildings is lit up by sun (colours; shooting blossom not in colour), & it feels ridiculous to have to glide by some synaesthetically bright scene because you're just gonna grade it in greys.

i have about 80% of my next zine laid out, waiting on about 5 more rolls to get developed before i finish it-- i think its a lot more boring than my past efforts, but i think i'm ok with that.

2 tentative spreads:

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