Show us yer film shots then!

Canon A1, Sigma 18mm f2.8 Filtermatic lens. Tony Richard's studio in Leigh Spinners Mill. Massively out-of-date Kodak 200-8 colour negative film. The original scans are bright blue so I recovered them using PS Auto Tone and Auto Color.

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All the shots using this lens are compromised, not even remotely in focus, despite stopping down. Also the lens doesn't apparently work on aperture priority on the Canon body. Not the best buy I've ever made, good job it was ridiculously cheap, eh?

Here we are with the yellow filter engaged.

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PeterSpencer said:
Canon A1, Canon FD 50mm f1.8. Kentmere 100.

Met this bloke in the local park. He introduced himself as the owner of Mathers of Lancashire!

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This house up the road from mine is lived in, surprisingly from its condition.


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I used to buy film from Mathers some years ago, but never recently. I'll maybe have a browse and see what their prices are like nowadays, although it's usually postage to the Highlands that kills a deal. :(
 
I was out early this morning with the Mamiya and a roll of Portra. I have always thought of this memorial that in peacetime the soldier looks like a solid right arm seamer with that action.

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I used to buy film from Mathers some years ago, but never recently. I'll maybe have a browse and see what their prices are like nowadays, although it's usually postage to the Highlands that kills a deal. :(
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I have often bought Ilford film from Mathers in the past due to their good prices. Thought I'd go and check them out again but it seems the website is down. Let's hope it is a temporary problem.
 
FishyFish said:
Nikon F70
Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 AF-D
Fujifilm Superia 100 (expired 2008)
Lab Developed
Home Scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro
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Blimey, I have to say your film photography throughput is prodigious, basically you're keeping this thread and the entire Flickr alive with your contribution! Well done!

What's your secret ;)? Do you always go out with a camera in hand? Work commute grocery shopping and all?

Also what's your policy to select keepers in a roll? Do you find you tend to like most of the images you obtain across the 36 frames? As a thought exercise, if you were to select max 1-2 'keepers' from each of your rolls, what would your selection criteria be?

Thanks for sharing your work!
 
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trypdal said:
Blimey, I have to say your film photography throughput is prodigious, basically you're keeping this thread and the entire Flickr alive with your contribution! Well done!

What's your secret ;)? Do you always go out with a camera in hand? Work commute grocery shopping and all?

Also what's your policy to select keepers in a roll? Do you find you tend to like most of the images you obtain across the 36 frames? As a thought exercise, if you were to select max 1-2 'keepers' from each of your rolls, what would your selection criteria be?

Thanks for sharing your work!
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Thanks, and happy to be of service. :D

I want to always take a camera everywhere, but in reality I often don't (mostly where it would be an inconvenience, or if I'm going somewhere I've been a thousand times before in the local area). I do really need to try though because there have been times I've missed stuff where the light was good, or something unusual appeared. I do tend to always have a camera with me during the winter though as it's much easier to stick a small camera in a coat pocket (when it's cool enough to wear one).

My ethos when shooting is to try and make every frame count. I try hard to only press the shutter if I think the resulting picture will be worthwhile, so I'll sometime see a potential image, look around to try and get a good composition, before realising that it won't work and walking away. I also rarely take more than a single picture of the same scene or subject (unless it has something to offer that makes it worthwhile to do so). A full roll of pictures of essentially the same thing, most of which I'd probably discard, doesn't appeal - although I can obviously see why this approach would pay off for a professional.

My way of working doesn't mean I'm guaranteed keepers, but it ups the likelihood a lot. I think that if I were only getting a small number of pictures I like from each roll then I would become disheartened, so it pays to be careful when making each one. Obviously what I consider a good picture is subjective.

As to how I would narrow it right down, I'm not sure. It would likely differ from roll to roll and on the subject matter, I guess. I keep meaning to put together a website containing my "best" photos, so that might spur me to be more critical and really pare them down.
 
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