London Meet 19th Jan

[ancient_mariner]

This is a better, though rather less sexy antidote (and the lesson is good too - skip to 3min for some really cool playing and great technique if you're learning).

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pewSkjlFweY

 

[Mr Badger]

No, I'm not into learning bass; I've met people who are a lot better at it than I could ever possibly be (including this chap) so I leave it to them.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk1pvZI3CGk&index=2&list=RDNFKxnj5PMvU

Anyway, enough of the bass (especially that first one) and on with the photos!

 

[compulsivehordr]

Edit to add compulsivehorder

Ta!

 

[pentaxpete]

Re Hospital --- Not heard from Consultant SO FAR -- maybe NO News is GOOD News ----

 

[compulsivehordr]

Who says we only photograph each other on these things?




Focus on the eyes.. or the middle distance... or just nowhere...

 

[compulsivehordr]

Hmmm... Hundreds of pounds worth of lens in the hands of the right idiot can make a tenner's worth of fuzziness...

 

[ancient_mariner]

I confess to be amazed at how darn difficult it is to tell when something's in focus on the 'old' manual-focus screens compared to a nice clean & bright AF screen. My *memory* is that the central prism and outer ring were much more helpful than that, so getting a slightly OOF image seems perfectly reasonable to me. .

 

[Peter B]

Focus on the eyes.. or the middle distance... or just nowhere...

I think it might be a rule that the member's camera has to be in focus, since that's the important thing here.

 

[Peter B]

I confess to be amazed at how darn difficult it is to tell when something's in focus on the 'old' manual-focus screens compared to a nice clean & bright AF screen. My *memory* is that the central prism and outer ring were much more helpful than that, so getting a slightly OOF image seems perfectly reasonable to me. .

You're absolutely right Toni, and that was why I raised it at my eye test today. Off to Poundland tomorrow for a couple of pairs of £1 reading specs of his suggested strength to see if this improves things.

 

[Peter B]

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Hmmm... Hundreds of pounds worth of lens in the hands of the right idiot can make a tenner's worth of fuzziness...
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Do tell, what was the lens & aperture for that shot of Nick and how can you focus so tightly? It'll be our secret ...............

 

[excalibur2]

You're absolutely right Toni, and that was why I raised it at my eye test today. Off to Poundland tomorrow for a couple of pairs of £1 reading specs of his suggested strength to see if this improves things.

Using the right glasses for your camera definitely helps on close ups (because DOF is less)..and I don't know whether I was using the wrong glasses or what as once did a test on an old camera..shutter on 1/250 sec and same aperture... used a tape measure (IIRC 10ft) from subject to camera and took a shot setting the lens at 10ft, then took a shot just focusing the lens and the results was: - one shot was sharper than the other...h'mm I've forgotten which was better

 

[donut]

I think it might be a rule that the member's camera has to be in focus, since that's the important thing here.

more like the cameras member has to be in focus ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

[sirch]

I didn't know that Nick did some busking on the side

 

[Asha]

I didn't know that Nick did some busking on the side

A man of many talents, all of which he is useless brilliant at !

 

[Andysnap]

A few from the Rolleiflex

Thames at Night by Andy, on Flickr

Gritty urban shots
Leak Street 4 by Andy, on Flickr
Leak Street 3 by Andy, on Flickr
Leak Street 2 by Andy, on Flickr

 

[ancient_mariner]

I'm still waiting for the film I shot to come back.

The IR images that I shot weren't great technically speaking, but I've worked a few up and some can be found here: https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/threads/a-stranger-in-a-strange-land.691294/

 

[Mrs Snap]

Here's a few from me. All taken on Contax 139Q on Agfa Vista 400

Dance Costumes by Janet, on Flickr

Street Art 1 by Janet, on Flickr

London Eye by Janet, on Flickr

Leake Street 5 by Janet, on Flickr

by Janet, on Flickr

 

[Peter B]

#2 -- So Andy's now a street artist as well?

 

[Mrs Snap]

#2 -- So Andy's now a street artist as well?

He is many things. To (probably mis)quote Clive Anderson, there is no beginning to his talents!

 

[donut]

Re Hospital --- Not heard from Consultant SO FAR -- maybe NO News is GOOD News ----

any news Pete?

 

[pentaxpete]

Had meeting with Prostate Surgeon Mr Gujral on Monday .. PSA count gone DOWN again to 0.1 from 0.9, Kidney Ultrasound good -- No blockages , only some 'Cysts' which he said is 'usual' as people get older, and abdominal Ultrasound good ! so maybe i can use up a bit more 'outdated Fillum' ---------

 

[Mr Badger]

Glad it's good news Pete... you can now concentrate on enjoying introducing lots more film to some light via a controlled environment.

 

[ancient_mariner]

Finally got my pictures back today. Quite a lot of processing artifacts early in the roll, bright patches, dirt & some lines. Possibly not the highest resolution scanning either, and a moderately high level of compression on the 'high res' versions may not help.

Overall a better success rate than expected, with about 16 frames of 36 I was happy with, I've uploaded these to Flickr with just levels, clarity and saturation 'fixed' (the originals were brownish) plus a couple where I cropped.

Examples
Fashion shoot XP2 Film London Jan 2019 by Toni Ertl, on Flickr

Korean dancer 2 XP2 Film London Jan 2019 by Toni Ertl, on Flickr

See my picture XP2 Film London Jan 2019 by Toni Ertl, on Flickr

 

[C&C]

A bit late to the party, but I finally got my slide film back from the processor today, shot with the Canon EOS 33V (still haven't finished the print film in the Pentax MX so there will be a further update from me in a couple of weeks).

It was certainly a challenge shooting ISO 50 reversal film (Velvia) on what was a fairly dull day, but I'm reasonably pleased with the results, given it's the first roll of film I've shot for over 10 years.

It was great to meet people, and I really enjoyed the discipline of having to think a lot more about each photo with only 36 to use!

The 26 photos I'm happy with are on my FlickR here.
I've edited minimally - levels, crop, and a little tweak to saturation.

Below are a few of them.

Cheers,

Conrad.

05 by conradsphotos, on Flickr


07 by conradsphotos, on Flickr



09 by conradsphotos, on Flickr


13 by conradsphotos, on Flickr


15 by conradsphotos, on Flickr


21 by conradsphotos, on Flickr


32 by conradsphotos, on Flickr


36 by conradsphotos, on Flickr

 

[sirch]

Really like that set Conrad, very good photos in the darkness of that tunnel.