Ian's 52 for 2021

Very topical Ian.
 
LC2 said:
I would still have been tempted to crop in slightly at the edge, to remove the pallet (I think) on the right and the half a car on the left.
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Good shout.
 
I’m sorry to hear about your friends. Hope you’re feeling ok with the vaccine! Great shot, very topical. I like the over exposedness and I like the road arrow adding a leading line and direction to the image
 
very topical indeed and a good idea for the theme, It looks quite a bleak scene which is ironic for what's actually going on.

Had my jab last Sunday bit of a sore arm is all I can report.
 
Playing challenge comment catchup!!

Rough
The microphone works well with the lighting adding to the overall image

Smooth
I'm going to go against the majority, I prefer image 9 on the contact sheet. The brighter area at the top right on 8 is personally more distracting although I do like the barely visible guitar string excess. It is just a thing to not cut the guitar wires closer and leave them spiralling at the top?

Alive
Hopefully the ongoing vaccination program takes us to a point where life can get back closer to normal.
I don't know if one step to the right would have achieved a similar photo where the first person wasn't being split by the fencing
 
StuartPearson said:
It is just a thing to not cut the guitar wires closer and leave them spiralling at the top?
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Heh... My dad always used to do that. No clue why. I just copied him and it stuck. Trimming them would feel wierd :)
 
Smooth
I think nearly any of those shots on the contact sheet would have worked well.

Alive
A good take on the theme, let's hope we can all be vaccinated before there's another outbreak.
 
Good work Ian, as has been said above, very topical. A bit of social commentary during these difficult times.
 
Very topical and suits the grainy finish. I had the sore arm syndrome too but otherwise ok and, like you, a sense of relief.
 
Great idea for 'alive' and will be a reminder of the covid days to look back on, in the hope it never happens again. Where I went for my jab, there were signs up saying no cameras and no photography, so I think you were wise to get a shot from a distance.

I like the wider view you've chosen. I think it shows the starkness and the distancing well.
 
Spot on for the theme and I'm sorry to hear about your friends. I like how it is in black and white it makes for a more somber image.
 
I totally get the not being able to attend funerals thing. Lost a few friends for whom it would have been standing room only under normal circumstances, and can't help but feel they were cheated out of their due somehow.

I like the shot, it's a document that will increase in importance as time moves on. Maybe it's just me, but the slight over exposure adds to the sense of hygiene?
 
Thankyou again to everyone who has commented so far. It's much appreciated.

This week I was a little stumped, and ended up defaulting to my University of Google for ideas. But it wasn't until Lukas (our lovely Polish neigbour) came round for his Easter supply of eggs for him and his daughter to paint, that I came up with this idea.

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Negatives aren't in strict order because of the way I scanned them, but when I took 3 & 5 I realised I had the shot I wanted. I quite liked frame 6 which I may revisit, frame 8 was an accidental double exposure and 9 & 10 were poor chicken shots. Ilford Pan F is an ISO 50 film and with a max aperture of f/3.5 on the lens, I was always going to struggle with handheld chicken shots.

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So this was the original black & white image, which I then printed out and hand coloured (hence the iPhone shot in the main thread). The only thing I'm unhappy about is the strange reflection at 6 o'clock which spoiled the image for me. It adds a certain wabi-sabi-ness though so it gets to stay without a couple of annoying hours in PS trying to fix it.

I printed it out to A3 on matt paper, then set to work with colouring pencils.

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These are the "painted" Easter eggs I was trying to get to. In terms of realising my vision, this is what I wanted to achieve, so it was a success for me, and the first "52" image that has gone on the wall. It made my wife smile too, which is no mean feat!

The texture of the paper has given the eggs a texture that wouldn't ordinarily be there, and using the very non-egg-like colours has made the image a bit more surreal.

Kept me out of trouble on a Friday afternoon/evening!
 
Brilliant, made me smile the fact that you coloured them in by hand amuses me no end, I've no idea why.

The B+W pic on its own, well composed with the BG and the symmetrical eggs, a well spent afternoon.
 
Really good image - when I saw it, I couldn't work out quite how you'd done it, which is a good thing - thanks for the explanation.
 
The B&W bowl of eggs, is my favourite
 
I think the coloured version just pips it for me, but it's close. The symmetry it great, and the background brings to mind the kind of halo you often see in stained glass and carved representations of Brian... Oh, yeah, Jesus!
 
Fabulous creative shot and what a lot of work! Made me smile too.

I agree it looks like one of those zoom pictures. The background has the effect of drawing your eyes into the centre.

Reminds me of sugared almonds.
 
Easter
I really like your inclusion of how it was done and that you coloured them in by hand. All in all I like it.
 
That works really well. I love the subtleness of hand coloured mono shots. I have a couple of hand painted landscapes produced by my great uncle which are decades old but still retain the hint of colour.
 
I guess Spring was a little too much like Easter for me, but when we went to get a couple of chickens yesterday (shout out to the lovely Joanna at henshaven.co.uk) I wandered with my camera while Mrs H talked chickens.

Never really watched lambs before. They are most amusing!


Week 14: Spring by Ian, on Flickr
 
Always love a lamb - I like it when they just spring up vertically in the air, very appropriate for the theme.
 
Awwww so cute! That one on the left is surely a stuffed toy!
 
I think you’ve found some particularly cute ones there. Almost made for a B&W rendition with their black noses and socks!

I love watching them too. Especially when they look like statues staring at you - reminds me of a game we used to play as kids.
 
As Allan said above, bang on theme Ian. Perhaps the 3 lambs at the front could make a shot on their own?
 
blakester said:
As Allan said above, bang on theme Ian. Perhaps the 3 lambs at the front could make a shot on their own?
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Heh, I think the composition on it is pretty poor, but will give the usual excuses of not having much space (I was up against a fence, and there was a gate to my left and a stable to my right) and being limited with just a 50mm. I would have loved to have gotten a close up, or just something better than what was shown here.
 
Just like "pen island" and #susan album party, I can't read read that URL as "hens haven"
Sorry :exit:

Anyway. Bang on for the theme.
Was there a chance to get a different angle though, perhaps from a lower perspective?
Dunno, I just feel that might have been stronger.
 
Thanks for all the comments folks. Not really been able to get round too many threads over the last week and a bit due to getting my zine finished for the zine exchange. Now it's all done, I hope to get back on track with some comments.

Week 15 is getting close to the furthest I've ever got with 52s and it's been ok so far. This week though was a bit uninspired and basically "pick one from the roll you developed yesterday". I took this intending for it to be silhouetted and Crow would not move away from the picture frame to let me get a clear shot. With hindsight though I quite like the sharp angle.


Week 15: Crow Silhouette by Ian, on Flickr

Canon F-1n, 135mm f/2.8, Kodak Tri-X at 1600 in DD-X.
 
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