My Recent Feeble Attempts
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Hmm. Not bad. I like the tree. Shame you've cropped bits off. Just needs a bit more space around it, or a more intentional crop.
Interesting how you've used three different styles with the three different cameras. Is there some problems with the second one? Hair, dust, something loose inside perhaps?
Not so feeble after all.
Interesting how you've used three different styles with the three different cameras. Is there some problems with the second one? Hair, dust, something loose inside perhaps?
Not so feeble after all.
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Number 2 would have a great, atmospheric feel to it if it wasn't for that lamp post.
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Thanks guys. I'm actually a bit disappointed, not so much with the shots but the processing. The negs are quite scratched and there was a bit of fogging on the roll from the R3A, not something thats happened in the other 2 rolls from that camera. I think I will send the next rolls to another lab for comparison.
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I don't know who you used Andy, but I now use Photo Express in Hull and the quality to date has been superb, we also get a 50p per film discount by quoting TP and your forum name.
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Okay, here goes...
#1, Well done for keeping some details in the tree and ground, somedays there just ain't no sky to speak of, so you just need to let it go and work with what interest there is, in this case the textures in the tree and hedge.
#2, As has been said, it's a shame about the modern streetlamp - had it been of the same era as the housing, it'd probably not have jarred as much, but again, especially with a fixed lens, you have to work with what you have, and sometimes the overall composition with a fixed lens puts things in frame you'd sooner not. I do love the Looming Towers in the mist though - I've been a sucker for them ever since I paid off my student debt with a summer working painting them
#3, spot on exposure, nice composition, lovely tones from the Legacy Pro 100, and such a shame that theres that horrible scratch running parallel to the tower. Still - it'd come out easy enough in CS5, though I'd hate to be painting it in on a wet print.
#4, as per #3 really, though I'm also slightly concerned with the lighter area at the bottom of the ladys cloak. At first I put it down to the OOF blur from someone very close in front of you, but the more I look at it, the more it looks like some kind of fogging
#5 and #6 capture the feel of many a dingy club gig I've been to, both playing or in the audience, and I'm even prepared to forgive the mono conversion in #6 - shooting at 400iso couldn't have been exactly easy. Personally, if I'd have been shooting the whole roll I'd have stuck the dial on 1600 and given it another 10 minutes in the soup, but if it's a mixed shooting roll, you don't really have the option :shrug:
All things considered Andy, far from feeble... If you want a definition of feeble, you should see my rejects file from the Feb'11 POTY - or perhaps you shouldn't
I'm certainly pretty sure that Januarys effort is going to be nullified by Feb's
#1, Well done for keeping some details in the tree and ground, somedays there just ain't no sky to speak of, so you just need to let it go and work with what interest there is, in this case the textures in the tree and hedge.
#2, As has been said, it's a shame about the modern streetlamp - had it been of the same era as the housing, it'd probably not have jarred as much, but again, especially with a fixed lens, you have to work with what you have, and sometimes the overall composition with a fixed lens puts things in frame you'd sooner not. I do love the Looming Towers in the mist though - I've been a sucker for them ever since I paid off my student debt with a summer working painting them
#3, spot on exposure, nice composition, lovely tones from the Legacy Pro 100, and such a shame that theres that horrible scratch running parallel to the tower. Still - it'd come out easy enough in CS5, though I'd hate to be painting it in on a wet print.
#4, as per #3 really, though I'm also slightly concerned with the lighter area at the bottom of the ladys cloak. At first I put it down to the OOF blur from someone very close in front of you, but the more I look at it, the more it looks like some kind of fogging
#5 and #6 capture the feel of many a dingy club gig I've been to, both playing or in the audience, and I'm even prepared to forgive the mono conversion in #6 - shooting at 400iso couldn't have been exactly easy. Personally, if I'd have been shooting the whole roll I'd have stuck the dial on 1600 and given it another 10 minutes in the soup, but if it's a mixed shooting roll, you don't really have the option :shrug:
All things considered Andy, far from feeble... If you want a definition of feeble, you should see my rejects file from the Feb'11 POTY - or perhaps you shouldn't
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1 and 2 for me also
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last two are the best for me, nice graininess and shooting into the light works well for them